Paul Of Tarsus Impact On Christianity

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
- Paul of Tarsus. Without Paul, Christianity would not be as widely spread as it is today. Paul was a major missionary who spread Christianity throughout non-jewish groups. He reached out to gentiles because Jews did not believe in the New Testament because they believed Jesus was nothing more than a prophet. Missionaries had the duty to spread their words, and because of this almost one third of the Roman Empire had become Christian. Many missionaries decided to target gentile women who needed guidance, because they were easily persuaded. (Wein) Paul felt like he needed to do something for his people, he had a major problem to solve. The non-Jews were very difficult and stubborn to work with. He understood that he needed to reach out to non-Jews because they did not believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah or in the New Testament. Jesus Christ was known to preach only to the Jews, while Paul did the exact opposite. Paul reached out to more people and preached to almost everyone but the Jews. Paul preached in popular places like Ephesus, Philippi, Corinth, and Athens. Because of their popularity, these …show more content…
In about 100 years, almost one third of those living in Rome were Christians. The Roman empire had now begun to decline because of the Romans seeing Christianity as a disruptive religion. Romans believed that Christians were the ones who had taken away Caesar’s power. The Romans then decided to jump into conclusions: begin the persecution of Christian population. This was a lot like the Holocaust except that the Romans were persecuting the Christians. Romans believed punishing Christians would dissuade others from converting to Christianity, but this did not work. The population of Christians was too high for the Romans, they were not strong enough to destroy the