The Apostle Paul: The Apostle Of The Gentiles

The Apostle Paul is considered to be one of the most important people in the early times of Christianity, next to Jesus, Paul is the most important figure to Christianity after Jesus. He changed his name from Saul to Paul once he converted to Christianity. It has also been claimed that Paul had written about half of the New Testament books, thirteen of twenty-seven of these claim to be written by Paul. Though no specific claim is made in this book Christians also believe that Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, which was then accepted into the canon after the belief that Paul was the author. We also see in the Acts of the Apostles, the early history of Christianity with Paul being the “principle character” (A Brief Introduction pg. 181). …show more content…
His belief in the resurrection of Jesus changed his view of Jesus, now seeing Jesus as the way to salvation. He also saw that everyone was seen as equal before God based on their relationship and not what religion they followed, being Jewish or Gentile were both seen as equal before God. According to our book, Paul self appointed himself the apostle of the Gentiles. Paul was a major figure amongst the Gentiles; he insisted that they did not need to convert to Judaism in order to follow the teachings of Jesus. This is much different than we have previously seen, people converting so that they could follow Jesus, Paul insisted that you did not need to be Jewish to follow the teachings. After Paul’s views were changed we saw Paul go on a missionary campaign mainly for Gentiles, in order to convert people to have faith in Jesus and his teachings. Paul made a radically different move from others before him choosing to preach to non-Jewish people and show them that God had extended his salvation to the Gentile people. Paul was not only extremely important for the geographical spread of the Christian faith but also for the spread among different ethnicities. He preached that the salvation for the people who were brought by Jesus was not limited for just the Jewish people …show more content…
There is not a lot of information regarding the Christian community of Philippi, as Paul never mentions any principle characters in his writings as he had with other communities. Paul and his followers did build a church in Philippi, but were not treated well by the people so it is not likely that they spent a large amount of time here. The book hints at the idea that they probably spent just enough time to have some people convert and show them the way and the leave on a good note. The Book of Philippians is a letter from Paul that is written to Christians he converted in the Philippi. Paul wrote the letter while he was in prison at a location that is unknown to anybody. The letter was made up of four chapters with the first two taking a joyful and happy tone and then radically shifting the tone at the start of the third chapter. This was the one of the four Epistles he wrote while imprisoned. This was penned as a thank you letter the Philippians for sending aid to him through Epaphroditus who then tells Paul of all of the troubles the community faces. Such as false teachers telling them that they must keep the Jewish Law and two women arguing about a situation out in public. There are so many strong statements about strength in this book because Paul because he felt that although once Jesus was crucified the evil powers began to be defeated it was not yet