Book Of Acts Analysis

Although the Book of Acts is divided equally between both the apostle Peter and Paul, in order to ascertain that Paul is the answer the question of who had a greater impact, one must first find the individual trajectory that he had been given: “...when James and Cephas and John … recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised" (Galatians 2:9). Undoubtedly, on to the shoulders of Paul falls the burden of inclusion of the Gentiles, but from the Gentiles would come the most important development of the Christian church, the actual size and population of its membership. Paul becomes important because his ideas allow a much more inclusive community of religiosity, one that would be open to more than just the matriarchal lines of Judaism.
Before he became Paul as he is later know, there was once a young man who vehemently hated the primitive Church, Saul, present at the stoning of Stephen; in the Book of Acts he is described “breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord" (Acts 9:1). Not quite yet the person one would expect to be welcoming to the idea of the Christian Church, rather, Saul was the exact opposite as he could be seen as a …show more content…
In fact, the early “God Fearers”, were Gentiles that participated in Synagogue activities but did not take part in the feast that happened the next day because they had no yet converted to Judaism beforehand. This presented a problem for Paul, as he believed that Gentiles did not need to first become Jews, which ultimately boiled down to men needing to circumcise, before they could become Christians; in Galatians 5:2-6 Paul