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Before his conversion he believed his persecution of the church to be an indication of his zeal for his religion; [273] after his conversion he believed Jewish hostility toward the church was sinful opposition, that would incur God's wrath. [274] [275] Paul believed he was halted by Christ, when his fury was at its height. [276]
Paul's influence on Christian thinking is considered to be more significant than that of any other New Testament author. [3] According to Krister Stendahl, the main concern of Paul's writings on Jesus' role, and salvation by faith, is not the individual conscience of human sinners, and their doubts about being chosen by God or not, but the problem of the inclusion of Gentile (Greek) Torah ...
Paul insists that salvation is received by the grace of God; according to Sanders, this insistence is in line with Judaism of c. 200 BCE until 200 CE, which saw God's covenant with Israel as an act of grace of God. Observance of the Law is needed to maintain the covenant, but the covenant is not earned by observing the Law, but by the grace of God.
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...
In his sermon, Paul quotes from certain Greek philosophers and poets, namely in verse 17:28. He alludes to passages from Epimenides [7] and from either Aratus or Cleanthes. Paul then explained concepts such as the resurrection of the dead and salvation, in effect a prelude to the future discussions of Christology.
Paul in Syria and Cilicia (Tarsus) Acts 9,28–30 ~ 40 Founding of the church in Rome, 'Christians' as a separate group in Antioch Acts11,26 ~ 40–50 Emergence of pre-Pauline traditions - ~ 42 Paul joins Antioch Acts 11,25–26 43/44 Persecution under Agrippa I, Peter leaves Jerusalem and James becomes leader of the church Acts 12,1–4.17
The Apocalypse of Paul (Apocalypsis Pauli, literally "Revelation of Paul"; more commonly known in the Latin tradition as the Visio Pauli or Visio Sancti Pauli) is a fourth-century non-canonical apocalypse and part of the New Testament apocrypha. The full original Greek version of the Apocalypse of Paul is lost, although fragmentary versions ...
Saul of Tarsus - later known as Paul the Apostle, a Pharisee and Roman citizen who would later become an apostle - participated in Stephen's execution. [ 4 ] The only source for information about Stephen is the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles. [ 5 ]