Saint Paul: The Founder of Christianity

From the point God came to Saul on the way to Damascus, Saul devoted his life to spreading the word of Christianity. Saul was born into Hellenism and strongly raised within it, only knowing the way of it, persecuting those who weren't of it. One day, he was heading to Damascus to persecute those who looked to the one God Jesus preached about. He was blinded by God and Saul had a vision, a revelation. God had told him he needed to pray to see again. Later, God came to Ananais, a disciple, and he told him that he needed to go to Saul and baptize him, and Ananias responded, “Lord, I have heard from many sources about this man, what evil things he has done to your holy ones in Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call upon your name,” and God replied “Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and Israelites, and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name.” Ananias went to Paul and baptized him, relinquishing Paul's vision. Paul now became the founder and carrier of word of Christianity. He traveled to various communities where he felt needed to hear the word of Christianity. After he left the cities that he preached to, he wrote letters back to them. He was most famous for his writings to the Philippians. Paul truly was a missionary of Christianity. However things went smoothly in some cities, they didn't in others.

Along the travels of Paul, he made many relations with communities, of these not all were good and he caused a lot of strife in some cities. He formed good relations with many people like the people he related himself to and saw that they needed guidance. He shared his love to those who needed, no matter their situation, being that some of them were the worst of sinners. However Paul made many other distasteful relations with people, often who had been set around their own religions. He was brought before the Pharisees, of which tried to condemn his for blasphemy, but were not able to charge him. However, most of his travels, he was the salvation for the broken, he was always keeping track of his progress and his letters back to those he was closest to. He was also close to Gamaleil, a Jewish rabbi, who taught Paul, he was also famous for his tolerance of the conversion of the Apostles from Judaism to Christianity. These relations throughout his time period, allowed him to create the empire of Christianity.

Through Paul's life, he had converted and turned thousands of people through many different ways of reaching the people. An example was Paul's eschatology centered on the imminent end of the world. He truly believed the world was coming to a sudden end and was very strongly set on reaching these people about converting. He felt they must convert and achieve salvation before the world's end. Paul also talked in the Jerusalem council and discussed/argued with Peter, James, and John, the pillars of Christianity, about the Christian Doctrine, or topics like circumcision and dietary laws. He fought that circumcision was not necessary when converting to Christianity. He argued that the little skin trimmed from the males was not relevant in the slightest way to conversion.

The time of Paul was the biggest and most beneficial era of Christianity. This era began with the blinding of Saul and the later conversion to Paul. He then reached out to the communities with almost provocative arguments that it made people think. It made people see and feel the ways of Christianity. He was very good at reading people and basically telling them what they wanted to hear and what he wanted them to hear, enough to convert them to Christianity. He was a very committed man in that he was very persistent with his objectives. He fought for what he thought was right at the council of Jerusalem. He fought for the conversion when he realized, or thought, the world was imminently coming to an end. Paul was the harbinger of Christianity.

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