Why was St. Paul so important to the spread of the Early Church?

Answer 1

Saul of Tarsus was a Lawyer!

Presumably there needed to be someone with high degree of intellect to relate the concept of the Law as it related to the basic teaching of Jesus. Paul definitely complicated matters with all his dissertations; Jesus kept it simple.

It appears that Pauls purpose was to make a new set of rules of conduct; wheras Jesus himself had only two laws: Have no other gods before and to love your neighbour as the self.

Answer 2

Where ever Paul traveled to spread the Gospel, there were Judaisers who followed and attempted to put new Gentile Believers back under the Jewish Laws of Leviticus. Many of Paul's letters offer warnings to the churches about these false teachers who would seek to control the church through pressure and laws that could not apply to Gentiles. Examples: 2 Corinthians 11:9-33 Galatians 4:1-31 Colossians 2:4-23 Acts 17:1-14, the founding of the Church at Thessalonica is a perfect example of what legalists can do to undermine the Gospel.

Answer 3

Because Paul was able to take the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus and combine them in a way the would become the doctrines of the early church. Also Paul was the main Evangelist that went to the Gentiles instead of Jewish only.

Answer 4

During the time he was not a Christian but a jealous Religious Jew, God formed a very strong character in him. Later, when he was converted by the Lord, he was given the charge -by the Lord Himself- of spreading the Good News to the Gentiles. With such a character and temperament he had he was a tireless, jealous, and competent worker of the Lord. Besides this he received a very great part of the Christian doctrine directly from heaven being this way constituted in the spreader and expositor of the new doctrine that nourished and edified the early church.

Answer 5

Paul travelled around Asia and Europe preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to Jew and Gentile. He wrote approximately half the New Testament in letters to Christians telling them what they needed to do now that they had been converted.

He didn't:
* originate Christianity
* change Christianity
* preach a different gospel than Peter. Peter called him his "beloved brother (2 Peter 3:15).

Answer 6

I couldn't say for certain, but I'd imagine that it was because of his Roman citizenship. Roman citizens could not suffer death for any high crimes because of a law made back then, so since he was Roman, it left the government in a quandry when they discovered he was preaching Christianity. It was a high crime in the eyes of their law, but they couldn't put him to death for it. This enabled Paul to go all over the Roman Empire preaching with no fear of oppression from the government. That way, once people began to believe, Christianity would spread more quickly through the ranks.

Answer 7

Paul didn't spread the religion of Jesus son of Mary PBUT but a corrupted version according to his Anti-Christ desires.

Answer 8

Hi!

Good question...

1.God uses the foolish things of this world to accomplish His purposes:

Paul was known as KILLER of early Christians...now it would strike the hearts of many that he had become a "Believer"...Many would be attracted to listen to him preach with amusement because they knew him to be killer of Christians before he received Christ.Many would be saved because of that.

2. This was also to encourage Christians who are forced to stay in the same house with Christian-HATERS who abuse them because of their faith in Christ...This was to encourage them that "no heart is TOO DIFFICULT FOR THE LORD"...everyone knew how hard a man Paul was before he received Christ.Paul's salvation was proof to many that no heart is too difficult for the Lord.God can change a murderer, rapist, child molester into a saint.

3. Through Paul's coming into the ministry, the 4 gospels would be confirmed to be truly from Jesus Christ because Paul never walked with Jesus Christ as the 12 disciples did (i.e Matthew, Mark, John etc) AND YET SPOKE ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS IF HE HAD BEEN WITH JESUS CHRIST JUST AS THE TWELF DISCIPLES: Look at what Paul said here:

1Corinthians 11:23-24
"FOR I HAVE RECEIVED OF THE LORD that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

"And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

Paul was not at the communion table when Jesus Christ taught his disciples the COMMUNION...Paul received it by REVELATION from the Jesus Christ who had risen to heaven at the time Paul wrote this epistle...this was to confirm that Jesus has indeed risen from the dead...

4. God intended to show us that "ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE" of the LAW(bible) does not save as some thought.Paul was very knowledgable about the LAW, yet he never knew GRACE in his heart until Christ came into his life...It is the same thing that happens even now, many know scriptures but do not know the POWER thereof.With Paul, God was teaching us that "without the Holy Spirit you can never serve Me" for Paul began to really serve God after the Holy Spirit filled him.

Answer 9

Paul thought of business which has money and power. Finally it does well with the edi0ts around it.
He had better income than Gates.

Answer 10

Paul invented Christianity as we know it today and he also proselytized it to any who would listen. No Paul, no Christianity.