What was the apostle Paul’s feeling toward Christians before his conversion?

Question

What adjustment did Paul have to make to fulfill his assignment?

Answer 1

Paul (Saul was his Hebrew name) was a violent persecutor of Christ's followers and this might have been because he was convinced that the new faith would corrupt Judaism by mixing it with foreign, undesirable ideas.

He was a "Pharisee". (Acts 23:6) All his life Saul had been a Pharisee, he believed the teachings of the Pharisees were right. He looked to those leaders as an example and he copied them. (Acts 7:54-60)The Pharisees were a Jewish religious group that had God's Word but paid more attention to some of their own religious leaders and this made Saul do bad things.

When Paul (Saul) learned that God had chosen him to preach Christ to the Gentiles (Acts 22:14,15; 26:16-18), he had to put forth great effort to reevaluate his viewpoint of the Gentiles and to bring it into harmony with God's will. God's will was that all sorts of people should be saved.(Galations 1:13-17; 1 Timothy 2:4) His entire way of life changed, and he became a faithful servant of God. (Acts 9:1-22)

Answer 2

Well, Paul had to completely turn around because before becoming a Christian himself, he persecuted Christians and even procured permission for their death....

Formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man.—1 Tim. 1:13.

Religious fanaticism had made Saul (as Paul was formerly known) a violent persecutor of Christ’s followers. At the root of his intense hatred of Christianity might well have been the conviction that the new faith would corrupt Judaism by mixing it with foreign, undesirable ideas. After all, Paul had been “a Pharisee,” the very name meaning “separated one.” (Acts 23:6) Imagine how shocked Paul must have been when he learned that God had chosen him to preach Christ to—of all people—the Gentiles! (Acts 22:14, 15; 26:16-18) Why, Pharisees refused even to eat with those whom they considered to be sinners! (Luke 7:36-39) No doubt it required great effort on his part to reevaluate his viewpoint and to bring it into harmony with God’s will that all sorts of people should be saved.—Gal. 1:13-17. w 12/1/05 3, 4a

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Answer 3

Paul was Saul and he murdered Christians; he hated and preached hatred against them.

His adjustment was not thru works but he became Jehovah’s choice to be his apostle to the nations.

Paul says in Ephesians 3: 7 - 8:
I became a minister of this according to the free gift of the undeserved kindness of God that was given me according to the way his power operates. To me, a man less than the least of all holy ones, this undeserved kindness was given, that I should declare to the nations the good news about the unfathomable riches of the Christ.

Paul exerted himself zealously, traveling thousands of miles on sea and land, establishing many congregations in Europe and Asia Minor

It was the apostle Paul’s privilege to write more books, or letters, of the Christian Greek Scriptures than anyone else. He was given supernatural visions and, by means of the holy spirit, was enabled to speak numerous foreign tongues.

In essence, Paul changed from a murderous zealot to a zealous lover of Jehovah, prominently preaching the good news throughout many nations and thus becoming an apostle and trusted servant of Jehovah God's.

Answer 4

Paul's feeling toward Christians=murderous.

Answer 5

Many have answered this question correctly. Paul hated and killed Christians before coming to know Jehovah God.

He is a perfact example of how a person can follow Satan's way of life in this system of things and come to know Jehovah God and put on the new personality and become a brother or sister.

Answer 6

He pretty much wanted Christians dead, so hate would be a good word. As to adjustments, God did the adjustments.

That is the trouble today, to many Christians attempting to adjust themselves with 'church' guided studies. To meet his calling he went to the desert for three years of Scripture study and revelation before preaching or teaching.

Now we have people who say the Jesus prayer, memorize Mark 16, versus 15 and 16 only, and launch out on Yahoo R&S. They are not far advanced over some others; who have finished three years of cemetery study within their respective religious prejudice. Some have even been made doctors of the church.

Answer 7

Paul was literally on the road to Damascus, with letters in hand, to pull Christians out of their houses to murder them. He did not make an adjustment; the transforming power of Jesus Christ made the adjustment. Whom God calls, He enables.

Answer 8

Paul was a Sadducee before he became an apostle. He persecuted Christians In fact, when he was struck blind, he was planning to find Christians, bind them and take them to Jerusalem. Read the book of Acts, Chapter 9.

Answer 9

Before the Apostle Paul's conversion the Christianity, he did every thing he could to try to imprison and/or kill every Christian he knew of....

Answer 10

He was vehemently anti-Christian and persecuted some to death,thinking they were heretics.It took Jesus to knock him off his horse and onto his @ss to get him to stop.He temporarily blinded him but the effects lasted his lifetime.He had eye problems the rest of his life.
By the way,Paul was a Pharisee not a Saducee.Big difference.