Religion and Theology

The paper would talk about the way a convert, Paul, universalized Christ in spite of facing some confrontations from the side of Jews. Paul, who as a Roman citizen, used to follow Law of Moses and a persecutor of the new Christian sect. later when he travelled to Damascus from Jerusalem for anti-Christ efforts, Jesus the Christ appeared in front of him and asked why he persecuted him. Paul saw himself as an apostle to the Gentiles (non-Jews) and used to pray in the name of Jesus, and also had privileges and duties of being Gods people (File attached, pg)

Paul used to represent Judaism before but later he became the distorter of Jesus and antagonist of the Judaism. His former religion was not properly understood by him and could not recognize the worth of it. Paul found some faults and flaws in Jews and Judaism due to the ignorance of the expectations that Judaism had in the work of coalition between them (Nanos, 24).

Paul did realize the confrontations that might have come when universalizing the Christ therefore, he started universalizing Christ in a sensible way by keeping both sides in harmony. There is no doubt that Paul was initially a Jew, nevertheless, he found it better to separate the worship practices of both Christ and Judaism. For the worship of Jesus Christ, house-churches were laid outside Jewish community. Paul smoothly integrated few teaching of Torah (Jewish Torah) into the practices considered by Christians as Holy which calmed down the Jews who used to confront to Christianity. Moreover, Paul taught law-free Christianity, which later was known as Paulinism. He let off those who were not the followers of 613 commandments that were given by the Old Testament.

Therefore, Paul catered to both  former Jews and Gentiles  due to which he was able to universalize Christ, and guided the path for Christianity to be one of the most popular religions.