Saint paul apostle early life

Paul A. Regarded as a fiery, charismatic orator and a passionate and tireless activist, he helped spread Christianity along with other missionaries and wrote the earliest known documents on Christianity. Paul is closely associated with Damascus, Syria. Paul, the Apostle. According to the Bible, Saul began his career terrorizing Christians in Jerusalem and later was blinded by a vision from God outside of Damascus.

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He was led into the city and cured of his blindness by a man named Ananias, who received a vision from the Lord and told Paul: "Arise and go into the street which is called Straight. Paul was converted to Christianity with the help of Hanania. Candida Moss wrote in the Daily Beast: The Apostle Paul, who had no shortage of female admirers, is depicted in one early Christian text as a small, bald, bow-legged man, who sported a unibrow — a single eyebrow created when the two eyebrows meet in the middle above the bridge of the nose.

In the case of religious figures like Paul their unattractiveness helped protect their followers from the dangers of sexual attraction.

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Bandy Amazon. Wilson Amazon. Brian Shelton Amazon. Wright and Michael F. Bird Amazon. Some believe that Paul was more important than even Jesus in establishing Christianity as a great religion. He transformed what had been a been a fringe movement of Jews into a religion that embraced all peoples that spread through the Roman Empire, one of the largest political domains the world has ever known.