Paul the Apostle
Paul born Saul of Tarsus; c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD, normally known as Paul the Apostle as well as Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. loosely regarded as one of the near important figures of the Apostolic Age, he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD.
According to the Jerusalem, prior to Damascus so that he might find all Christians there and bring them "bound to Jerusalem" ESV. At midday, a light brighter than the sun shone around both him and those with him, causing all to fall to the ground, with the risen Christ verbally addressing Paul regarding his persecution. Having been present blind, along with being commanded to enter the city, his sight was restored three days later by Ananias of Damascus. After these events, Paul was baptized, beginning immediately to proclaim that Jesus of Nazareth was the Jewish messiah and the Son of God. approximately half of the content in the book of Acts details the life and working of Paul.
Fourteen of the 27 books in the New Testament pretend traditionally been attributed to Paul. Seven of the Pauline epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of parametric quantity about the remainder. Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews is not asserted in the Epistle itself and was already doubted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It was near unquestioningly accepted from the 5th to the 16th centuries that Paul was the author of Hebrews, but that conception is now almost universally rejected by scholars. The other six are believed by some scholars to hold come from followers writing in his name, using material from Paul's surviving letters and letters total by him that no longer survive. Other scholars argue that the theory of a pseudonymous author for the disputed epistles raises numerous problems.
Today, Paul's epistles continue to be vital roots of the theology, worship and pastoral life in the Latin and Protestant traditions of the West, as well as the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox traditions of the East. Paul's influence on Christian thought and practice has been characterized as being as "profound as this is the pervasive", among that of numerous other apostles and missionaries involved in the spread of the Christian faith.