Religion

Paul universalizes Christ through his efforts and love. Today, Paul is a leading religious figure in Christianity and every Christian follows his ideas and religious teachings. Paul universalizes Christ is still a debate among religious leaders and scholars. For instance, surviving documents from the Ebionites, one of the earliest communities of Christian Jews, offer a radically different view of Paul than the one depicted in the letters and gospels. Hyam Maccoby (1986) argues that the documents indicate that Paul converted to Judaism and was not a Pharisee, that he acquired his Roman citizenship as an adult and worked for the High ...