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Biography The significance of the apostle Paul for the development of Christianity is difficult to overestimate: it is called an "architect of Christianity." Paul's messages occupy almost a third of the total volume of the New Testament, it is glorified by the Church as the "Apostle of the Gentiles." Why was the Apostle Paul was destined to play such a significant role in the formation of Christianity?

Why did Christ himself call him? These and many other questions are answered by the proposed book in which the biography of the Apostle Paul, how it is loosened from the book of the Acts of the Apostolic and from his own messages, is represented in a wide historical context. Paul messages occupy almost a third of the total volume of the New Testament.

More than half of the book of the Acts of the Apostolic, telling about the early years of the Christian Church, is dedicated to the story of the appeal of Paul and his missionary works. The meaning of the Apostle Paul for the development of Christianity is difficult to overestimate. Paul was quite seriously called the "founder of Christianity." Nevertheless, Paul is still talking about the "architect of Christianity": the church.

But Paul’s key role in the formation of Christianity as an independent religious tradition cannot be challenged. Why it was he who turned out to be the “chosen vessel”, whom Christ himself urged, in order to proclaim His name “before the peoples and kings and sons of Israel” deeds. What is the real role of Paul in the formation of Christian theological and moral teachings?

These questions can only be answered after a thorough consideration of his biography and teaching. This book is an attempt to compose a biography of Paul such as it looms from the book of Acts of the Apostolic and from his own messages. Before proceeding with Paul’s biography, we must point out several well -known facts. Firstly, although Pavel is called the Apostle, he was neither among the twelve nor among the seventy apostles elected by Jesus.

Most likely, he did not meet Christ at all during his lifetime. At least, nowhere in his messages he does not mention such meetings. Secondly, at the initial stage of the existence of the Church, Paul was among its persecutors. And only the direct intervention of the resurrected Jesus into the life of Paul turned him from the persecutor of Christ into his zealous apologet and the apostle.

Thirdly, Pavel is the only one of the disciples of Christ who belonged to the Pharisees party. Before his appeal, he was the bearer of the very ideas against which Jesus spoke systematically and consistently. As you know, it was the conflict with the Pharisees that caused the trial of Jesus and his death. And it was from the sect of the Pharisees that the one who worked more than all other apostles worked.

Our study on Paul is conceived as a continuation of the six -volume labor under the general name “Jesus Christ. Life and teaching. " For example, we do not explain again who the Pharisees were, what their teachings consisted of, why they entered into conflict with Jesus. Many information regarding the cultural and historical context, in which early Christianity was born, we left in this book behind brackets, since to one degree they were already set out in six books about Jesus.