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The Controversy Of Paul's Discipleship

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Controversy of Paul’s Discipleship
Through the many hardships that Christianity had faced in its early days, the conversion of the Apostle Paul brought new depth and character to this new Divine Sect. The discipleship of Paul as he named himself 'the Jew of Tarsus' always remained most controversial and arguable even to the extent that he was sometimes blamed to be the one person who brought inventions in the Religion. His opponents misunderstood him to the limits that was accused of being the one person who prohibited people from the Christ’s true teachings and forced the followers of Holy Christ back to Judaism. This propaganda was spread by Nietzsche, who considered Paul as 'the eternal Jew par excellence' (Johnson, 1975).

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He was the one who for the first time fully comprehended and followed the Jesus's scheme of theology by grasping the magnitude of the variations it personified and finally the completeness of the break with the Judaic law. The controversy of Discipleship of Paul fabricated the enigma of his enemies who in turn proved to be the enemies of Christianity and …show more content…

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