Saint Paul

Submitted by:

Earl M. Ituriaga
Aljune Lucina
John Russel B. Seraspi
Ernie June Tolosa
Nigel Kevin Sayurin
Ric Darryl B. Villaruz

Submitted to:

Mr. Benjoan Balberona

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Who is Saint Paul?

• Saint Paul is also called Paul the apostle, Paul of Tarsus and Apostle to
the Gentiles.
• His Hebrew name is Saul.
• Was born in Tarsus and died in c. 62-65 in Rome during the reign of Nero.
(Our sources did not give his exact birth date but in the last June 28 2008
to June 29 2009, Pope Benedict XVI set the Jubilee Year of St. Paul; that
commemorate the second millennium of his birth )
• A member of the tribe of Benjamin.
• Greek-speaking Jewish Roman citizen
• He is a student of the famous teacher Gamaliel.
• A persecutor of early Christians.

How his conversion and mission started?

• St. Paul's conversion can be dated to around AD 33 by his reference to it

in one of his letters.
• He was going to Damascus to persecute the early Christians living there
when he saw a bright light shined all around him.
• He heard a voice saying to him “Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting
me?” The voice is coming from Jesus.
• After the miracle he experienced he was temporarily blinded.

Early Ministry

• Following his stay in Damascus after his conversion, where he states

he was healed of his blindness and baptized by Ananias of Damascus.
• Then he went to Arabia, possibly for a year or two to prepare himself
for his future missionary activity.
• After this, he went back to Damascus; he stayed there for a time,
preaching in the synagogues that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.
• He then went to Jerusalem to see Peter and pay his homage to the
head of the Church.
• Later he went back to his native Tarsus, where he began to evangelize
his own province until called by Barnabas to Antioch.
• Both Barnabas and Paul were sent with alms to the poor Christian
community at Jerusalem. Having fulfilled their mission they returned to
Antioch.
• Soon after this, Paul and Barnabus made the first missionary journey,
visiting the island of Cypress, then Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia,
 all in Asia Minor, and establishing churches at Pisidian Antioch,
Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.

Apostolic Council of Jerusalem

• St. Paul and the Jerusalem church meeting took place in AD 49 or

50.
• The key question raised was whether Gentile converts needed to
be circumcised.
• At this meeting, Peter, James, and John accepted Paul's mission to
the Gentiles.

Incident in Antioch

• Paul recounts how he later publicly confronted Peter, also called

the "Incident at Antioch" over his reluctance to share a meal with
Gentile Christians in Antioch.
• Paul reports that he told Peter: "You are a Jew, yet you live like a
Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to
follow Jewish customs?
• The final outcome of the incident remains uncertain.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia states: "St. Paul's account of the
incident leaves no doubt that St. Peter saw the justice of the
rebuke.”

Resumed mission

• Around AD 50-52, Paul spent 18 months in Corinth.

• After Corinth, the next major center for Paul's activities was
Ephesus. From AD 52 to AD 54.
• Next, he traveled to Macedonia before going probably to Corinth for
three months (AD 56-57) before his final visit to Jerusalem.

How he was Arrested and died?

Paul arrived in Jerusalem c AD 57 with a collection of money for the

congregation there.
Acts reports that the church welcomed Paul gladly, but it was apparently a
proposal of James that led to his arrest
Paul caused a stir when he appeared at the Temple, and he escaped being killed
by the crowd by being taken into custody.
He appealed to Caesar as a Roman citizen and was sent to Rome for trial.
Acts reports that he was shipwrecked on Malta.
He arrived in Rome c AD 62? and spent two years under house arrest.
And in the year 65, He was beheaded.

Saint Paul Influence in Christianity

Paul declared that faith in Christ made the Torah unnecessary for salvation,
exalted the Christian church as the body of Christ, and depicted the world
outside the Church as under judgment.

Lord’s Supper

Paul's writings include the earliest reference to the supper of the Lord.

Paul’s view of the subject

People saw different disciplines of Christ as a different teaching was addressed

by Paul himself, in the 1st letter to the Corinthians: (1 Cor 1:10–18)

“I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you
agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that
you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. My brothers, some from Chloe's
household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is
this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow
Cephas(Peter)"; still another, "I follow Christ."

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name
of Paul? I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
so no one can say that you were baptized into my name. (Yes, I also baptized
the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone
else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel — not with
words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power”

Reference: www.wikipedia.org, www.catholic.org,The simple English bible, New testament

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