Is Paul the Founder of Christianity?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
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Paul's Contribution to Christianity
Paul saw himself as an apostle to the Gentiles specifically. He made it very, very clear that non-Jewish followers of Jesus did not need to convert Judaism. If Paul had focused more on the Jewish community or required conversion, do you think that followers of Jesus would have remained as an offshoot of Judaism? I think that Judaism, Christianity would have remained a sect within Judaism," he says.
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