Paul's Journey To Christianity

The life of Paul is interesting in that his beginning was as a Jewish traditionalist, and his life ended due to his preaching contradicting traditional Jewish law (Harris, 2014). So, shortly after witnessing Stephen’s stoning (Saul) Paul is attempting to continue his holy war on Christianity, but after being confronted by God Saul, now Paul, almost immediately begins his mission work. Consequently, Paul’s first mission trip into the Asia Minor region without consent from the Jewish church leaders. Throughout his first trip through Asia Minor is extremely effective in spreading Christianity to the Gentiles, but in Lystra, some Jews talked the people into attempting to kill Paul by stoning him. Even though Paul was able to continue his missions trip, the extreme number of new converts forced Paul back to the church in Jerusalem to speak on their behalf for acceptance by the Jews as Christians.

Subsequently, Paul’s second missionary Journey was to Greece
During this journey Paul is filled with great power enacting miraculous healings and converting many Gentiles from their gods; however, this causes merchants monetary loss in Ephesus brought them to trial again, yet again they were found not guilty of misconduct (Harris, 2014). Moreover, at the conclusion of this trip, Paul calls the church officials from Ephesus to meet with him, and based on the events leading up to this point speaks about his future detention. Thus, destiny or irony leads us to Paul’s arrest in Caesarea on the grounds of violation traditional religious Jewish Temple practices. Furthermore, this is the start of his detention and journey to Rome where he completed his mission work. While it is likely that converting Gentiles was dangerous, the conclusion depicts traditional Jews as his greatest enemy, which is ironic considering his prior