Before he became Paul as he is later know, there was once a young man who vehemently hated the primitive Church, Saul, present at the stoning of Stephen; in the Book of Acts he is described “breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord" (Acts 9:1). Not quite yet the person one would expect to be welcoming to the idea of the Christian Church, rather, Saul was the exact opposite as he could be seen as a …show more content…
In fact, the early “God Fearers”, were Gentiles that participated in Synagogue activities but did not take part in the feast that happened the next day because they had no yet converted to Judaism beforehand. This presented a problem for Paul, as he believed that Gentiles did not need to first become Jews, which ultimately boiled down to men needing to circumcise, before they could become Christians; in Galatians 5:2-6 Paul