5/29/2023 0 Comments Saul later![]() ![]() ![]() Even today, by murdering and persecuting Christians around the world, they are spreading it, even against their own will. The very thing that the Jewish religious leaders were trying to eliminate by persecuting them, and even murdering them, caused the church to spread far and wide, and so Paul, prior to conversion, was actually helping the gospel spread by his trying to destroy it, but you can’t destroy what Jesus said the gates of hell or death would not prevail against (Matt 16:18). Shortly after Saul (later, Paul) approved of Stephen the Deacon’s stoning and death, “there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles” (Acts 8:2), so what about those Christians who escaped and were scattered about? “Those who were scattered went about preaching the word” (Acts 8:4). In fact, persecution helped spread the Word of God throughout the Roman Empire. It’s very much like someone trying to put out a grass fire but by stomping on it, it only manages to spread it, and so it was with Christianity. ![]() Ironically, the more the Jews tried to stamp out Christianity, they more they managed to spread it. ![]() How did the Apostle Paul influence Christianity? Through Persecution ![]()
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