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Jesus and Saint Paul

The purpose of this essay is to examine the views of Jesus of Nazareth and Saint Paul concerning the relationship between the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Christian Bible (New Testament).

One very important historical consideration with regard to the Hebrew Bible and its three-stepped organization into the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings is that, for Jesus, these were the only Scriptures. The 'complete' New Testament did not appear until some one-hundred years after the death and resurrection of Jesus. Paul contributed a great deal to the New Testament in the

form of letters or epistles to young Christian churches throughout the Mediterranean world. Due to the fact that Jesus left no known literary documents, information concerning his sayings has come down to us in the New Testament by way of his close followers or apostles and their disciples. Paul never knew Jesus during his physical time on earth. Instead, Jesus was dramatically revealed to Paul or Saul, as he was first known, while he was traveling to Damascus: "Now as he was going along and approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' He asked, 'Who are you, Lord?' The reply came, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what to do'" (Acts 9:3-6). From that point on, Saul became Paul, and he preached the Good News of Jesus Christ from then on to the Hellenistic world.

According to Christian teachings, Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and also the Messiah as prophesied by the Old Testament. In fact, the Greek word Christos means 'the Annointed One' or 'the Messiah.' As the Son of God, Jesus was the spiritual connection between the Old Testament and the New. In Isaiah we find the coming of the Messiah foretold: "A voice cries out:/'In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,/mak...

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