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Early Christian reaction to Paul’s claim to apostleship was mixed: many communities and later church leaders accepted him as “apostle to the Gentiles,” while some Jerusalem Christians and later critic...
as sexually deviant by feminizing Jewish men, pathologizing Jewish sexual practices, and inventing bodily myths (such as Jewish male menstruation) that marked Jews as morally and biologically other . ...
Early evidence in the provided sources shows that many in the early church accepted Paul’s claim to apostleship and authority—James, Peter (Cephas) and John are described as “pillars” who, according t...
Acts 1:21–22 sets a clear, narrow criterion for replacing Judas: an apostle must have “been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us” and been a witness to the resurrection . Paul’s l...