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So the short version of this question is, was paul the real founder of christianity An influential school of younger writers in germany has confidently asserted that paul and not jesus himself was the real founder of christianity, meaning the christianity of the churches and the creeds. The original question was, how can we reconcile the differences between jesus's teachings and paul's theology, considering that paul often focuses on different aspects of jesus's message

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So, uh, how would you how would you begin to respond to that question Paul continues to be the topic of much debate in the modern era, with books describing paul as everything from the real founder of christianity [2] to a jewish cultural critic. Most people think christianity started with jesus

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Jesus preached, healed, ticked off some priests, and got nailed to a cross Then came paul — a guy who never met jesus in life — and suddenly christianity exploded into the giant religion we know today If you ask me, the real founder of christianity wasn't the guy walking… But it is also true that the new testament, the acts and the epistles — however much the historical figure of jesus may be true — all are symbolical and allegorical sayings, and that it was not jesus but paul who was the real founder of christianity;3 but it was not the official church christianity, at any rate.

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