Paul

Some say that Jesus was a good teacher who never claimed to be the Messiah or the Son of God. They claim that Paul imported pagan ideas into the Jewish teaching of Jesus in order to appeal to the Gentiles and create a new religion. Paul, some say, was the real "inventor" of Christianity and a detractor of Judaism who taught that the Torah was of no value.

The theory enables Jewish people to embrace Jesus while rejecting Christianity, but does it hold up under inquiry? In this section, we take a look at the essential Jewishness of Paul and his writings, his ethics, and his love for his own people.