What did Paul do to early Jewish believers before his conversion?
Before his conversion, Paul persecuted early Jewish believers, as recorded in the book of Acts. He was one of their own, taught at the feet of their most famous rabbi, but he opposed them until God saved him by grace on the road to Damascus.
Les explains that Paul had persecuted those early Jewish believers back in the book of Acts, and then God saved him by grace on the road to Damascus. God took him into the desert and revealed to him over about a three-year period the amazing doctrines of grace. This put a block between Paul and the Jewish people. He was one of their own, taught at the feet of their most famous rabbi. When he came back from his revelations, he told the world they were not under the law, did not have to circumcise their children, keep the law, go to the temple, or sacrifice animals, because all that had been set aside. Religious Jews thought he was nuts.