Why does Paul began his journey?

Answer 1

Paul, originally called Saul, was a religious leader at the time of the early church, and he hated the new Christians, (or followers of The Way, as they were called at the time). After Stephen was martyred (Acts 7:54-8:1), Saul approved. He soon began to persecute the Christians. In Acts 9, he was riding to the town of Damascus to kill christians, when Jesus appeared to him on the road in bright light, knocked him off his horse, and blinded him for three days. God sent a man called Ananias to go to Saul and teach him the Gospel. Saul (or now Paul) was converted, and felt convicted to begin preaching the gospel. Days after he first believed, he already gave his first sermon, and followed God's call to plant churches in the area ever since.

Answer 2

A:The three missionary journeys in Acts of the Apostles are a puzzle, because Paul's own accounts in some cases contradict them and in other cases do not mention them. There is a tendency among scholars to accept Paul's accounts of his travels ahead of those in Acts. Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that the missionaries journeys are only a convenient classification developed by students of Acts.

Answer 3

We are told in Acts 15:36, " Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing."

Answer 4

Paul's missionary journeys are considered important because through his travels he spread the gospel and planted churches. I don't think you can say they were the most important, other people also took the gospel from Jerusalem to different parts of the world. Paul's journeys are well documented so we know about them.

Answer 5

In his undisputed letters Paul never mentions the missionary journeys. He definitely gives us no information consistent with the first missionary journey and only sparse and contradictory information about the second and third missionary journeys described in Acts of the Apostles. In fact, Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says the the three journeys are only a convenient classification developed by students of Acts.

The three missionary journeys were probably added to Acts of the Apostles for theological reasons rather than from records of Paul's itinerary.

Answer 6

Paul was sent on his missionary journeys by the Holy Spirit. So he went on his missionary journeys because God told him to.