they only would apologise in matters of faith the young paul was what we would today call radical extremist a fanatic and deeply devoted to god but with zero tolerance toward dissenters. as the growing group of jesus' disciples soon realized paul and his group of deeply devout jews knew no mercy. for you have heard your former manner of life in judaism. are used to persecute the church of god beyond measure and tried to destroy. the first christian martyr was stephen a deacon in the early church who was stoned to death it says in the bible that paul approved his killing. the id's i'm sorry paul thought that jesus was a pseudo prophet who had predicted the downfall of jerusalem which didn't happen of