@LuisDantas I've never heard of Pauline Christianity can you tell me more what is Pauline Christianity?
When I speak of Pauline Christianity, I do so to distinguish what is now mainstream Christianity from its early, most direct rivals (disregarding for the moment several movements that are now considered heresies, such as Pelagianism and Adoptionism). Those would be Gnostic Christianism and Judaism.
Pauline Christianity is noteworthy because it introduces the expectation that Abraham's god would somehow apply even to non-believers and people who never had any contact with Abrahamic beliefs. That is a a dangerous expectation, because it means that the creed presumes to be responsible for both believers and non-believers, when it would be proper instead for believers to be responsible for the beliefs, including their scope.
It is because both current mainstream Christianity, Islam and some other Abrahamic-influenced creeds such as the Bahai Faith inherited that expectation that we have most of our tensions involving creeds and religions. They have convinced themselves that they have a sacred duty to know better than the people they hope to convince.
Pauline Christianity - Wikipedia
Pauline Christianity or Pauline theology (also Paulism or Paulanity),[2] otherwise referred to as Gentile Christianity
There's so much I don't know - this can go forever...
Who's Paul in the bible compare to Thomas?
Thomas is one of the Apostles. Paul came decades later, claiming to have had a vision of Jesus and speaking quite a lot presumably on behalf of Jesus.
In many significant senses Paul is more responsible for the shaping of what is now known as Christianity than Jesus himself (if he did exist).
Did Paul and Thomas get along or did they debate and disagree with each other?
How did Paul and Thomas affect or effect India later?
I don't really know. Have they ever met? I don't think they did.
Paul is sometimes called an Apostle, but the Christian traditions make it clear that he was not among the twelve. Instead, he seems to be self-declared as an Apostle, unless you are willing to accept that his vision of a ressurrected Jesus is genuine and that Jesus somehow gave him that title.
Do I use affect or effect in that sentence. I yet need to look up those two words., affect or effect.
Roughly speaking, they have similar meanings, but "to affect" in some circunstances implies attempts at misdirection or misinformation, mostly out of emotional appeal. "To effect" suggests causing meaningful change.
Personally I tend to favor "to influence" as an alternative.
What are your thoughts about Paul and Thomas and their influences?
I don't really think too much about either.
I know that there are churches that trace their lineages directly to Thomas the Apostle while the Catholic Roman Church and some others trace theirs to Peter instead, but in all honesty that doesn't mean very much to me.
Paul, however, may or may not have been a literal person. But even if he isn't, he is either the author or the personification of the idea that Christianity should spread to all people. That is a powerful idea, which may well have been revolutionary at the time. And it very much comes with dangers and downsides which are unfortunately all too often neglected or taken as "unavoidable".
