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Thomas the Apostle

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Thomas the Apostle  (called  Didymus  which means "the twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles  of  Jesus Christ , according to the  New Testament . He is informally called  doubting Thomas  because he doubted Jesus' resurrection when first told (in the  Gospel of John ), followed later by his confession of faith, "My Lord and my God", on seeing Jesus' wounded body. Traditionally, he is said to have travelled outside the  Roman Empire  to preach the Gospel, travelling as far as  Tamilakam  in present-day  India . [2] [5] [6] [7]  According to tradition, the Apostle reached  Muziris ,  Tamilakam  present day  India  in AD 52 and baptized several people, founding what today are known as  Saint Thomas Christians or Nasranis. After his death, the reputed relics of Saint Thomas the Apostle were enshrined as far as  Mesopotamia  in the 3rd century, and later moved to various places. [8]  In 1258, some of the relics were brought to  Abruzzo  in  Ortona ,  Italy ,

Paul the Apostle

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Paul the Apostle  ( Greek :  Παῦλος   Paulos ; c. 5 – c. 67), originally known as Saul of Tarsus  ( Hebrew :  שאול התרסי ‎;  Greek :  Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς   Saulos Tarseus ), [1] [2]  was an  apostle  (though not one of the  Twelve Apostles ) who taught the  gospel of Christ  to the  first-century world . [7]  He is generally considered one of the most important figures of the  Apostolic Age . [8] [9]  In the mid-30s to the mid-50s, he founded several churches in  Asia Minor and Europe . Paul took advantage of his status as both a  Jew  and a  Roman citizen to minister to both Jewish and Roman audiences. According to writings in the  New Testament  Paul, who was originally called Saul, was dedicated to the  persecution  of the early  disciples  of Jesus in the area of  Jerusalem . [10]  In the narrative of the book of  Acts of the Apostles  (often referred to simply as  Acts ), while Paul was traveling on the road from Jerusalem to  Damascus  on a mission to "bring them which were

Tower of Babel

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Tower of Babel The story of the city of Babel is recorded in  Genesis 11:1–9 . Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called  Babel . As it appears in the King James version of the Bible: 1.Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in and settled there. 2.They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used bri