Were Paul and Barnabas the only Jewish Y'Shua (Jesus) disciples to convert to what we know as "Christianity?"?

Paul was chosen by Jesus Christ WHILE he was en route to KILLING Christians

'in the name of God'.

Paul was then called 'Saul'. The force/light was so great and Saul heard Jesus

speaking plainly and KNEW it was Jesus, recognized this as true.

Paul turned away from his old way, and devoted the rest of his life

to the gentiles...no mean feat for him. When we study the Jews,

the WORST thing they ever thought could be done was associate

with gentiles or pagans, and in a way, they were right.

The Jews had a lot of laws, very clean in every way, and the pagans

were quite an unruly lot, so there were reasons for their beliefs.

James was not one of the original twelve disciples, but was Jesus' brother.

He is human. It shows. He loves the Lord, Christianity but is also steeped

in his Jewishness. In many ways, James couldn't get past the Jewish ways,

making Saul = Paul even more amazing.

Paul was the apostle for the gentiles, no question and a good thing, too.

We aren't told much about the other apostles except they went out.

We do have 1/2/3 John in the bible before Revelations and it does not

mention anything Jewish or the law, but focuses on 'love', and other

important issues.

We can eliminate John because that was written as late as 120AD by someone not very familiar with Jewish Law or the culture during the time of Jesus.

I think 'convert' is not the right word. Paul's marketing campaign meant changing a lot of things, even to the direct opposite of what Jesus was teaching. Jesus was not into groupthink, he spoke to the individual. Also, he said he was sent only to the Jews. It was Paul who took it upon himself to take it global and just make stuff up to make that happen. Also, Paul had a problem with women. Apparently they didn't like him. It shows in his writings.

Once an ******, always an ******.

"Today's form of Christianity" bears no resemblance to what Jesus was teaching.

Christians don't even know what the very logo of Christianity (the praying hands) means or what its origins were. Obviously Jesus was teaching some form of meditation. But of course all the good stuff was excised from the bible 1,500-2,000 years ago. Wouldn't want people to be free (from The Church), would we?

joshua types originally more marxist in out look plus magnets negate crucifixion and much of iron age annd history so explains. romans could have been defeated by magnets and old tsetament was bogus since propaganda like that book on female circumscion and the bbc propaganda articles on female circumsciosn in darfar and west sudan .