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Keep them on the jesus message. paul's epistles to these various christian communities are the earliest surviving christian documents. older than the gospels. and he preached everywhere from small-town synagogues to athens, the center of world culture. convincing philosophers and slaves alike that god had sent his son, jesus, to die and rise again to save everyone. in his letter to the romans, written in 57 a.d., paul says that, "by god's will, i may somehow at last succeed in coming to you." nearly three decades after the death of jesus, paul would make his way to rome. but only after he was ...