Paul invented a new religion based on lies, deception and untruths. The Christian churches are mostly all based on the teachings of Paul, which is incredible since it is the bible itself which proves that Paul was false. The sad thing is that most Christians don’t really know their own bible which they proclaim to be the word of God. They accept everything their pastor or priest tells them and question nothing.
Apostle Paul by Rembrandt
He accused the apostles of Jesus of peaching “another Jesus” than the one that he preached (2Co 11:4,14,15,23) and called THEM false apostles (2Co 11:13). The truth is that Paul preached a different Jesus than the apostles preached.
Paul never saw Jesus. He claimed to have had revelations from Jesus himself. However, from his letters, some of his writings contain quotes from the Gospel of the Nazarenes, not contained in the bible. It is probable that the time that he spent in Arabia he was studying gospels of Jesus that are largely not available to us now.
Paul did not meet the requrements of apostleship. According to Acts 1.21,22 there were two requirements of apostleship: 1) having been present with Jesus and 2) a witness of the resurrection. Paul fulfilled neither.
Paul’s false testimony of his conversion. Paul claimed that he received a visit from Jesus on the road to Damascus, in which he was dramatically converted. However, the story of his conversion which he told 3 times, was somewhat different each time he told it. It appears that he made up the story to gain credence.
Paul was known and hated by many of the Jewish believers, and not merely the Jews. According to the Ebionites he was an apostate from the law and a liar.
The churches in Asia rejected Paul (2Ti 1:15). Jesus praised the churches in Asia (Rev 2:2).
Jesus praised the churches in Asia for trying lying false apostles who taught that it was alright to eat things sacrificed to idols (2:2, 14, 20; 1Co 8:7,8)
Paul belittled the brethern who where vegetarians, saying they had “weak consciences” (1Co 8:9-13). He taught that vegetarianism was of the devil and hypocritical (1Ti 4:1-3) and claimed that it was the “Spirit” that spoke. However, it was Jesus who taught them that it was “not lawful” to eat flesh meat (Gospel of the Nazarenes 17:7; 38:1, 2). It’s obvious why they left this teaching out of our bibles.
Paul converted to Judaism for the high priest’s daughter. According to the Ebionites, Paul originally Greek, converted to Judiasm because he wanted to marry the high priest’s daughter. When she jilted him he became bitter and he “he flew into a rage and wrote against circumcision and against the sabbath and the Law”. It was probably because of this bitterness that Paul went to the other side and taught things contrary to Jewish teaching.
Paul was thrown out of the temple at Jerusalem by the Jewish believers and would have been stoned to death if it hadn’t been for the Roman soldiers who saved his life. He was eventually escorted by the Romans to Rome never to return where his influence created the most powerful religion in history which resulted in the persecution and murder of Jews and Christians alike.
Paul preached a docrine of salvation that was contradictory to what Jesus and his disciples taught. He taught you needed only belief and not works of righteousness. Jesus taught that good works were necessary for righteousness and only the righteous entered the kingdom of heaven.
Paul preached against women teaching in the church. Jesus had women disciples.
Paul taught slavery was alright and his teachings were the justifications for the practice of slavery for centuries. Jesus taught freedom from slavery.
Paul taught it was not necessary to keep the law (Rom 6:14, 7:14). Jesus taught obedience to the law (Mat 5:17, 18)
Paul taught that everyone who called on the name of the lord would be saved. Jesus taught that NOT every one that says “Lord, Lord” would enter into the kingdom, only those who DO the will of God.
Paul taught that it was alright to eat flesh meat if it be “received with thanksgiving” (1Ti 4:4, Ro 14:14). Though it was excluded from the bible, Jesus taught against eating flesh meat (Gospel of the Nazarenes 21:8).
Paul began the ball rolling that was a perfect instrument for the Roman government to utilize in its goal of world conquest. If Paul had been able to forsee just how far his rebellion would go, he might not have taken it so far. The Roman church, that Paul was largely resposnsible for starting incorporated Paul’s predjudice against the Jews, against women, and basically anyone who was courageous enough to question his legitimacy. It took off and multiplied many times over what Paul started. What resulted was corruption, blindness, hypocricy and the unjust murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Jews, Christians, Muslims and others who challenged the church and its spiritual authority. Worse yet was the resulting gross spiritual darkenss that prevaded over most of the world for hundreds of years due to the Church’s dominion.
Love the article. I had this idea once and it got me but what about Peter speaking of Paul? Kind of defending him… 2 Peter 3:15 “And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” and peter was one of the pillars of the faith. And his select writings like 1 Corinthians 13…that chapter is so pure to me: gives the purest definition and teaching on love….could that be written from someone else other than Paul? And Romans 8, Galatians 5, Ephesians 6…..trust me, Paul is suspect to me and I want to disesteem him but does that throw away those grand chapters? Thanks. Great site btw
Unfortunately, it’s impossible to say who wrote what. But from the writing style many of the letters that used to be attributed to him are no longer. Plus who’s to say that his writings were not modified? It’s obvious that the church has added lots of things over the centuries — there is proof of this.
But I wouldn’t say that everything that Paul wrote was bad. I suspect that there were lots of writings around in his day that we don’t have today that he must have studied.
However, I don’t buy that stuff that he got all of is teachings by revelation of Jesus Christ — that has to be a lie. There are so many things that Paul wrote that were completely opposite of what Jesus taught plus what was taught by God in the Old Testament.
I’d hate to throw out all of the beautiful things that he wrote just because there is so much falsehood in his writings. However, even in our own courts if a witness is caught lying, his whole testimony is thrown out. How can you trust anything that he says?
Doug