APOSTLE PAUL WAS A LIAR AND THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY
Paul is the most important witness to the resurrection we have for he is the only one who spoke of having visions to verify the resurrection first hand. So if we eliminate him as unreliable then we have nothing but gossip to base our belief in the resurrection on. How could the New Testament be infallible when it contains the writings of Paul who furnished us with zero evidence that he had prophetic ability and could write scripture? No proof of his sincerity was given either.
If Jesus really appeared to Paul to authorise him to be his messenger and keep his message correct and according to Jesus' will then if Paul falls Jesus falls too.
Paul went as far as to say that the gospel he preached back then was the
truth so if even he changed it later he should be cursed and rejected.
2 Corinthians chapter 13 is where Paul quotes with approval the Old Testament
Law of God that in the mouths of two or three witnesses all things must be
established. He threatens then to discipline wrongdoers when he comes. Why did
he quote the law? Was it because of the wrongdoers and to let the people know
that its God's will that they refuse to let them get away with it? No he was not
asking for two or three witnesses for everything the recalcitrant did. That
would be absurd. He said then that the people in Corinth wanted evidence that
Jesus was really speaking through Paul. This was what the quoting of the law was
about. He was applying it to himself. He was saying that he had nothing to fear
from the law in terms of his own claims. Then he explained that the proof was
how God and Jesus were working in the people. So they were his two witnesses.
God and Jesus working in Paul's converts was supposed to prove that Paul was
authentic - God was one witness and Jesus the other. The people weren't denying
that they felt God and Jesus were working in them. They were denying Paul's
claim to have the right to govern them in the name of God and Jesus. That he
couldn't mention any affidavits from the apostles in Jerusalem or any testimony
from them is significant. It proves that they were saying, "We feel that Jesus
rose therefore he did." They could not appeal to evidence. The lack of evidence
shows that he was understandably regarded with suspicion by them if not outright
opposition. He was using a very subjective proof, "I feel that God and Jesus are
working in me and therefore Paul speaks with Jesus' authority and Jesus speaks
through him." Such proofs are dangerous and lead only to chaos for any religious
teacher could use similar logic. It is no incentive for implementing effectual
discipline.
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul defends the doctrine that Jesus rose from the dead.
Many of the Corinthian Christians had come to believe that the doctrine was not
true. Paul argues that Jesus must have been raised for the dead would be lost
forever if he did not – that is dishonest logic. It would only mean that someone
else would have to rise and save.
According to Acts 21, Paul pretended to be a real devoted Jew to hoodwink his
Jewish critics. He had to be deceiving for he taught doctrines that the Jews
considered to be idolatrous, blasphemous and heretical. And Acts gives the story
of his vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus no less than three times as if it
were of supreme importance. How could it be, coming from a religious trickster?
Paul cynically taught that the whole world was capable of nothing only sin and
that saved Christians alone could do genuine and good works. This slander,
repeated by pathetic frauds like Martin Luther and John Calvin and their
followers, denies that when we, the unsaved, sincerely do what we believe is
good it is good. It accuses us of knowing that we are sinning. Anybody who has
lived to ten years of age knows that we are not always sinful and that we
deserve to be rescued from sin by God for doing good if we are free agents. Paul
was able to lie as he and his audience pleased. Jesus said that you cannot get
good fruit off a bad tree meaning the fruits look good. Jesus of course was not
thinking of real fruit but of people. Fruit can look good and be bad inside.
Jesus was denying that good works necessarily made one a good person. The other
apostles were as wicked as Paul when they made him a brother. Paul even went on
to command good works even though if there is sin in you they are not good.
Paul said that he worked harder than the twelve apostles (1 Corinthians
15:9,10). When the others who lived and worked with Jesus were less interested,
it either suggests that they were lying and liars are often not that determined
to advance their lies – though some are for it makes them feel big - or that
they had never lived and worked with Jesus at all. The Christians reply that the
Jerusalem apostles concentrated on Jews and Paul took on the world which was a
bigger project. But that is no excuse for the former not working harder.
The original Greek of 2 Corinthians 12:14-20 has Paul admitting that he lived
off the Corinthians by craftiness and guile. Christians say that Paul only said
that they were saying that about him. But this is not in the original Greek and
makes no sense anyway in the context. Paul simply says that when he goes back to
them he will not take anything from them though he had been crafty with them
before. He says that he did not burden them in what he did or take advantage of
them in a burdensome way and neither did his friends. Plus when these people
were accusing them of burdening them and when Paul gives no evidence but only
denials it implies what they were saying is right for he should be able to
defend himself if he is innocent (Something’s Fishy: Deception, Secrecy and the
Gospel on the www).
Everybody in Asia fell away from the gospel according to Paul (2 Timothy 1:15).
But the Book of Revelation praises the Churches there implying that the Jesus of
the Book of Revelation did not approve of Paul. They had another kind of
Christianity.
These guys could have made up everything they said about Jesus.
In Romans 14, Paul hypocritically forbade eating certain foods when it offends
other Christians who do not know that God lets his people eat whatever they
like. Yet he said that it is wrong to commit certain acts even if not doing them
scandalises others like adultery or theft. He wanted people to be gullible.
If God really spoke through the prophets of Corinth as Paul maintained, Paul
would not have needed to lay down rules for order (v14). He thought that God was
well organised when he declared that God doesn’t confuse. Paul’s thinking is
incoherent and childish or he wanted ours to be.
Paul said that unbelievers know fine well there is a God (Romans 1). A statement
like that coming from a man who had to have had doubts about God himself for he
was only human shows what a shameless slanderer he was. If you are an atheist
then you know that the Bible is wrong to say everybody knows there is a God no
matter how much they try to deny him. When this slander is sanctioned by the
apostles and prophets of Jesus against us why then would they have no right to
go further and persecute us? If there is a God then it is his business what we
do or think for we are his creation and his property. We have no right to think
anything other than what he decrees we should think. God and the idea that God
has made one true religion are intrinsically bigoted and dangerous. There are
literally millions of different forms of faith in this world so the concept of
God will put us at the mercy of men who claim to represent God and who tell us
what to think in God’s name and since they stand in the place of God it is their
business what we think and do.
In Romans 3 and 7, Paul said that we are all totally depraved and as bad as each
other. He knew from his own heart that this was not true.
Paul sees symbolism in a Genesis story (Galatians 4:21-31) that is not in the
original. The Church says he was not claiming that it was in it but that he
could see a parable for what he wanted to say in it. That is a lie for all he
had to do was just say what he wanted to say without the fancy interpretation.
It would have been handier and he never gave any hint that the Church was right.
This proved that when he said in the book of Acts that he never undermined the
Law of Moses he was lying for this allegorical interpretation indicates that he
wanted it to be possible to make it mean whatever you like.
He declared that our faith must not depend on philosophy or wisdom but on God’s
power (1 Corinthians 1,2). He commanded blind faith. The Church says he is only
against false wisdom. But he said that the death of Jesus proved that the wisdom
of philosophers though they were all intelligent and respected men is wrong and
we cannot make sense of the death of Jesus. He is saying that when reason
contradicts God reason must be ignored. These are the anti-intellectual hints.
But Paul went straight for the jugular and forbade thinking when it was not his
thinking.
Paul in Romans 3:7,8 condemns people who lie to glorify God though it means
making sure they will be saved by lying to them when one can get away with it.
It says that we can’t do evil so that good may come. If it is wrong to save
people from eternal damnation with a lie then it must be wrong to disguise your
pockmarks with makeup for that is deception too. It must be wrong to use clothes
to make your body look better than what it is. Those are action lies. Life would
be impossible if the apostle was right. But he didn't care. He was only lying to
his gullible and stupid audience and getting away with it.