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RE: (Paul Is An Anti-Christ)-You Need To Take A HARD Second Look At Paul-Part II

in #religion9 years ago (edited)

Again, the other Apostles just don't agree with you. The Christian communities in Corinth, Emphasis, Phillipi, Berea, Antioch, Jerusalem, Rome, Alexandria, Derbe, Lystra, Tarsus, Caesura, Philadelphia, Laodicea, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, and Thessalonica to name a few were all in constant contact and all knew Paul and scores of other of his associates. The Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 reviewed Paul's teachings and validated his legitimacy. Christian scholars have studied all the Scriptures in every generation and found no inconsistencies.
You seem to think that you have suddenly uncovered something new that went unnoticed for nearly 2000 years. Paul has been totally vetted by the Apostles, their contemporaries, the early church Fathers, the great theologians (Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Edwards, CS. Lewis...) and on and on.
There is no inconsistency in his teaching. There is just lack of understanding.

Paul did say, "I have become all things to all men so that by all means I might save some." If that's hypocrisy - well I'm sure he would happily plead guilty. This doctrine is spelled out quite clearly in Romans 14 where he explains that while the "strong sister" is free, she should limit her freedom if it would cause a "weak brother" to fall. He knows he is free to eat meat sacrificed to idols but will not do so if it would scandalize a weaker brother. This is not hypocrisy, it is sacrificing personal freedom for the benefit of others.

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Which Apostles? No one among the 12 called nor acknowledged Paul as an apostle. The highest acknowledgement he got from Peter is "brother" and that is only because Paul feigned to follow Christ's teachings.

The "christian councils" after that are just adulterated bodies of self proclaimed authority much like Paul. They carried and taught "another gospel".

And much of Paul founded churches are gentiles who don't know anything about the law of God nor do they care to learn and follow it.

Paul becoming "all things to all men" is just a self confession of how he is willing to LIE and manipulate to gather any and all followers of his own version of Christ gospel.

For details regarding the Biblical citations regarding my points, will be linked here later. Again this is nothing personal against you, but only an attempt to expose Paul and his teachings as to what they really are.

KINDLY, examine the passages quoted in this post. https://steemit.com/spirituality/@easteagle13/you-need-to-take-a-hard-second-look-at-paul.

And here's another : https://steemit.com/spirituality/@easteagle13/why-is-paul-an-anti-christ

I guess you are entitled to your interpretation. But every point you have been making has another interpretation that doesn't impune his reputation, much less turn him into an antichrist. Nearly all of the great Bible scholars for nearly 2000 years have looked at the same text and not viewed it that way.

I don't ever take things personally. But I'm certainly gonna defend my man Paul. As far as I'm concerned, he was the greatest and most influential of the Apostles. I've been teaching advanced adult Bible classes for the past 13 years. I have many hundreds of hours in the classroom and spent thousands of hours comparing his teachings with all other Scriptures on every topic imaginable. His teaching hang together with the rest of the Bible perfectly - and in fact no one has ever done a better job of unifying all of the Scriptures than Paul.

As I said above - none of the Apostles objected to Paul or he would not have gained acceptance in the early church. John outlived him in Ephesus by a generation and had plenty of time to stomp out any of his alleged false teachings. Many of the first century church fathers quoted him. Peter did indeed refer to Paul's letters as Scripture, in the verse we have both quoted multiple times. To paraphase, "Our brother Paul's letters are hard to understand and people twist what he says like they do all the other Scriptures."

Peter is commenting about Paul's letters which comprise 49% of the New Testament. He is not talking about Paul himself.