Paul successfully cut off Christianity from the LAW and the Covenenant ? Sounds like a Hijacking.?

Question

Genesis 17:9-10 ---Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Galatians 5:2 ---- Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.


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Answer 1

Paul is arguably the most evil individual to ever walk the face of the Earth. Paul of Tarsus along with Josephus ben Matthias (St Luke) and the Jewish High Priests created the parasitic religion of christianity to subvert the true message of Jesus and the apostles.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0010.htm

Your example quote shows that Paul became so engrossed in creating his own religion in his own image that even to his masters- he deviated. If Paul had his ultimate way, we would all be damned.

It was left to Josephus ben Matthias to help save Judaism through his connection to working with the Roman commanders and ultimately Emperor and allowing the Rabbinical school to survive.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/josephus_wars/josephus_wars_0110.htm

Answer 2

Not really.

God was talking to Abraham and his descendants, the Jews.

Paul was talking to Gentile Christians.

The first Christians were Jews. They went to temple or synagogue on the Sabbath (Saturday) with fellow Jews.

Then they gathered on the first day of the week, the day on which Jesus rose from the dead (Sunday), with fellow Christians to tell stories of Jesus and share Eucharist. See Acts 20:7.

Later Gentiles joined Christianity. The Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, decided that the Gentiles did not have to covert to Judaism. Therefore, they only attended on Sundays and did not have to abide by Jewish dietary laws or be circumcised.

Christians are still held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.

However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.

Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Simple answer:

Paul merely taught what Jesus taught.

Jesus came so that we would satisfy the Laws requirement for our sins by dying or having something sinless die in our place. Jesus and Paul both taught that the Law was important and so was the covenant. But Paul expounds as to why the Law was important and what place the Law has in the believers life now. The Law, Paul said, was our teacher, keeping us in check until Jesus came along. Now the Law is useful as a guide but we are no longer under its harsh requirements. Instead of keeping the Law because God said so and if not we'll be punished, we keep the Law now out of love for God, because we want to.

As for circumcision, Paul was battling Jewish people trying to drag down Christians that have gained freedom through Christ, by telling them they must also get circumcised, as if that were necessary to please God. Paul was trying to say that the mere act of cutting off foreskin does not please God. The act was merely symbolic of a spiritual state of pledging your allegiance to God.

Like the Law, circumcision was merely a foreshadowing of something better to come, which was Jesus. God requires people have a changed heart and mind and love God. Circumcising yourself does neither. It works off the same principle of Jesus saying that God requires mercy, not sacrifice. Of course animal sacrifice was important, but it was merely a foreshadowing of Jesus' sacrifice. God desires you live a merciful good life, rather than caring how many animal sacrifices you make.

In the end it's your heart that's important to God, not rituals.

I hope this answered your question and helps.

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