How are Christians SURE than Paul was not a false prophet?

Question

He wrote a good chunk of the New Testament, but never met Jesus (outside of a claimed hallucination). Additionally, it is well known that Paul feuded with the original apostles, and that they preached different messages as mentioned in Galatians.

Most Christians are not answering the question. He WROTE most of evidence you're using to claim he followed a Christ that HE defined!

Answer 1

Paul was supposedly born and raised in the city of Tarsus, a region in SE Asia-Minor (now called Turkey) where Mithras was well known. Biblical scholars are now saying that Paul, the alleged author of 13 out of the 27 (maybe more) books of the New Testament, may have been influenced in his writings by this strong religion of Mithraism. We can see a profound kinship between Mithraism and Christianity.



In-as-much as Mithraism was so popular in Rome, it is no wonder why the pagan Emperor Constantine, who believed in the sun god, Mithras, designated a certain day of the week to him, Sunday, which means, “the day of the sun.”

The original "Christian" faith became a mix of pagan, Mithramic, Jeudeo/Christian teaching. This lead to the confusing mix of theology that we have today within the "Christian" community. This apostacy from the original simple and plain teachings of Christ was accelerated by the persecutions and killings of any who tried to support the "old" ways. Maybe this solves the mystery of the “ungodly” marriage between Mithraism and the cult of Jesus. As it turns out, it was all for political convenience! But, Christians think they are better than that today. In short: The "Christianity" they have today has almost no relationship, in doctrine or in way of life, to the "the original teachings of Jesus."



In my mind, there are two Jesus' teachings. Jesus the Jew and Jesus the Gentile, which by the way is really Paul's Jesus. And guess which one Christians follow? The ex-pagan Constantine liked Paul's Jesus over Jesus the Jew. Jesus and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.

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For instance, many of the world's crucified "god-men" have their traditional birthday on December 25. This is because the ancients recognized that (from an earth-centric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent southward until December 21 or 22, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again.


http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschris...


Danielle Susskind wrote

"I firmly believe Paul took the teachings of an Essene rabbi called Jesus and rearranged them to fit the Mithras mythology. There were many wannabe messiahs around the time of Jesus; the man who could establish a religion based on a "real" messiah would be a very powerful and respected man, which Paul apparently wanted to be.

The fact that Paul never met Jesus, and that Jesus never foretold Paul's appearance (unless it was included in his warning about deceivers that would fool "the very elect"), should be proof that Paul had no authority in real Christianity. "

Answer 2

Every prophet, sage or saint is not False ....


but when a person can use the words that t he saint has said, to control the attitude and mentality of the masses. THEN that is about as false as it can get. Especially when THEY stand above and beyond the laws and rules that they spread...

Paul ... consulted spirits that channeled "dead people" ( Christians adamantly believe they are under supreme protection ), but it is OK because... the Holy Paul did it.... but if the common person does it ,they are burnt at the stake for the crime of witch craft.

Modern Day Christianity is not any more CHRIST-ianity but MORE Paulianity...... coz it looks like people emulate the way of Paul ( in his actions and Speech ) more than that of Jesus the Savior. What they want others not to do they do the same thing only under a different label or excuse


ADD: Jesus apparently appeared to Paul, but when Jesus or any of the saints/angels/divine spirit appears and speaks to anyone else, its blaspheme or satanic... Where does one draw the line? If a rule applies to the common man it should apply to the priests, pastors, apostles and believers too isnt it? Or is there an exemption or discrimination?

Answer 3

If it were some sort of feud, it was an extremely odd one, since Paul speaks of God working in Peter as the apostle to the circumcised. Sure, there was a disagreement over whether the Gentiles should be compelled to Judaize, but there's no indication that it was a long-term dispute.
As for him writing a "good chunk of the New Testament", as long as it agreed with the rest, what of it?

Answer 4

Honestly, I feel that the only reason that Paul's writings were included in the New Testament was because the Church needed something more "controlling" to counteract the liberating words of Christ.

After all, we have an Old Testament that teaches us that disobeying God would result in being killed or worse ... and the rules that God expected us to obey were very strict. Then Jesus comes along, and basically says that to obey God, all we must do is to love Him and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Then Paul comes along, and he is the one who puts the emphasis on who can and can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. He even contradicts himself by saying that there are no differences between any of us and we are all one in Christ, yet he makes a point to elaborate on what the roles of men and women should be. It makes no sense.

As a Christian, I get looked down upon because I don't put alot of stock into the words of Paul. But I feel that alot of the things he said were contrary to the message of Christ, therefore I can not with a good conscience follow his words.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Jesus's brother James headed up the 1st Christian church for the Jews and Paul went off to start up a church with the Gentiles. there grow to be a great variety of controversy extremely concerning adopting Jewish rules and customs to the non-Jews Paul grow to be out to transform. Paul grow to be like a US Marine in that he might "Improvise, Adapt and triumph over" the Gentiles pagan concept equipment. He grow to be not a pretend prophet.

Answer 7

Elements of the Jewish church were still attached to the Jewish Law; many pharisees joined the Jerusalem church; they were now trusting in Jesus for salvation, but still retained notions of the importance of obedience to rituals of the Law. Galatians shows that that attitude is not logical.

Paul had been the standard bearer for the Jewish Law and tradition, and was actively persecuting christians on behalf of the Jewish religious authorities, when Jesus appeared to him, and ended his rebellion.
So with him, the realisation that salvation did not come through trying to fulfil the Jewish Law but through faith in Christ's sacrifice was very clear. The severe persecution he had formerly done in the name of upholding legalism, made him thoroughly reject that way; he could see so clearly that he had been wrong.

He defends his authority in 2 Corinthians and in other places. 2 Peter commends his letters. In 1 Corinthians people were impressed by Peter's as well as Paul's teachings, but clearly peter did not tell them that Paul was a false teacher. Paul says teachers like himself, Peter and Apollos are coworkers with God.

Answer 8

I am sure that St Paul was in basic doctrinal agreement with St Peter,St James and the other Apostles. Interpretation of St Paul has often been out of agreement with much of the Gospels as well as St James. I trust in the whole Bible in the context of the whole Apostolic Tradition in the context of the whole Catholic Church,

Answer 9

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;
16 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.

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That is Peter, the apostle to whom Jesus gave the keys of the kingdom, speaking.

Answer 10

They aren't 100% sure. That is what the entire Christian faith is based on--faith, which is believing in something without concrete proof.