Do you think Paul was the anti-christ?

Question

I have never felt that Paul's teachings were consistent with what Jesus taught and because of who he was. Paul never met Jesus, but proclaims to have had divine revelations from him. This sounds more like a plot to mislead early Christians than anything else.

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Paul did not read any of Jesus' teachings as the books of his apostles had not even been written yet!

Actually, I have a really good grasp of the subject. After a lot of reading from many sources, I feel that Paul misled many people. Christianity would be incorporated in Judaism if it weren't for Paul. He changed the course of history. Jesus wanted Peter to be his rock, not Paul.

Answer 1

NO. Not the anti-Christ,

But Paul was not any part of the real work.

Rip anything by Paul out of your bible.

Answer 2

Most folks have never actually read what Paul had to say. No other part of the Bible is covered with so many layers of traditional interpretation. It amazes me - you can read Paul in the original Greek, word-for-word, and the translation and commentary will say the exact opposite. What most folks call "Paul" is really Augustine of Hippo. In context, Paul's theology is consistent with the teachings of Christ. The supposed controversy between "Pauline" Christianity and the early Jerusalem Church is a myth fabricated by people like Robert Eisenman and Barbara Theiring.

Answer 3

No way soulshaper! Paul is greatly misunderstood, my friend. Paul spoke of a time that the church would be taken over by the god of this world,

The following quote is taken from the First Catechetical Lecture Of Our Holy Father Cyril, Archbishop Of Jerusalem, Lecture Xv., On The Clause, And Shall Come In Glory To Judge The Quick And The Dead; Of Whose Kingdom There Shall Be No End, c. 384 AD:

"Thus wrote Paul, and now is the falling away. For men have fallen away from the right faith; and some preach the identity of the Son with the Father, and others dare to say that Christ was brought into being out of nothing. And formerly the heretics were manifest; but now the Church is filled with heretics in disguise. For men have fallen away from the truth, and have itching ears. Is it a plausible discourse? all listen to it gladly. Is it a word of correction? all turn away from it. Most have departed from right words, and rather choose the evil, than desire the good. This therefore is the falling away, and the enemy is soon to be looked for: and meanwhile he has in part begun to send forth his own forerunners, that he may then come prepared upon the prey. Look therefore to thyself, O man, and make safe thy soul. The Church now charges thee before the Living God; she declares to thee the things concerning Antichrist before they arrive. Whether they will happen in thy time we know not, or whether they will happen after thee we know not; but it is well that, knowing these things, thou shouldest make thyself secure beforehand."

The above occurred with Constantine and the Nicea assembly, after that the church became the din of the anti-christ, anti-anointed.

Although this was ONCE said under the heading of Jesus and Paul, in the Encyclopedia Britannica: “In calling Paulinism 'Christocentric', one raises the question as to its relation to the Gospel proclaimed by Jesus... how far he unconsciously modified the Gospel by making Christ its subject matter rather than its revealer.... Paul... put all into so fresh a perspective as to change the relative emphasis on points central to the teaching of Jesus, and so alter its spirit. A school of writers, by no means unappreciative of Paul as they understand him, of whom W. Wrede may be taken as example, answer that Paul so changed Christianity as to become its 'second founder' - the real founder of ecclesiastical Christianity as distinct from the Christianity of Jesus. They say, 'either Jesus or Paul' it cannot be both at once’”.

Answer 4

Not possible.
We know from the Bible that Paul was once strongly against Christians, until the incident on the road when Jesus spoke to him out of heaven.
(Acts 26:12-16) “Amid these efforts as I was journeying to Damascus with authority and a commission from the chief priests, 13 I saw at midday on the road, O king, a light beyond the brilliance of the sun flash from heaven about me and about those journeying with me. 14 And when we had all fallen to the ground I heard a voice say to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? To keep kicking against the goads makes it hard for you.’ 15 But I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 16 Nevertheless, rise and stand on your feet. For to this end I have made myself visible to you, in order to choose you as an attendant and a witness both of things you have seen and things I shall make you see respecting me;

This experience turned Paul/ Saul right around, and he became then a '
leading light' of the Christian faith.
Paul was given the PRIVILEGE of writing 14 books of the Bible.
This would not happen if he were anti- Jesus.

Answer 5

No. But John Paul 2.

Answer 6

Sure, whatever floats your boat, I guess. Although, since the Bible is fiction, unless it's actually in the plot, I guess he's not. Someone probably wrote some fan fiction about that particular loose end, though.

Answer 7

Paul was anti-christian at first. He was saved on the road to Damascus. He did read Jesus' teaching. God also talked to him.

Answer 8

i mean.... who really knows
none of us were there to actually witness what happened
but this is where faith comes in
sometimes we got to trust and try to interpret the teachings that has been given to us
we cant take everything in the bible literary
but we have to take it into some consideration

Answer 9

No. I don't even think the concept of the anti-christ was invented until much later.

Answer 10

No. I also do not think you have a clear grasp on the subject.