as suggested by Thomas Jefferson?
2007-08-09 15:43:48 · 18 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, Paul was a liar and so was Mary Mag when they both said they saw Jesus in this spiritual state.
2007-08-09 16:06:03 · answer #1 · answered by 1st Liberal 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Thomas Jefferson became right into a found out guy who studied the bible and known that paul became into heavily mentally ill. He lived at a time while he observed the top of the tyranny of the xtian church and the commencing up of the age of enlightenment. He wrote the Jefferson Bible by using removing paul from the scriptures, fullyyt, bumped off revelations (calling it the 'ravings of a madman'), and took out all the impossibilities of the gospels and left purely the message.
2016-10-09 21:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read 'The Pauline Conspiracy' by A. Victor Garaffa. Jesus was the inspiration for Christianity but Paul was the inventor. Paul never even met Jesus, but was the one who created what we have today. That strikes me as strange and a little bit dubious. Anyone on Earth can claim to be divinely inspired and say anything he wants and there's no way to disprove it, except to yourself, perhaps, by rejecting the entire notion of 'divinity' altogether.
2007-08-09 15:59:53 · answer #3 · answered by Boris Bumpley 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he was, he was the very first "Antichrist". He never met Jesus personally, he just said he had a vision. Paul named himself an apostle, and when rejected by the true apostles, he gave Christianity to the gentiles on a silver plate.
2007-08-09 16:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by Millie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Certainly the most influential one.
He's who spliced the Sacrificial God-Man into his new religion, which was only loosely based on Judaism (because his understanding of Judaism was pretty darned superficial).
This Sacrificial God-Man theme wasn't EVER supported by anything that Jeshua bin Miriam said...because it came straight out of the Hellenic Pagan mystery cults. Of course, Paul also didn't understand THOSE, or he would never have turned the seasonal symbolic death of the God-King into a "once and for all" thing.
2007-08-09 15:52:49 · answer #5 · answered by Raven's Voice 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Jefferson had a brilliant mind.
Back when I called myself "Christian", I definitely agreed with this idea. It's not terribly popular idea-wise in that community.
2007-08-09 16:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yep. And people throughout history who have gotten their fingers into translating and editing it have just made it worse and worse. Paul was just the first misogynist to initiate the perversion of it.
2007-08-09 15:51:40 · answer #7 · answered by ChiChi 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Paul preached the doctrine that Jesus wanted him to preach. That Christ is the Messiah, that he died for our sins and that he rose again and he lives. If we believe that we are saved. All the other things that Paul wrote was advice on how to live a stong Christain life. Denominations have turn around this advice as doctrine. Following this advice as doctrine is fine but the doctrine of Jesus Christ is the foundation of salvation
2007-08-09 15:58:52 · answer #8 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Paul was the first apostate and usurped the first Christian church with his own.
2007-08-09 16:18:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many, many MANY people felt and do feel that way. Look at what he did to poor Thecla!!
2007-08-09 15:48:18 · answer #10 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋