Is it amusing that Christians take most of their ideologies from PAUL who was never a desciple of Jesus ?

Question

A student who spends years with a teacher can NEVER be like someone who only met the teacher once.

True students would know the spirit of the message and not add personal ideas into the teachings.

Paul added much and Constantine added even more polytheistic ideas into what we now call Christianity.

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Answer 1

Of course they take their ideologies from Paul, he invented the whole thing.

Answer 2

Is it amusing that people scoff and slander things they know nothing about?

A student who bothered to READ the Bible would realize that Luke wrote about Paul's conversion, and Peter received him as a fellow apostle.

You would also know that John, the beloved, who rested on the chest of Jesus during the Last Supper, said "In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was WITH God, and the Word WAS God. ... And the Word became flesh."

You would also know that this same John, who wrote the three epistles (letters), I John, II John, & III John stated categorically that Jesus is the Son of God.

Also, you would know that this very SAME John, who wrote the book of Revelations while on the isle of Patmos, described first God saying "I am the First, and I am the Last" then Jesus saying the very SAME words!

So, let's throw out the gospels of John and Luke and the book of Revelations.

Let's also throw out Isaiah, because he was the one who prophecied that a son would be born, a child would be given, and the government that was to be upon his shoulders would never end, and his name would be called Wonderful Counselor, the Might God, the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace.

While you're at it, why not throw out the rest of the Old Testament, because every place where the word "God" is used, the pleural form of the word is used, "Elohim", rather than "Eloheinu", the singular.

So, since you're ultimately trying to throw out God's Word, are you, in reality, a son of satan? After all, even satan can appear as an angel of light, and his ministers as ministers of light!

Answer 3

The KKK is not christian because it teaches things that the Bible didn't teach and openly contradicts things said by Jesus, as well as Paul (Galatians 3:28 “For there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male and female, but you all are one in Christ Jesus”) the disciples and many prophets. In short they have their own agenda. Paul was christian, he converted after having a vision of Christ on the road to damascus and repenting. He spent the rest of his life as a missionary and a preacher and wrote some of the books that make up the New Testament. I dont think it's possible to be any more Christian than he was.

Answer 4

Paul's writings were inspired by God, as were the writings of all of the authors of the Bible. That is why the Bible contains no errors or contradictions. The words of Constantine are not contained in the Word of God. Neither are the words of a pope or a preacher. Paul's not being an apostle, not a disciple, doesn't enter into it. God chose to use him in writing several books of the Bible. There's nothing amusing about it.

Answer 5

I do not doubt that Constatine brought the Church into apostasy, however there is nothing inconsistant between the teaching of Paul and the Gospels. In deed the book of Acts describing Paul's missions is a continuation of the book of Luke.

I believe you fail to understand the principle of revelation. Paul taught by revelation as Jesus admonished:

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

Answer 6

Like Paul, every Christians, is called to be a Disciple for Jesus. When Jesus was on earth he (being in the physical) called out each (12) disciples, but now that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God, In the SPIRIT he called us out to serve him like he did Paul.

Answer 7

Paul had been following the Christians as their enemy. He knew what they believed but he did not understand. When he was knocked off his horse by a bolt of lightening, he had a change of heart. God can change us in an invisible way in an instant. Paul was a great apostle, he was a Jew, a Roman citizen, a prolific writer in Greek, he spoke Greek, Latin, and Aramaic; and he was, a tireless worker. You do not recognize that he was chosen by Christ (as we all are), and furthermore, that the successors of the apostles to the present day, have the same authority and gifts as the original twelve.

Answer 8

I find it amusing that you think all Christians take most of their ideologies from Paul. I, as a Catholic, tend to think that Evangelicals spend too much time in the Old Testament and not nearly enough time in the New. I believe we Catholics are mostly in the Gospels but we read Paul's letters because he covered a lot of subjects and, for me, spoke in plainer, more understandable terms than Jesus and parables.

Paul didn't add anything that the original 11 didn't discuss, debate and approve.

Answer 9

What is also funny is that Paul's letters were simply trying to keep towns in line that he had converted. If town A had a problem with killing people, and Town C had a problem with pagan God incorperation, guess what Paul wrote about when he sent letters to them? These were not divine inspiration, more like a "Hey! Quit doing that!" type of inspiration. Sad really.

His letters had no value on anything that happened after those towns fell back in line, especially not today.

Answer 10

These are your own proselytizing ideas and are not accurate. Some of Paul's teachings are taught at such a deep level that they are miss interpreted . And this is taken advantage of by those that would like to see Christianity eliminated IE a lot of the r&s atheists.

Answer 11

I have to politely disagree. It is different for Christians because we all have the Spirit of Christ in us. Paul's teachings were right in line with the other Apostles and at times he even corrected them. And there is no comparing Constantine to Paul. Paul was the greater.