There are many contradictions of Paul's teachings and Christ's (links below).
I think that Saul (Paul) made up the whole conversion story. Think about it...Saul HATED Christians, they're whole theology system, etc...and I think that the best way to stop something you don't like is to teach the opposite while claiming it to be true.
I think Saul because a teacher to teach false doctrine to stop the truth of the church.
http://www.wordwiz72.com/paul.html
http://www.voiceofjesus.org/paulvsjesus.html
http://www.priceofliberty.com/jesus.htm
http://www.judaismvschristianity.com/paulthe.htm
What is your opinion on the subject?
2007-11-01 16:36:47 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
David, those sites all give scriptural references, if you find a mistake, let me know.
2007-11-01 16:44:17 · update #1
rukidding....
That was Peter, not Paul...Paul was beheaded.
2007-11-01 16:45:35 · update #2
Agreed.
Read "The Mythmaker, Paul and the Invention of Christianity" by Hyam Maccoby
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2007-11-01 16:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whenever I see "Paul" and Thomas Jefferson in the same article, I think they are talking about Ron Paul. Interesting, in light of what's happening with the spam on his campaign, sort of an irony, really, but I digress. . .
I think the Bible has basic truths running through it, but was translated over and over through the years by mostly men and has lost some of the details that allow for very strict nitpicking of details and that Paul is often portrayed as a woman hater, but I think this has to do more with the context in which the translations happened than the actual person. Imagine if you wrote a serious philosophical doctrine, and your words were changed slightly by each of hundreds of people over thousands of years. Do you feel the end result would portray exactly what you were trying to say?
I know it's cheap to answer a question with a question, but I don't know that there is an answer for this one.
2007-11-01 16:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The apostle Luke wrote the book of Acts. If Paul was a fraud, he had Luke fooled.
Also, If Paul was wrong, then so was Peter! Notice what Peter said about Paul and the things he wrote:
"...consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures." (2 Peter 3:15-16)
1. Peter calls Paul "our beloved brother".
2. Peter said he wrote "according to wisdom given to him".
3. Peter equates Paul's writings with "the rest of the Scriptures".
4. Peter says those who distort the things he wrote do so "to their own destruction".
If Paul was wrong, then so were Luke and Peter, and they were inspired apostles!
Finally, if Paul was just pulling a hoax, why did he suffer so much for it? He was stoned, beaten, and thrown into jail as punishment for teaching about Christ! If it was all a hoax, it makes no sense for him to endure such!
2007-11-03 12:15:34 · answer #3 · answered by JoeBama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok here it goes.
Jesus did preach a different message than Paul
Jesus thought of the Gentiles (us) as dogs and even told his apostles not to go to us but only unto the lost sheep of Israel.
In the book of Acts the Jewish people rejected Jesus as their Messiah, if they had accepted Christ the JEWS then would have evangelized the Gentiles in the world into the earthly kingdom.
God then went to the Gentiles to make the Jews jealous,
Through PAUL.
It is a different gospel message. A whole different set up.
If you have any questions email me I will be glad to answer them if I can.
2007-11-01 16:48:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think he was a true teacher. I think the conversion was true. I think he spread Christianity far beyond what the original apostles even imagined. I think he went right along with what Jesus taught. Why would Paul be imprisoned and insist on being crucified upside down if he was just trying to fake Christians out?
2007-11-01 16:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Paul was a teacher of Jesus Christ the Messiah.
There are things that are seeming contradictions on the surface. - 'bout it.
2007-11-01 17:28:11 · answer #6 · answered by troll to troll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul does not contradict Jesus.
Two people witnessing the same incident will describe the same thing truthfully and differently.
They will also change what they say based on their audience.
Read the book, there is no contradiction.
2007-11-01 16:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You have to thorough study the life of Paul to understand his complexity.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet to be Gospel.
2007-11-01 16:40:21 · answer #8 · answered by David T 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I guess that is why the apostle Paul was executed for the sake of Jesus Christ? Paul died for the cause of Christ. He was the greatest evangelist who ever lived!
2007-11-01 16:41:39 · answer #9 · answered by Faye 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
NO--- He was a true liar--- He invents it you invest in it---- Bernie Madoff graduated from the--------- U of P He was good to
2015-01-29 03:01:59 · answer #10 · answered by ivisableman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋