How radically different would christianity be if only the 12 taught the gospel?

Question

and not Paul? From what I can see, a lot of what Paul taught didn't come from jesus teachings.

Answer 1

Why the 12 deciples? Why 12 months? Why 12 constelation houses?

Constantine irradicated the original stories of the 12. They were as thick as the Bible is today.

Why did Jesus feed people with just two fish, and a loaf of bread?

Why the constellation Virgo (which means virgin), which holds a chaff of wheat is also the house of bread in the constellation whose litteral meaning is Bethlehem? So, the earth left the house of bread to enter the house of pisces, which are two fish.

Jesus said he will be with us until the end of the world, but world in the old testamant means age. So, the next constelation the earth will point toward will be aquarius, the man pooring the piture of water.

Jesus litteral meaning is Ya Zeus. Sun God.

Gee, did he exist or am I too far fetched because its accepted as the truth without question?

I really think that we would have chalked these 12 up to a good story if it were allowed to be in circulation and our world would be in touch with reality instead of easily lead.

Answer 2

Paul taught The Truth, Paul was an apostle, used to be Saul,, and use to persecute the Christians, until the day he fell down and his eyes were sewn shut, until the day The Holy Spirit came into his life, Jesus asked Him, Why do you hate me?
Paul finally seen and taught what The Lord wanted him to teach, Paul went where God wanted him to go, and did alot, Paul is an important part of the Bible and Wrote many books.
Peter and Paul were two of the many who spread so much of The Gospel today and covered alot of territory.

Answer 3

As you can see from reading the bible, Paul's teachings were, when it came down to it, approved by the council of 12 in Jerusalem. Also, there is *no* indication that Paul taught *anything* that Jesus himself did not teach. The only significant change was the bringing of the message to the Gentiles - and this was instigated wholly by Peter (with the support of Paul).

Remember, the bible itself makes it clear that the preachings of Jesus would have filled all the books in the world at that time. We have only the barest snippet. The fact that Paul frequently refers to his teaching as "the gospel of Christ" - and that he obtained approval from the 12 - proves to me that Paul was merely writing down what all were preaching.

Jim, www life-after-harry-potter com

Answer 4

In some respects, what Peter did, preaching the gospel to Cornelius (a Gentile) was the forerunner of what Paul did. And Peter understood what so many other Jews did not; God was accepting the Gentiles through faith only, without any need to keep any of the law, as he mentions in Acts 15.

The gospel is what it is. Some even then took it upon themselves to attempt to alter the gospel by adding the law to it.

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Answer 5

I would say not as different as most modern people tend to think. When it comes down to it, the 12 died, and who carried on? It was their disciples, and you had basically the Johannine 'school', the Petrine 'school' and the Pauline 'school', as well as a few marginal groups which - for the most part - remained subsects of Judaism. Peter and Paul had their differences, but ultimately saw eye to eye for the most part, especially in the fact that the gospel needed to be reinterpreted for other cultures to grasp it. The main difference would be that we wouldn't have Paul's epistles - which are inseparable from the context in which they're written and prone to horrible misinterpretation, a consequence of Paul's personal style. But we still have the mystically-inclined Johannines to balance out the fiery Peters and Pauls. And in the end, it was the generations of Church Fathers who had to grapple with what Jesus' life and teachings actually meant for them, just as we have to personally look and see what they mean for us.

"The history of Christianity is the history of the truth of Christ contending constantly against the truth as men see it." - Reinhold Niebuhr

Peace to you.

Answer 6

We must remember that Paul was just a man and some of his views were not Christ like, but what Paul taught does not take away from what Jesus taught.

Answer 7

Ummm..... the Gnostic gospels and sects were around for about two centuries (I believe, could be more or less) after the crucification. There were a lot of different splinter groups for awhile and as such you have always had different monastic orders, churches, etc.

The better question would be, "How would Christianity have worked out if it had never become the official Roman religion?"

Answer 8

Being in contact in politics is an AMERICAN custom. the two Christians and Non-Christians are the two prepared approximately their politics right here. It has no longer something to do with Christianity. extremely, isn't that the great thought of a Democracy?

Answer 9

I would say that christianity would have got merged totally into Islam. Those early christians who did not believed in paul's teaching actually have accepted Islam as their own religion and become part of Muslim community earlier.

Answer 10

Considering this was all written down long after Jesus got nailed I say we can't trust any of it to be truth. I say follow the teachings of Rumi he was saying the same things but he disciples writing down as he said it so we know it's what was said.