Paul, founder of Christianity

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Blogger Maria said...

Liberator & Others,

I firmly reject your offer of Jesus Christ as son of God, Lord and Saviour. But I firmly believe that Jesus Christ, son of Mary, is a Saviour to Mankind in his second coming - - he will save mankind from further degeneration through the uncorrupted Book of God, the Qur'an.

Muslims have Qur'an as the Book of God and Hadith as compilations for the sayings of Prophet Muhammad on how he did and said about different matters while he was alive. Some compilers of hadith are authentic and some are not.

The Bible and specifically the New Testament as this is the source of Authority for Christians is like Hadith, not the Word of God. What is interesting, the compilations on what Jesus Christ, son of Mary, said and done are according to Matthew, Luke, Mark and John. These people did not live with Jesus Christ at all. They were not disciples of Jesus Christ as well. the four canonic Gospels are not even eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ. Mark was written 60 to 75 A.C. He was the son of St. Barnabas’ sister. Mathew was a tax collector, a minor official who did not travel around Jesus. Luke’s Gospel was written much later, and is in fact drawn from the same source as Mark’s and Mathew’s. Luke was Paul’s physician and like Paul never met Jesus. John’s Gospel was written in about 100 A.C. He should not be confused with John, the Disciple who was another man.

04 July 2009 22:40
Blogger Maria said...

Read Acts in the New Testament as all the Christian principles of "Original Sin", etc... are in Acts. Who said all those, Paul?

Paul appeared in the scene 14 years after the departure of Jesus Christ. As recorded in Acts 26:12-18, Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision when he was on his way to Damascus (Syria). Jesus asked him as to why was he against his preaching & Teachings and why was he persecuting his followers. This moved the heart of St. Paul and from then onwards, the hostile attitude of Paul against Jesus ceased and he became the ardent follower of Jesus Christ.

Paul was a Jew and an inhabitant of Tarsus. He had spent a long time in Rome and was a Roman citizen. As Cardinal Danielou (the author of “A New Representation of the Origins of Christianity: Judeo Christianity) says that Paul had an access among the Jews who were living in far off lands across the Mediterranean sea in areas around Rome & Greece in the Roman Empire. The pagan people living in those areas were worshipping the Sun, the Moon, the Mars, the Venus and various other stars as their gods. In addition, they were also worshipping many other stone idols and deities. Paul began to preach Christianity to these people his own band of mysticism. Paul gave them an alternate god in the person of Jesus Christ to worship. The people thought they got a nearer god instead against the distant gods, in the person of Jesus who had performed a number of miracles as well. In order to win the confidence and faith of these people, Paul therefore had to compromise with their beliefs & legends. Paul said circumcision of males was not really necessary. This he said despite the fact that Jesus himself was circumcised on the 8th day after his birth. Gentiles were already celebrating Sunday as a holiday in honor of their god-the Sun. Paul replaced Saturday-the day of Sabbath of the Jews with Sunday to coincide with their holiday, which they were already observing. The gentiles used to observe 25th of December as the birthdate of their god-the Sun. Now, this date was adopted as the birth date of their new found god- the Jesus. Paul also rejected the Jewish form of worship, which was practiced in the Synagogues, i.e., the WORSHIP OF ONE TRUE GOD. Instead, Paul offered Jesus Christ as an alternate god. He raised the status of Jesus Christ from the Messenger of God to the “son of God”. Paul borrowed from pagans and gave the concept of “Trinity”, i.e., the three gods- the father, the son, and the holy ghost. Paul put forward the concept of a “begotten son of God”. But all of these were contrary to the preaching and teachings of Jesus Christ. There was therefore an opposition from Barnabas.

Barnabas, as recorded in the Acts, represented those who had become a personal disciple of Jesus and was among the dynamic evangelist among the disciples, and Paul cooperated with them for some time. He is mentioned in the ff. Verses of the Bible (Acts 4:36-37; 9:26-27; 11:22-30; 12:25; 13:1-4; 14:11-15; Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians 2:9). The rift is in Acts 15. In the Acts, Barnabas disappears after the rift.