HOW THE CHURCH NEGATED CHRIST'S MESSAGE : THE SIN OF SAINT PAUL

HOW THE CHURCH BECAME COUNTER TO CHRIST’S DIVINE MESSAGE : THE SINS OF SAINT PAUL

How in God’s name, did the Christian Church, named for Christ (from Greek,’Christos’, meaning,’chosen one’)  ever manage to irrevocably stray far, from Christ’s original missive and message?

The Church simply should never have accepted Paulian, Saint Paul’s brand of interpretations.

Saint Paul ruined Christianity’s original common sense message, to love one another?

Paulian erroneous concepts formulated a new religious Doctrine, one which became worse than silly, an absurd premise that Jesus was not merely a Messiah, but instead, WAS God.

Jesus Christ;

God sent His ‘only son’, to Earth, on a suicide mission?

 Even Jesus knew that he wasn’t remotely God; although he always pointed directly to God, St. Paul’s interpretation instead stared at Jesus’ out-stretched finger, to completely alter Jesus’ holy message..

 Mary, mother of Jesus, was thus forever mistakenly regarded by the Church, as the “Mother of God”.

Romans called early Christians,’atheists’, because even to Romans, Christians oddly worshiped a man , rather than any God or Gods.

St. Paul preached that a man could do what he wanted and not face the inevitable consequences of his actions, provided that at the end of the day, he said: “I believe in Christ”.

Jesus instead preached and well knew that we must be fully prepared, in a karmic rule, to later answer for our sins.

Paul’s inventive doctrines of ‘redemption’ and ‘atonement’, completely Christ- fallacious, greatly deviated from Christ’s intrinsic teachings.

The theory of redemption, the child of Paul’s brain, was a belief entirely unknown to Jesus and his disciples.

It was based on the belief of Paul of “original sin”, the “crucifixion” and the “resurrection”, none of which had  validity to Christ’s authentic,  original premise and teaching.

A synthetic religion was suddenly produced.

Pauline silliness, sadly evolved to become the foundation of Christian orthodoxy and the legitimate Church, established by Jesus, was disowned as ‘heretical’.

Paul’s writings, and his teachings were radically different from the original teachings of Jesus, teachings documented in the canonical gospels, early Acts, and the rest of the New Testament, such as the Epistle of James.

I now include quotes from brilliant others to support my thesis of Jesus’ sound spiritual faith, forever ruined and polluted by Paul’s ersatz religious vagaries :

(Christ or Paul?, by Rev. 

 

V.A. Holmes-Gore):

“Let the reader contrast the true Christian standard with that of Paul and he will see the terrible betrayal of all that the Master taught. . . . For the surest way to betray a great Teacher is to misrepresent his message. . . .
That is what Paul and his followers did, and because the Church has followed Paul in his error it has failed lamentably to redeem the world. . . .
 The teachings given by the blessed Master Christ, which the disciples John and Peter and James, the brother of the Master, tried in vain to defend and preserve intact were as utterly opposed to the Pauline Gospel as the light is opposed to the darkness.”

(The great theologian Soren Kierkegaard, in The Journals):

“In the teachings of Christ, religion is completely present tense: Jesus is the prototype and our task is to imitate him, become a disciple. But then through Paul came a basic alteration. Paul draws attention away from imitating Christ and fixes attention on the death of Christ The Atoner. What Martin Luther, in his reformation, failed to realize is that even before Catholicism, Christianity had become degenerate at the hands of Paul. Paul made Christianity the religion of Paul, not of Christ. Paul threw the Christianity of Christ away, completely turning it upside down, making it just the opposite of the original proclamation of Christ”

(The brilliant theologian Ernest Renan, in his book Saint Paul):

“True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.”

(Will Durant, in his Caesar and Christ):

“Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ. . .
. Through these interpretations Paul could neglect the actual life and sayings of Jesus, which he had not directly known. . . . Paul replaced conduct with creed as the test of virtue.
 It was a tragic change.”

(Robert Frost, winner of the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1924,1931,1937 and 1943, in his “A Masque of Mercy”):

“Paul he’s in the Bible too. He is the fellow who theologized Christ, almost out of Christianity.
 Look out for him.”

(James Baldwin, the most noted black American author of this century, in his book The Fire Next Time):

“The real architect of the Christian church was not the disreputable, sun-baked Hebrew (Jesus Christ) who gave it its name but rather the mercilessly fanatical and self-righteous Paul.”

(Martin Buber, the most respected Jewish philosopher of this century, in Two Types of Faith):

“The Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount is completely opposed to Paul.”

(The famous mystic, poet and author, Kahlil Gibran, in “Jesus the Son of Man”):

“This Paul is indeed a strange man. His soul is not the soul of a free man. He speaks not of Jesus nor does he repeat His Words. He would strike with his own hammer upon the anvil in the Name of One whom he does not know.”

(The famous theologian, Helmut Koester, in his The Theological Aspects of Primitive Christian Heresy):

“Paul himself stands in the twilight zone of heresy. In reading Paul, one immediately encounters a major difficulty. Whatever Jesus had preached did not become the content of the missionary proclamation of Paul. . . . Sayings of Jesus do not play a role in Paul ‘s understanding of the event of salvation. . . . Paul did not care at all what Jesus had said. . . . Had Paul been completely successful very little of the sayings of Jesus would have survived.”

(Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence in his “Letter to William Short”):

“Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.”

 Why do those who today wear a cross, simply fail to celebrate Christ’s original messages?
Because of St. Paul’s focus on ,”the stations of the cross”, a man-God slowly suffering death, ‘for our sins’, pinned to a cross, like an insect on a mounting board, surely a demented centerpiece, for ANY religion.

Crucifixion, simply put, was a standard Roman execution device for many tens of thousands; wearing a cross, is almost precisely like wearing a tiny electric chair, around your neck.

Surely, if Jesus returned, the LAST thing he’d want to see, would be such a cross!

I  instead, prefer to see the cross as a symbolic metaphor of God’s intersection, with man, two intersecting paths, the physical and the spiritual, that cross each other and meet.

Christ’s message, was lost to history, because the Church mistakenly accepted St.Paul’s stilted and surreal  interpretations, and thus

  the Church became a misplaced vehicle, an antithesis of Christ’s message:

When the Pope insisted on murderous Inquisitions to ethnically cleanse non-believers, the Church, even to Christ in Heaven,  became insupportable,  forever discredited, as
Christ’s message was mangled.

Paulian interpretations sent the Roman Catholic Church into a singular unholy fallacy that still remains official Church doctrine, parroted by millions of unthinking, and quite devout Christians.

The premise held that God visited only our planet, amidst trillions of other planets with more sentient life, to become a man, to be thus sacrificed, to “save us from our sins”, was a Paulian idea, one which has proved itself a dangerous notion, historically.

  There are even those who insist that Jesus survived a “show” of crucifixion.

The clear evidence of Jesus’ survival, his non- resurrection from death, is within the gospel, itself.

When Jesus insisted to his disciples that He was indeed still alive, He offered them proof of His physical survival by asking them to place their fingers into the holes drilled into his hands; these were physical human hands, not spiritual ghostly hands.

He then sat and ate and drank with them in celebration; ghosts, however holy, do not eat or drink because eating is done by people who are alive, just as drinking is done only by the living.

That’s one evidence, that Jesus did indeed survive Pilate’s ‘show’ of crucifixion.

There is also other irrefutable historical, anecdotal evidence that when  Jesus met with Pilate, Pilate found him charming and blameless, and thus contrived a  before- Sabbath- pseudo- crucifixion, far from view, to placate and appease militant  Pharisees.
That Pilate later lent his own personal physicians help to restore Jesus, who then safely escaped, of all places, to France, where no religiously crazed Hebrews resided.

Many churches in France, as evidence, are  named and devoted to Mary Magdalene who preached there, churches established in her name, many years before Christianity ever took root there, as a formal religion.

It is opined by such evidences that Jesus died there, after living well into his eighties and fostered a large family.

  Any evidence that  refutes his death, by crucifixion,  does not however,  refute his innate divinity.

  Jesus must be very sad, in Heaven, to see a bizarre and distorted religion later established in His name, morbidly focused on blaming Jews, sin, false redemption, and an awful agony dying on a cross,  a demented image as a formal centerpiece, for a religion.

St.Paul’s ideas did, instead, approach the Roman values of Paul’s times, and forever altered Christ’s message to include distasteful concepts of ‘Original Sin’,  shame, and  ‘ redemption’,  spiritual fictions Jesus Christ never once espoused.

To accept Christ, and His teachings, but to refuse  Paulian formal Church doctrine is to many, as revolutionary as Christ himself was.

But, then formal Religions, have done this world much documented harm:

-most wars in the world

- the Crusades

-The Inquisition

-911 World Trade Towers devastation

-Anti-Jewish pogroms throughout history

-arranged marriages to minors

-The underpinning cooperation and condoning of The Holocaust, a Church religious retribution for Jesus’ death

-blowing up of girl’s schools

-suppression of women, the divorced and homosexuals

-human sacrifices

-the burning of witches

-condoning slavery

-systematic molestation of church children by Catholic priests

-honor rapes

-ethnic cleansing

-the condemnation /prohibitions of birth-control practices and condoms in HIV prevalent world areas

-abortion prohibitions for rape victims and preteen moms

-prohibition of stem cell research

- ISIS beheading and amputations

- still prevalent, worldwide female genital mutilation/ removal of clitoris

-circumcision (How can one DO that to a newborn?!

 

ISIS, is a fun-house mirror reflection, of the evil inherent in Christianity, that made easy the Holocaust’s wholesale murders of Jews, the greatest single crime committed since man strode upon the Earth.

All of the murderers were Nationalistic-ultra-right -conservative -Christians.

As a matter of policy, Nazi Germans flooded about-to-be- conquered nations with

Lutheran literature, a Jew-hating form of Christianity, literature that paved the way to Christians killing their countrymen-Jews, a wholesale slaughter in pits, forests and gas chambers.

Two million Jewish children were cast alive into deep trenches  afire with petrol, a religious philosophy, and one that ISIS seeks to rekindle and perpetuate.

Writing this was a road different and difficult, a meander far from the highway of my unwilling paranormal experiences, where
I encountered unspeakable unseen spiritual evil, which I now know to be the whispers behind the curtains of all enacted human evil that

Christ came to rescue us from.

A religion, named for his teachings, has soiled, trod upon, and cast aside His message of love, inclusion and forgiveness.

 However, I enjoy wondrous ironies which abound in the  Paulian Christian religion, a religion, like others which all deeply sin, in their attempts to answer the unanswerable, and to explain the inexplicable.

Noteworthy, is that when Jesuit and Catholic missionaries brought Christianity to the African cultures of cannibals, they taught them that the true God pointedly said:

” Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life,”
 and

 that African human cannibals were instantly accepting of that wild religious message,  felt it much too familiar, to reject it!