St. Paul – the False Apostle

The front of a cathedral
Paul
Starving children in Africa
Jesus

These are two pictures from the Introduction to this website. It is often said that Jesus founded the religion and Paul founded the Church. This is correct, but there is much more to this statement than you might think. Jesus opposed the stifling effect of traditions, and his ministry focused on the disadvantaged and outcasts to society. Paul did not teach this. In fact, Paul did not teach people to follow Jesus. False teaching has been around since the very beginning of the religion. Now that we know the truth, we can start to follow him. I am now going to make a critical analysis of Paul's teachings using the words of Jesus and the clues left by God. I would like to start by mentioning a few things:

Paul advocates payment for priests.
Paul sets up the Church.
Paul was not an eyewitness of Jesus – he heard a voice, and his letters are the result of the teachings that he received from the voice.
Philemon contains no teaching at all – it is the only book in the Bible that is very obviously of no use to us.
Paul's real name is Saul. The first book of Samuel describes how Saul persecuted David and tried to kill him. David was born in Bethlehem like Jesus (1 Samuel 16:1; Matthew 2:1). Paul was a Benjaminite (Romans 11:1 and Philippians 3:5) like the Old Testament Saul (1 Samuel 9:1).
There are things that he says which are obviously not in line with following Jesus, for example, 1 Corinthians 5:4-5; "As you meet together, and I meet with you in my spirit, by the power of our Lord Jesus present with us, you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord."
There were weird miracles done through Paul (his used handkerchiefs made people better).
St. Paul's Cathedral burned down in 1666, a number that contains '666'. Paul's teachings use conventional wisdom rather than spiritual guidance from Jesus. For example, he advocates paid employment rather than giving up what you have and following Jesus (1 Corinthians 9:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, Thessalonians 3:10-12 and Ephesians 4:28). 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 advocates no food for Christians who don't work in the way that Paul instructs them, and goes on to say that they should earn their own living. This statement is not in line with the need to feed the poor whether they work or not.
Paul is represented by the second and fourth beasts of Daniel in addition to being the 3000th name in the Bible (a parable that relates to Satan being let loose after a thousand years – Revelation 20:3). The 666th place in the Bible is Syria. Paul was on the road to Damascus when he received his vision.
Just after his 'conversion', Paul was in the house of Judas (Acts 9:11). The name Judas represents betrayal of Jesus.

Here is a simple observation: we only need the Gospel message to follow Jesus. If we follow any other part of the Bible then this is following someone other than Jesus. The other parts of the Bible certainly have their uses, but they are not for following.

Another observation: it would have been better if all the apostles had been eyewitnesses of Jesus because they were in a better position to teach. Why was Paul called? Jesus said that Peter was the rock on which he would build his church; Jesus made no mention of Paul in the Gospels.

Satan is an extremely intelligent evil force that can only be identified through analysis using the words of Jesus. For example, it can be seen that these three people (Moses, Paul and Muhammad) were clearly influenced by Satan:

Moses, Leviticus 24:13-14: The Lord said to Moses, "Take that man out of the camp. Everyone who heard him curse shall put his hands on the man's head to testify that he is guilty, and then the whole community shall stone him to death."

Paul, 1 Corinthians 5:4-5: "As you meet together, and I meet with you in my spirit, by the power of our Lord Jesus present with us, you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord."

Muhammad, The Cow (2:191): "Kill them wherever you encounter them, and drive them out from where they drove you out, for persecution is more serious than killing."

Compare these to the words of Jesus:

Jesus, John 8:7: As they stood there asking him questions, he straightened himself up and said to them, "Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her."

There is a clear contradiction between what the Old Testament god told Moses to do (stone someone to death) and what Jesus taught people to do. This indicates that Jesus and the Old Testament god are different entities. The purpose of Satanic influence on the Bible is discussed in other articles (e.g. here).

What is false teaching? This is an essential question to ask. False teaching is anything that tells us how to live in a way that contradicts with the teachings of Jesus. Additionally, false teaching is that which supports false teaching or allows others to teach falsely, for example:

1 John 4:2: "This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God." – is false because anyone can say that, and then teach whatever they like.

1 John 2:4: "Those who say that they know him, but do not obey his commands, are liars and there is no truth in them." – this is the correct test, but someone like Paul can still give the appearance of following the commandments of Jesus, and teach people to do other things (like set up church traditions).

The teachings of Paul are false because they tell us how to live and they are different from how Jesus teaches us how to live. However, the book of Daniel is not false teaching, because it does not tell us how to live and it doesn't allow false teaching or support it (however, it is possible to misinterpret the prophecies).

Another classification of teaching is irrelevant teaching; that which doesn't teach anything at all. Philemon comes under this category. Irrelevant teaching can drown out true teaching and for this reason it should be discounted.

Another type of teaching is interpreting the Bible and identifying communication from God. That is what some of this website does. Interpretations can be either (a) true, (b) false or (c) irrelevant. In my experience, true interpretations have inbuilt proof to show that they are true, and they correspond with the words of Jesus in relation to how society is shaped. Significant ideas are usually supported by several parables. Irrelevant interpretations drown out true ones. For example, the fact that many people have been predicting the time of the end with no basis whatsoever has made people apathetic. Many of the apostles' letters contain interpretations that do not appear to have meaning or relevance, for example James 2:25 and James 5:17.

False teaching can be very subtle – it can consist of omissions of important things, incorrect emphasis of less important things, inventing religious terminology that has no real meaning or is misleading, essentially anything that deviates from the teaching of Jesus in such a way to encourage people not to follow him. One example is that Paul omits to mention the first commandment of Jesus (love the Lord with all your strength, heart, mind, body and soul) because using "all your strength" contradicts with Pauline "grace" – a word to which he assigns the following meaning:

Grace (definition according to Pauline theology): (1) God sent Jesus to die. (2) His sacrifice removes your sin. (3) It's a free gift; you don't have to do anything about it except believe that this message is true, because he died on the cross and rose from the dead.

Paul does mention in his letters that you should follow Jesus (although he also tells people to imitate himself because he claims to imitate Jesus), but because he teaches "grace" it is very misleading. That is why his teaching is hard to identify as false, because he does mention the truth, but in the context of subtly misleading statements. The overall effect is to encourage people to think that they don't need to follow Jesus in the sense of actually doing all the things that he said.

It's as if Jesus came with detailed instructions on how to build a house, and then Paul said that Jesus had already built it, so we don't have to.

Here is an example of Paul's false teaching:

1 Timothy 5:17

Jesus teaches us to give up what we have and follow him in Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:21, Luke 12:33, Luke 14:33 and Luke 18:22. A paid priest cannot teach people to follow what Jesus says in these verses because it would be hypocritical – consequentially priests lean towards Paul and propagate Pauline theology.

Paul also creates church traditions, after Jesus denounced the existing teachers of the Law as hypocrites, and identified people wearing fancy clothes as living in palaces (a perfect description of the modern day cathedral; Matthew 11:8).

Here is another example of false teaching from Paul

1 Corinthians 14:33-38

as the Jewish Law says

In these verses, Paul oppresses women and then implies that he is the supreme authority on the teachings of Jesus. Yet Jesus was quite happy to talk with a Samaritan woman and associate with Mary Magdalene, who may have been a prostitute.

Here is another example of a teaching from Paul that is false.

Paul treats Jesus as an idol of forgiveness – a replacement for animal sacrifices. This is his 'grace' according to Paul which is defined above. For example:

Romans 3:21-26

free gift of God's grace

25-26

Romans 6:5-10
5 For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was. 6 And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin. 7 For when people die, they are set free from the power of sin. 8 Since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that Christ has been raised from death and will never die again – death will no longer rule over him. 10 And so, because he died, sin has no power over him; and now he lives his life in fellowship with God.

Romans 8:31-35
God's Love in Christ Jesus
31 In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son – will he not also freely give us all things? 33 Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty! 34 Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right-hand side of God, pleading with him for us! 35 Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?

So are these people also dying to put us right with God? This website shows a live update on child deaths from poverty. Jesus came as a representative of the poor and those who bear the sins of others (for example, he says if you give a drink to the least person, then you give it to him – Matthew 25:40). People like those counted by this website are dying because of the sins of rich Western nations – they are taking on the role of Jesus. Jesus is not an idol of forgiveness – he was teaching what happens to people who bear the sins of others. If people believe that their sins vanish on the cross as taught by Paul, then there is no reason to follow Jesus – consequently the poor continue to suffer. Jesus does forgive sins (or rather he encourages us to forgive each other because our sins have no effect on Jesus himself), but he doesn't use forgiveness to imply that people don't need to follow him.

Jesus says:

Matthew 7:21-23

And he says:

Matthew 7:13-14

And Jesus insists that people should follow him (Matthew 16:24, Matthew 19:21, Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23, Luke 18:22 and John 12:26). In other words, we should do what he teaches.

Paul's false teaching is extremely difficult to identify because

He constantly asserts that he is a specially chosen apostle of Christ.
He continually tells people not to judge and to "accept his foolishness".
He goes to great lengths to make himself appear harmless.
He repeatedly insists that he is not lying.
He constantly warns against false teaching.
He uses many different keywords and phrases things very eloquently.
He played a role in spreading the Gospel, but it was very clever of Satan to put an 'inside man' into the heart of this process.
Paul talks about Satan as an enemy.
Paul claims that he imitates Jesus.
Paul's letters contain prophecy about the time of the end, so people look elsewhere (not at him) as the source of the end, because he is seen as an authority on the subject.
His letters are in the New Testament, forming part of the scripture.
Paul emphasizes his own suffering and martyrdom to give his teaching further credence.
Paul is labelled as a Saint.
He condemns those who preach a Gospel message different from the one that 'they' (he) preaches (e.g. Galatians 1:8).
He continually denounces the Law but subtly introduces a new one.
He asserts that he is the least apostle and the least of all people, for example, Ephesians 3:8; "I am less than the least of all God's people." Jesus says you have to be the least to be the greatest (Luke 9:48), so Paul is implying that he is greater than Jesus.
All of Paul's greetings to many people at the ends of his letters make him sound very popular. People gravitate towards popular people, even if Paul might not have been as popular as he makes out.

His defensiveness is telling in itself. The Koran uses similar methods to defend itself; it constantly says that Satan is the sworn enemy of Muslims, thus disguising the fact that Satan is the source of it. Paul's letters are consistent in style and nature. There are many of them, and compete with the Gospels for attention.

Paul's letters consist mostly of:

Faith in Jesus (without addressing what faith means) and discussions on Jewish Law.
Instructions for Church institutions (this is in opposition to the teachings of Jesus).
Marriage/immorality.
Rhetoric (his style of writing became accepted as the norm).
Prophecy about the time of the end (his letters are self-fulfilling prophecy).

Paul's main focus on Jesus is as a replacement for animal sacrifice (he doesn't do Jesus justice in his letters, and treats him as an idol of forgiveness rather than a teacher) – in 1 Corinthians 2:2 he says that he "made up [his] mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross," and he mentions Jesus only as an object or concept, not as a person. Paul teaches his own theology completely independently of Jesus. Jesus hardly mentions the things that Paul talks about; his emphasis is on helping the sick, poor and disadvantaged people who are around him and teaching others to do the same. Paul's focus is not on the poor; he rarely mentions them. He views the teachings of Jesus as fulfilling the whole Law (i.e. a different way of saying the Ten Commandments), e.g. Galatians 5:14.

His phrases and keywords are misleading and many are not explained properly, for example:

Accepting God through the Spirit (e.g. Romans 8:9).
The grace of Jesus ("grace" is interpreted to mean that you don't have to do what he says), e.g. Romans 3:21-26.
Holiness (only picture perfect people are acceptable – what about the tax collectors and prostitutes?); Ephesians 5:27.

This is extremely damaging to the Gospel. In the absence of clear explanation, people have had to invent meanings for all of Paul's phrases. Some people interpret them differently, leading to denominations and cults. Mostly they are just used as blanket phrases – a comfort zone that people can exist within; as long as the right language is used then understanding what is said is less important. The work involved in interpreting Paul's keywords and phrases in itself takes you away from Jesus. Romans is a difficult book to read, and if you've spent a lot of hard work on something then there is a tendency to assume it must be right, otherwise what was all that hard work for? Some people might not bother with it at all, but just accept other people's interpretations of it (i.e. priests, who depend on Paul for their wage).

It is a well known fact that interpersonal communication is only about 8% content – the rest comes from delivery, confidence, body language, intonation and emphasis. As long as someone like Paul looked convincing then people would accept whatever he said, particularly as miracles were performed through him. In turn, he spawned many other people who know how to say the right keywords in the right way to sound convincing. Thus, the Christian religion became based upon a series of key phrases rather than on substance and understanding, resulting in a rule/tradition based system rather than a group of people following Jesus.

Philemon – the one book that is very obviously of no use to us

'Philemon' contains the linguistic marker 'phile', which sounds like 'filler'. A 'space filler' is something that is used to fill a gap without performing any useful function. The letter to Philemon is given below:

From Paul, a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy – To our friend and fellow-worker Philemon, and the church that meets in your house, and our sister Apphia, and our fellow-soldier Archippus: May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. [Dear Philemon...]

Brother Philemon, every time I pray, I mention you and give thanks to my God. For I hear of your love for all God's people and the faith you have in the Lord Jesus. My prayer is that our fellowship with you as believers will bring about a deeper understanding of every blessing which we have in our life in union with Christ. Your love, dear brother, has brought me great joy and much encouragement! You have cheered the hearts of all God's people. [I like you, Philemon]

For this reason I could be bold enough, as your brother in Christ, to order you to do what should be done. But because I love you, I make a request instead. I do this even though I am Paul, the ambassador of Christ Jesus, and at present also a prisoner for his sake. So I make a request to you on behalf of Onesimus, who is my own son in Christ; for while in prison I have become his spiritual father. At one time he was of no use to you, but now he is useful. The Greek name Onesimus means "useful" both to you and to me. [There's a man, called Onesimus...]

I am sending him back to you now, and with him goes my heart. I would like to keep him here with me, while I am in prison for the gospel's sake, so that he could help me in your place. However, I do not want to force you to help me; rather, I would like you to do it of your own free will. So I will not do anything unless you agree. It may be that Onesimus was away from you for a short time so that you might have him back for all time. And now he is not just a slave, but much more than a slave: he is a dear brother in Christ. How much he means to me! And how much more he will mean to you, both as a slave and as a brother in the Lord! [...and I'm sending him to you, into slavery]

So, if you think of me as your partner, welcome him back just as you would welcome me. If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to my account. Here, I will write this with my own hand: I, Paul, will pay you back. (I should not have to remind you, of course, that you owe your very self to me.) So, my brother, please do me this favour for the Lord's sake; as a brother in Christ, cheer me up! I am sure, as I write this, that you will do what I ask – in fact I know that you will do even more. At the same time, get a room ready for me, because I hope that God will answer the prayers of all of you and give me back to you. [do you have a spare room?]

Epaphras, who is in prison with me for the sake of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings, and so do my fellow-workers Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. [Bye for now, Paul]

Perhaps the only thing that can be gained from this letter is to note Paul's eagerness to send a free man back into slavery. Paul also tries to dominate Philemon by using his status as "the ambassador of Christ Jesus" and the claim that Philemon "owes himself" to Paul (i.e. his soul and afterlife). He also invites himself to stay at Philemon's house.

Romans is the 'Gold Standard' of Paul's teaching. This letter is summarised below:

1:1-7 Paul greets his readers

1:8-15 Paul wishes to come to Rome

1:16-17 Paul claims to accept the Gospel

1:18-23 The ungodly are scheduled for punishment

1:24-32 The ungodly have been given up by God because they are too immoral and evil

2:1-11 Don't judge people

2:12-20 Jews are judged according to Jewish Law

2:21-24 Jews are hypocritical

2:25-3:8 Circumcision is of value to people who obey the Law (repeated in 3:30)

3:9-19 No one's perfect

3:21-31 Free in Jesus (verse 24) but "we uphold the Law" (verse 31)

4:1-25 Abraham as an example of someone with faith and as someone who was put right with God before circumcision (this implies that we can have faith without even having heard the teachings of Jesus)

5:1-11 We are put right with God through Christ

5:12-21 Adam committed the original sin, Jesus took it away

6:1-12 We are put right with God through Christ; don't sin

6:13-23 Don't sin; the wages of sin is death

7:1-6 Free from the Law, like a woman whose husband died

7:7-25 Sin rhetoric

8:1-17 The Spirit

8:18-25 The future glory

8:26-30 The Spirit

8:31-39 Nothing can separate us from the love of God

9:1-29 Tries to justify an arbitrary selection of a small group of people by God

9:30-10:4 Gentiles but not Jews have been put right with God

10:5-21 Salvation is for all

11:1-12 Jewish rejection of Christianity

11:13-32 Jewish and Gentile acceptance of Christianity

11:33-36 Admits that he has no real understanding of God and implies that it is not possible to understand (he implies that it is acceptable for everyone to be confused and not understand anything properly)

12:1-21 Be a nice person

13:1-7 Obey your authorities

13:8-14 The second commandment of Jesus is the Ten Commandments in compact form

14:1-12 Don't judge people

14:13-23 A discussion about food

15:1-6 Help your fellow Christians

15:7-13 Encourages Gentiles to accept Jesus

15:14-33 Paul goes to many places to teach

16:1-23 Paul greets some people

16:25-27 Thanks and praise to God

Many parts of this letter are irrelevant to us and can be ignored, namely his greetings and planned trips (about three chapters of text). Much of his letter is rhetoric (text with little meaning or importance) like his discussions about Jews and Christians. In fact, his letters are a difficult read, mostly because you have to wade through a lot of text to get to a meaning that could be written much more concisely.

Paul's main emphases in Romans are:

Faith in Christ (but not in terms of needing faith to follow his teachings).
The Jewish Law versus faith.
Don't judge.
Be nice, helpful and obedient to authorities.

Paul does not quote from the Gospels; he is offering a different (much more Jewish) theology, but it is difficult to see unless you look at some major omissions:

The poor are barely mentioned.
The words of Jesus are misconstrued and rarely quoted, for example, Romans 12:20 states that the purpose of serving your enemies is to make them burn with shame.

Romans 3:7-8: "But what if my untruth serves God's glory by making his truth stand out more clearly? Why should I still be condemned as a sinner? Why not say, then, 'Let us do evil so that good may come?' Some people, indeed, have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They will be condemned, as they should be." Paul sets himself up as 'The Authority' on God, and says that anyone who questions his teaching will be condemned. Paul has two large sections on 'not judging' in Romans. Essentially he is giving himself blanket authority to write whatever he wants without being questioned about it. His letters were the earliest Christian writings, and therefore had influence over many other people, even those who were eyewitnesses of Jesus. He continually asserts that he is a chosen apostle of Christ (his vision on the road to Damascus came from Satan along with the voices that he hears and the 'tongues' that he speaks).

Paul wrote thirteen epistles in total. In his other epistles, a major emphasis is the setting up of church traditions. Paul was the source of the Church and the inclusion of his letters in the New Testament made the matter fixed. Jesus said nothing about church traditions; he condemned the Pharisees for this very thing. In fact, the only institution he set up was Holy Communion (a simple bread and wine tradition), and one purpose of this is to show that the Church is doing the wrong thing (see the letter on Joseph).

One thing that should strike you when you start reading Romans is this. In 1:18-32, Paul says how bad everyone is, condemning them for their immorality and so on (at the time the Jews did not have the benefit of teaching from Jesus, so on what basis did he judge them?). Then just afterwards in 2:1 he says, "Do you, my friend, pass judgement on others?"

He spends half a chapter judging others, then condemns others for judging. Most of the judging he does is for sexual immorality, yet Jesus doesn't seem especially bothered about this issue, given his friendship with Mary Magdalene. Jesus also says that the prostitutes and tax collectors are going to the Kingdom ahead of the people he was teaching (Matthew 21:28-32). The teachings of Jesus are focused on helping the poor and outcasts to society.

Another thing that stands out is this paragraph:

Romans 7:18-20

In other words, he is saying that because his intentions are good then if he does something sinful then it isn't really his fault, but something separate from him that lives inside him (as if sin were a free living organism). Sin is the suffering that can result from our action or inaction, if we choose not to follow Jesus. People have free will and we can't attribute our choices to sin itself.

A related verse is this one:

Romans 12:3

Romans 14:1-12 is all about faith and dietary restrictions. Faith has got nothing to do with dietary restrictions. Faith is knowing that what Jesus says is true, so we really can do what he says without worrying about where our food, clothing and other necessities of life are coming from.

Romans 3:1-4

Have the Jews then any advantage over the Gentiles?

Or is there any value in being circumcised?

Much, indeed, in every way!

"You must be shown to be right when you speak;

So according to Paul then his own letters are invalid – there is no advantage in being circumcised. Elsewhere, Paul states that there is no advantage in being circumcised, but a correct statement does not excuse the presence of a contradictory and incorrect one because it creates ambiguity.

Romans 5:6-11

By his blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger!

The underlined text is in disagreement with the Old Testament prophecies. God has given us the truth and put a lot of effort into it; surely then, not following Jesus would warrant more "anger" not less?

Romans 6:19

Paul's language is very different from that used in normal conversation. This verse also highlights Paul's superior attitude.

Romans 9:16

This is misleading. Humans are given free will by God. We can choose to follow Jesus, or not to follow Jesus. God arranges the Universe across time according to what we choose to do.

Romans 13:1-6

Everyone must obey the state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God.

That is also why you pay taxes, because the authorities are working for God when they fulfill their duties. Pay, then, what you owe them; pay them your personal and property taxes, and show respect and honour for them all.

This paragraph states that all governments (even dictatorships) are supported by God. By contrast, in Mark 8:15, Jesus says, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod." The Pharisees represent priests and Herod represents rulers and governments.

Authorities are put in place either by voters (who tend to vote selfishly) or by dictators, neither of which have anything to do with following Jesus. Jesus does say in Luke 20:25, "pay the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay God what belongs to God," but the implications of his other teachings suggest that his followers should be outside the taxation system. The Emperor and his taxation system don't have anything to do with God. Most people lean towards paying the Emperor, but then not paying God (this is everything we have; 100% of our productivity – Love the Lord with all your strength, heart, mind, body and soul).

In Matthew 17:25-26, Jesus tells a parable about taxes; "When Peter went into the house, Jesus spoke up first, 'Simon, what is your opinion? Who pays duties or taxes to the kings of this world? The citizens of the country or the foreigners?'
'The foreigners,' answered Peter.
'Well, then,' replied Jesus, 'that means that the citizens don't have to pay.'"

Following Jesus keeps us out of the taxation system because, having given up what we have to follow Jesus, we are not earning. Therefore citizens (of the Kingdom of God) do not have to pay taxes.

I will give an example of where it goes wrong for a modern Christian. An average Christian might work for a bank. The majority of their time is spent in finance. The infrastructure of society is set up by a minority of very rich people to make as much money as possible while spending the least. This means that the poor are oppressed all over the world, in sweat shops and through the use of child labour. In working for a bank, the employed Christian does much to support this by helping to provide financial support for the companies involved. They are then paid, of which one third goes in taxes, funding wars and so on – see "Tracing Sin to Death". Their wages are spent on a variety of things, the most expensive of which are often cars and mortgage repayments. A car burns petrol (over which wars are fought), costs a fortune and needs replacing after five years (the average price of a new car is about £15,000, costing an average of £500 per month to maintain and depreciating in value by about 7-14% per year). The remaining money is divided between their church and charitable giving. Money that goes to the church is spent on the church building and ministerial wage. The minister is employed to do baptisms, weddings, funerals and church services (singing hymns, praying and collecting money). The poor do not see any of this money. Therefore, the only part of the life of this average Christian that involves Jesus is the charitable giving and possibly some voluntary work. This is a relatively small part of their contribution to society, even though it might feel like a big contribution – their main contribution is towards the bank and taxation. In other words, this means that for every 100 Christians, there is perhaps one foreign aid worker who uses the money generated by them to work in third world countries. Instead of a self-sacrificial lifestyle, the church system is set up so that perhaps 1% of Christian productivity goes to where it is needed the most. Perhaps this is the reason for the unusual quotation of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas verse 14, "if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits." The Gospel of Thomas is discussed in "Parables and General Issues".

Here are some figures that I have estimated for the total productivity of this Christian:

35-40%: advancing the priorities of the bank.
15%: taxes (advancing the priorities of the government).
15%: mortgage.
15%: transport (car).
10%: other costs (food, clothes).
5%: church and charitable giving.
0-5%: voluntary work.

If you follow Jesus, you sell your possessions and give to the poor. You follow him instead of advancing the priorities of non-Christian organisations. The Church does nothing to address this, because it is part of the capitalist system itself (it requires money to finance Church buildings and ministerial wages). It also promotes hymn singing as an alternative to following Jesus. These problems stem from the acceptance of the letters of Paul. The Church has actually arisen from oppression of the poor; English cathedrals were built by people poorer than average modern day Africans, yet they were also required to give 10% of their income; by contrast, the priest was often the second eldest son of the local landowner.

Romans 16:19

We have to know about evil in order to avoid it.

1 Corinthians

The Corinthians are claimed to be a mirror of the modern day Church. They had a strong economy, idols, a fractured church and 'immorality'. Paul sent them a letter to address these issues. I'm going to summarise it like I did with his letter to the Romans. This time I have annotated it so that the things that are incorrect or against Jesus are in bold, things of no relevance are underlined, and in normal text are the things that are less contentious, and the things that people could argue about (this includes instances where Paul has influenced the Gospel writers; he was a companion of both Luke and Mark as mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:11). Again, the poor are not mentioned in this letter.

1:1-9 Paul greets his readers

1:10-17 Paul has heard that the church is divided

1:18-31 Some people don't believe us when we talk about Christ

2:1-15 The Spirit teaches us what to say

2:16 God is very mysterious

3:1-23 Don't be divided, be a part of the body of Christ

4:1-7 Paul is judged by Jesus

4:8-13 It's a hard life

4:14-21 Timothy is coming to see you and I'd like to see you soon

5:1-13 Paul has heard that there is immorality in the church

6:1-11 Don't use the legal system with fellow Christians

6:12-20 Avoid immorality

7:1-16 Marriage should be avoided, but if you must then it's not sin

7:17-24 Don't try to change your life just because God called you

7:25-40 Paul recommends remaining unmarried

8:1-13 Food restrictions

9:1-27 Paul describes and defends his ministry

10:1-32 Don't use idols

11:1-16 The importance of head covering

11:17-34 The Lord's Supper – Paul states that misusing this ceremony causes sickness and death

12:1-11 The gifts of the Holy Spirit

12:12-31 The body of Christ

13:1-13 Paul's definition of love (the emotion)

14:1-25 Paul talks about strange tongues (demonic possession) and gifts of the spirit

14:26-39 Paul describes how tongues should be interpreted/listened to, and also oppresses women

15:1-58 Resurrection

16:1-4 Financial rules for the church

16:5-12 Paul wises to visit the Corinthians soon

16:16-24 Paul greets several people.

Any 'rule' that Paul invents is wrong by default. The fact that his letters were made scripture means that Paul is "God's chosen king", which is how David describes Saul in the first book of Samuel. Paul's real name was Saul. Paul only became the 'king' because the people asked for him, just like they did for Saul – his letters were popular, and he won the popular vote to the extent that they were later included in the New Testament. Just because someone is popular doesn't mean that they are right.

David never dreamed of killing Saul (because he was considered to be God's chosen king), even though Saul persecuted David. Similarly, Christians have never dreamed of removing Paul's letters from the Bible. However, Saul does die in battle and David assumes the throne, representing the widespread acceptance of Jesus in the future and the rejection of Pauline theology.

Here are some verses from 1 Corinthians that stand out:

2:16: "As the scripture says: 'Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who is able to give him advice?' We, however, have the mind of Christ."
This makes the reader feel good, and increases the popularity of Paul's letters.
3:11: "For God has already placed Jesus Christ as the one and only foundation, and no other foundation can be laid." – yet Paul's letters are in the scripture.
6:15: "You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible!"
As mentioned earlier, Jesus came to help the poor and outcasts to society.
11:1: "Imitate me, then, just as I imitate Christ."
Paul claims to imitate Christ, then tells people to follow himself. This is completely different from teaching people to follow Jesus.

2 Corinthians

As in the previous analysis, the things that are irrelevant are underlined and the things that are wrong are in bold.

1:1-14 Paul greets his readers and gives thanks to God

1:15-2:4 Paul's plans

2:5-2:11 Forgiveness

2:12-13 Paul's plans

2:14-17 Spreading the knowledge of Christ

3:1-18 The Law gives death but the Spirit gives life

4:1-15 Rhetoric about the life/death of Jesus being within our mortal bodies and the blindness of unbelievers

4:16-18 Fixing attention on spiritual awareness

5:1-10 The afterlife

5:11-21 Rhetoric about grace (Jesus dying to take away our sins)

6:1-13 Look at everything that we have suffered!

6:14-18 Have nothing to do with unbelievers

7:1-16 Joy and sadness

8:1-15 Christian giving

8:16-24 Paul's plans

9:1-15 Help other Christians

10:1-17 Defends his ministry

11:1-15 Paul condemns false apostles (implying that he is not one himself)

11:16-33 Paul's suffering as an apostle

12:1-10 Paul's visions

12:11-21 Paul assures the Corinthians he is acting in their best interests.

13:1-13 Paul wishes to see the Corinthians soon, and expects them to have followed his instructions

2:10-11: "I do it in Christ's presence because of you, in order to keep Satan from getting the upper hand of us; for we all know what his plans are." Do we? Paul says things like this without explaining them. If he had said something like, "Satan plans to put someone in the group of apostles as a false teacher which will lead to the time of the end," then we would have been much clearer on what his plans were.

3:16: "His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord" – Paul does nothing to remove a metaphorical veil. In fact, he puts a veil over the teaching of Jesus and substitutes them with endless waffle. A lot of his text says nothing at all and he is very skilled in doing this. He invents many phrases to do with the Spirit and Christ; these phrases become meaningless when they are analysed properly.

For example, 2 Corinthians 3:14-18: "Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ. Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds. But it can be removed, as the scripture says about Moses: "His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord." Now, "the Lord" in this passage is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom. All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory."

Here's a break down of what he says:

Closed minded people don't understand things properly (he complements the reader for their great understanding of his waffle). You only understand when you are "joined to Christ". "Joined" is the wrong word. We don't "join" to Christ we follow him. Paul defines the Lord as being the Spirit, which he then does not go on to talk about. In other words, according to Paul we must be "joined" to something that is invisible and poorly defined in his letters (see 1 Corinthians 12:1-11). When we achieve this state, Paul claims that we are free and the Spirit will go on to transform us into the likeness of Jesus.

Paul's paragraph should really be written like this: Follow the teachings of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 8:13-14 talks about Christian giving: "I am not trying to relieve others by putting a burden on you; but since you have plenty at this time, it is only fair that you should help those who are in need. Then, when you are in need and they have plenty, they will help you. In this way both are treated equally." There are two phrases here that I don't like (a) "burden" and (b) "it is only fair" which reads as "giving is burdensome, but it is only fair to do it". Love your neighbour as you love yourself! This is actually how we should give thanks to God, not through words and language as Paul teaches; God was not establishing a business-like environment in which he would be 'The Boss', and where everyone else would have to tell him how great he is at regular intervals.

Paul creates rules and is encourages people to enforce them with punishment in 10:6.

Paul justifies himself:

4:2: "nor do we falsify the word of God."
7:7: "How ready you are to defend me." (it's Jesus we defend, not Paul).
7:9: "we caused you no harm."
11:1: "I wish you would tolerate me even when I'm being a bit foolish. Please do!"
11:4: "For you gladly tolerate anyone who preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; and you accept a spirit and a gospel completely different from the Spirit and the gospel you received from us!" Paul himself preaches a completely different Jesus to what Jesus himself says.
13:3: "You will have all the proof you want that Christ speaks through me."

Galatians

1:1-5 Paul declares himself to be a special apostle

1:6-10 Paul condemns those who preach differently to himself

1:11-24 Paul describes how he became an apostle

2:1-11 Paul's journeys

2:11-14 Paul makes a big deal out of rebuking Peter without good cause, his motivation being to put himself above Peter and dominate the group of disciples

2:15-3:14 Faith and Jewish Law; Abraham as an example of a righteous man

3:15-20 More on the Law

3:21-4:7 The Law and Jesus

4:8-20 Paul assures the Galatians that he is deeply concerned about them

4:21-31 Being with Jesus is like being the children of a free woman

5:1-15 Christ gives freedom; the second commandment of Jesus summarises the whole Jewish Law

5:16-26 The Spirit versus human nature

6:1-10 Bear one another's burdens

6:11-18 Goodbye

1:8: "If we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel that is different from the one we preached to you, may he be condemned to hell!" Verse 1:12 is an important point: "I did not receive it [the Gospel] from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me." He was with a group of eyewitnesses, and he did not listen to any of them. The Gospels had not been written at the time, so he received all of his teachings from Satan.

3:1: "You foolish Galatians! Who put a spell on you? Before your very eyes you had a clear description of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross!" Paul implies that just a description of a death is sufficient understanding of Jesus. He comes across as being obsessive about the death of Christ and barely mentions his teachings or his life.

Galatians 3:11-12

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This is an example of very complex and misleading false teaching. Different translations give slightly different versions of these verses, and the false teaching may not be present in all translations. However I have included it as an example.

Yes, the Law has nothing to do with faith.
The scripture does imply that doing what the Law requires is right.
However, the emphasis on doing what the Law requires implies that faith does not involve doing anything.
Faith itself isn't an activity. However, you do need faith in order to do what Jesus says.

Hence through subtle implication, this paragraph in Galatians implies that you don't need to follow Jesus because faith is implied not to involve doing anything unlike the Law. To make matters worse, grace and faith are linked in Ephesians 2:8.

Galatians 3:20

Paul's letters act as a go-between.

Galatians 5:17

The teachings of Jesus aren't there to be restrictive – they are actually there to give freedom. The letters on the ideal Christian society and New Jerusalem describe the ideal human society, where everyone has maximum individual freedom.

Paul justifies himself:

1:20: "What I write is true. God knows I am not lying!"
1:23: "The man who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he once tried to destroy." Note that the word 'faith' here is used to mean 'religion'. The confusion surrounding the issue of faith means that the English language fails to define an unambiguous term that means 'to have faith in Jesus'.
6:17: "To conclude: let no one give me any more trouble, because the scars I have on my body show that I am the slave of Jesus."

Satan's plan: 2:21: "But if a person is put right through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!" This is Satan's plan with Paul, to ensure that Jesus died for nothing by reforming something similar to the Law. The fact that Paul himself says it means that it is difficult for the reader to identify that Paul is doing precisely this.

Ephesians

1:1-14 Thanksgiving to God

1:15-23 Paul prays that the reader will see the light

2:1-10 Life in Christ

2:11-22 Coming to the Father through Jesus

3:1-13 God's purpose

3:14-21 The love of Christ

4:1-16 Paul talks about the unity of the body of Christ

4:17-32 A new life in Christ

5:1-20 Live in the light; sing hymns and psalms! He says this just after instructing people not to idolise. Singing hymns was not among the commandments of Jesus.

5:21-33 Wives, submit to your husbands

6:1-4 Do what your parents tell you

6:5-9 Slaves, obey your masters (implying that slavery is acceptable)

6:10-20 Build up your armour to keep safe from the Evil One

6:21-23 Goodbye

Ephesians 1:6-8

Jesus encourages us to forgive each other's sins, but he doesn't use forgiveness to imply that people shouldn't follow him or his teachings. Contrary to the opinion of the Church, most of us do not need forgiveness from Jesus himself because we are not responsible for the events that led to his crucifixion 2000 years ago.

Ephesians 2:8-9

Again this implies that we don't need to follow Jesus, because it suggests that no effort is required.

Ephesians 3:3-4

This implies that Paul has superior knowledge and encourages people to read his letters so that they will also learn this superior knowledge.

Ephesians 4:28

Working as a sales representative, a management consultant, a bank manager, in stocks and shares, in fact most types of work in our society is not in line with following Jesus because it serves bad purposes rather than good ones.

3:13: "I am suffering for you." – Paul makes himself out to be a surrogate Messiah.
4:1: "I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord."
4:25: "No more lying then!"
4:27: "Don't give the Devil a chance." Yet the Devil is given every chance through his teaching.

Philippians and Samson and Delilah

Here is a summary of the letter to the Philippians:

1:1-11 Paul prays for his readers

1:12-30 Paul is glad that the Gospel is preached even when he is in prison

2:1-11 Be humble like Christ

2:12-18 Don't complain, but shine instead

2:19-30 Paul talks about two of his followers

3:1-3 Avoid evildoers

3:4-11 Paul compares his life before and after his vision on the road to Damascus

3:12-21 Paul and his prize

4:1-9 Fill your minds with good

4:10-20 Paul thanks the Philippians for their gifts

4:21-23 Goodbye

Philippians 3:17

Keep on imitating me

We should imitate and follow Jesus, not Paul.

Philippians 3:10-11

This falsely implies that not everyone is resurrected and that some people are excluded from heaven.

Again, Paul justifies himself:

1:8: "God is my witness that I am telling the truth."
1:13: "I am in prison because I am a servant of Christ."

The teachings of Paul serve to replace the teachings of Jesus, paralleling what Delilah did to Samson:

Mark 3:27

Samson was a strong man who was deceived by Delilah and was captured by the Philistines. The story of Samson and Delilah is a scriptural parable from Judges chapters 13-16, which uses linguistic markers, for example, "Delilah" sounds like "the liar" and Samson contains the word 'Son'. Linguistic markers are common and many are described in "Parables and General Issues".

Samson was a Nazerite (sounds like Nazareth where Jesus was born) and never had his hair cut (sounds like heir, to the throne of God – i.e. Jesus). Samson was very strong and killed a lion and many Philistines. Unfortunately he met Delilah who was paid by the Philistines to find out what gave Samson his strength so they could capture him. Eventually she found out that it was his hair (i.e. Jesus) that gave him his strength, so she cut it off when he was sleeping and gave him to the Philistines. In Judges 16:22 his hair started to grow again, giving him back his strength. When the Philistines wanted Samson to entertain them in front of Dagon (Dragon) their god, he pushed against the pillars of their building, collapsed it and killed the Philistines along with himself. This is a representation of the time of the end and Dagon represents Pauline theology.

Delilah represents the letters of Paul, and the corresponding Pauline form of the Christian religion. The result of following Paul's teachings is the Church. In Mark chapter 5, 2000 pigs rush off a cliff (indicating the approximate date of the time of the end). In the map you can see Delilah (Philippines), a pig (Malaysia/Borneo) and Samson (Indonesia) with his long hair. Philippines sounds a lot like Philippians, which is where the link is made between the story of Sampson and Delilah and the letters of Paul. The pig represents the link between the letters of Paul and the time of the end. Map of South East Asia. The Philippines resembles a woman holding onto Malasia and Bornio which resemble a pig. Indonesia looks like a man with long hair.

As mentioned above, Delilah was paid by the Philistines to find out what gave Samson his strength so they could capture him. Delilah represents the epistle to the Philippians. However, it is in other letters that Paul discusses payment for church leadership. 1 Corinthians 9:11: "We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap the material benefits from you?" 1 Corinthians 9:17: "If I did my work as a matter of free choice, then I could expect to be paid." 2 Corinthians 11:8: "While I was working among you, I was paid by other churches. I was robbing them, so to speak, in order to help you." 1 Timothy 5:17-18: "The elders who do good work as leaders should be considered worthy of receiving double pay, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the scripture says, 'Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh corn' and 'Workers should be given their pay.'" Jesus does not advocate that his followers need to be paid a regular wage (in fact he says the exact opposite). Those who put Paul's letters into the Bible, and priests since that time have therefore had a vested interest in teaching Pauline theology over that of Jesus, purely because they depend on the words of Paul to earn a wage. In fact, God looks after those who follow the words of Jesus (but we need faith to follow them, and to depend on God when we have no money left).

Colossians

1:1-14 Paul greets his readers and gives thanks to God

1:15-23 God created the Universe; he brought the Universe back to himself through Christ

1:24-2:8 Paul's ministry and a warning not to be deceived by false arguments

2:9-19 The grace of God

2:20-23 Don't follow pointless rules

3:1-17 Advice

3:18-25 Relationship advice (wives, submit to your husbands; slaves, obey your human masters; children, obey your parents)

4:1-18 Be wise, persistent, greetings and goodbye

2:4: "Do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments no matter how good they seem to be." What about the arguments of Jesus himself? The things that are highlighted in bold are in opposition to the teachings of Jesus.

1 Thessalonians

1:1-10 Gives encouragement to the Thessalonians

2:1-16 Waffle about his work in Thessalonica

2:17-3:13 Paul wishes to return to see them again

4:1-12 Don't be immoral

4:13-18 Prophecy about the time of the end

5:1-11 Be ready for the Lord's coming

5:12-28 Be joyful, greetings and goodbye

4:17: "We will meet the Lord in the air." Paul makes the time of the end sound desirable, when in fact it has to do with plagues and results from a complete separation from God, a separation that Paul himself instigates.

The Old Testament disagrees with Paul's attitude towards the time of the end. For example, Amos 5:18-19: "How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the Lord! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness not of light. It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall, only to be bitten by a snake!" Paul was bitten by a snake at the end of the book of Acts, which may be a parable about his followers relating to this verse in the book of Amos.

2 Thessalonians

1:1-12 Talks about judgement when the Lord comes

2:1-12 Describes the Wicked One who comes with false miracles

2:13-17 Hold onto the truth

3:1-15 Don't be lazy

3:16-18 Goodbye

In 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Paul talks about the "Wicked One" and it is an good description of what Paul actually did. For example, the "Wicked One" is described to be the cause of a rebellion away from Jesus, which is what Paul did. However, many Christians may choose to believe that Paul is referring to my activities, which is Satan's purpose with these verses. The same is true of 1 Timothy 4:1-3. The RV Bible uses the term "lawless one" instead of "Wicked One", which would describe myself.

Like the Wicked One he describes, Paul performed false miracles. For example, Satan withdrew evil spirits when a handkerchief of Paul was brought to a sick person without having to instruct the spirit to leave in the name of Jesus (Acts 19:12). One evil spirit said, "I know Paul and I know Jesus, but who are you?" – Acts 19:15. The evil spirits knew Paul, and must have known that they should leave a person if it made Paul look like a man of God.

1 Timothy

1:1-11 Warnings against false teaching

1:12-20 Paul says that Jesus forgives him, but in 1:18-20, Paul does not forgive two men for 'blasphemy'

2:1-15 Church worship, e.g. women must remain silent

3:1-7 Church leaders

3:8-13 Church helpers

3:14-16 The mystery of the Christian religion (Paul implies that he does not fully understand it)

4:1-5 Warnings against false teaching

4:6-16 Be a good servant of Jesus

5:1-25 Looking after widows and responsibilities to believers

6:1-21 Warnings against false teaching and instructions to avoid the love of riches

1:20: "Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have punished by handing them over to the power of Satan; this will teach them to stop their blasphemy." Phrases like this are designed to throw us off the scent, by implying that Paul's doctrine is not within the power of Satan.
2:7: "I am not lying, I am telling the truth!" This phrase is in the middle of a detailed description of church worship.
5:20: "Rebuke publically all those who commit sins, so that the rest may be afraid." Paul uses intimidating tactics.
6:16: "He lives in the light that no one can approach." Anyone can approach the light (i.e. learn how to follow Jesus), but Paul prevents people from finding it.

This short letter contains three warnings against false teaching alongside detailed descriptions about how the Church should work. This disguises the fact that instructions for church worship are false teaching.

2 Timothy

1:1-18 Paul requests that the reader should not be ashamed of him or abandon him like the people in Asia

2:1-13 Be a loyal soldier of Christ, work hard and endure suffering

2:14-26 Instructions and warnings from Paul

3:1-9 Paul describes the outward form of the religion that he himself establishes

3:10-4:8 Instructions and warnings from Paul

4:9-22 Final words and goodbye

1:8: "Nor be ashamed of me, a prisoner for Christ's sake."
1:15: "You know that everyone in the province of Asia, including Phygelus and Hermogenes has deserted me." In Acts 16:6, the apostles were forbidden by what they thought was the Holy Spirit to preach in Asia. Satan restricted the spread of the teaching of Jesus to the places that would accept the teachings of Paul.
3:11: "You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra – the terrible persecutions that I endured!"
Jesus doesn't say, "the greater masochist you are, the better Christian you are," although one might think that this is the case from what Paul says. Paul implies that suffering is what Jesus wants to see in his followers. There are four main reasons for suffering:
1. Bearing the consequence of our own sins.
2. Bearing the sins of another person; persecution falls under this category because we are bearing the sins of another person's false beliefs.
3. Accidents; things that cause suffering from our interaction with the environment.
4. Disease, disability and old age.
I believe that the third cause of suffering can be minimised because God can influence our environment, and fourth cause can be avoided through spiritual healing, which is made possible by following Jesus. Many of the things that Paul suffered were not from people, they were from his environment. If he had been doing the right things he would not have been shipwrecked three times and would not have spent 24 hours in the water (2 Corinthians 11:25). In other words, God was not arranging the Universe to help Paul. By contrast, Jesus was able to tell a storm to be quiet and was able to walk across water.
1:12: "But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have trusted, and I am sure that he is able to keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me." The 'Day of Judgement' (time of the end) was entrusted to him in the sense that he caused the Pauline form of the religion and a complete separation from the teachings of Jesus.
3:10: "But you have followed my teaching" – Paul's teaching, not that of Jesus.
3:16 claims that all scripture is inspired by God. It is not a valid argument to use a claim from Paul's own letters to suggest that they are infallible.
4:8: "And now there is waiting for me the victory prize of being put right with God." Paul implies that the religion is a competition rather than an need to love your neighbour as yourself.

Titus

1:1-4 Paul greets his readers and introduces himself as a specially chosen apostle

1:5-16 Church leaders

2:1-15 How men, women and slaves should behave

3:1-11 Being saved through grace and the Holy Spirit

3:12-15 Goodbye

1:10: "For there are many, especially converts from Judaism, who rebel and deceive others with their nonsense." This implies that Paul isn't deceiving anyone himself.
3:1: "Submit to authorities".

The omissions are worse than the content – if we follow this letter rather than what Jesus says, then we are certainly not following Jesus. Find someone who has never heard of Jesus, and give them Titus to read. Then ask them to explain who Jesus is. Do you think they would be able to? What do you think their belief system would be like?

Hebrews

Although Hebrews is not a Pauline letter, the author is equally against the theology of Jesus.

1:1-3 God spoke through Jesus

1:4-14 The Son and the angels

2:1-4 Hold onto truth

2:5-18 Jesus purifies people from their sins

3:1-6 Jesus and Moses

3:7-19 Stay with God

4:1-13 Resting and the Sabbath

4:14-5:10 Jesus and High Priests

5:11-14 Claims to be "milk", rather than "solid" spiritual food

6:1-11 Warning against abandoning the religion

6:13-20 God's promise to Abraham

7:1-14 A discussion about the 10% tithe (the author doesn't condemn it; in fact he admires Abraham for giving 10% implying that this is a good amount to give to the priests)

7:15-28 Compares Jesus to a priest called Melchizedek

8:1-13 Jesus, the high priest: in saying this the author is implying that high priests imitate Jesus. Jesus was a servant, and bore no resemblance to a high priest.

9:1-22 More about high priests/Jesus; no further need for animal sacrifice

9:23-28 Christ takes away sins

10:1-18 No more animal sacrifices

10:19-39 Stay close to God; threats of punishment for not doing so (10:28-29)

11:1-40 Old Testament characters are described as having faith

12:1-11 Punishment from God

12:12-29 Instructions and warnings

13:1-19 How to please God (obey your leaders; avoid immorality etc.)

13:20-25 Goodbye

13:17: "Obey your leaders," that is to say, "Obey this letter!"
13:9: "Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way." – this asserts that the teachings in Hebrews are not "strange" and should therefore be followed. The opposite is true.
5:4: "No one chooses for himself the honour of being a high priest. It is only by God's call that a man is made a high priest – just as Aaron was." It is Satan who calls priests, giving the false impression that there are upper and lower class citizens of heaven.
Satan also selects individuals to have a 'personal relationship' with (the phrase 'do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?' is common in churches, and is not usually explained because it involves individuals admitting that they hear voices inside their head). The same is true of tongues (people must have a 'special gift' before they can participate).

Paul in the book of Daniel

Paul is discussed in the book of Daniel as described here. Paul is represented by the second and fourth beasts that Daniel saw and by a goat that attacks a ram. He is also the 3000th name in the Bible.

Elijah

1 Kings 22:19-22 describes a spirit that steps forward to deceive people. The spirit was Satan, and he works through Paul. Please take a look at the letter on Elijah for more details.

Saul and David – The First Book of Samuel

This section describes the parallels between the story of Saul and David, and the interaction between Pauline theology and the teachings of Jesus. David and Jesus were both from Bethlehem. Saul and Paul were both Benjaminites. Saul persecuted David much like Paul teaches falsely about Jesus. Paul was originally called Saul and Jesus was called the Son of David by several people.

Saul was called to be the king of Israel, against the advice of the Old Testament god through Samuel. In 1 Samuel chapter 8, Samuel warns the people that the king would charge them 10% taxes and make soldiers of their sons (representing all of the pointless tasks that go on in churches in addition to a 10% tithe). However, the people wanted a king, so god agreed and told Samuel to anoint Saul in chapter 10. Then Saul was told what would happen next (who he would meet) as proof that he would be king; similarly, Paul was told that he would meet Ananias. A group of prophets met Saul and he joined in with their ecstatic dancing and shouting (reflecting modern day Christianity) which led to the saying, "Has even Saul become a prophet?" (1 Samuel 10:12), because people were not expecting it, much like they were not expecting Paul to become an apostle.

In chapter 12, Samuel reminds the people that they committed a sin in asking for a king. The people did this in the fourth century, when Paul's letters were incorporated into the New Testament and treated as scripture, equal in importance to the Gospel message.

Saul's son Jonathan ate some food during the time that the Israelites were starving because of Saul's curse (chapter 14). Jonathan represents me because I am eating the spiritual food of Jesus (the name 'Jonathan' also sounds like John the Baptist's name, whose actions are a parable for this website as mentioned in "The Time of The End". Paul does indeed condemn anyone who 'eats spiritual food' because anyone who follows Jesus is not following what Paul says.

15:35: "The Lord was sorry that he had made Saul king of Israel." In verse 16:13, Samuel anointed David as king. David was the son of Jesse (which sounds like 'Jesus'). Later in chapter 16, an evil spirit (Satan) was sent to torment Saul and it made him go mad, so a man who knew how to play the harp (David) was sent for to calm Saul. Harps are often associated with angels.

Chapter 17 describes the Philistine army which had a huge warrior called Goliath (another representation of Paul). He challenged the army of Saul to find a man that could defeat him – if anyone could then the Philistine army would become slaves of the Israelites, otherwise, the Israelites would become slaves of the Philistines. In 1 Samuel 17:16, Goliath challenged the Israelites every morning and evening for forty days (the same time period as the flood of Noah). Saul promised that any Israelite who could defeat Goliath would not have to pay taxes (1 Samuel 17:25). This is because when Goliath is defeated, temple tax (or 'the collection') will be abolished. In addition, only followers of Jesus can defeat Pauline theology, and they do not pay taxes because they are outside the taxation system.

Later in chapter 17, David killed Goliath. He did it using only a sling shot and a stone (representing Jesus – he describes himself as a stone in verses like Mark 12:10).

Saul persecuted David and his men. David's men were outcasts to society (1 Samuel 22:2), much like the people who Jesus came to teach about. Saul was eventually killed in battle, and David assumed the Royal Throne.

Letters from the other apostles

In the letters of the apostles, emphasis is placed on the importance of prayer, belief in Jesus as a replacement for animal sacrifices (this would have been a big change from Judaism), concerns about immorality, false teachers and patiently waiting for the end to come.

The apostles believed that the end would be very soon (e.g. 1 John 2:18), which perhaps encouraged them to think that they did not need to do very much because the end would come quickly and sort everything out. However, 2000 years later, we are still awaiting the end. They also thought that people had individually defeated Satan (1 John 2:13), so a more holistic approach was not attempted.

The apostles lived in a society that was relatively poor. They would not have been able to conceive of modern day inequality, so they did not place emphasis on helping the poor. The authors of these letters probably did not expect them to become scripture and were not writing to people 2000 years in the future.

The letter from James is the best one because it emphasizes doing what Jesus says rather than just having a vague belief in him. However, it still supports the Ten Commandments (James 2:10-11) and the church system (James 5:14). In James 1:5-8, importance is placed on believing what you say in prayer (the stronger you believe, the more likely you are to receive). This is false teaching; I can pray and believe anything I choose, yet this prayer and this type of belief is totally non-functional. Believing that what Jesus says is true, and a consequent ability to do what he says is the real meaning behind 'belief in Jesus'.

The Gospels were not written at first and many people would not have been able to read, so early Christians had to rely on memory and word of mouth for teachings about Jesus. This was distorted by Pauline theology and Satan pretending to be the Holy Spirit. Given the confusion surrounding Jewish theology, Pauline theology, direct Satanic intervention, a lack of education and extreme poverty, it is unsurprising that the teaching from the apostles does not reflect what Jesus intended for us.

Eli falls over backwards and breaks his neck

The Great Lakes of America. They resemble a clown-like person with a long nose and big feet lying on the floor. The head is at an unusual angle and is facing the city of St. Paul.

I look at the Great Lakes of America and I see a picture of Eli having fallen over backwards and broken his neck when he was told that the covenant box had been stolen (1 Samuel 4:18). The city of St. Paul is marked on the map. Eli represents the priesthood (his sons stole from the congregation). His falling over backwards is symbolic of the fall of the priesthood and the modern church system upon finding out the Paul has stolen the 'covenant box' (true teachings of Jesus).

1 Chronicles 13:3 says, "Then we will go and fetch God's Covenant Box, which was ignored while Saul was king," reinforcing the idea that the true teachings of Jesus have been ignored due to the teachings of Paul.

The covenant box had been stolen by the Philistines, who found that they were punished for it. They eventually returned the box to the Israelites along with a gift of gold. In other words, the financial resources of the Church (represented by the Philistines) should be used to help the poor, and priests should not try to prevent people from following Jesus.

Paul's teachings are Satanic, and he used his influence and false miracles to distort the Gospel message and establish a tradition-based church system. Later, his epistles were collected into the New Testament as scripture, competing with the Gospel message in modern times. This is the primary method by which Satan has stopped people from following Jesus. The results are palaces built for God while 2.5 billion people remain in poverty.

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