It's too easy to describe Christ's purpose. He said, "The reason I was born, the reason why I came into the world, is to testify to the truth." (John 18:37) For three years he taught the path to life and demonstrated it with examples of his life including his crucifixion, which proved the truth about sin.

But the promoters of Paul's theology contradict everything Christ taught and claim he had other purposes. They deny that the purpose of the crucifixion was to produce the truth about sin. Supposedly, Christ was making payment for sin, which they call atonement. And payment is supposedly everything, so nothing that Christ taught is relevant.

Therefore, the purpose here is to show the relevance and meaning of Christ's teaching in relation to getting saved.

The only thing that anyone needs to get saved from is sin. Christ taught salvation as acquiring eternal life by overcoming sin.

The Pauline claim that people need to get saved from God's wrath is perverse. Then the claim that payment will fix God's wrath multiplies the perversion. And then the claim that murder is payment multiplies the perversion again.

Would the same apply to humans? Do humans solve their problems by paying a price, and is sin such as murder payment which resolves their conflicts? If a person is angry at a bill collector, does killing someone fix the problem? What could be more perverse.

Christ taught that people need to solve their problems by avoiding and overcoming conflicts, and more sin, such as murder, is never the solution.

The "beatitudes" are very informative. They say, "How blest are the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs...Blest are they who show mercy; mercy shall be theirs. Blest are the single-hearted, for they shall see God." (Mat 5:3-12)

There is a relevance to being moral. In fact, no one gets saved without being moral. Christ said, "In a word, you must be made perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Mat 5:48) This means getting saved is not about payment of a price, it's about overcoming sin.

The promoters of Paul do not add their version of salvation to Christ's teaching and say overcoming sin is combined with payment on the cross. They say payment is the only purpose of Christ's, and morality is irrelevant. They say they are not perfect, never will be, and don't need to be. Christ said, truth will set people free from sin; and he who lives by sin is a slave to sin (John 8:32, 34). What good would it do for Christ to pay for sin on the cross for persons who are slaves of sin? Atonement doesn't free people from sin.

It's very telling that Paulists reject all moral truth, because Paul's theology has no other purpose, and his followers use it for no other purpose. The entire purpose of Paul's theology is to erase moral truth and justify sin instead of overcome it. Paul uses the term "justification" often and develops a quasi theology to justify sin, so it doesn't need to be overcome and replaced with morality. He admits his corruptness as a demonstration of the irrelevance of overcoming sin. (Find quotes on pages related to Paul, linked below.)

Everything Christ taught is the path to eternal life based on overcoming sin and learning morality. Christ's moralizing quotes from the beginning of Mathew to the end of John, because there is nothing else he did. Nowhere within it is there any mention of payment. Payment is a contrivance of Paul's, not a teaching of Christ's.