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Overview of Paul's Theology The purpose of all fake theology including atheism and Paul's theology is to rationalize away sin claiming that sin doesn't exist or doesn't matter. See (Mat 25:31-46)(Luke 10:30-36). Paul said God created sin and humans fixed him by murdering Christ.
The religion is supposed to be Christianity. Therefore it's based on Christ's teaching, not Paul's. The Source is Not Replaceable why would the source of the all-important truth use another person to rehash the same subject? It's unthinkable. Christ had super-human abilities to communicate. He knew how to stick to the most important basics and stabilize them in place with parables and ultimately the examples of his own life including getting crucified for the purpose of defining the truth in a way nothing else could.For anyone else to carry any weight on this subject could only diminish the significance of the words of the ultimate source. Therefore, Paul's words carry no more weight than yours, mine, Hitler's or Gandhi's. Paul is free to add his opinions, but he carries no authority. If God gave anyone divine authority to preach anything, it was not authority over Christ's teaching. How could Christ be an authority, if Paul supercedes him? If Christ is not the authority, it is not Christianity. Paul's words should not have been given any more significance than the Gospel of Thomas, which the Church views as a bunch of rubbish. Certainly, anthropologists and historians need every scrap of writing they can find from that period, as evidenced by the labor over the scraps of the Dead See Scrolls. But for theology, Paul's words carry the weight of rubbish. To be relevant to theology, Paul would have needed to add evidence through logic. Instead, his words are in conflict with evidence, are illogical and are used to contradict what Christ taught. Promoters of Paul's theology defy logic, evidence and Christ's teaching, because their purpose of to contradict the truth which Christ taught. If not, they could get their theology from Christ instead of Paul. The Theological Differences For specifics, the central point of concern is the age-old argument between Catholics and Protestants, which is whether people are saved by faith or works. The promoters of Paul's theology do not add a trace of evidence or logic to the subject; they quote Paul as their only basis. In fact, the logic of that argument is in conflict with evidence beyond comparison. Why should the most important subject in Christianity be in conflict with logic and evidence? Christ never described anything in conflict with logic and evidence. He said people are supposed to learn and understand (John 4:22)(Luke 12:57), which requires logic and evidence.So the logic and evidence needs to be evaluated. The promoters of Paul's theology claim the saving was done on the cross. Some sort of vague commitment is then made by the individual which locks it in for that person. Where is the path? Supposedly, everything Christ taught applies to the path of life after getting saved. Since getting saved is everything, there is not much commitment to a path after the followers of Paul lock in their salvation. In fact, they usually add self-sanctification to their corruptions, while the elitism, domination, selfishness, greed and exploitation only increase. The hinge point of Pauline theology, as described and promoted, is a word game with the concept of salvation. If salvation occurs in the human society, and the supposedly saved person is still sinful, why get saved? Sin destroys life. It has to be overcome for the eternal life that Christ described. Salvation is described in Paul's theology as some sort of guaranty. Isn't a guaranty nice. One of the absurdities is that no guaranty is needed. Anyone who overcomes sin gets saved. People are not thrown into the pit for arbitrary reasons. In fact, no one is thrown into the pit. They are either pulled out or left there. They create the pit through their sinfulness. Paul Contrives a Guaranty To rationalize these points, Paul's theology contrives a need for a guaranty. It starts with the person who supposedly provides the guaranty, which is God. He supposedly was angry at humans because they sinned, and crucifying Christ is said to have removed that anger and replaced it with a guaranty of salvation.There is no small amount of absurdity in claiming God was pleased to have Christ crucified. If someone is in court for stealing an automobile, murdering the owner is never the fix. Christ never described God as having such a quirky mind. Anyone so messed up in the head could not produce the morality and life that God produces. Christ showed us how God functions and what his values are. There was no quirky mess in Christ's head. Everything he taught was logical and consistent with evidence. Paul's Religion of Sacrifice Paul got his quirky notion about fixing God from the ancient pagan ritual of sacrifice. The pagan ritual was created by the demons for establishing control over humans. Humans would be required to destroy something of value to demonstrate their allegiance to the demons. Sometimes they would kill their own children to please the demons.The purpose of the Judeo-Christian line of religion, as described in the Bible, was to change the religion from worshipping demons to overcoming sin through morality. The process of developing God's religion was long and slow. There was a very gradual transition in the complex realities and rituals. Eventually, the prophets were saying that sacrifice is not what God wants (Isaiah 1:11)(Jer 7:22)(Hosea 6:6)(Psalms 40:7, 50:8-15). Christ said it is mercy God wants, not sacrifice (Mat 9:13, 12:7)(Mark 12:33). So Paul reversed two thousand years of progress by dredging up the pagan ritual of sacrifice as a basis for his theology. In using that basis for argument, he created absurdities. The religion of the demons cannot be used to explain the religion of God without creating absurdities. More basically, no one would use the religion of the demons to replace Christ's super-human theology for anything but corrupt motives. The purpose was to attack and destroy the important truth about morality and salvation which Christ taught. Quotes of Paul's related to atonement: (Eph 5:2) "He (Christ) gave himself for us as an offering to God." Offering means sacrifice. (Rom 5:11 KJV) "...Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." Atonement is the theology of sacrifice. (Rom 5:9) "Now that we have been justified by his blood..." Justifying through blood is the theology of sacrifice. (Rom 8:3) "Then God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,..." Sin offering means atonement. (Eph 1:7) "It is in Christ and through his blood that we have been redeemed and our sins forgiven." Forgiving sins through blood is the theology of sacrifice. The Purpose of the Corruption The promoters of Paul's theology have the same purpose as Paul in reversing the truth that Christ taught. If the question were simply a semantic dispute over the definition of salvation, the result would not have to change. Of course, semantic games always have the purpose of corrupting something. Otherwise, context describes a subject instead of absurd definitions. The end result shows the purpose. The end result of Paul's theology is to rationalize away the subject of sin and morality and the path required to overcome sin.Gullible persons are taught how to corrupt Christianity by defying everything Christ taught. On judgment day, they are going to say they were taught improperly. Christ's words are in the Bible right alongside Paul's words, and Christ could communicate infinitely better than Paul. To defy what Christ taught and replace it with Paul's corruption is inexcusable sin. Yet the promoters of Paul refuse to be corrected. Instead, they attack their critics and fall back on lies and mockeries. Their sin is no one's but their own. If they were incapable of understanding the subject, that would be their own problem; but Paul's corruptions are forced down people's throats, as if people had to be taught how not to follow Christ's teaching to overcome sin. The Significance In summary, the essence of Paul's theology is to redefine salvation in terms of two mysterious and magical events: One where God was fixed through atonement as a result of Christ's crucifixion; and the other where the individual locks in the salvation by accepting it and being born again. This definition of salvation leaves out the human responsibilities which Christ described for overcoming sin as the path to eternal life.To remove salvation from the human responsibilities to overcome sin is to separate salvation from eternal life and everything Christ taught about acquiring it. Salvation without the path which Christ taught is nothing but another justification for sin. It has no other meaning or relevance. Therefore, using that concept of salvation to represent Christ's purpose is a fraud. Christ's purpose is to overcome sin as the path to life.
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Paul's Argument on Law, Flesh and Sin (Claims God Blundered in Creating Flesh)
Paul's argument in Romans and Galatians is that before there can be sin there must be law; and before there can be law, there must be flesh. Spirit is the answer, because spirit is not flesh; and there can be no sin without flesh, because there is no law without flesh. He's trying to say that God blundered in creating human life; then God blamed humans for defying him; but someone straightened out his thinking by killing Christ. 1. (Rom 4:15) Indeed, the law worketh to bring down wrath, for where there is no law there is no transgression. (The purpose of Congress is to bring down wrath upon the public.) 2. (Rom 7:1) Are you not aware, my brothers... that the law has power over a man only so long as he lives? 3. (Rom 6:7) For he that is dead is freed from sin. 4. (Rom 7:5,6) When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions roused by the law worked in our members and we bore fruit for death. Now we have been released from the law - for we have died to what bound us - and we serve in the new spirit, not the antiquated letter. (Paul was not in the flesh when writing this, but when he was, Moses was responsible for his sinful passions. Call him garbage head.) 5. (Rom 7:7-9) I should never have known what evil desire was unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." Sin seized that opportunity; it used the commandment to rouse in me every kind of evil desire. Without law sin is dead... (7:15-18) I do not do what I want to do but what I hate...it is not I who do it but the sin which resides in me...no good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh... 6. (Rom 8:2) The law of the spirit, the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, has freed you from the law of sin and death. 7. (Rom 8:3) Then God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, thereby condemning sin in the flesh... 8. (Rom 5:9,10) Now that we have been justified by his blood, it is all the more certain that we shall be saved by him from God's wrath. For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him by death of his Son... (Notice that what people need to be saved from is not their own corruptions but God's wrath.) 9. (Rom 8:6) The tendency of the flesh is toward death but that of the spirit toward life and peace. 10. (Gal 2:16) Nevertheless, knowing that a man is not justified by legal observance but by faith in Jesus Christ, we too have believed in him in order to be justified by faith in Christ, not by observance of the law; for by works of the law no one will be justified. 11. (Gal 2:21) If justice is available through the law, then Christ died to no purpose! 12. (Gal 5:16,17) My point is that you should live in accord with the spirit and you will not yield to the cravings of the flesh. The flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh; the two are directly opposed. 13. (Gal 5:18) If you are guided by the spirit, you are not under the law. 14. (Gal 5:22) ...the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patient endurance...Interpretation of tongues. Paul indicated that flesh causes sin, as if he were speaking of biological flesh, then he drifted into metaphor, then drifted into spiritual flesh, and then indicated that the death of spiritual flesh ends sin. There is no such thing as death of spiritual flesh, and it wouldn't end sin if it occurred, because sin permeates all realities, attitudes and values in the mind. Christ said that not the smallest letter of the law is to be done away with (Mat 5:18). Paul said that God created two contradictory sets of laws. First he created biological laws through flesh, which created passions and resulted in bad conduct. Then God created commandments which say it is sin to succumb to the laws of flesh through passions. Of course, God got angry when the sin occurred. Crucifying Christ supposedly had the purpose of alleviating God's anger. Note that by spirit, Paul is not referring to the Holy Spirit but the person's own spirit. He is saying that the spirit is a moral influence (14), while flesh is a corrupting influence (5). Paul does not say how to get from point A to point B except as faith in Christ (10). How does faith go from flesh to spirit, and why are Paul's admonishments and moralizing necessary? Is there a path involved? Paul claims the only purpose of Christ's death is to justify someone, and law does not produce justice (10). So much for government. Paul is saying there was no sin before human life was created, because flesh creates law (2, 4, 5, 12), and law creates sin (1, 5). He tries to indicate that sin is not possible in the spirit world (2). Of course, it is, as satan and evil spirits indicate. Spirit powers supposedly perfect people, so persons with spirit powers are more worthy. There is plenty of evidence that the opposite is true. Power corrupts, and spirit powers are the primary source of power. Most evil and sin come from the spirit world. Another implication of Paul's is that God created the problem of sin by creating human life (4). Besides being patently absurd, the fix would not be killing Christ. Paul isn't quoting Scriptures or delivering a message from God. He is describing what is supposed to be the self-evident logic of the subject. He is saying that flesh has a problem with it, because it creates passions. So God forbid certain behaviors. Instead of God's commands fixing everything, it forced people to defy him, which became the essence of sin. God supposedly got angry because of the defiance, but killing Christ dampened his anger and fixed the problem (8). That aint no way, shape or form what happened - not by the Scriptures, not by logic and not by the evidence of objective reality. Sin goes far beyond flesh and began long before human life began. The serpent knew all about sin when tempting Adam and Eve. Why would killing Christ dampen God's anger? Paul's logic indicates that sinners made a believer of God by showing him that they could not live by his laws, and crucifying Christ was the result. So God relinquished his demands. One reason why Paul's claims about the crucifixion are false is because God designed the crucifixion, not sinners, and his purpose was not to influence himself (Mark 8:31-33). After the resurrection, Christ said penance is to be preached for the remission of sins (Luke 24:47). Therefore, the crucifixion did not end the problem of sin or change its significance or the means of overcoming it. The obvious purpose of Christ's crucifixion was to create truth about sin, its characteristics, who perpetrates it and why. It showed that religious authorities and corrupted persons would crucify God for healing the sick, feeding the hungry, raising the dead and producing moral truth.
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