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Paul Replaced the Truth
Paul replaced Christ's religion based on morality with the religion of the demons based on sacrifice. Sacrifice is how the demons controlled humans for thousands of years before God created his religion. The demons required people to murder their children on an altar as a test of allegiance. Only the most deranged psychopaths require murder as a test of allegiance. Paul placed God in the same category by saying Christ's crucifixion was a sacrifice which pleased God. God spent two thousand years prior to Christ's time teaching the Jews what is wrong about the religion of the demons and how to replace it with a religion based on morality. Paul then reversed everything being taught by God and claimed that sacrifice is the only purpose of God's religion. Paul made sure that his religion did not include the morality which Christ taught by saying people are not saved by works (Rom 3:27, 11:6)(Gal 2:16)(Eph 2:8,9). As Christ taught, works create the path which replaces the religion of promoting sin with the religion of morality. In Paul's religion, faith (or grace) replaces morality by claiming God takes care of everything for those who pass the test of allegiance. It's no different than the demons saying they would make the corn grow if people would murder their children on an altar to worship them. The followers of Paul then make sure no one questions Paul's theology by saying the Bible is inerrant. When no one can agree upon the meaning of something, how can it be inerrant? What inerrancy really means is that technicalities will be used to contradict the correct meaning based on logic and evidence. It is a standard procedure for corrupt persons everywhere, not just religion, to use technicalities as a basis for absurdities. For this reason, the true prophets and Christ focussed on this corruption and tried to teach correct judgment based on evidence and logic. They said to judge, look and listen, which is to rely upon evidence and logic rather than technicalities. Christ railed against staining out gnats and swallowing camels (Mat 23:24). He said people should judge for themselves what is right (Luke 12:57) and develop proper understanding (Mat 15:10)(Mark 4:13, 7:14, 8:21)(Luke 24:45)(John 8:43). This means technicalities cannot be used to justify absurdities. Nowhere do Christ or God allow technicalities to contradict logic or evidence. And moral persons never do. It is very debased to use technicalities to contradict evidence and logic, because technicalities cannot even be agreed upon. It's like someone saying they should throw their enemies into the ocean, because the Bill of Rights says so. After a million persons are thrown into the ocean, someone says it was a printing error. This is the significance of allowing technicalities to contradict evidence and logic. For absurd technicalities, fundamentalists go back three or four thousand years and find Scriptural quotes to promote the theology of sacrifice. All social realities evolve. Christ's teaching was a major improvement over previous moral philosophy. To put Leviticus above Christ is to say there is no social progress and Christ wasn't needed, which are absurdities. Mosses is totally irrelevant to Christianity beyond producing the Ten Commandments, and even those are covered more effectively by the basic moral truth which Christ taught. The Ten Commandments were a rudimentary, temporary and inadequate basis for morality intended to be improved upon later by Christ's teaching. The Ten Commandments still apply, they just aren't enough. Neither Paul nor Moses are sources of Christian truth. Christ did not need someone else to do his teaching for him. If Paul and Moses were just speaking as everyone else, let them make their mistakes; but fundamentalists are trying to make Paul, Moses and other persons source material in contempt for obvious moral truth as Christ taught it. Regardless of what Paul or Moses said, or even what Christ said, sacrifice is perverse. The demons demanded sacrifice for thousands of years, and there was never anything constructive about it. Christ corrected some of the errors of Moses, such as stoning an adulteress (John 8:1-11) or allowing divorce (Mat 19:7, 22:23-33). It shows that Moses is not relevant to Christian morality, whatever the reasons were for his errors. There are any number of explanations for Moses' errors. The Bible is full of errors for many, many reasons. One, God does not perfect anything humans do. Two, the "lying pen of the Scribes" inserted many errors into the Bible, and I describe some examples elsewhere. Three, the ancient Jews were being weaned away from the religion of the demons based on sacrifice, and it could not be done instantly. Four, Leviticus and the rest of the Mosaic Scriptures were not written by Moses but written by others much later; so they don't know what God told Moses. In other words, a large part of the Old Testament was corrupt and unreliable. Some parts are more reliable than others. Isaiah and Jeremiah were reliable prophets, but a large part of their Scriptures were rewritten by lying Scribes and are not perfect. When God began his religion (approximately four thousand years ago) he had to start where people were at. That means people assumed sacrifice was the only way to worship any god. So the first attempt was to give the ritual a more timid meaning by associating it with repentance for sin. After the concept of sin existed, sacrifice was supposed to be totally abandoned (Isaiah 1:11-20)(Jer 7:22)(Hosea 6:6)(Psalms 40:7, 50:8-15)(Mat 9:13, 12:7)(Mark 12:33). When you look to Christ's words only, you don't see sacrifice being promoted but being opposed. Christ said, "It is mercy God wants, not sacrifice" (Mat 9:13, 12:7). You see in Christ's words the emphasis, over and over, about the need to produce justice as the basis of morality. If sacrifice is a virtue, why isn't it still being practiced? If it is a corruption, why was it the basis of Christ's crucifixion? Fundamentalists (based upon Paul's theology) say Christ was sacrificed once and for all. Virtues don't have a "once and for all" purpose. It's either virtue or corruption. Virtue is always right; corruption is always wrong. God doesn't just sin one more time, like a kleptomaniac stealing his last candy bar. The purpose of applying atonement to Christ's crucifixion is to destroy the truth about sin. Christ showed on the cross that humans would murder God for doing good deeds and teaching morality. Nothing clarified the nature of sin more effectively than Christ's crucifixion. To say crucifying Christ was a good deed is a total mockery of everything said in the four Gospels about the subject. It is also a mockery of morality to say God would want to see someone murdered. What sort of pervert would God have to be to get a value out of murder? The demons demanded murder as sacrifice, and nothing they do is right. After making a mockery of moral truth through atonement, fundamentalists do nothing which Christ taught. On judgment day, the sheep are separated from the goats, not on what they did, but on what they did not do, which is feed the hungry, clothe the naked, etc (Mat 25:31-46). Fundamentalists (and other conservatives) fight a war against the lower classes instead of correcting the wrongs. About half of the human society (three billion people) are shoved into the gutters, which is sacrificing the lowly for the good of the wealthy. It shows that the theology of sacrifice still rules in satan's world. Christ said, "...it is no part of your heavenly father's plan that a single one of these little ones shall ever come to grief" (Mat 18:14). It means the theology of sacrifice is a fraud. FundamentalismPaul Atonement Sacrificing Lying Pen of the Scribes |