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What lies they tell for their God!
The history of the Bible is full of inserts, interpolations, and saying by earlier Christians about what they did for their God. The Chief among the deeds, for God, was to lie. The false apostle Paul, and several of the ancient church-fathers, have epithets to their names, epithets such as the liar. One has only to type: did Paul of Tarsus lie. Or, Eusebius of Caesarea, is another liar. Again, one only has to type Eusebius the liar on your keyboard, and you will have numerous hits. Everything we know of Saul of Tarsus, was written by Saul, who is better known by his Roman epithet Paul, meaning short or little. Who was a boaster and liar of the first order? He says that he was a Jew, yet, he was not born in the old Kingdom of Judah. In fact, the Church father Jerome (c. 342–347) tells us that Paul’s parents were Pagan, and they came from Gischala, a town in the far north of Upper Galilee. We know from the Bible that Pagans, from the Nations, replaced the Israelites in c. 721 BCE. 2 Kings 17:24
According to the New and Old testaments the north was referred to as, Galilee of the Gentiles, Matthew 4:15-16 NABRE, and Galilee of the Nations, Isaiah 8:23 NABRE. We also know that the Jews unquestionably referred to the Samaritans as Gentiles.
Epiphanius (4th century CE) wrote: “They declare that he (Paul) was a Greek (not a Jew)… He went up to Jerusalem, they say, and when he had spent some time there, he was seized with a passion to marry the daughter of the (Jewish) priest. For this reason, he became a proselyte (convert) and was circumcised. Then, when he failed to get the girl, he flew into a rage and wrote against circumcision and against the sabbath and the Torah” (Five Books of Moses). [Epiphanius, Panarion, 30.16. 6-9].
Paul tells us that he was a student of Gamaliel, Acts 22:3, but Gamaliel was a Hebrew scholar, yet Paul supposedly wrote in Greek. Epiphanius was probably right about Paul being a Greek speaker.
Paul, claims to be a Pharisee as well as the son of a Pharisee, Acts 23:6. The Pharisee’s were a part of the Sanhedrin, the other half made-up of Sadducees.
The Sanhedrin was made-up of the Lesser Sanhedrin and the Greater Sanhedrin. The Greater Sanhedrin Court was held in Jerusalem, the Lesser Sanhedrin in the large cities of the United Israel, however, after 721 BCE, the Sanhedrin courts were held solely in the kingdom of Judah. So, for Paul and his father to be Pharisees, they would have required to live within the reach of the Sanhedrin court, be it Jerusalem or any of the large city courts.
Paul claims to be from the tribe of Benjamin? Romans 11:1 Well, the tribe of Benjamin went extinct almost a thousand years before Paul, according to Judges 20:41-48. Which left only 600 Benjamin warriors left from the tribe of Benjamin. Judah annexed the lands of Benjamin, so, how can Paul claim Benjamin as his tribe, as none of the 600 warriors are named. Not only that, the geography, topography, demography does not share Paul’s view that he was of the tribe of Benjamin. The ancient tells us that Paul’s pagan parents came from Gischala (today the city of Jish) in the far north of Galilee, the tribe of Benjamin was located within the north part of Judah some 150 Km south. Gischala was probably in the ancient tribal lands of Naphtali pre 721 BCE. No self-respecting Jew would live north of the border of Judah, in the time stated, it was enemy territory of the Samaritans according to the NT. There are lots more we can say about Paul, and his lies, which would take up tomes to fill. However, I will let the eminent scholar Schonfield, one of the original Dead Sea Scroll team members, who wrote of Paul: Paul has contended that his gospel was the true one because he had received it by direct revelation from the Christ in heaven, unlike the twelve Apostles who depended on the teaching of Christ while on earth. The new Christianity, which gave rise to the Catholic Church, continued to hold that in the formulation of its doctrine it was progressively guided by revelation through the Holy Spirit. Peter in the Clementines combats this claim in his controversy with Simon Magus (alias Paul). [Hugh J. Schonfield (1968), Those Incredible Christians, Ch. 10, p. 158, Hutchinson of London] also see Clemens Recognitions Bk IV, 34-35. Note well, Hugh J. Schonfield (1901-1988) had a Doctor (PhD) of Sacred Literature (D.S. Litt.). And was a New Testament scholar.
Eusebius once wrote that it was a permissible “medicine” for historians to create fictions–prompting historian Jacob Burckhardt to call Eusebius “the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity.” (P. 255 of Godless by Dan Barker.)
Another liar would be the Augustine, bishop of Hippo. Who wrote: “I was already Bishop of Hippo when I went into Ethiopia with some servants of Christ there to preach the Gospel. In this country, we saw many men and women without heads, who had two great eyes in their breasts; and in countries still more southerly [in the original], we saw people who had but one eye on their foreheads.” This is as true as the Gospel.
This same so-called Holy Father bears an equally unquestionable testimony to numerous resurrections of the dead, of which he himself had been an eyewitness. See Middleton’s Free Inquiry, in Loco. Of all travellers in the world, Christian missionaries are the most famous for seeing strange things.[Syntagma of the evidence of the Christian religion. Being a vindication of the Manifesto, page 34, (1828, edition) by Rev. Robert Taylor, John Pye Smith]
Well, if you think Augustine was writing about a tale of the Cyclops, think again, he was preaching his sermon to a large congregation as factual evidence of humans without heads, and such. [Augustine’s 33rd Sermon, but actually, it is, the 37th Sermon according to the Latin version.]] There are lots more to say about the above, and other liars among those ancients, but as already said, it would take tomes to fill. What do you say?
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