In numerous letters Paul, not only contradicted with the apostles, but also with Jesus’ teaching proving that he was distant from the supposed original dogma and that he tried to establish his own heresy.
In 1 Corinthians 4:16 (for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16Therefore I urge you to imitate me) he tries to proselytize people on his side. The same we read in1 Corinthians 11.1, (Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ), as well as in Philippians 3:17, (Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.)
However, in 1 Peter 2:21 (To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.), we read that the apostle Peter contradicts with him. The same we read in 1John 2:6 (Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did)
In 1 Corinthian 4:15 (Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel), he rejects Yahweh and consider as “Father” himself after Jesus, while Matthew (23:9) claims that the only “Father” is Yahweh (“And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven”).
In Romans 11:13 he is boasting (some humility!) that he alone is the apostle of the Gentiles (I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry), as well as in Ephesians 3:8 (Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ), while in Matthew 28:19-20, we read of the contrary (Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit), and Matthew 10:18 On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles), as well as in Mark 16-15 (“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.)
In 1 Corinthians 9:13-14 we read that those who preach the Word of God, should be paid for their task (Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel), contradicting with Matthew 10:9-11 (“Do not get any gold or silver or copper to take with you in your belts— 10 no bag for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his keep. 11 Whatever town or village you enter, search there for some worthy person and stay at their house until you leave).
Another paradox in the Christian creed, is that Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:4-8 he admits the existence of other gods and that to them there is only one! (So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live).
Of course, the “fathers’ contradict with themselves on behalf of the idols forgetting that also the Church represents their saints and deities such as in their churches and during the “litanies and processions that originated at Antioch in the 4th century, spreading to Constantinople and later to the West. Pope Gelasius I (492-6) introduced into the Mass a litanic intercession, of which the Kyrie (the response prayer Kyrie Eleison – Lord, have mercy) is the sole surviving relic.” (from Wikipedia)
Apologetics claim that he (Paul) fulfilled the qualifications to become an Apostle, since after the death of Judas, the church decided to nominate him such as (Acts 1). I do not know a dead and a filthy traitor apostle to have authored a gospel (The Gospel of Judas). Have you?
Isn’t it a paradox that the Church accepted the heretic Paul as another apostle?
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