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As Christianity was founded by an Aramaic speaking Jew in a Hebrew society, we might ask why it became so divergent from Judaism. In a word, the reason is "Paul".
Paul never met, nor did he study under, the Rabbi Jesus. This vehement opponent of Jesus and His holy teachings travelled far and wide on a personal mission of persecution. According to his telling, Paul, in the desert on the road to Damascus, became a changed man after Jesus appeared to him. Paul henceforth built on this heat-stroke induced hallucination to fashion a false religion featuring Jesus.
Jesus' teachings were irrelevant to Paul who only once quotes His words. Christian belief is supported with "Saul says," rather than "Jesus says."
With his self-anointing as the "Apostle to the Gentiles" Paul gagged Jesus and apposed St. Peter and the Church of James (the brother of Jesus) in Jerusalem. St. Peter's spiritual primacy was ordained by Jesus, but Paul considered himself not the least inferior to the "super Apostles" in Jerusalem, whom he vilified.
Jesus warned of the appearance of wolves in sheep's clothing. Paul wasn't an apostle of Jesus, he was an apostate of Jesus.
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Author - John Roncalio. © 2003, John Roncalio.
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