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St. Peter's primacy was ordained by Jesus Himself, but Paul's supremacy is obvious; Peter's role in Christianity is as a doorman at the gates of Heaven and the subject of many a popular joke. Nobody jokes about the educated and travelled Paul - a Pharisee intimate with the Gentile's irrational beliefs. Paul's immensely successful syncretisms of pagan superstitions with Christian and Jewish teachings justified his saying "I have become all things to all men."
Wilhelm Nestle concluded that "Christianity is the religion founded by Paul which replaces the Gospel of Jesus by a Gospel about Jesus." True Christianity disappeared in 325AD at the conference of Nicaea when and where emphasis on the teachings of Jesus were replaced with a "pagan-friendly" story about Jesus: He is a mute babe in the manger and the silently suffering Saviour on the cross. Pascal noted that the Christian faith "seeks little more than to establish these two truths: the corruption of nature and its redemption through Jesus Christ."
The lions share of the New Testament are Pauline writings, yet the prolific Paul sees fit to quote the sayings of Jesus only once. And with the stamp of Emperor Constantine, Peter was robbed to pay Paul.
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Author - John Roncalio. © 2003, John Roncalio.
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