Jesus: Messiah or Myth? - Book - Page 31
turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant
with them, when I take away their sins.”
I trust I have listed enough ways in which Paul
shamelessly misrepresented the Hebrew Scriptures by
putting his own spin on them. Clearly, the former pharisee
had his own ideas about what the Word of God should say,
caring very little that he continually violated God’s command
in Tanakh to not change or add anything to it.
“You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor
take from it, that you may keep the commandments of
the Lord your God that I command you.”
Deuteronomy 4:2
The reason I liken the self-appointed apostle to a cult
leader is because his behavior exhibits the hallmarks of all the
cult leaders that came after him - David Koresh, Jim Jones and
Joseph Smith, to name a few.
These “prophets of God” all claimed to have had some
sort of vision from a heavenly being where they were told to
start their own religion. They also had no problem taking
bible passages out of context to validate their insane claims.
To say these guys were narcissists would be the
understatement of the century. This is why every last one of
them felt zero guilt telling people that their way was the right
one and anybody who questioned it would go to Hell.
The truth is, a person has to have a whole lot of
charisma to be a cult leader and the Apostle Paul had it in
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