concerning
whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing no charge of the crimes of which I
was expecting. Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their
own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive. (Acts
25:18-19)
Why
should be believe in Paul when he confessed, he was lying to the people he was
preaching?
If
my lie is spreading the truth of God why am I judged a sinner (Romans 3:7)
Here
Paul without hesitation is admitting he was a blatant liar who deceived people
into believing falsehood. From this we can conclude the argument brought before
Fetus and the Jewish leaders in Acts 25 shows Paul was the one who came up with
the resurrection idea.
"Instead,
they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a
dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive" (verse 19)
Or
else why would they bring this up if it was a messianic prophecy which the
Jewish leaders would have known? What's worse Paul standing on trial once again
lied in front of his audience.
"Then
Paul made his defense: “I have done nothing wrong against the Jewish law or
against the temple or against Caesar.” that’s strange for a man who openly
confessed he was lying to spread the truth? (verse 8)
"If
my lie is spreading the truth of God why am I judged a sinner " (Romans
3:7)
Paul
goes a step further by elaborating how deceptive he would go just to prove his
point as found in Philippians
But
what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from
false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes,
and I will continue to rejoice, (Philippians 1:18)
Imagine
a man who openly confess and elaborates his evil dirty motives into deceiving
people to believe his lies. Note the
gospel accounts were written decades after Paul wrote his letters. The gospels
writers themselves used Paul's theology that Jesus was crucified and
resurrected. Paul was a big influence on naive people. Bear In mind Paul was
also a ruthless man who persecuted innocent 1st century Christians.
Paul
also speaks about gospels circulating during his time, that is before the 4
canonical gospels were written.
I
am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace
of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— (Galatians 1:6)
Christians
claim there was only one gospel during the 1st century and all apocrypha
gospels were written much later, centuries after them. Can Christians show us
these gospels Paul was referring to and different? What's fascinating about
this is, these gospels which Paul is referring to were written and preached
decades before Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.
These
gospels which are lost now were circulating before Pauls conversion. Imagine Paul was killing Christians for
preaching Jesus was not crucified. Take for example
Here's
a quote from The Apocalypse of Peter :
The
Savior said to me, "He whom you saw on the tree, glad and laughing, this
is the living Jesus. But this one into whose hands and feet they drive the
nails is his fleshly part, which is the substitute being put to shame, the one
who came into being in his likeness. But look at him and me."
And
I saw someone about to approach us resembling him, even him who was laughing on
the tree. (The Apocalypse of Peter 81)
Here's
a quote from the Acts of John :
And
my Lord standing in the midst of the cave and enlightening it, said: John, unto
the multitude below in Jerusalem I am being crucified and pierced with lances
and reeds, and gall and vinegar is given me to drink. But unto thee I speak and
what I speak hear thou. I put it into thy mind to come up into this mountain,
that thou mightest hear those things which it behoveth a disciple to learn from
his teacher and a man from his God… (Jesus Continues): But this is not the
cross of wood which thou wilt see when thou goest down hence: neither am I he
that is on the cross, whom now thou seest not, Thou hearest that I suffered,
yet did I not suffer; that I suffered not, yet did I suffer; that I was
pierced, yet I was not smitten; hanged, and I was not hanged; that blood flowed
from me, and it flowed not; and, in a word, what they say of me, that befell me
not, but what they say not, that did I suffer. (the Acts of John 97)
Now
Christian can argue with the dating system, which wouldn't change the fact these
gospels were in circulation. Whether they argument it's from the 2nd century or
not, the fact here is the 4 canonical are also from the 3rd - 4th onward as we
have no early manuscripts dating back to the 1st or 2nd century. The bottom
line is, Christians during Paul's time were disputing the crucifixion and
resurrection of Jesus, which Paul lied to make it true. No matter how hard Paul tried he got caught
red handed and his lies exposed!
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Scripture
where is this saying found?
And after that he
gave to them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until
Samuel the prophet. (Acts 13:20)
Wrong
according to 1 kings 6:1
In the four hundred
and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year
of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began
to build the temple of the LORD. (1 kings 6:1 )
Bible
commentators agreeing Paul made a mistake
He
gave unto them judges - Men who were raised up in an extraordinary manner to
administer the affairs of the nation, to defend it from enemies, etc. See Judges 2:16.
About the space of four hundred and
fifty years - This is a most difficult passage, and has exercised all the
ingenuity of chronologists. The ancient versions agree with the present Greek
text. The difficulty has been to reconcile it with what is said in 1
Kings 6:1, "And it
came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's
reign over Israel ...he began to build the house of the Lord." Now if to
the 40 years that the children of Israel were in the wilderness there be added
the 450 said in Acts to have been passed under the administration of the
judges, and about 17 years of the time of Joshua, 40 years for Samuel and the
reign of Saul together, and 40 years for the reign of David, and three years of
Solomon before he began to build the temple, the sum will be 590 years, a
period greater by 110 years than that mentioned in 1
Kings 6:1. Various ways
have been proposed to meet the difficulty.
(20) After that he gave unto them judges . . .—The statement in the text,
assigning 450 years to the period of the judges, and apparently reckoning that
period from the distribution of the conquered territory, is at variance with
that in 1Kings 6:1, which gives 480 years as the
period intervening between the Exodus and the building of the temple. The
better MSS., however, give a different reading—“He gave their land to them as
an inheritance, about 450 years, and after these things he gave unto them
judges,” the 450 years in this case being referred to the interval between the
choice of “our fathers,” which may be reckoned from the birth of Isaac (B.C.
1897 according to the received chronology) to the distribution of the conquered
country in B.C. 1444. So far as any great discrepancy is concerned, this is a
sufficient explanation, but what has been said before as to the general
tendency in a discourse of this kind to rest in round numbers, has also to be
remembered. (See Note on Acts 7:6.) Josephus (Ant. viii.
3, § 1) gives 592 years from the Exodus to the building of Solomon’s Temple. Of
this period sixty-five years were occupied by the wanderings in the wilderness
and the conquest under Joshua, eighty-four by the reigns of Saul and David and
the first four years of Solomon, leaving 443 years for the period of the
Judges. This agrees, it will be seen, sufficiently with the Received text in
this passage, but leaves the discrepancy with 1Kings 6:1 unexplained. There would of course, be nothing
strange in St. Paul’s following the same traditional chronology as Josephus,
even where it differed from that of the present Hebrew text of the Old
Testament.
Then the people
asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,
who ruled forty years (Acts 13:21)
Gross error,
according to the Hebrew Bible Tanack, 1 Samuel 13:1 Saul rules for two years.
The NIV says 42 years. Kjv also agrees with the Hebrew Bible saying 2 years.
And
when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He
gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of
Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My
will.’ (Acts 13:22)
Where
is this saying found in the Tanack, "I have found David the son of
Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My
will."
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Do not add or
subtract from the word of God (Deuteronomy 4:2)
You will be blessed
if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today.
,But you will be
cursed if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn away from him
and worship gods you have not known before. (Deuteronomy 11:27-28)
You must be careful
to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!
(Deuteronomy 12:32)
Notice how Yahweh is
concluding, "nothing should be added or subtracted from his command"
all command of God must be followed. If however anyone chooses to reject his
command then they are CURSED by God himself. Paul in Galatians declares anyone
including an angel preaching a different gospel than what he did show be under
God's curse.
Here's the irony. In
one hand we have God declaring his words and on the other hand Paul. Out of the
two on whom should be given more attention, God or Paul? Naturally God. Paul is a nobody when it comes to the words
of God.
Here's where it gets
interesting. Both Jesus and Paul added and subtracted from the words of God
thus, falling under the curse of God.
Jesus made many
abrogation from divorce to anger to lust etc.. Paul also added his own words by
declaring all food is lawful and one does not have to circumcise and above all
the law of the Torah is outdated and invalid.
Paul has the
audacity to say, God curse is upon those who preach a different gospel, yet the
scum was under Gods curse himself by adding how own words taking away the Jews
from the Torah.
