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http://www.essene.org/Yahowshua_or_Paul.htm

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus"
-- Thomas Jefferson




In the excellent book Christ or Paul?, the Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore wrote:



"Let the reader contrast the true Christian
standard with that of Paul and he will see the terrible betrayal of all that the Master taught.... For the surest way to betray a great Teacher is to misrepresent his message.... That is what Paul and his followers did, and because the Church has followed Paul in his error it has failed lamentably to redeem the world.... The teachings given by the blessed Master Christ, which the disciples John and Peter and James, the brother of the Master, tried in vain to defend and preserve intact were as utterly opposed to the Pauline Gospel as the light is opposed to the darkness."




The brilliant theologian Ernest Renan, in his book Saint Paul, wrote:



"True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology."


The famous mystic, poet and author, Kahil Gibran, declared in Jesus the Son of Man:



"This Paul is indeed a strange man. His soul is not the soul of a free man. He speaks not of Jesus nor does he repeat His Words. He would strike with his own hammer upon the anvil in the Name of One whom he does not know."



The renowned English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, in his Not Paul But Jesus, declared:



"It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.




Walter Bauer, another eminent theologian, wrote in his Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity:



"If one may be allowed to speak rather pointedly, the Apostle Paul was the only Arch-Heretic known to the apostolic age."

This rather humorous and certainly true quotation comes from another Nobel Prize winner; Ernest Hemingway:



"That Saint Paul.... He's the one who makes all the trouble!"


http://paulproblem.faithweb.com/

"When I turn back to study the life and teachings of Jesus it seems that Paul has not only been an important influence on Christianity, but that in a very real sense he was its founder. He could be called the first Christian" (Armstrong, The First Christian, 12, 13).