Since I first wrote this series of articles, I have continued to study and explore the idea that Paul’s teachings superseded those of Jesus to become what we know as Christianity today. The following is the result of those inquiries.
Research Sources
Paul and the Origins of Christianity – Paul N. Tobin gives a brief view of Paul here.
The Plan of Salvation According to Paul
The ‘Atoning Blood’ of Paulianity vis-a-vis Salvation in the DIDACHE – Paul goes on to elaborate on the theological, soteriological, and one should say mythological character of Christ’s death, and on how this death accomplishes the perfect triumph over the Way of Death, or, in Paul’s argot, over the way of sin and of the flesh. The solution, he writes, is the shedding of Christ’s Blood.
Paulianity Not Christianity – Excerpt of Paulianity Not Christianity. by Nafata Bamaguje (Nigerian Village Square Part 1 Dec. 12 2009 and Part 2 Dec. 19, 2009) [NOTE: This is a well-documented critique of Paul based upon his own words. He makes very cogent points about Paulianity.
Paul – “Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.” “Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.” Walter Kaufmann (Professor of Philosophy, Princeton) “Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.” George Bernard Shaw
YAHSHUA or Paul – “The triumph of Paul’s Gospel is all the more remarkable in view of the Master’s repeated warnings that false teachers would arise immediately after his ‘going away’. Thus we read in Matthew: ‘Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are …
“Bad News Paul” part-3 – Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.” & “Paul created a theology about the man Jesus, a man that he did not even know 50 or more years after the death of Jesus, with complete disregards for even the sayings attributed to Jesus. Jesus got lost in the metaphysical fog of Paul’s brain”. Carl Sagan (Scientist; Author) ( 1934 – 1996 )
Yeshua Before 30 CE – dedicated to helping people understand Yeshua’s teachings entirely separate from the church that grew up soon after his death, calling him Jesus or Christ. The site is non-denominational and non-religious. It contains only the teachings of Yeshua from the gospels. Pauline Christianity | Statements About Paul by Prominent Theologians
The Apostle Paul Founder of Christianity – Jesus was not the founder of Christianity as we know it today. Most of the New Testament doesn’t even concern the historical Jesus while the main influence is the Apostle Paul and a Greek convert named John.
Paul never met Jesus in the flesh, he only claimed some strange vision and proceeded to paganize the teachings of Jesus (who preached an enlightened form of Judaism), until he created Pauline Christianity. Because there are no known writings from Jesus, the actual Apostles, or anyone that actually knew Him in the flesh (other then perhaps James), most of what He taught is lost forever.