Originally posted by toasted
reply to post by Neo Christian Mystic
20Times! that's quite impressive. Anyways his visit was to fulfill the Law, the scriptures and to expose the frauds and to inform us, that the only way to make it to the next world will be through a belief in Him and repentance of our sins.
Or simply judge. To fulfill a law means to judge by it. Or like Jesus said:
Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (I.e. "I have come to judge by the Law and bring about the promise of the Prophets") 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments (that would be the laws of Moses) and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
In other words, in order to enter heaven you must practice and teach the Law of Moses to the fullest. You must be even more lawful than the Pharicees and the scribes. The Pharicees feared this, so the Pharicee Saul/Paul "converted" to Christendom and tried to stop the Christians from entering the Kingdom of Heaven, by abolishing the Law of Moses and teach the Christians to believe Jesus abolished the Law. In that way Christians would exclude themselves from the synagogues and the Temple and the Jews would sit safely in their positions of power. Paul did this right infront of the eyes of the Christians in order to prove their rightiousness was far from the Pharicees and was therefore also excluded from the Kingdom of Heaven.
"Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called LEAST in the kingdom of heaven".
Paulus or Paul means literally LITTLE or SMALL. So why did he change his name from Saul which means desired. Another interesting fact about Paul is that in Hebrew Saul is written almost exactly like the name of "the Kingdom of Death" or Hebr. She'ol, Gr. Hades.



I so disagree! Would you call a man wise who fleeced you out of your money with his clever words, or rather a thief? There is no inherent
wisdom in just being wise without having any integrity! The serpent is a liar, a crafty wordsmith and deceiver!! 