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originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Paul didn't exactly trick Rome, Rome employed Paul to destroy the movement from the inside out. They used him to infiltrate the movement and plant false teachings under the name of Jesus. The Romans are the ones who canonized Paul's teachings, Paul was one of their top Pharisees (Caiaphas in my opinion, or maybe even Thephilus) who faked a conversion on their behalf then taught Pharisaic doctrines of sacrifice for the atoning of sins. This essentially changed Jesus' message of good works into faith alone, nullifying Jesus' teachings on love and forgiveness and giving people a scapegoat to sin as much as they want.
Rome used religious and cultural diffusion to stay afloat for so long, they took other people's ideas and turned them into their own. This is what they did with Jesus' teachings in my opinion, took his teachings on love then made him into a sacrifice for sins. Jesus taught love above sacrifice, Paul teaches sacrifice above love.
S&F
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Paul didn't exactly trick Rome, Rome employed Paul to destroy the movement from the inside out. They used him to infiltrate the movement and plant false teachings under the name of Jesus. The Romans are the ones who canonized Paul's teachings, Paul was one of their top Pharisees (Caiaphas in my opinion, or maybe even Thephilus) who faked a conversion on their behalf then taught Pharisaic doctrines of sacrifice for the atoning of sins. This essentially changed Jesus' message of good works into faith alone, nullifying Jesus' teachings on love and forgiveness and giving people a scapegoat to sin as much as they want.
Rome used religious and cultural diffusion to stay afloat for so long, they took other people's ideas and turned them into their own. This is what they did with Jesus' teachings in my opinion, took his teachings on love then made him into a sacrifice for sins. Jesus taught love above sacrifice, Paul teaches sacrifice above love.
S&F
John 18
36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."
Romans 7
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Jesus' kingdom is not of this world. So Satan relinquishing his ownership of this world to Jesus does not align with what scripture says.
Jesus said if you forgive others then you are forgiven, Paul says that if you believe in a sacrifice then you are forgiven with no other options, even forgiveness towards others does not matter if you don't believe in the sacrifice he promoted. He effectively cut people off from the true teachings of Jesus and replaced them with his own doctrine, the doctrine that has split into 40,000 different denominations.
Romans 3
28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Galatians 2
16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
Romans 7
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
Paul taught faith and no works saves. He even justifies sinning by saying he isn't the one doing the sin anymore.