Chapter 5 : A strange constant.

This point highlights a strange coincidence illuminated by many others among the hundred or so that I have dealt with.

The issues on which the epistles attributed to Paul differ from the true message of God's Word are numerous and varied. Some passages are so erroneous that pages could be written on just two or three verses. Yet, in all this false teaching, two stand out in particular.

Obviously, the first one concerns meat sacrificed to idols. These days we call this a 'hobby horse'. He constantly brings this subject up, even using it as an example when he was talking about something else. The heart he puts into trying to convince people that it is permissible to eat it is impressive, while the Book of Acts and the Book of Revelation are clear about the prohibition that has been placed on it.

The second point may seem less obvious, yet it is also omnipresent, and it concerns fornication. Contrary to what one might believe, he does not try to distance people from it, but rather tries to plunge them into it. Almost everything he says about the relationship between man and woman is false. He authorizes union with the unconverted when light has no part with darkness; advises against marrying and advises those who have done so to act as if they are not; asserts that marriage distances one from God; asserts that it is better to be alone; burdens widows more than they already are, but never says a word about widowers; imposes remarriage on young widows; advises those who covet a wife to find one quickly so as not to sin, but does not address their problem of covetousness; and so on. If we follow his instructions between man and woman, the chasm is the next step.

Part of this strange coincidence I was talking about happens to be represented by a verse from the Book of Revelation:

• Revelation 2.20 : Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

The purpose of the woman Jezebel in this verse is clear. Let's not forget that these are the words of the glorified Jesus. He states that the intentions of this type of woman are to push God's servants to do two things:

1️⃣ to commit fornication.

2️⃣ to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

If we delve into the book of Acts, we also find several statements that support this idea. The first does not explicitly mention meat, but the following two clarify the matter :

• Acts 15.19-20 : Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God : 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Acts 15.28-29 : For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things ; 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Acts 21.25 : As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Everyone is free to argue, but the evidence is there. You may not accept this teaching explaining in detail the fact that the epistles attributed to Paul are not from God, but good luck explaining that Paul makes again and again the assertion that we can eat meat sacrificed to idols, when the Holy Spirit, the apostles, and finally Jesus, tell us exactly the opposite. Of course, if we take into account that Paul considers that Jesus' sacrifice is incomplete*, he perhaps considers that his truth is also incomplete and he proposes, perhaps in good faith, to complete it.

I opt for another solution that I have already clearly expressed.

(* Colossians 1.24 : Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church).

In addition to the preponderance of the theme of meats sacrificed to idols and of fornication, which for its part is hidden in rules on the union between man and woman which are in opposition to the Word of God, we find other notions which seem to be related to each other. The notions in question are an integral part of the points dealt with individually, so I will only name some of them here in order to highlight a common thread.

c.1) Idolatry, teraphim and statues.

The cross has become an object of idolatry, and it replaces in speech and therefore in thought, the one who was nailed to it, and who came down from it. It has become an object of worship and the perfect image of the teraphim of the old covenant. Whether it is represented with or without Jesus on it.

( 007 ) 🔷 Death on the cross.

( 094 ) 🔷 The idolatry of the cross.

c.2) The notion of Salvation by baptism and by deeds.

Among Paul's various assertions on salvation, although all are aberrant, two are to be highlighted in the common point existing between seven of the types of his doctrinal errors.

( 015 ) 🔷 PAUL, salvation by baptism .

( 017 ) 🔷 PAUL, salvation by deeds.

c.3) The notion of co-redemption.

The point at which Paul completes Jesus' imperfect sacrifice and de facto becomes our co-redeemer.

( 020 ) 🔷 PAUL, Jesus' salvation is incomplete .

c.4) The celibacy of servants (among others).

It is difficult not to realize the problem that Paul's position on the relationship between man and woman represents. More specifically, regarding the conjunction of the seven notions cited here, the problem lies in the presentation of celibacy.

(056) 🔷 Abstinence.

( 061 ) 🔷 Marriage, a factor of distance.

( 062 ) 🔷 It is not good for man to be alone.

( 064 ) 🔷 Marriage makes service impossible.

c.5) L'excommunication.

( 070 ) 🔷 Delivered to Satan.

c.6) The notion of mother of believers.

This notion does not exist in the Word of God, but believers are children of God, so the mother of believers is a notion that also points to something very specific that everyone has in mind.

( 096 ) 🔷 The mother of believers.

c.7) The notion of spiritual father.

Finally, the notion of spiritual fathers. Blasphemy in all its splendor. It has become the identifier of God's servants, while this same God warned us through Jesus to reserve it for Him alone.

( 085 ) 🔷 Masters, fathers and guide.

Everyone will form their own opinion on the direction in which these seven notions that I have just cited point, and which are all in disagreement with the Word of God.

We can also add to all that I have just said in this point the particularity of the message of adoption*, which in addition to being in total opposition to the message of the new birth, also happens to be a particularly important notion in Rome at the beginning of the first millennium. It is interesting to note that a notion absent from the Word of God but preponderant in the Rome of the first centuries after Jesus, suddenly finds itself so much in the forefront in the 13 epistles attributed to Paul. As if those who had written them were more borrowed from Roman culture than from the Word of God. The real Paul being a Pharisee, there is little chance that he came to make such an amalgam of his own volition. Moreover, the real Paul being clearly recognized by the other disciples and the apostles, there is no reason to think that he was not, as best he could, straight before God.

Let's face it, the Paul we read about in the book of Acts, and whom Peter calls "beloved brother" in his second epistle, is not the same Paul as the one in the 13 epistles attributed to him. None of the 12 apostles would have recognized and endorsed a man whose teachings bore such the hallmarks of disgrace and abomination.

When we look closely at the 13 epistles in question, we realize that these are not letters that have been clumsily placed in the Word of God. Contradictory themes are recurrent, both within these thirteen epistles and with the Word of God. New and often blasphemous notions are legion, and the term is chosen deliberately.

I understand that most believers need to have the texts explained to them and are unable to realize on their own what I have just detailed. This requires prior revelation and hours of work that not everyone has. However, it must be taken into account that the people who placed these 13 epistles in the Word of God were not this type of believers. They were supposedly Spirit-filled scholars, who after long and tedious research and verification concluded that the disciples were 12 when the Lord presented himself to them. None of these Spirit-filled scholars realized that there were 11 in all and 10 when the Lord presented himself to them. None of these Spirit-filled scholars said to themselves that since Jesus' sacrifice was complete, Paul did not have to complete it. None of these Spirit-filled scholars found it odd that women were treated as subhuman, meant to alienate men from their relationship with God. None of these Spirit-filled scholars found it shocking that women were openly at odds with the brightness of Moses' face or the perfect faith of Abraham.

How could it be that all these sincere, Spirit-filled scholars could not see all the aberrations in these writings? None were bothered to see passages openly and specifically quoted as not being from God in a text that God is supposed to have inspired ? All of these Spirit-filled scholars read : "This is not God saying", and thought, "What a magnificent revelation from God".

The evidence is there, these texts are an error, but it goes much further. What this evidence also shows is that it is structured. The example of the meats sacrificed to idols is telling. The real Paul is aware of what the apostles and the Holy Spirit said, but the Paul of the 13 epistles fiercely opposes it, and repeats it so many times that one can only see in it a conscious desire to impose an understanding that is in opposition to that of the Word of God. These thirteen epistles are not an error in the selection of sincere people, but the fruit of an open desire to diminish the church of God, to make it as weak as the false teachings they contain can make it. The same perverted Rome, which had added writings in the old covenant in order to subjugate the Jews by weakening the texts in their custody, has reiterated in the new one, using the same perverse method of diluting the message of God in order to make it sterile, and adding rules to force the obedience of believers**. Aware of their inability to destroy it, they wanted to modify its understanding by adding what for any sincere person is nothing but heresy.

For 2,000 years, God's people have remained blind to the evidence, while at the same time claiming not to understand why the Jews failed to recognize their Messiah at his first coming. A tale of both mote and beam.

But now the end times are coming, God is sorting out his people, removing those who do not belong there, but also his Word, removing the texts that were knowingly placed there to pervert it. Some oppose it, for fear of losing the kingdom they have built for themselves, others accept it in order to enter into a greater revelation of who God really is. What is certain is that times are short and that this time, the truth will be known.

* ( 028 ) 🔷 Adoption .

** ( 028 ) 🔷 Submission to authorities.