Chapter 6 : Finish Line.

The following list of statements will obviously raise eyebrows. Yet these are points in which all defenders of the epistles attributed to Paul believe. Summarized succinctly, it will be obvious to all that they cannot be from God, and if it is easier to claim this when one does not have them before one's eyes, gathered together in this way, it makes one cringe.

However, if you abide by what Paul says, you will have to consider these things to be true, because as crazy as these statements are, they are all in agreement with his writings.

• If you are converted, you can seek a spouse among the pagans, it is even good that you marry a pagan, this will save his soul.

• Obedience is sufficient for salvation; it easily replaces faith.

• Since the antichrist is an authority, we will have to submit to him.

• If you have a daughter, it is far better not to marry her off; in any case, you would have done better to remain single, it is indeed much better for the man to be alone, which however will quickly become a handicap for the woman who wants to be saved since she will have more and more difficulty finding someone to give her a child.
• If you're married, pretend you're not.
• If you are not married, do not try to be married, otherwise you will suffer and you will no longer try to please God.
• If a woman does not agree with all this, she should wait until she is home to ask her husband; if she does not have one, too bad.

• If a woman has a child she does not need to believe in God to be saved.

• If a woman does not agree with what this teaching reveals, she cannot under any circumstances establish her point, that would be teaching and she has no right to do so.

• If you know any widows, even very young ones, explain to them that they should not get married, if possible, do it around a good meal of meat sacrificed to idols after having explained to them that it is not serious.

• Studying Paul is all the more important because he presents himself as the model we must imitate, to the detriment of Jesus.

• Remember to pray to Paul from time to time, after all, it was partly his suffering that saved us, bless him for completing the imperfect sacrifice of Jesus.

• Jesus did not sacrifice himself for us, he was killed.

• And most importantly, whatever your sin, don't worry, you are not bound, it's just a thorn, and it comes from God (one more for some).

It is obvious that the few lines above are purely aberrant, it is even the subject of the revelation you are reading, because as crazy as they are, they are in agreement with the epistles attributed to Paul.

So you have two solutions:

1 - First of all, if you believe that the place of the writings attributed to Paul is in the Word of God, then these statements are part of your beliefs. Apply them because if you think they are the truth and you do not apply them, you bring your own condemnation. Remember what James told us : But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves (James 1.22).

2 - The other solution is to be in agreement with yourself, if you think that what Paul says is contradicted by the rest of the Word, do what is appropriate.

It is clear that the epistles attributed to Paul pose problems. Of course, many claim that these are actually just translation errors, but the problem remains. However, if they are translation errors, it is strange that over 2,000 years and hundreds of translations and translators, the same errors invariably appear. Let us not forget that translations are always made from the original work.

So, whether these are impossible errors of translation or more directly mistakes, it appears clearly that these are epistles which have nothing to do in the Word of God, nothing false having its place there.

Many people easily forget the background of the real Paul. He was a Pharisee with a bright future in his religion. He was a man of law and order, and when Jesus sought him out and Paul gave his life to him, he did not become perfect in an instant but clearly retained his way of being and therefore of organizing things. In the process, his understanding of the old covenant must have changed, but not his knowledge of it. This makes it impossible to make certain errors that are in open opposition to the texts of the old covenant. In other words, if we were to assume that it is the same Paul who is cited in the book of the Acts of the Apostles and in the Second Epistle of Peter as the one in the thirteen epistles attributed to him, this would imply that he had forgotten a significant part of his knowledge, which is unlikely.

The Paul of the 13 epistles attributed to him is the legalist of the New Testament. He is the one who dictates law upon law, who tries to establish a secular and almost pharisaical order in the church of Christ. Paul was a figure whose importance we do not really know. In the Word of God, he is interesting, but remains secondary. He became essential by the will of those who wrote these thirteen letters attributed to him in an attempt to give them legitimacy. Yet, it is obvious that whoever conforms to what these thirteen writings contain must necessarily become disobedient to God, because the two are not compatible.

We also note that if the Paul of the 13 epistles often speaks of love, he seems to live it very little, lowering women to a rank that is hardly enviable, reminding the multitude of the faults of others, "delivering" people to Satan... Now, without love, it is impossible to find God as the apostle John tells us so well (1 John 4.8). By increasing their proximity to the epistles attributed to Paul, many have simply moved away from the first message of Jesus, which represents a strange causality. Almost all the assemblies that base themselves on the epistles attributed to Paul very quickly become of the pharisaical type and drastically reduce the presence of Jesus in their preaching.

This point is also very important in understanding why these epistles are dangerous for believers. For a long time we believed that in the end times, God would give something more to understand the sealed books and although we lived through the reform initiated by the theses of Martin Luther, which in itself brought a better understanding not by adding, but by removing almost 1/4 of what was then the old covenant, we continued to believe for 500 years that it would be different for the future. In a comical way, the writings attributed to Paul represent 1/4 of the new covenant, as if Jesus wanted to wink at us.

Marcion, around 150 AD, envisioned a New Testament containing only the epistles attributed to Paul and the books of Luke (accepted only because he was Paul's companion/translator/scribe). The idolatry provoked by the epistles attributed to Paul seems obvious and has unfortunately been transmitted through the centuries. It is evident that they wanted to exclude all other texts, precisely because they feared contradictions, perfectly aware that the epistles attributed to Paul were only intended to destroy Christianity, not to build it up.

Of course, I am aware that this may shock some people, so think about something that is obvious and that I told you in the introduction to this revelation. Jesus said in Mark 13.23, "I have foretold you all things", therefore, everything that Paul says must be able to be found elsewhere in the Word, and if it is not there, it is because it did not belong there, and one thing leading to another, we deduce that it was not inspired.

Of course, there are many things in his writings that are very interesting, and others summarize certain points quite well and allow us not to do a long search in the Word of God. However, if an epistle is inspired, then it is entirely inspired, and when we are faced with a letter in which Paul himself admits to writing without divine inspiration, then the letter as a whole cannot be accepted, even if it contains interesting points. Many writings contain interesting remarks, but they are not the Word of God. A broken clock tells the correct time twice a day.

If a passage is clearly false, how can we accept the epistle that contains it?

It is up to each of us to decide whether we want to follow the affirmations of Jesus when he told us that "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also" (John 14.12) or those of Paul when he enjoined us to look to him as the example to follow.

With the information necessary for this personal decision being given, the time has come to leave us.

I had thought about ending by quoting Paul in his epistle to the Philippians: "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you", but thinking that many would not have seen the simple friendly wink, the little humorous jab that it would have been, I finally opted for a simple, but sincere : God bless you.