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Evangelicals: "Jesus? Who? You mean Paul, right?"
Fucking this. The amount of Evangelicals who cite Paul as if he's CHRIST HIMSELF really fucking boils my piss. I have to stop and tell them "that's not JESUS you're citing, but Paul, try again."
Part of the mental gymnastics they use to justify putting Paul on the level of Jesus is that the holy spirit (Jesus' gaseous state) was speaking through the apostles.
My gaseous state also speaks
Lmao, now I'm imagining Jesus as a Les Enfants Terribles program. Maybe we can get David Hayter to voice Solid Jesus
Paul? You mean Saul the Thief?
It's astonishing how pretty much everything distasteful in the new testament comes from Paul. If you took him out you'd lose 70% of the story but it would be so much more palatable as a religious text
The problem with Paul is that people see "Law Paul" and ignore "Grace Paul".
When Paul talks about law and rules he means for people to look into themselves and see their own failings, not unlike John the Baptist, and see their own need of Jesus' grace, not to condemn other people.
He even declares himself as the worst of sinners.
And he also shares Jesus' view that the law should be interpreted as to protect people.
Paul who never met Jesus? Yep that Paul
No, a different Paul; see Acts 9, 4-5.