After Jesus, the Early Christians followed James. They Hated Apostle Paul the Liar, Heretic and False Prophet - Peleh Ben Avraham
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Jewish teacher of Tanakh Felipe discusses Paul and the facts that he openly and explicitly taught against God and the Torah, and that it is clear he was against the original followers of Jesus
(Yeshua) historically and in his own words....I am not messianic at all I do not believe that Yeshua or jesus was the messiah...this is strictly to expose Paul as who he really was...a blasphemer...also my Muslim brothers understand this man was a liar and a abomination to ALLAH YHWH
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Early Christianity, the period of Christianity preceding the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. This typically divides historically into the Apostolic
Age and the Ante-Nicene Period (from the Apostolic Age until Nicea). The first Christians, as described in the first chapters of the Book of Acts, were all Jews either by birth or conversion and historians refer to them as Jewish Christians. The early Gospel message spread orally, probably originally in Aramaic, and later in Greek. The New Testament's Acts of the Apostles and Epistle to the Galatians record that the first Christian community centered on Jerusalem and that its leaders included Peter, James, the brother of Jesus, and John the Apostle.
Paul the Apostle (Latin: Paulus), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus was an apostle (though not one of the
Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of Christ to the first century world. Paul is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age and in the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD he founded several churches in Asia Minor and Europe. He took advantage of his status as both a Jew and a Roman citizen to minister to both Jewish and Roman audiences. According to writings in the New Testament and prior to his conversion, Paul was dedicated to persecuting the early disciples of Jesus in the area of Jerusalem. In Acts, Paul was traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to 'arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem' when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him in a great light. He was struck blind, but after three days his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus and Paul began to preach that Jesus of Nazareth is the Jewish Messiah and the Son of God.
In religion, a prophet is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on that entity's behalf. They
claim to be serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people. The message that the prophet conveys is called a prophecy. In Islam, all prophetic messengers are prophets (such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad) though not all prophets are prophetic messengers. The primary distinction is that a prophet is required to demonstrate God's law through his actions, character, and behavior without necessarily calling people to follow him, while a prophetic messenger is required to pronounce God's law (i.e. revelation) and call his people to submit and follow him.
When Rome adopted Christianity with the conversion of the Roman Emperor (4th Century) and his official campaign to repress anyone who refused to conform; to kill those Christians who refused to follow Romes 'Trinitarian Christianity'. Paul knew that the victors wrote history and in order to win 'he had to be all things to all men' (I Corinthians 9:24-27). Those who dig their heels in 'beat the air' and refused to compromise any detail of the true faith ended their days as martyrs.
Between 55 and 66 CE, early Jewish-Christian leaders in Jerusalem rejected Paul's teachings and challenged his authority, leading to a significant decline in his popularity.
A young man named Saul of Tarsus was bent on murdering all the Christians he could. He was a Jew, a Pharisee (well-versed in the Law of Moses), a man of knowledge, letters and spirit.
Following a dramatic experience, where according to Saul, Jesus Christ appeared to him on the road to Damascus.
Saul converted to Christianity and now became the beloved apostle, saint, evangelist, theologian, and pastor we call Apostle Paul.
Paul introduced a new theology focusing on Jesus as a divine sacrifice, arguing that Jewish law was unnecessary for salvation and largely disregarding Jesus's earthly teachings.
Faithful Jews viewed Paul's salvation theory as blatant blasphemy because his theological teachings explicitly ridiculed all previous revelations from God, including the sacred Torah, while teaching a doctrine that went against the absolute oneness of God.
Following his dramatic conversion experience on the road to Damascus, Paul claimed direct divine authority to speak on behalf of God and began preaching that salvation depended entirely on believing that Jesus was part of the divine Godhead.
The Jewish Rabbis preached a person was saved so long as their intention was to remain within the covenant, and one truly repented and seek forgiveness for their sins.
Paul preached that every person was 'damned' until they was offered salvation. Mans problem was that he was 'in the flesh' in bondage to the Law, sold under Sin, enslaved by the fundamental spirits of the universe (ie. dead).
Paul preached the only cure was liberation from slavery and death by union with Christ, who had conquered death and sin.
The core of Paul's theology rested entirely on the absolute necessity of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, arguing in his letters that if righteousness could be achieved through the Mosaic Torah, then Christ died for absolutely nothing. He insisted to his followers that if Christ was not raised from the dead, then all Christian preaching and faith were completely vain and empty.
Following his conversion, Paul did not immediately meet with the original Apostles in Jerusalem; instead, he went to Arabia and returned to Damascus, waiting three years before visiting Peter and James for only fifteen days, avoiding the others.
Paul authored 13 of the 27 books in the modern New Testament, comprising a major portion of the text. This is significant due to his differing theological teachings to the law-observant teachings of Jesus.
Romans
Paul explains how the gospel works and how to respond. Paul wrote this letter before he had visited the Roman church.
1 Corinthians
In 55 A.D., Paul admonished the local church that he had founded in Corinth.
2 Corinthians
Come 56 A.D., the Corinthian church had escalated and then resolved their conflict with Paul. Second Corinthians is Paul's a letter of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Galatians
Someone had misled the churches of Galatia re-subjecting them to the Law of Moses and devaluing God's grace. Paul writes the Galatians an aggressive letter to set them straight on their freedom in Christ.
Ephesians
Paul outlines doctrines of grace, peace, and salvation, and then instructs the church to walk in a manner worthy of Jesus Christ.
Philippians
Even though he's suffering in prison, Paul finds joy in Christ. He writes to the church at Philippi urging them to take on a Christlike attitude.
Colossians
This letter explains to the church at Colossae who they are in Christ.
1 Thessalonians
The church of Thessalonica is setting a great example for other churches, even though they're being persecuted for their faith. Paul encourages them to 'excel still more'.
2 Thessalonians
The affliction just won't let up on the Thessalonian church, so Paul coaches them on standing firm until Jesus return.
1 Timothy
This is Paul's guide to godliness and sound teaching for the young pastor Timothy at Ephesus.
2 Timothy
Paul's death is drawing near, and he charges Timothy to carry on his gospel work.
Titus
Paul had left Titus at Crete to set up order in the churches there. Now he writes Titus instructions for leading a
counter-cultural church.
Philemon
It's a message to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church.
Accepting Paul's theology implies that Jesus mistakenly selected the wrong individuals as his original twelve disciples,
It renders Jesus's earthly life and direct moral teachings completely irrelevant, and
Ignores the fact that Paul never actually met Jesus in person yet rejected the guidance of those who lived and learned directly from him.
Furthermore, it notes that the final New Testament canon restricted competing eyewitness accounts by omitting the gospels of Peter, Barnabas, and James.
Paul was deeply unyielding toward alternative views of the faith, explicitly writing in Galatians 1:9 that if any person preached a gospel different from the one his followers had received, that individual should be completely accursed. This indicates he aggressively dismissed the legalistic, Jewish-Christian perspectives held by original disciples like James and Peter.
Paul is described as rejecting the binding authority of the Torah, specifically mandatory male circumcision as an everlasting covenant and laws regarding dietary purity. Thereby breaking away from divine commands given to the Hebrew people.
Paul's controversial doctrine of justification through faith alone made him an implacable enemy of the Jewish population who vehemently refused to accept his arguments. Concurrently, many early Christians viewed him as an outsider and a dangerous theological threat, as his teachings ultimately caused the absolute severance of Christianity from its original Judaism roots.
An Apostle is one of the original 12 disciples called by Jesus to
preach the gospel: Simon Peter, the brothers James and John,
Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of
Alpheus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas Iscariot.
As Paul never met Jesus, many Galatians and Corinthian Christians
actively challanged Pauls right to even teach, and his right to
call himself an Apostle.
Paul experienced a sudden vision of a blinding light and a voice on the road to Damascus, but the multiple accounts recorded in the Book of Acts contain clear, direct contradictions regarding whether his companions also fell to the ground, and whether they actually heard the voice or saw the light.
Paul insisted that his gospel possessed a superior divine authority because he claimed it was delivered directly by the risen Lord Jesus, rather than the earthly, historical Jesus whom the twelve disciples had trained under in-person; this supposed heavenly origin entitled him to act entirely independently of the original Jewish-Christian beliefs and modify their doctrine.
Yes, early gospel writers strongly opposed Paul's innovations, with John the Evangelist and John of Patmos writing sharp warnings in 1 John and the Book of Revelation to guard believers against a dangerous heretic, a false Jew, a false apostle, and a deceitful doctrine that broke God's commandments.
Paul's theology centered on the message that salvation is a gift from God obtained through faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, rather than through performing the works of the Mosaic law. He argued that Christ's sacrifice fulfilled the ultimate requirements of the law, opening the path to redemption and righteousness for both Jews and Gentiles globally.
Historically, Paul's mission shifted toward non-Jewish Gentiles because the majority of mainstream Jewish communities rejected his messianic doctrines regarding Jesus. In orthodox Christian history, this decision is also framed as a direct divine calling following his conversion, leading him to systematically establish multi-ethnic churches across the Roman Empire.
Paul was a Pharisee and would have been familiar with the knowledge, teachings, methodologies and mistakes of his Pharasaic brothers. Thus, he would have been the best person to preach to them his interpretation of soteriology. Yet he chose not to; leaving this task to James, Peter and the rest, dubbing them as the 'super apostles'.
The real reason why Paul preached to the gentiles is because they were ignorant. They did not know the Torah. They did not possess intimate knowledge of Judaism, its scripture or its doctrine.
Therefore Paul was not presenting his new religion to his own brethren because they would be able to debunk him. Due to this, logically speaking, he preached to those who would find his new faith appealing.
The gentiles would not argue about Christ's deity, or about the new doctrine of salvation, but the Jews would and vehemently so. Thus the path of least resistance is among the gentiles who would eventually see him as an authoritative figure, as opposed to the Jews who would see him as a heretic and shame him.
Yet with the gentiles, he is able to avoid these problems and ascend to power and authority very quickly.
Paul was widely viewed by mainstream Jewish communities as a radical apostate and religious heretic because he preached that observance of the Mosaic Torah was no longer required for salvation. This fierce theological conflict frequently resulted in severe public opposition, legal charges before Roman authorities, and physical riots during his travel throughout ancient Mediterranean cities.
By adopting faith in Jesus, Paul effectively expanded a localized, strictly observant Jewish movement into a highly adaptable, universal religion accessible to all cultures. He utilized his unique background as both a learned Pharisee and a Roman citizen to systematically build an expansive network of legal-exempt Christian communities across multiple Roman provinces.
In Galatians 1:6-9, Paul strongly condemned anyone preaching a different gospel, reflecting a significant conflict in the early church between his Gentile-inclusive mission and strict adherence to the Law.
In his surviving epistles, the Apostle Paul demonstrates almost no interest in the day-to-day earthly life, chronological career, or specific moral parables of Jesus of Nazareth. Instead, his extensive theology is completely fixated on the cosmic, atoning meaning of the crucifixion and subsequent resurrection of the figure he addresses as 'the Lord'. Secular historians analyze this focus to illustrate how early Christian theology transformed from an inward-looking Jewish prophetic movement into a universal savior faith.
No, Paul never met Jesus during his ministry. He is considered an independent figure whose teachings, influenced by Hellenism, shifted the focus toward a divine Christ.
Before his conversion, Paul was known as Saul and operated as a strict Pharisee and enforcer hostile toward early followers of Jesus. Academic historians note that he worked under the authority of the high priestly administration in Jerusalem to systematically suppress the growing messianic movement, believing he was protecting traditional Judaism from a dangerous heresy
It is suggested James tolerated Paul's expansive missionary activities because the financial collections Paul raised from wealthy Gentile communities directly supported the impoverished Jerusalem mother church. Critical historians clarify that this financial collection, detailed across Paul's letters, was an official diplomatic agreement meant to preserve a fragile unity between Paul's Gentile converts and James' law-abiding Jewish-Christian community.
According to the source text, Paul's theology effectively relegated Jesus' specific earthly, Jewish ethical teachings to a position of secondary importance, prioritizing instead a cosmic message centered entirely on the crucifixion and resurrection for salvation. Textual analysis demonstrates that Paul's letters rarely quote Jesus' parables or earthly sermons, focusing almost exclusively on his identity as a divine savior figure.
Following his Damascus vision, Paul records in his letters that he did not seek instruction from others, but immediately withdrew into the Arabian desert for a period of reflection. The platform notes that this independence significantly elevated Paul's personal status, allowing him to claim he received his theological mandate directly from a divine revelation rather than from Jesus' twelve original earthly disciples.
The core difference lies in the theological meaning of Jesus' life, with Paul's creed fundamentally focusing on the crucifixion as a necessary cosmic sacrifice to save mankind from sin. While Jesus preached repentance and the ethical arrival of the Kingdom of God, Paul's Damascus vision shifted the entire framework to a savior faith centered on the mechanical necessity of Jesus' violent death and resurrection for salvation.
Paul's theological message had a strategic advantage because it stayed close to the authority of the Hebrew Scriptures while thoroughly re-interpreting them to forecast the saving death of Jesus. This scriptural grounding gave his teachings a unique legitimacy that proved highly attractive and persuasive to the Gentile masses.
Paul's new doctrine met with disapproval from the Jewish-Christians of the Jerusalem Church led by James, who regarded the substitution of Jesus' atoning death for the observance of the Torah as a lapse into paganism.
Paul was duly summoned to Jerusalem by the leaders James, Peter and John to explain his doctrine in 50 AD.
Paul considered the physical act of circumcision to be unimportant, prioritizing faith and adherence to God's commandments as more significant than the physical ritual.
Following his conversion 1-3 years after the crucifixion, Paul vanished from the public eye before re-emerging 13 years later (47-60 CE) as a missionary to the Gentiles.
All prophets delivered a consistent, unified message focusing on submitting to the Creator, providing instructions for daily life, and finding peace through divine guidance.
Thousands were sent to constantly redirect humanity to the worship of the one true Creator, preventing the worship of created entities, such as people, nature, or material objects.
Islam teaches all prophets were of high moral character and did not succumb to the sins their people committed. Although prophets were humans and capable of human errors of judgment, but such errors does not diminish their superiority or the respect Muslims are obliged to have for them.
Over time, previous teachings had been altered or lost, so Muhammad was sent as the final prophet to restore, update, and unify the foundational principles of faith into a complete religion.
A prophet or messenger of God is a human being to whom God gives His guidance and whom He charges with the task of conveying that guidance to the people, so that they may do good and avoid evil.
God did not limit His guidance to a single geographic territory or chosen group of people.Prophets were systematically sent to every single nation across the earth throughout various stages of human history.
Muslims are strictly required to maintain belief in every single prophet and messenger sent by God. This belief must be completely equal, meaning no distinctions or hierarchies of validity are made between them. This universal recognition applies regardless of the specific country or historical era in which they appeared.
The Quran mentions multiple prophets by name, including Biblical figures such as Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus, alongside non-Biblical prophets like Luqman, Eber, and Ezekiel.
All prophets gave the same basic teaching: that man should worship God, and God alone, and do good to his fellow beings. Ofcourse, the details of the teachings differed according to the nation and the time in which a Prophet appeared. In the Quran, the teachings of all Prophets are called Islam, and the Prophets and their true followers are labelled Muslims. This refers to the fact that the fundamental teachings given by all of them were the same - submission to God.
All Prophets were equally from God, and equally true, but the scope of their missions varied. The messengers before Muhammad were each given teachings limited to their respective nations, because in those times a nation did not have much to do with other nations.
Furthermore, the teachings of each Prophet applied for a limited period of time only, after which God would raise another Prophet to revise some of the teachings for the new circumstances.
The time came to unite all the nations upon a single religion so that mankind may live in peace as one nation. Muhammad, to whom God gave teachings for the whole world for all time to come fulfilled this purpose.
No, Muhammad is explicitly defined as the final prophet from God, and the divine teachings given to him are intended to permanently unite the entire world in one brotherhood.
A Muslim is essentially defined as anyone who believes in and submits to one God; because all of these historical prophets consistently preached the message of pure Monotheism and called people to worship the Creator alone, they are considered to be Muslim in-essence regarding their foundational theological beliefs.
While exact figures vary across tracking traditions, historical records note that God sent thousands of guides to humanity, with traditional sources citing an estimate of 124,000 prophets.
While God has sent thousands of prophets throughout human history whose names and specific identities remain entirely unknown to us today, historical and scriptural records explicitly identify four specific prophets who came from an Arab background, namely Hud, Saleh, Shuaib, and the final prophet, Muhammad.
Yes, contemporary crowds and close followers frequently identified Jesus as a prophet mighty in word and deed. This status is explicitly preserved in the New Testament gospels, including verses like Matthew 21:11 and Luke 24:19.
Historical and linguistic evidence shows that these prophets spoke ancient Semitic languages, meaning they addressed God using linguistic cognates tightly linked to the Arabic word Allah. Abraham and Moses historically used the Hebrew names El or Elohim, while Jesus addressed God in Aramaic using Elah or Alaha, all of which share identical ancient roots across the Semitic language family tree.