Seeking Paul Finding Christ

My search for the authentic Paul began some 20 years ago, as I sat studying and trying to work out the tension between the Epistles and the gospels, to be sure, despite what the institutionalized will say, there is indeed a friction between them, in fact it's so sharp that it is undeniable to the moderate mind.

Then I stumbled upon Marcion, who was called a heretic yet the more I researched the more I became to believe that Marcion's canon was the first Christian canon, THE VERY FIRST CHRISTIAN BIBLE!

More and more research has shown that the majority of the new testament references to the old testament are merely interpolations as far as the Epistles are concerned and we know now that the gospels are also not authentic.

At one point I was studying with ebionites who hated Paul and worshipped Yahweh from the dead sea scrolls and denied Christ, then the other end where Paul was actually a Greek spreading Greek monotheism, a sort of mulligan on the whole Zeus thing, it is commonly believed that Paul was at least influenced by the Greeks. Then even studying the Jews scholarship on Paul the convert the apostasy of Saul which paints Paul as a Hellenistic mystic following some ancient sort of hasidism.

We Christians must stop looking for Christ in a book like the old testament that either He is absent in or has been intentionally left out of, after vast academic research I have concluded that the proper canon for a Christian would be Paul's 7 authentic letters minus the interpolations that refer to the old testament. This is important because IN MY QUEST FOR FINDING PAUL I FOUND THE AUTHENTIC JESUS CHRIST!

I think we have to move beyond the idea of Jesus replacing animal sacrifices as that is old testament yahwism and look more toward a God Jesus, a Jesus that is more than Prophet and is Divine.

The Cross is the way in which God Jesus has a way to relate to us, in a truly reciprocal way, i.e. you can only relate to God when you suffer if HE God Himself has suffered as you do. True relationship requires reciprocity, it must be a 2 way street or it is not even a relationship nonetheless a true reciprocal one. For us to have a personal God, a personal relationship with God HE has to be personal and relatable, hence God appearing in our likeness and going to the cross.

This is the mission accomplished by God Jesus that had never existed before and was much needed.

Christianity is a relationship NOT a religion, without the Cross you cannot have a personal reciprocal relationship with God, but our belief doesn't save us from our sin because Jesus was fulfilling some type of yahwist occultist blood offering, that would be a religion not a relationship but rather by accepting Christ as KYRIOS HE becomes your intercessor, interceding for you on the day you are judged, yes, saving you from your sins.