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26/04/24

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Originally posted by wafflehead: ↑

It may have been that the gentiles would never have accepted the message of Christ as it stood unless it was somewhat modified to fit with the imperial mindset of the Western, come gentile world.

Paul freed them from the Mosaic Laws which Christ supported with modifications. Paul also freed them from a need to treat as equals those they subjected and conquered. It gave the West a mandate to enslave nation in the guise of bringing the savage to God via Jesus. And through Paul we get this Jesus is God nonsense that set religion against religion and has caused no end of trouble.

But it did bring the gentile world into a form of belief that still had a profound effect on law, morality and the structure of civil society. So Paul may have been a necessary path for the gentile world even though his teaching contradicted what Christ taught.

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"Paul we get this Jesus is God nonsense"

Hmmm, I must have missed something, I've not seen Paul's writings stating such???

1 Cor 8:6 - yet for us there is one God, the Father,of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

"of whom all things" -> Isa 44:24 - Thus says Yehowah, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I Yehowah, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;

Why did he create;
dia: through, on account of, because of
Original Word: διά
Part of Speech: Preposition
Transliteration: dia
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ah')
Definition: through, on account of, because of
Usage: (a) gen: through, throughout, by the instrumentality of, (b) acc: through, on account of, by reason of, for the sake of, because of -> the future Jesus to be born from Mary, the 2nd Adam Man.
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