The following is not an exhaustive review but just some of the highlightsof the life and times of Saul of Tarsus, erroneously called Apostle Paulby pseudo-Christians!

Until a few years ago, Saul of Tarsus (aka Apostle Paul) was my Christianhero, my roll model.  For 30 years, since I this was first made knownto me by the Holy Spirit, I refused to entertain that he could or did anythingwrong. I was probably one of his most ardent supporter. I would read thingsand if they attacked Saul of Tarsus in any way, I would label them as sheerheresy and blasphemous. All the time, the Holy Spirit was trying to getthrough to me but if He attacked Saul of Tarsus, I immediately labeledHim, an evil spirit of Satan much like I expect some of you will labelme once you've read this!

I've constantly read that Saul of Tarsus (aka apostle Paul) preachedanother Gospel other than what Christ taught. When I first read this, Iregarded it as outright blasphemy. One scripture they were citing to supporttheir contention was 1 Corinthians 15:29 where Saul was preaching aboutthe resurrection to the members of Christ's church. He said,

   29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead,if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Meaning of course, if you didn't pick that up, why then do we baptizefor the dead if there is no resurrection and they don't live again?

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True, Christ never taught about baptism for the dead but there is avast quantity of His teachings that were just forgotten and never writtendown. We have only a fraction of the things Christ said and taught! TheApostles and other members writing personal commentaries, who were notApostles like Mark and Luke, didn't start writing Christ's teachings andwords down for 60 some odd years. I don't care who you are, the Holy Spiritcan and will only do so much before defeating the whole purpose of communicatingthrough man, e.g. God may as well have just written the Bible Himelf andsaid, "This is My Infallible Bible. Believe ye it!"

We only have roughly 200 pages detailing the life and times of Christand what he taught during 33 years of life, 3 years of ministry! The writersof the Bible texts didn't start committing things to writing for about60 years after Christ's crucifixion. By then, if they weren't already inthe grave or one foot in the grave, they were old and senile or just plainforgot! The life expectancy of a person in the Middle East in the 1st centuryA.D. was about 40 years. So at 33, Christ was already a senior citizen,Mark at 15 and Luke at 14, although children by our standards today, weremiddle aged men.

My reply to those claiming that because of 1 Corinthians 15:29, Saulof Tarsus was preaching another gospel other than the one Christ taughtwas that, Saul of Tarsus was merely using various ordinances and practicesinstituted by Christ to explain questions about doctrine which membersalways have. There were also other things Saul of Tarsus claimed that thereis no record of Christ ever preaching on that topic. It was easy to explainthem since it was impossible for everything Christ said and taught to havebeen remembered and written down. However, my eyes were slowly opened whenthe Holy Spirit kept showing me Saul of Tarsus' blatant contradictionsof the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Different Jews wrote and suggested that since the Pharisees realizedthey were not going to rid Jewish society of the Jesus cult following,they would send Saul of Tarsus as an undercover spy to infiltrate the highestechelons of Christianity and seek to undermine its proselytizing effectiveness.

As a Pharisaic plant, Saul would undermine and destroy the Jesus' cultfollowing by reporting back on who professed to be Christians, by introducingfalse doctrine and saying things which were contradictory to what Christtaught. The only way Saul could introduce doctrine was to claim to be anofficial in Christ's Church. Saul of Tarsus had to claim and be believedthat he was an apostle.

Saul being linguistically, very knowledgeable and savvy in Greek andrealizing the word “Apostle” Jesus used to refer to the twelve He “sentforth” to preach His gospel and "apostle" was commonly used by devout followers,believers or adherents to refer to themselves, Saul chose that Greek wordapostle to refer to himself. However, no one else referred to Saul as anapostle not even Luke, Saul of Tarsus' own berdache who was instructedby Saul to write about the acts of the Apostles to give him, Saul of Tarsus,some credibility.  Had Luke not included Saul of Tarsus in the Bookof Acts, the "Acts of the Apostles would have only been a couple verses

Look at the facts made known by the Holy Spirit. After you read this,humble yourself and pray to God for wisdom and understanding. Don't takemy word for it! I'm just a mesenger!

FACT #1: We know that Judas of Iscariot committed suicide followinghis betrayal of Jesus Christ.

FACT #2: We know that Christ's Apostles selected Matthias throughrevelation and ballots called lots.

FACT #3: We also know that Saul of Tarsus was a very learnedBenjaminite in the Greek language and culture.

FACT #4: The Cambridge Companion Bible Dictionary says the word"Apostle" meant "'one sent forth.' This was the name our Lord gaveto the twelve whom He chose to be His companions during His ministry onearth, and whom He sent forth to represent Him after His ascension intoheaven."

FACT #5: The Cambridge Companion Bible Dictionary also makesthe assumption solely based on the writings of Saul of Tarsus, "The titlewas also applied to others who, though not of the number of the twelve,appeared to be equal with them in office and dignity (sic). Ex: St. Paulrepeatedly speaks of himself as an apostle [although not an officiallyordained apostle] (e.g. Rom. 1:1; 1 Cor. 1:1, 9:1; Gal. 1:11) He appliesthe title to James, the Lord's [not an ordained apostle] (Gal. 1:19); andto Barnabas [also not an ordained Apostle] (1 Cor. 9:5, 6; cf. Acts 14:4,14) The word also appears to have some times been used in non-officialsense, to designate a much wider circle of Christian messengers and teacher(see 2 Cor. 8:23; Philemon 2:25; in both passages comp. R.V. marg.)"

FACT #6: In the 1st Century A.D., it was a common practice inGreece, among people who had knowledge of or were students of the Greeklanguage and culture and were devout followers of someone to also referto himself or herself as an apostle. Saul of Tarsus knew this!

FACT #7: We know that only Saul of Tarsus referred to himselfas an apostle.

FACT #8: We also know Saul of Tarsus was not an ordained Apostleeither by Christ nor one of the ordained Apostles.

FACT #9: We know ecclesiastically, that either the full quorumof Apostles will unanimously lay their hand upon the candidate’s head orthe three lead Apostles will ordain the candidate in the company of thequorum and a COMPLETE record will be kept.

FACT #10: Neither of the above requirements were observed whichbegs additional questions, e.g.

            1)Who was with Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damacus when he claimed he hadhis miraculous vision/conversion?

            2)Who witnessed the vision?

            3)Amos 3:7 says,

    7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth(sic) his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Why did God lie and not tell his 12 Apostles what he was doing and getthem to baptize and pordain Saul?

           4) Who received the revelation saying to go find a man named Saul,“...he has seen a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ and has been converted?”

           5)  Ananias was a disgraced liar before the Apostles. Then hereceives a revelation from God?

Is God a fool or doesn’t know what’s going on?

What proof do we have of Ananias being righteous enough to be privyto any revelation from God?

Christ said,

Matthew 18:16

  16 But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one ortwo more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may beestablished.

Who witnessed Saul of Tarsus' vision?

Where are the two or three other witnesses?

Who witnessed Ananias' vision?

Where are the two or three other witnesses?

Who witnessed Saul of Tarsus' blindness?

Where are the two or three other witnesses?

Does Saul of Tarsus claim that he was a basptized Christian and if sowho witnessed his baptism?

Where are the two or three other witnesses?

Does Saul of Tarsus claim that he was a ordained an Apostle and if sowho witnessed his ordination?

Where are the two or three other witnesses?

Was Saul of Tarsus a baptized Christian and an ordained Apostle whichwould mean God/Christ is a LIAR?

           6) Who said he would vouch for Saul of Tarsus being a true Christianbut was himself a known liar and a person who with his wife had been disgraced,humiliated, punished and reproved by the Apostles?

           7) Who said he baptized Saul but Ananias, a known liar a person whowith his wife had been disgraced, humiliated, reproved by the Apostles,punished and "gave up the ghost?"

           8) What were Ananias' credentials and what did he have to gain by lyingto the Apostles and members of the church?

           9) Being a "Christian," did or could Ananias have met, crossed pathsor been persecuted by Saul prior to Saul's miraculous conversion?

FACT #11: Some have said, there were three people named Ananiasthe New Testament. Why couldn't there have been a fourth?

Ananias was not a common Hebrew name in the 1st Century A.D. There weren't more than a couple dozens Christians. To entertain the probability thatthere was two Christians named Ananias, who lived in Damascus and marriedto a woman name Sapphira is not reasonable!

FACT #12: Ananias was a "Christian disciple" who lived in Damascusand admits having known and having been persecuted by Saul of Tarsus. Ananiaswas married to a woman named Sapphira. Nothing is written about Sapphiraother than she was the wife of Ananias and shared in his guilt and punishmentsince "she was privy to it" and as punishment, "gave up the ghost" (Acts5:1-10).  It would not be wrong to speculate that Sapphira was theimpetus behind Ananias' to keep "back part of the price" of their land(Acts 5:1-6) but after all, it was their land and supposedly they wereasked to give all to the church.

FACT #13: This seems to be a contradiction. In chapter 5, chronologicallyprior in time to Chapter 9, Ananias and his wife die, however, in Chapter9, Ananias, or a fake calling himself Ananias is supposedly receiving visionsfrom God.

FACT #14: Since Luke did not accompany Saul to Damascus or shadowAnanias 24 hours a day nor even being a Christian, let alone an Apostleor Prophet, it is not likely nor feasible that the accounts in Acts werenot the result of Saul telling Luke what to write.

FACT #15: According to Saul’s own words, he was in Damascus atthe behest of the Pharisaic Sanhedrin (Acts 9:1) to seek out the cult followersof Christ in an effort to persecute and stamp out its growing cancer inIsrael. Furthermore, the man in Chapter 9 calling himself Ananias, saidthat he knew Saul, had crossed paths and/or Ananias had even been subjectedto Saul's persecution as a Christians.

FACT #16: It would be in true character for a known liar to tryto save his skin and reputation by agreeing to go along with the Pharisees'and Saul's plot to infiltrate and undermine the Christian cult. After all,Ananias was only a half hearted believer in Jesus Christ and surmised hecould make more by joining this cult, monetarily. His true commitment wasto his wife, Sapphira. Everything else was secondary. We also do not knowthe what the property was which he was to have sold giving the proceedsto the Apostles nor do we know the property’s value or even whether itwas his to sell! All we know of Ananias is he was married to Sapphira andhe as chastised, rebuked and punished by the Apostles for "lying to theHoly Ghost" keeping back part of the price of their land.

FACT #17: Luke seems to be confused by the events surroundingAnanias or at least,not having been a witness to any of it, what was toldto him by Saul. In Acts 5:5,  Ananias, "...fell down, and gave upthe ghost..." then he is miraculously resurrected so the "liar" could goback to Damacus and receive a vision from Christ to go find a man named"Saul" and baptize him (Acts 9:10-19)!
 

FACT #18: Christ is very concerned about someone not having theauthority to act in His name! Then without having any authority to baptizeanyone, Christ tells the deceased lair, Ananias, to arise and go baptizea murder before he has repented of his sins! Anyone want to buy a Bridgein Brooklyn? I have three in San Francisco going cheap!

FACT #19: Who witnessed Saul's vision of Christ but "the menwhich journeyed with him" to Damascus (Acts 9:7)! Were they Christianspart of Saul’s Pharisaic entourage?

FACT #20: Do we have any witnesses to any of Saul's claims inaccordance with Christ's advice or do we only have Saul and Ananias' wordfor it.  Since the beginning of time and as recently as two thousandyears ago, Christ said in,

Matthew 18:16

  ...in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may beestablished.

Was Saul of Tarsus even a baptized Christian?
 

Ananias was to have "given up the ghost" in Acts 5 but in Acts 22, hewas still around to finagled  a good report of the members of Christ'schurch at that one location. Was he the same Ananias that lied to the Apostlesand "gave up the ghost" or was he a man who assumed Ananias' name and identifyposing as a member of Christ's church in his nefarious scheme and plotwith the Sanhedrin and Saul of Tarsus to undermine and destroy Christianity.

Acts 22:12

 12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, havinga good report of all the Jews which dwelt [there],
 

We know that during Saul's "ministry" when he could easily have beenmaking reports of known Christians to the Sanhedrin. Saul did blasphemeand deny Christ when he wrote in,

 Romans in 2:16

  ¶ 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of menby Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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Romans 16:25

  ¶ 25 Now to him that is of power to stablish (sic) you accordingto my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelationof the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

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 and

2 Timothy 2:8

  8 ¶ Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David wasraised from the dead according to my gospel:

1 Corinthians 11:1

  1 ¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.

       [Whether or not you believe Saulwas a deciple of Jesus Christ, Saul was obviously seeking a cult followingof his own!}
 

Is this a mistranslation in which case the Radical Infallible Literalistswill squirm, hem and ha because they insist that since all Bible's areinfallible, it MUST be interpreted literally, is Saul of Tarsustrying to take credit for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Better yet, is hepreaching yet "another gospel" as prophesied by the Apostles John and Petersaid the antichrist would happen?

This is either an error which  the Radical Infallible Literalists(RIL) have consistently denied exists or it is another nail in Saul's coffinproving he was an antichrist as prophesied by the bonafide, real and ordainedApostle John.

Christ did say,

Matthew 10:34

  34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came notto send peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10:35

  35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against hermother in law.
 

Meaning, the truth of God that Christ was here to teach, has and willbe perverted necessitating not only Christ to send other prophets who willpreach the truth about Christ and in doing so will cause great divisionand strife not peace,  and will set a man at variance against hisfather, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law againsther mother in law because people will want to believe a lie!

Saul preached false doctrine of the antichrist when he wrote to thefollowing to the Thessalonians

 2 Thess 2:11

And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence sothat they might believe what is false.
 

RIGHT!! Sure thing, Saul! God’s going to purposely lead peopleastray. That means that God is going to lie to people. That means God iseither a lair or his God is a liar! Satan is the only Father of Lies! Christis the God and light of truth! Therefore, Saul's God is Satan byu his owjnadmission!
 

I used to love to read Saul's writings because I was gullible and swallowedeverything hook, line and sinker. Not until the Holy Spirit brought thetruth of his Apostleship to my attention, and continued to keep beforemy mind until I came to the proper conclusion was I able to read past theemotionalism and look at the facts. I have tried to do that here prayingconstantly that I be freed from Satan's clutches that I might divulge thetruth!

God gave man no absolutes, except for Americans, death and taxes. Sauldid write that all scripture (all of God's instruction to man whether throughone of the ancient prophets of Israel, Christ, Muhammad, Sakyamuni Buddha,Veda or the Dead Sea Scrolls) are good for teaching and rebuking. No wheredid God ever condone or approve of our compilation of scripture known asthe Bible.

I have come to the conclusion, in view of the evidence and scripturesthat although Saul started out as a conspirator and stoolie for the PharisaicSanhedrin to infiltrate Christianity and undermine it by identifying Christiansto the Sanhedrin for persecution and introducing false doctrine. However,he still remains an unbaptized Christian to this day for whom, by his ownwords,  baptism for the dead needs to be performed if he repents (see1 Corinthians 15:29).

Despite the absolute need, there is only one church on the face of theearth professing to be Christian practicing baptism for the dead but theyare in a state of apostasy themselves also.

Matthew 10:34

  34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I camenot to send peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10:35

  35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against hermother in law.

Matthew 18:16

  16 But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one ortwo more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word maybe established.

Acts 5:1-10

   1 ¶ But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphirahis wife, sold a possession,

 2 And kept back [part] of the price, his wife also being privy[to it], and brought a certain part, and laid [it] at the apostles' feet.

 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart tolie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?

 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold,was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thineheart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

 5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost:and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried [him] out, andburied [him].

7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, notknowing what was done, came in.

8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land forso much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

 9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed togetherto tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buriedthy husband [are] at the door, and shall carry thee out.

 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded upthe ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying[her] forth, buried [her] by her husband.

Acts 9:1-22

  1 ¶ And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings (sic) and slaughteragainst the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, thatif he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bringthem bound unto Jerusalem.

  3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly thereshined round about him a light from heaven:

  4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him,Saul, Saul, why persecutest (sic) thou me?

   5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, Iam Jesus whom thou persecutest (sic): [it is] hard for thee to kick againstthe pricks.

  6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thouhave me to do? And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the city,and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

   7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless,hearing a voice, but seeing no man.

   8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes wereopened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought [him]into Damascus.

   9 And he was three days without sight, and neither dideat nor drink.

 10 ¶ And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, namedAnanias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold,I [am here], Lord.

 11 And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the streetwhich is called Straight, and enquire (sic) in the house of Judas for [one]called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,

 12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, andputting [his] hand on him, that he might receive his sight.

  13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of thisman, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:

 14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind allthat call on thy name.

 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosenvessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and thechildren of Israel:

 16 For I will shew (sic) him how great things he must suffer formy name's sake.

  17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; andputting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, thatappeared unto thee in the way as thou camest (sic), hath sent me, thatthou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales:and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

 19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then wasSaul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.

 20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, thathe is the Son of God.

 21 But all that heard [him] were amazed, and said; Is not thishe that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and camehither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?

 22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded theJews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.

Acts 22:12

 12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, havinga good report of all the Jews which dwelt [there],

Romans 16:25

  ¶ Now to him that is of power to stablish (sic) you accordingto my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelationof the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

1 Corinthians 11:1

  1 ¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] ofChrist.

       [Even if Saul was a true "follower"of Christ, Saul was obviously seeking a cult following of his own!]

1 Corinthians 15:29

   29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for thedead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

 2 Thess 2:11

And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influencesothat they might believe what is false.

2 Timothy 2:8
  8 ¶ Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David wasraised from the dead according to my gospel:

2 Timothy 3:16
    16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration ofGod, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, forinstruction in righteousness:

If I am in error in any way, please feel free to bring it to my attention.

God will not fault an individual for making a mistake or error (sin)if one sincerely is trying to learn and disseminate the truth but He doesand will fault an individual, who out of prejudice or a desire to remainignorant, rejects truth regardless of from whomever or wherever it comes
 
 

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