Paulinity, Not Christianity

• Nafata Bamaguje
• December 12, 2009

“Therefore let us abandon the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on

to more maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from
dead works but of faith toward God” – Hebrew 6:1

This is probably the most brazen attack by Paul on the Christianity

taught by Jesus. In this verse, Paul had the temerity to imply that
Jesus’ teaching was immature, while he, Paul was the smart alec to
take Christianity to the next level. How right Paul proved to be, for his
heretic perversion of Jesus’ mission has now become mainstream
Christianity.

As evident from his harangue quoted above, Paul disparaged Jesus’

teaching as “repentance from dead works”. But what were the “dead
works” Paul denounced? His rants in his other epistles provide the
answer – “works of law”:

“For all who rely on works of the law are cursed” – Galatians 3:10

“For no human will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since
through the law comes knowledge of sin” – Rom 3:20

“For we believe that a man is justified by faith even without works of

law” – Romans 3:28

The “law” of course being traditional Judaic law which Jesus

wholeheartedly supported:

“Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I
have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Truly, I say to you,
till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a dot will change
from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever changes one of
the least of the commandments, and teaches men so (e.g.
Paul), shall be the least in the Kingdom of heaven” – Mathew
5:17-19

“It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the
law to become void” – Luke 16:17

Thus Jesus not only unequivocally endorsed Mosaic law - stoning to

death adulterers and disobedient children (Deut 22:22, Deut 21:18-21,
Matthew 15:4, Mark 7:10); killing Sabbath violators (Exodus 35:2);
human sacrifice (Exodus 22:29-30, Ezekiel 20:26); trial by ordeal (Num
5:14-22); killing non-virgin brides (Deut 22:20); marriage by rape
(Deut 22:28-29), and other such cruel Sharia-like barbaric laws – he
(Jesus) threatened to deal in afterlife with heretics like Paul who
preach otherwise (Mathew 5:19).

Jesus would be aghast at today’s Paulinists masquerading as

Christians, who deride “old school” mosaic law as they are now under
the Pauline dispensation of the “grace”:

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this
is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works -
Ephesians 2:8-9

Paul’s doctrine of belief and faith rather than good works brought him
into conflict with Jesus’ handpicked disciples who knew Jesus
personally and better understood his teachings. The apostle James in
obvious response to Paul’s misleading preachments countered:

“Faith by itself, if it has no works is dead” - James 2:17

“A man is justified by works not faith alone” - James 2:24

“As body without spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead” –

James 2:26

Paul himself alluded to this doctrinal confrontation with Jesus’

handpicked disciples:

“If someone preaches another Jesus different from the one we

preach…if you receive a different gospel from the one you accepted…I
think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative
apostles” - 2 Corinthians 11:4-5

Note Paul’s sarcastic derision of Jesus’ apostles as “superlative”. More

importantly his reference to receiving a “different gospel” in the
above verse is quite instructive, for there were indeed numerous
gospels (over 50) in early Christianity before Emperor Constantine
compelled the Church elders at the second Council of Nicea (325 AD)
to arbitrarily select the four that are now included in the standardized
Christian Bible.

Apparently Pauline Christianity used different gospels from Judeo-

Christianity preached by Jesus’ apostles. The gospels of the Hebrews,
Thomas, Clement and second apocalypse of James were among the
earliest Christian scriptures and were used by the then prevalent
Judeo-Christian faction.

Pauline Christianity which was initially fringe cult only became

ascendant after the 70AD Roman destruction of the Jerusalem temple
in response to a Jewish revolt against Roman rule. This resistance to
Roman rule was actually what the biblical Jesus stood for, and for
which he was executed when he attempted to seize power from the
Romans as “King of the Jews” (Luke 19.38, Matthew 21:5-9), in order
to restore traditional Judaism.

Thereafter the original Judeo-Christianity was crushed and the pro-

establishment Pauline Christianity (Rom 13:12) which was later
adopted as the official religion of Rome became ascendant, with Paul
supposedly authoring most of the books in the New Testament that
now define Christianity.

To avoid the terminal fate that befell Judeo-Christianity which was

crushed by Rome, Paul the loyal Roman citizen Paul advised:

“Everyone must submit himself to the governing (Roman) authorities,

for there is no authority except that which God has established. The
authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he
who rebels against the authority (of Rome) is rebelling against what
God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on
themselves” - Romans 13:1-2

Pauline Christianity is actually a paganised distortion of Judaism, as

the Christ described in the New testament gospels was plagiarized
from pre-Christian pagan cultures of the Middle East. Mithra, Dionysus
and Osiris were all pre-Christian pagan deities (ancient Persian, Greek
and Egyptian) that were born of virgins, died and resurrected, with
their resurrection signifying some sort of redemption. The birthdays of
Mithra and Dionysius were both December 25th!!

Since Pauline Christianity was mainly addressed to non-Jews (Acts

22:21, 26:18), it is not at all surprising that gentile pagan myths and
practices found their way into the New testament and Christianity.
Even the Christian worship day (Sunday) is not the Biblical Sabbath
(Saturday), but the worship day for the Roman sun deity – Sol Invictus
- as was decreed by Emperor Constantine.

NB: Bible quotes are from Revised Standard Version.

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Paulinity, Not Christianity (Part 2)

• Nafata Bamaguje
 • December 19, 2009

Why was Paul so vehemently opposed to good conduct (works) as means of salvation,
and insisted that faith alone suffices, conferring righteousness even in deadly sin (Rom
8:10) ?

The answer can be found in Paul’s deranged personality. From his epistles it is evident
that Paul was a morally weak troubled soul who agonized and battled in vain with some
unspeakable personal demon or abominable sinful trait, which try as he may, Paul
couldn’t give up:

“I do not understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want but what I hate… For
I know nothing good dwells within me…As I do not do the good I want, but the evil I
do not want” – Romans 7:15-19

Although Paul didn’t have the guts to mention in his epistles the unspeakable evil that
troubled him, it has been suggested that he was a repressed homosexual who couldn’t
change his “sinful” nature that violated traditional Judaic law. Hence the heretic nut-job
formulated the warped misleading idiocy that faith can actually transform ungodly evil
into righteousness:

“To one who does not work (by the law) but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his
faith is reckoned as righteousness” – Rom 4:5

Islam’s “prophet” Mohammed would have loved this wacky sophistry that rationalizes
and justifies ungodly evil. He is known to have plundered, robbed, raped, massacred,
paedophiled and incested all in righteous devotion to the Muslim false god – Allah.

Paul blundered further:

“If Christ is in you, even if your bodies are dead in sin, your spirits are alive in
righteousness” – Rom 8:10

Seriously, why would any sinful Paulinist (sorry Christian) bother to be good, if faith in
Christ is all that is required for righteousness?

This is utterly incomprehensible to we “pagan” African traditionalists for whom

exemplary good conduct is mandatory for ascension to the higher spiritual dimension in
the afterlife where as deified ancestors we become one with our creator.

In traditional African spirituality, there’s no free ticket or short cut to “heaven”. Belief in
some fairy-tale man-god does not substitute for good conduct and cannot make up for
wicked sinful life.

On the other hand there is no everlasting burning torture in hellfire by a cruel vindictive
deity (Allah, Yahweh). Those who are not good enough for heavenly deification are
reincarnated and given another opportunity. Herein lies the significance of African
names like Babatunde, Yetunde, Nnanna, Ekaete, Magaji all of which are rooted in the
African concept of reincarnation.

Enough digression. Paul concocted the inane claptrap of faith transmuting evil into
righteousness as some sort of ego defence mechanism to deal with his self-loathing
“sinful” guilt – “nothing good dwells in me” (Rom 7:18). The homosexual hypothesis is
supported by the fact that Paul never married, and from his condescending remarks
about women.

Paul’s fabricated doctrine is further laid bare by his own admission that his misleading
preachments were not from God but were driven by egomania:

“What I am saying, I say not with the Lord’s authority but as a fool in boastful
confidence. Since many of you boast, I too will boast” – 2 Cor 11:17-18

This is contrary to what today’s Paulinists would have us believe that the Judeo-
Christian god inspired the authors of their Bible. Paul on the other hand, the most pre-
eminent author in the New testament not only clearly stated that he wasn’t inspired by
Yahweh, but actually admitted to lying for his quasi-religious agenda:

“But through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abound, why am I still condemned as a

sinner?” – Romans 3:7

From the above verse, wacko Paulo seemed genuinely perplexed that his lies for his
bogus dogma were considered sinful. Such was the perverted morality of the founder of
modern Christianity.

This notion of lying to advance a religious agenda is not peculiar to Christianity, but also
obtains in Islam – the other major false dogma with which we Africans have been
brainwashed. In Islam it is called Taqiyya (deception), and partly explains the cognitive
dissonance of Muslims whose claims about Islam contradict observed reality.

Muslims insist theirs is a “religion of peace” but we non-Muslims know Islam to be the
most violently intolerant dogma humanity has ever known (Quran 9:5,123). They claim
the Quran is a repository of scientific knowledge, but even Muslims acknowledge the
Islamic world lags far behind the non-Muslim world in science & technology.

They claim Islam enhances the position of women, but the worst forms of misogynistic
abuse and violence against women are rampant in the Islamic world – honor killing,
stoning to death, pedophillia, forced marriage, female genital mutilation etc.

Back to Pauline deception. The cock and bull yarn about Paul’s dubious road-to-
Damascus conversion after a prior history of supposedly persecuting Christians, is
strikingly similar to the false testimonies sometimes given by evangelical Christians in
today’s Churches to dramatically exaggerate the impact of Jesus on their miserable lives.

Typically goes, “I was formerly an assassin or armed robber until I received Jesus…blah
blah blah”. It beats me why the police never arrest these publicly self-confessed killers
and armed bandits even though there’s no statute of limitations on murder or armed
robbery.

The truth of the matter is that the dreary frustrating misery of their pathetic existence
which drives their vacuous placebo solace in churches would be much less compelling
story for wooing converts and perpetuating their mental enslavement. Hence the need to
embellish their otherwise less captivating accounts with the “I was formerly a witch”
crap.

Evidence that the road-to-Damascus yarn was a hoax can be found in the inconsistencies
and contradictions of the various accounts of the purported conversion in books of Acts
and Galatians, as well as in Paul’s own admitted proclivity to lying in order to advance
his self-glorifying quasi-religious agenda (Rom 3:7). The book of Acts alone contains 3
disparate versions of the fraudster’s road to Damascus fabrication.

Even among early Christians Paul lacked credibility, hence he desperately cajoled:

What I write is true. Before God I do not lie! - Galatians 1:20

This beggar’s belief!! Having confessed to falsehood (Rom 3:7) and admitted his false
preachments aren’t from God (2 Cor 11:17), he invokes the same “God” to cover up his
lies.

Other inconsistencies in the New testament narrative of Paul, particularly his alleged
persecution of Christians, are beyond the scope of this already lengthy write-up.

Suffice to surmise that Paul’s lack of tangible connection to Jesus as did the chosen 12
apostles who were Paul’s major rivals (2 Cor 11:4-5), adversely affected his credibility
among early Christians. Consequently, the blaspheming charlatan concocted the road-to-
Damascus canard in which he purportedly met Christ, just so as to boost his (Paul’s)
flagging credibility and popularity among early Christians.

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