On Saint Paul
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 2023-01-13

M: How does Paul fall into your reconstruction or speculation?
J: Paul or Saul came along later. I believe he was an agent under Roman influence by Shimeon Caiphas or even Josephus who was... meant to destabilize the early Christian cult and advocate that they break away from the traditional Hebrew religious beliefs and practices. For example, encouraging that one didn’t need to be circumsized, that one could practice the passover, or the last supper as opposed to the passover feast; and that one didn’t need to keep the lunar-solar calendar, that one could go by only the solar- civic calendar; all those sorts of ... that one could be saved by baptism and repentance, all of the doctrines that eventually became the sacraments of the Catholic Church were essentially invented by Saul or Paul later and I don’t believe that really any of them were necessarily advocated for by Jesus himself necessarily. We have definitely the lord’s prayer was spoken by Jesus, but other than that, the different beliefs of full-immersion baptism or just sprinkling water over the brow, or how much wine and how much wafer we have to eat to receive the sacrament of the transubstantiation, all of that argument is irrelevant because it’s all, ex post facto, it’s all after Jesus’ life and death and had nothing to do with his teachings.