16 October 2007 UTC Removed from THEOLOGY portion as it does not fit the title Please discuss whether this fits under critism or political headings In many respects the Jewish Messiah becomes nothing but a catalyst even a figurehead for Paulinism s own agenda Paul s new religion had the advantage over other salvation cults of being attached to the Hebrew Scriptures which Paul reinterpreted as forecasting the salvific death of Jesus This gave Pauline Christianity an awesome authority within the period culture that proved attractive to Gentiles thirsting for salvation MacCoby Hyam The Mythmaker Paul and the Invention of Christianity ISBN 0 06 0155825 A N Wilson among others contends that Paul invented the Eucharist A N Wilson Paul The Mind of the Apostle The contention that the eucharist originates in the religion of Mithras has been widely canvassed since at least the 2nd century when Justin Martyr disputed the allegation He argues likewise ibid that the idea of justification by faith was his and which can be contrasted with passages in the gospel and elsewhere where doing the will of God is paramount Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter the kingdom of Heaven but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven Matthew 7 21 cf James 2 18ff Those who characterize the tenets of Catholic Christianity as Pauline compare it with its alternatives beliefs that Christian theologians called heresies It is argued that the Paulines were responsible for the marginalisation of James the leader of the Jerusalem church in favour of Peter The small scattered Jewish Jerusalem Church was disbanded in 135 with the banishment of the Jews from the region by the Romans having been decimated during the Jewish revolt of 66 70AD 19 10