Paul the Apostate and his perversion of the word

Submitted by Seamus Dafydd Dives MacNemi (United States), Oct 19, 2009 at 11:27

Paul knew nothing of the LAW, nothing of its meaning or its intent. The whole purpose of the LAW was to maintain the integrity of the whole community as a continuum and it had little to do with sacrifice or any ritual system as you would suppose. It was understood from the beginning that the forms of ritual would change as the people matured in their understanding. Already at the time of Yeshua changes were under way. The Temple was to some greater degree becomming an anachronism and the Synagogue was taking over many of the functions of communal worship. The priesthood under Herod had become so corrupted that their ritual had become a mockery and an insult to the real religious sentiment of the people. The times were ripe for revolt and that is just exactly what happened. The Romans thought they could destroy the spirit of the Jews by destroying the Temple but they failed miserably. Even though they stole the symbols of religion from the people they could not destroy their hope.

Your book mocks the truth. It represents a total ignorance of the times and the lives of the people involved. It is a compendium of supposition, superstition and prejudice that has nothing to do with reality. Do not use it to quote to me.

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