Re: Facts about Saul of Tarsus -- SAUL OF TARSUS, THE ANTICHRIST

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Date Posted: 13:53:10 12/24/02 Tue
Author: Jim Fetterolf
Subject: Re: Facts about Saul of Tarsus

>SUBJECT: Facts about Saul of Tarsus
>NAME: David R.W. Wadsworth (drww@home.com)
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>FACT #1: Saul of Tarsus was used by the
>Pharisees to persecute and kill Christians in an
>effort to annihilate the �cult� Christianity from
>Jewish Society with no success

Paul seems to have been an employee of the Sadducee High Priest, not the Pharisees. From my readings I see no particular evidence that the Pharisees were enemies of the Messianist Movemen, 1st cent AD. I further see no evidence in the Early Church that they held doctrines antithetical to the Pharisees. The enemies of the Messianists were the Romans and their quisling High Priest, appointed by Pilate.

>FACT #2: Saul of Tarsus was on his way to
>Damascus to further persecute and terrorize Christians
>into forsaking their cultist religion

The question can be asked whether Paul was en route to Syria or to Qumr'an. The answer to this does a lot to clarify Jesus' own theological roots.

>FACT #3: Saul of Tarsus was with only his
>Pharisaic Body Guards and Entourage

Were they Pharisee? This conclusion rests on taking the Gentile Bible, written after the fall of the Temple, as historical. Josephus indicates that the repressions were committed by the Romans. Therefore, Saul Ben Herod would have been accompanied by Temple police, as no reference is made to Legionaries.

>FACT #4: Contrary to the advice of Christ,
>Christians only have Saul of Tarsus� word for his
>�miraculous conversion�

True. The two legs of "Christianity" are Paul and Constantine.

>FACT #7: Ananias who allegedly healed and
>baptized Saul had no authority to officiate any
>ordinance in Christ�s Church

There was no "Christ's Church at the time of the healing. There were only Messianist Jews.

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