Chapter 1. The Two Ways and the First Commandment. There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways. The way of life, then, is this: First, you shall love God who made you; second, love your neighbor as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you. And of these sayings the teaching is this: Bless those who curse you, and pray for your enemies, and fast for those who persecute you. For what reward is there for loving those who love you? Do not the Gentiles do the same? But love those who hate you, and you shall not have an enemy. Abstain from fleshly and worldly lusts. If someone strikes your right cheek, turn to him the other also, and you shall be perfect. If someone impresses you for one mile, go with him two. If someone takes your cloak, give him also your coat. If someone takes from you what is yours, ask it not back, for indeed you are not able. Give to every one who asks you, and ask it not back; for the Father wills that to all should be given of our own blessings (free gifts). Happy is he who gives according to the commandment, for he is guiltless. Woe to him who receives; for if one receives who has need, he is guiltless; but he who receives not having need shall pay the penalty, why he received and for what. And coming into confinement, he shall be examined concerning the things which he has done, and he shall not escape from there until he pays back the last penny. And also concerning this, it has been said, Let your alms sweat in your hands, until you know to whom you should give.

Chapter 2. The Second Commandment: Grave Sin Forbidden. And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born. You shall not covet the things of your neighbor, you shall not swear, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not speak evil, you shall bear no grudge. You shall not be double-minded nor double-tongued, for to be double-tongued is a snare of death. Your speech shall not be false, nor empty, but fulfilled by deed. You shall not be covetous, nor rapacious, nor a hypocrite, nor evil disposed, nor haughty. You shall not take evil counsel against your neighbor. You shall not hate any man; but some you shall reprove, and concerning some you shall pray, and some you shall love more than your own life.

Chapter 3. Other Sins Forbidden. My child, flee from every evil thing, and from every likeness of it. Be not prone to anger, for anger leads to murder. Be neither jealous, nor quarrelsome, nor of hot temper, for out of all these murders are engendered. My child, be not a lustful one. for lust leads to fornication. Be neither a filthy talker, nor of lofty eye, for out of all these adulteries are engendered. My child, be not an observer of omens, since it leads to idolatry. Be neither an enchanter, nor an astrologer, nor a purifier, nor be willing to took at these things, for out of all these idolatry is engendered. My child, be not a liar, since a lie leads to theft. Be neither money-loving, nor vainglorious, for out of all these thefts are engendered. My child, be not a murmurer, since it leads the way to blasphemy. Be neither self-willed nor evil-minded, for out of all these blasphemies are engendered.
Rather, be meek, since the meek shall inherit the earth. Be long-suffering and pitiful and guileless and gentle and good and always trembling at the words which you have heard. You shall not exalt yourself, nor give over-confidence to your soul. Your soul shall not be joined with lofty ones, but with just and lowly ones shall it have its intercourse. Accept whatever happens to you as good, knowing that apart from God nothing comes to pass.

Chapter 4. Various Precepts. My child, remember night and day him who speaks the word of God to you, and honor him as you do the Lord. For wherever the lordly rule is uttered, there is the Lord. And seek out day by day the faces of the saints, in order that you may rest upon their words. Do not long for division, but rather bring those who contend to peace. Judge righteously, and do not respect persons in reproving for transgressions. You shall not be undecided whether or not it shall be. Be not a stretcher forth of the hands to receive and a drawer of them back to give. If you have anything, through your hands you shall give ransom for your sins. Do not hesitate to give, nor complain when you give; for you shall know who is the good repayer of the hire. Do not turn away from him who is in want; rather, share all things with your brother, and do not say that they are your own. For if you are partakers in that which is immortal, how much more in things which are mortal? Do not remove your hand from your son or daughter; rather, teach them the fear of God from their youth. Do not enjoin anything in your bitterness upon your bondman or maidservant, who hope in the same God, lest ever they shall fear not God who is over both; for he comes not to call according to the outward appearance, but to them whom the Spirit has prepared. And you bondmen shall be subject to your masters as to a type of God, in modesty and fear. You shall hate all hypocrisy and everything which is not pleasing to the Lord. Do not in any way forsake the commandments of the Lord; but keep what you have received, neither adding thereto nor taking away therefrom. In the church you shall acknowledge your transgressions, and you shall not come near for your prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life.

Chapter 5. The Way of Death. And the way of death is this: First of all it is evil and accursed: murders, adultery, lust, fornication, thefts, idolatries, magic arts, witchcrafts, rape, false witness, hypocrisy, double-heartedness, deceit, haughtiness, depravity, self-will, greediness, filthy talking, jealousy, over-confidence, loftiness, boastfulness; persecutors of the good, hating truth, loving a lie, not knowing a reward for righteousness, not cleaving to good nor to righteous judgment, watching not for that which is good, but for that which is evil; from whom meekness and endurance are far, loving vanities, pursuing revenge, not pitying a poor man, not laboring for the afflicted, not knowing Him Who made them, murderers of children, destroyers of the handiwork of God, turning away from him who is in want, afflicting him who is distressed, advocates of the rich, lawless judges of the poor, utter sinners. Be delivered, children, from all these.

Chapter 6. Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to Idols. See that no one causes you to err from this way of the Teaching, since apart from God it teaches you. For if you are able to bear the entire yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are not able to do this, do what you are able. And concerning food, bear what you are able; but against that which is sacrificed to idols be exceedingly careful; for it is the service of dead gods.

"It is of great importance to straighten out this inverting of the relationship, criticizing Christ by Paul, the Master by the disciple."
Kierkegaard, My Task (1855)

"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the menacing dragons of religious dogma and spiritual superstition than the 'apostle' Paul boldly set them back upright again. In truth, there is not one word of Pauline Christianity to be found in the gospel utterances of Jesus, and there has thus never been a more monstrous imposition perpetrated than the one where the Christian religion imposed Paul's soul upon the soul of Christ - and this, in Jesus' name no less! Almost as egregious, this fresh doctrine of Paul's was one that sought not to topple or even significantly alter the unjust political systems of its day, but was rather designed to coddle them and the corrupt delegates who ran them. As such, it can come as no surprise that The Way of Jesus Christ was suppressed by the time's political world and was adopted as its official faith." - George Bernard Shaw

"Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning the same. In truth, if we had to rely on Paul, we would not know that Jesus taught in parables, we would not know that Jesus had ever delivered the Sermon on the Mount, nor that he had taught his disciples the 'Our Father.' Indeed, even where they are specially relevant, Paul blatantly ignores the words of his Lord... Paul obviously did not desire to truly know Christ. And the fateful thing is that the Greek, the Catholic, and the Protestant theologies all contain the Gospel of Paul in a form which does not continue the Gospel of Jesus, but rather wholly displaces it." - Albert Schweitzer

"Fundamentalism is nothing more than the triumph of Paul over Jesus... Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ; a theology about the man instead of his teachings - a man who Paul never even knew and a theology written some 50 or more years after the death of that same man... Paul replaced moral conduct with mere creed as the test of Virtue. It is in no way an understatement to say that this was quite the tragic shift. " - Will Durant

"The name 'disciple of Jesus' has little applicability to Paul, with the obvious contradictions in the three accounts given by him in regard to his Road to Damascus conversion being more than enough to arouse a palpable distrust in the man The moral majesty of Jesus -- his purity and piety, his ministry among the people, his manner as a prophet, the concrete ethical-religious content of his earthly life - signifies very little whatsoever for Paul's Christology. As such we are confronted with Jesus or Paul: the fundamental choice that all are required to make; the choice that embodies the primary spiritual battleground of our present day." - William Wrede

"The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all: instead it was Paul converting a lifestyle that raised one man above sin and death into a religion that has delivered millions of men so completely into their own dominion that their common nature has become a horror to them, and their religious life a denial of life itself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Paul was the very first corrupter of the doctrine of Jesus Christ; a doctrine very different from the one practiced by those who would call me infidel while elevating themselves as preachers of the Gospel Indeed, these "Christian" impostors have compounded from the Halcyon Mysteries a religious system fully beyond the comprehension of humankind, one of which the greatest ethical reformer of the Jews, were he to return to Earth today, would not recognize a single feature." - Thomas Jefferson

John 8:31-32 KJV
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 13:35 KJV
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 14:23 KJV
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 15:7 KJV
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

John 15:10 KJV
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Genesis 9:4 English Standard Version
4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Leviticus chapters 17 - 26
some of the laws in the "Code of Righteousness". Morality, food and health laws. A lot of common sense is in those chapters.

Acts 15:19-21 English Standard Version
19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

Ananias! Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, and hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.

Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace; for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee; for I have much people in this city.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.

Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.

Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctioned by faith that is in me.

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:7-9 King James Version
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Genesis 9:4 King James Version
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Rev. 2:6 (Ephesus)
But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Rev. 2:14-15 (Pergamum)
14 But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. 15 In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Revelation 2:20 (Thyatira)
But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat.

Acts 15:20
but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood.

Acts 21:25
And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.

Acts 15:29
to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!

8:4-6
4 Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God.
5 Many things in heaven and on earth are called gods and lords, but none of them really are gods or lords.
6 We have only one God, and he is the Father. He created everything, and we live for him. Jesus Christ is our only Lord. Everything was made by him, and by him life was given to us.

8:7-8
7 Not everyone knows these things. In fact, many people have grown up with the belief that idols have life in them. So when they eat meat offered to idols, they are bothered by a weak conscience.
8 But food doesn't bring us any closer to God. We are no worse off if we don't eat, and we are no better off if we do.

8:9-10
9 Don't cause problems for someone with a weak conscience, just because you have the right to eat anything.
10 You know all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols.

8:11-13
11 Then what you know has destroyed someone Christ died for.
12 When you sin by hurting a follower with a weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 So if I hurt one of the Lord's followers by what I eat, I will never eat meat as long as I live.

19 Am I saying that either the idols or the food sacrificed to them is anything at all?
20 No, I am not! This food is really sacrificed to demons and not to God. I don't want you to have anything to do with demons.
21 You cannot drink from the cup of demons and still drink from the Lord's cup. You cannot eat at the table of demons and still eat at the Lord's table.
22 We would make the Lord jealous if we did this. And we are not stronger than the Lord.

8:4-5
4 Even though food is offered to idols, we know that none of the idols in this world are alive. After all, there is only one God.
5 Many things in heaven and on earth are called gods and lords, but none of them really are gods or lords.

10:23-26
23 Some of you say, “We can do whatever we want to!” But I tell you not everything may be good or helpful.
24 We should think about others and not about ourselves.
25 However, when you buy meat in the market, go ahead and eat it. Keep your conscience clear by not asking where the meat came from.
26 The Scriptures say, “The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.”

However, when you buy meat in the market, go ahead and eat it.

10:27-29
27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner, and you want to go, then go. Eat whatever you are served. Don't cause a problem for someone's conscience by asking where the food came from.
28-29 But if you are told it has been sacrificed to idols, don't cause a problem by eating it. I don't mean a problem for yourself, but for the one who told you. Why should my freedom be limited by someone else's conscience?

"Why should my freedom be limited?"

Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:18, 14:29, 16:10, 16:13-15, 24:19, 26:12, 26:13, 27:19; Job 22:9, 24:3, 31:16; Psalm 68:5, 94:6, 146:9; Proverbs 15:25; Isaiah 1:17, 1:23, 10:2; Jeremiah 7:6, 22:1, 49:11; Ezekiel 22:7, 22:25; Zechariah 7:10; Malachi 3:5

Mark 12:40 Contemporary English Version
But they cheat widows out of their homes and pray long prayers just to show off. They will be punished most of all.

Luke 20:47 Contemporary English Version
But they cheat widows out of their homes and then pray long prayers just to show off. These teachers will be punished most of all.

James 1:27 Contemporary English Version
Religion that pleases God the Father must be pure and spotless. You must help needy orphans and widows and not let this world make you evil.

1 Corinthians 7:8-9
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

There is little firm information about the collective lives of those who lived in the first centuries BC and the first centuries AD, but the conjecture is that the average life span was about 35 years.
The 35-40 average life span of people in the Western world held true through the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance until the 19th and 20th centuries when modern medicine and its life-preserving discoveries began in earnest.
For thousands of years, life was uncertain but it was pretty certain the normal person would not live past 40 years.

1 Timothy 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man.

1 Timothy 5:11
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

1 Timothy 5:14
14 I will therefore that the younger women (widows) marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Micah 3:11 Contemporary English Version
You leaders accept bribes for dishonest decisions. You priests and prophets teach and preach, but only for money. Then you say, "The LORD is on our side. No harm will come to us."

More - Jeremiah 6:13; Isaiah 1:23, 56:11; Ezekiel 22:27; Jeremiah 5:31, 8:10; Zephaniah 3:3; Hosea 4:8

Matthew 10:7-10 Contemporary English Version
7 As you go, announce that the kingdom of heaven will soon be here.
8 Heal the sick, raise the dead to life, heal people who have leprosy, and force out demons. You received without paying, now give without being paid.
9 Don't take along any gold, silver, or copper coins. 10 And don't carry a traveling bag or an extra shirt or sandals or a walking stick. Workers deserve their food.

1 Timothy 5:17 Contemporary English Version
Church leaders who do their job well deserve to be paid twice as much, especially if they work hard at preaching and teaching.

1 Corinthians 9:14 Contemporary English Version
In the same way, the Lord wants everyone who preaches the good news to make a living from preaching this message.

Acts 1:21-26 KJV
21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

Revelation 21:12-14 KJV
12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

1. One who assumes a false appearance; one who feigns to be what he is not, or to feel or believe what he does not actually feel or believe; especially, a false pretender to virtue or piety.
2. Synonyms - Dissembler, Hypocrite (see dissembler); Pharisee, formalist, cheat.
- from The Century Dictionary.

Matthew 23:1-15 King James Version
1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Acts 23:6 King James Version
6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Matthew 23:25-29 King James Version
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Luke 11:39-43 King James Version
39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

2 Peter 2:1 King James Version
2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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Romans 3:7 Common English Bible
But if God’s truth is demonstrated by my lie and it increases his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

Romans 9:1 Common English Bible
I’m speaking the truth in Christ—I’m not lying, as my conscience assures me with the Holy Spirit:

1 Thessalonians 2:5 Common English Bible
As you know, we never used flattery, and God is our witness that we didn’t have greedy motives.

Galatians 1:20 Common English Bible
Before God, I’m not lying about the things that I’m writing to you!

Philippians 1:18 - Common English Bible
What do I think about this? Just this: since Christ is proclaimed in every possible way, whether from dishonest or true motives, I’m glad and I’ll continue to be glad.

1 Timothy 2:7 Common English Bible
I was appointed to be a preacher and apostle of this testimony—I’m telling the truth and I’m not lying! I’m a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Corinthians 1:23 Common English Bible
I call on God as my witness—I didn’t come again to Corinth because I wanted to spare you.

2 Corinthians 11:31 Common English Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the one who is blessed forever, knows that I’m not lying.

2 Corinthians 12:16 Common English Bible
We all know that I didn’t place a burden on you, but in spite of that you think I’m a con artist who fooled you with a trick.

2 Corinthians 12:19 Common English Bible
Have you been thinking up to now that we are defending ourselves to you? Actually, we are speaking in the sight of God and in Christ. Dear friends, everything is meant to build you up.

Exodus 20:16 King James Version
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Isaiah 44:25 King James Version
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

John 8:44 King James Version
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

John 8:55 King James Version
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

Revelation 2:2 King James Version (Ephesus)
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Revelation 21:8 King James Version
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

1 John 1:10 King James Version
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 2:4 King James Version
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 4:20 King James Version
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

1 John 5:10 King James Version
10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

"Why should my freedom be limited?"

Did Paul Deliberately Lie in Court in Acts 23:6-7?
https://www.jesuswordsonly.org/topicind ... y-lie.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20241005193 ... y-lie.html - https://archive.is/zeh5t

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 3:54 pm

Did Paul Deliberately Lie in Court in Acts 23:6-7?
https://www.jesuswordsonly.org/topicind ... y-lie.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20241005193 ... y-lie.html - https://archive.is/zeh5t

The lawyer explains it well.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 3:50 pm If you want more, I'll have to write 'The Snarky Girls Guide to Understanding Paul', available at Amazon.

FeathersMcGraw wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 7:22 pm This is truly a work of art

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 3:50 pm If you want more, I'll have to write 'The Snarky Girls Guide to Understanding Paul', available at Amazon.

I'd read that ❤️

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 pm How fast can you type?

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 pm Editting skills?
How's your spilling? Gramma?
Ho'ws your punctuation?

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 pm Can you translate snarky girl into soft spoken gentlelady, for business purposes?

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 pm What are your wages? I'd be giving it away for free you know.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 pm How soon will you be available?

FeathersMcGraw wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:14 pm
What's wrong with being snarky and potty-mouthed? :)

I'm sorry to hear that. It wasn't an offer to help so much as an expressed wish to collaborate.

FeathersMcGraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 12:23 am Did Peter and Paul found the church?
It's tempting to take this conversation private - but I'd prefer not to. Let the record stand.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am One of the less dark thoughts about him is that he was the PT Barnum of his time.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am The movies that i think of, as I learn more things, are very dark. My problem with movies is, I only like comedies and pauls only funny to me, when I'm making fun of him.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am I'm not a classic trinitarian. I think linearly - The Father is > His Son is > The Holy Spirit. When I try to combine them into one, it looks like a snake eating its own tail, to me. I'd need someone to prove that they are all interchangeable within their hierarchy to be able to understand "The Trinity". And, they have to explain it to me without using Paul. In other words I don't understand how it all works, but I know he'll give me the answer, when I need it. If I'm working on following his instructions, the rest will come. I tried to be an atheist at 16, it lasted until 18-19. I think my label is Contrarian Christian, not sure, but know I'm quite contrary.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am

FeathersMcGraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 12:23 am Did Peter and Paul found the church?
It's tempting to take this conversation private - but I'd prefer not to. Let the record stand.

Jesus established the church, all his real Apostles and disciples spread the branches and did the grafting. Paul took an axe and did what his roman masters told him to do. That's my opinion, as of today. My opinion of paul is everchanging though.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am If you're going to work on a movie script, wouldn't it best to discuss that in DM?

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am Also, if you write a scene with some old woman beating the stuffing out of paul, I'm definitely in for that!

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:38 am Sorry it took so long to reply, had to do dinner and dishes. I'm pooped.

FeathersMcGraw wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:49 am Just what I had in mind. Now make it darker...

We can do anything we want. We can make Paul ridiculous, or evil, or lecherous (do chicks dig Jesus and Paul's picking up the groupies?), or funny, or anything really.

I meant the Roman Catholic church, in Rome, at the Vatican. I think Peter was the first "bishop" i.e. pope and the mantle has passed down in an unbroken line since then? Was Paul involved too? I don't know much.

Let's make it the opening scene, before the credits :)

As and when I think of something I may add it to this thread, but there's no need to feel any urgency to respond. I'm always interested in your thoughts and ideas. Feel free to express them here if and when the urge takes you. I'm a big fan of freedom.

Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists into the desert some time ago?”

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:22 pm a roman/edomite spy

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:22 pm except maybe Thecla

What was Paul doing for Rome?

Can she be the one beating him up at the start?

Simon Magus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus

...the speculation by academics Ferdinand Christian Baur and Hermann Detering that Simon may be identified with Paul the Apostle.

Is pauls savior lucifer?
simon magus?
or is paul really simon magus?
Acts 8:9–24
Clementine Recognitions aka Nazarene act of the Apostles. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkDELAg ... rbVEEddSpR
Clementine Homilies - https://archive.org/stream/clementineho ... m_djvu.txt

What a wonderful thing, then! Men appear, who toil unceasingly to make other people enjoy just this and no other form or revelation; who cannot rest until others accept their, just their form of revelation, and who damn, execute, kill, as many as they can of the dissenters. Others do the same: damn, execute, and kill one another.

How could there remain people who believed in this delusion?

How, why, what may compel me to demand from anybody that he shall manifest his truth absolutely as I do?
Compel him to change his faith I cannot; either by violence, cunning, or deception.
Faith in his life, -- how then can I take away his faith and give him another? It is like taking his heart out and putting another in.

Another reason why this cannot be done is that it is impossible to force a man to believe that which he does not believe, -- that is, to fill his relation to God, -- and because he who knows that faith is the relation of man to God cannot wish to determine the relations of another man to God through force or fraud.

Of all the godless ideas and terms, there is no term and concept more godless than the idea of Church.
There is no idea that has produced more evil, no idea more hostile to the doctrine of Christ, than the idea of Church. At bottom, the word Ecclesia means collection and nothing more, and so it is used in the Gospels. In the languages of all new peoples the word Ecclesia signifies house of worship.

According to the definitions given to this word by those priests who need this delusion of Church, it is nothing else than an introduction to this effect:

"Everything I am about to say is truth, and, if you will not believe, I shall burn you, or damn you, and in every way work you injury."

Turning to the original Christian doctrine in the Gospels, we find a doctrine directly excluding formal worship, censuring it, and one that with particular plainness and positiveness denies all teaching.

The conception of the true Church was also used as an argument against the opponents; but until Emperor Constantine and the Nicaean Council, Church was only an idea. But since Constantine and the Nicaean Council the Church has been a thing, and a thing of fraud.

Jews must live; an account of the persecution of the world by Israel on all the frontiers of civilization
by Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974.
https://archive.org/details/JewsMustLiv ... elOnAllThe

https://www.brighteon.com/203d00d4-6e90 ... 4f60d80d28

https://www.bitchute.com/video/CWBmObSZhXlA/

https://odysee.com/@PollyStGeorge:3/Rum ... Pipeline:0

https://odysee.com/@PollyStGeorge:3/Kash-and-Friends:a

https://www.bitchute.com/video/x5ub3zDi0fRX/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JxOkhO8pgajj/