Quote(I think you are on very dangerous ground in casting Paul as preaching Antichrist!)
I think you have me confused with someone else mdmathis.
Paul preached the genuine Jesus.
He wouldn’t recognize Rome’s Jesus.
Because He wouldnt recognize Rome’s first/chief importance of the gospel.
It might mean that Christianity has another Jesus and another gospel than Paul. Paul does warn about this..
And that mirror reflects right back to well,the religionsof the world that follow Rome and Christianity today.
Which is the whole world.
Brings to mind the whole Beasts and mother and harlot daughters in Revelation.
Paul warns about what is being taught this very day in what the world would call Christianity.
And all it took to see that is the scriptures that Paul studied and taught.
You are exactly 180 degrees off line.
Christianity preaches Antichrist.
Another Jesus. A substitute Jesus..
Maybe the first Protestant reformers were prophetic when they called Rome and the papacy and pope Antichrist.
That same Antichrist tells the religions of the worldwhen to work and when to worship.
And falsely claims the Son was born on December 25 (false) circumcised on January 1 ( false) presented in the temple on February 2 (false)
Died Good Friday (false), laid in the tomb on Happy Saturday (false), raised Easter Sunday (false)
That above isn’t Paul’s Jesus. That isn’t Paul’s first/chief importance of the gospel.
How many have that Jesus vs the Jesus Paul taught..
Anti can mean opposed but also substitute . In place of.
It seems the world is being taught a substitute Christ.
An Antichrist.
And contrary to your thought, I am not saying that Paul is preaching Antichrist at all.
Maybe the dangerous ground is under someone else’s feet.
Or a lot of people’s feet.
I see the difference between what Paul teaches and what the world follows.
Another Jesus and another gospel at a very elementary and simple level that may be hard to see and perceive for adults set in their ways. Becoming a child may be a prerequisite to seeing the difference.
Counterfeited difference, by Satan from the very first / chief importance.
You mention the New Covenant. The beauty of understanding the New Covenant is with understanding the Old Covenant.
Wait till people understand why the Lamb uses 30,60 and 100 in His parable. It’s from the Old Covenant.
Wait till people understand who and why people are least and greatest in the Kingdom.. it has to do with those Old Covenant laws which is mentioned.
Wait till people realize Satan deceives the whole world while Christianity is still on the earth and Satan’s most subtle work may be creating another Jesus, a false Christ, a substitute Christ, an ‘antichrist’..
Maybe causing the whole world to worship the beast and image and blaspheme His Name ( breaking the first 3 of the Ten Commandments)
Being marked on the hand or forehead as lawless and disobedient,in the same exact place Israel was to have His Old Covenant Commandments as a sign of obedience and lawfullness)
Maybe our problem is a lack of understanding why I said Paul had another Jesus and another gospel than what today’s Christianity has.
The only way to even understand that is to test and prove everything with the scriptures.
Which I assure you,mdmathis, I do..
It’s worse than me accusing Paul. Its me accusing my past self and an indictment on the last about 2,000 years of religion.
But the Old and New Testament offers witnesses that this sort of deceit and falsehoods would happen while there was a breach of Light.
The Light will return and restore what Satan has polluted and corrupted.
And the words of Paul will not be twisted or rigged tofit any closely held religious beliefs.
Truth is Truth.
And the only source to know Truth is scripture..
And the scriptures confirm to me that Paul has another Jesus and another gospel (1st chief/importance of the gospel) than what the world teaches today.
You don’t have to accept that premise, though.
He has consigned the whole world to disobedience so that He may have mercy on all..
When one sees Antichrist Islam do things that Israel was supposed to do and same with Antichrist Judaism and today’s Antichrist Roman Christianity, it starts to make sense to pray for mercy and not judgement.
Satan does need to be removed but when Satan is removed, those inherited lies go away too.
And the world will have the Jesus and gospel Paul taught.
The Word Made Flesh.
Something today’s religion can’t teach because Satan is running religion.
Brings to mind ‘come out of her’...
For our Sovereign’s glory!
“So, in your study of the Old Testament scriptures, you understand that the Apostle Paul has another Jesus and another gospel than what Christianity teaches?
The Old Testament proves it. That’s not denigrating ‘that part of the bible’.
It’s testing and proving all things with the scriptures Paul studied.. The Old Testament.
And it can be argued that Judiasm today and Islam actually follow what Christianity teaches as opposed to what Paul studied and taught..”
Your first paragraph and last paragraph were the problems for me...especially the part about it might be argued that “Judaism and Islam following what Christianitiy teaches.... as opposed to what Paul studied and taught?
Glad you added more context.