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Paul Versus the Disciples
By
Bassam Zawadi
Introduction
It is a common misconception amongst Christians that Paul and the Apostles of Christ were
unanimous in their preaching of a crucified Jesus. Christians think that the apostles and Paul
were preaching the same doctrine and everyone believed in the divine Jesus who came to be
crucified for the sins of the world. However, if one examines the bible carefully, that person
would observe that Paul and the disciples were not preaching the same doctrine and did not
believe in the same Jesus.
The Apostles in Jerusalem heard that Paul has been preaching a different doctrine in Galatia
and Corinthia, Paul was telling them not to follow the law anymore and that they don’t have
to eat kosher meat anymore or to be circumcised (according to Genesis 17::14, the covenant is
broken if there is no circumcision) etc. So the Apostles went to Galatia and Corinthia and
convinced everyone that Paul is wrong, when Paul heard about this he went straight back to
the cities.
Galatians 1:6
1 am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and
are tuning to a different gospelIt says different Gospel, so obviously the disciples were teaching them a different doctrine and
it was not just minor issues.
Galatians 2:11.21
Paul Opposes Peter
When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in
the wrong. '?Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles.
But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the
Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.
(why did people such as the Apostle James still believe that the law regarding
food should still be applied? If Jesus came to replace the law, then why are they
still following the law?) !>The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by
their hypocrisy even Bamabas was led astray. (so, Peter, James and Barnabas are
wrong?)
14When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to
Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a
Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners’ !*know that a man is not
justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put
our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by
observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified. ( why
are they arguing over following the law or not? Why are they not in agreement
of doctrine?)
!71f, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves
are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! !*If I rebuild
what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. '°For through the law I died to the
law so that I might live for God. 7°T have been crucified with Christ and I no longer
live, but Christ lives in me, The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 2" do not set aside the grace of God,
for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"(@]
Paul condemns all Jewish Christians including Peter and Barnabas. We only have Paul’s side
of the story but Peter’s recollection of this story is not given to us in the New Testament.
Peter truly would have known Jesus better than Paul. There is dispute whether 1 Peter is a
letter written by Peter and almost all scholars, ancient and modern agree that 2 Peter is not a
letter written by Peter.
Acts 4:31
31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.If Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit then why is Paul calling Peter a hypocrite for eating
with the Gentiles and then when people came from James he got up. James is Jesus’ half
brother, he lived and stayed with Jesus. Why did he still think that people have to eat kosher
meat? We don’t have any account of Peter’s story regarding this incident. Barnabas is also
called a hypocrite in verse 13. Look how in verses 15 thought 17 Paul is arguing with them
about the law. That means the disciples wanted to follow the law and suggested following it.
Otherwise Paul wouldn’t have mentioned it. How could he say those things to Peter and look
what Jesus said about Peter.
Matthew 16:18
Sand I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades
will not overcome it.
Paul said in Romans that all food is clean.
Romans 14:20
20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a
man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble,
In the Book of Acts the Apostles wrote a letter to the gentiles to abstain from certain foods and
that not all foods were declared clean
Acts 15:29
29You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals
and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things, Farewell,
Galatians 3:1-3,
1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly
portrayed as crucified. 71 would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by
observing the law, or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so foolish?
Obviously we have people that are disagreeing with him. If Jesus taught that the law is over
clearly, then people would not be arguing over this.
2Co
ithians 1
5
4For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached,
or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from
the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. SBut I do not think I am in the
least inferior to those “'super-apostles."
This is all doctrine and again he is criticizing the disciples.2 Corinthians 1 4
What anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—
also dare to boast about.
22. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's descendants?
So am I. *3Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I
have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been
exposed to death again and again. “4Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
Again he is comparing himself to the disciples. If this man were truly doing all this work for
God, he would not be complaining about his pain and torturing and suffering. If he is truly
sincere he would not have mentioned those things. Prophets and messengers never complained
and boasted about their sufferings.
Conclusion
So it is clear from the Bible it self that not everyone believed in the Jesus who came to
get crucified for the sins of the world and to replace the law. That there were different
amongst the Apostles and Paul. The Apostles stuck to the true teachings of Jesus,
which was upholding the law and that the Apostles who lived with Jesus know him
better than Paul who never even saw Jesus except in a "vision". The only deceiver here
was Paul and not Allah.
Recommended readings:
www answering-christianity.com/conflict,htm
GOD sent Jesus to be Christia
christianity.com/conflict.htm
and exposing the lies of the Answering Islam team section,
Contradictions and History of Corruption in the Bible,
Bassam Zawadi's Rebuttals section.
Also visitMatthew 7:22-23: GOD sent Jesus to be Chri
nity's lying spirit.
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