PAUL ADMITS TO LYING &
FRAUD
Paul, in his zealot exaltation, admits and justifies, on Jesuitical
principles, the preaching of falsehood, and feels really aggrieved that honest
men should take exceptions to such mendacious propaganda:
"For if the
truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I
also judged as a sinner?" (
In a spirit of good-humored naiveté he winks at the flock of Corinthians
whom he has hooked into the fold, and admits that he had tricked them:
"Though
the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. But be it so: ...
nevertheless, being
crafty, I caught you with guile." (2 Cor. 12.15-16)
As a "man that striveth
for the mastery" (1 Cor. 9.25), Paul expounds to the
church leaders the modus operandi of the successful propagandist:
"I made
myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain
the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain
them that are under the law; To them that are
without law, as without law, that I might gain them that are
without law. ... I am made all things to all men,
that I might by all means save some. And
this I do for the gospel's sake" (1 Cor. 9.19-23).
And he admits to the
What did the
church tell you to secure your commitment to Christianity? Was your
preacher, minister or priest like Paul?
"And I said
to him, 'Jeez, Jeezy boy, I feel like no one will
ever accept me.' And Jesus looked at me
and said, 'You know what my theory is -- accept me or go to hell.'" Gilbert Gottfried (1955-)