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?
Did
Jesus teach to lie and steal?