Christianity’s True Founder, Paul, Admits Fabrication

Christianity’s True Founder, Paul, Admits Fabrication

Muslims do not claim that Jesus’ true disciples corrupted the Bible, but that others

claiming to act in their names did so later on. This is attested to by the fact that the

Trinitarian church felt it necessary to totally obliterate all Gospels written before 325

AD when they officially introduced the “trinity” to the world. This is why we find such

serious contradictions in even the most basic of it’s teachings. For example, we are told

that Saul of Tarsus (St. Paul) is the author of the majority of the books of the New

Testament. He is claimed to be the author of Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians,

Ephesians, Phillippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus,

Philemon, and Hebrews. We would expect such a pivotal character in the Bible and the

author of the majority of the New Testament books to be able to keep his stories straight

at least in such fundamental matters as how he became a Christian and was “saved.”

However, we can find in the Bible a sworn affidavit by Paul that he is guilty of

fabrication. Sound incredible? Let us have a look:

If we read Acts 9:19-29 and Acts 26:19-21, we will find that Paul is supposed to have

“seen the Lord in the way” and accepted Christianity after being a staunch enemy of

Christians and having become famous for his severe persecution of them. Barnabas (one

of the apostles of Jesus) then supposedly vouched for him with the other apostles and

convinced them to accept him. Paul then went with all of the apostles on a preaching

campaign in and out of Jerusalem and all of Judaea preaching boldly to it’s people. Paul

then appointed himself the twelfth apostle of Jesus (in place of Judas who had the devil in

him) as seen in his own books Romans 1:1, 1 Corinthians 1:1 ..etc..

The verses mentioned are:

Acts 9:19-29: “And when he (Paul) had received meat, he was strengthened. Then

was Saul (Paul) certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. And

straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. But all

that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called

on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them

bound unto the chief priests? But Saul increased the more in strength, and

confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. And

after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him: But their laying

await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. Then

the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket. And when

Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were

all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and

brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the

way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in

the name of Jesus. And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. And

he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but

they went about to slay him.”

Acts 26:19-21 “Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly

vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all

the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God,

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and do works meet for repentance. For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple,

and went about to kill me.”

Contradicted by:

Galatians 1:15-23 “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's

womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him

among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I

up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and

returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see

Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save

James the Lord's brother. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God,

I lie not. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; And was unknown

by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: But they had heard only,

That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he

destroyed.”

With regard to the first two passages, Reverend Dr. Davies in “The First Christian,” p.

26-32 says: “These assertions are not inconsistent with each other, but are damaging for

another reason,: they are contradicted by Paul himself in his letter to the Galatians

(Chapters 1 and 2).” Rev. Davies draws attention to Paul’s oath: “Now concerning the

things which I write to you, indeed, before God I do not lie,” which makes his account a

sworn affidavit. He goes on to say: “To the story in Acts, this contradiction is disastrous.

There never was a teaching campaign at Jerusalem and through all of the county of

Judea (Acts 26:20). If Paul was unknown to the Judean communities as he says, then he

had undertaken no mission among them. In fact he had never joined the Judean

movement or even attempted to join it. He only saw Cephas, and Jesus’ brother James.

Even of the other apostles, not to mention more ordinary believers, ‘I saw none’ he

admits. Instead of his having gone ‘in and out of Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the

name of the Lord’ the Jerusalem community had not even known that he was there.

‘They only heard’ he tells us ‘that he who once persecuted us now makes the faith of

which he made havoc’; but they never heard him preach it in Judea.” Rev. Davies

concludes that “..if there is any portion of the New Testament that is authentic, it is

Paul’s letter to the Galatians. If we cannot rely upon this letter, we can rely upon

nothing and may as well close our inquiry. But the fact is that we can rely upon it. The

letter to the Galatians is from Paul himself and by every test is genuine.”

According to the narration in Acts, Paul saw his alleged vision. “Straightway” he began

preaching in the synagogues of Damascus. He built up a reputation through his bold

preaching that amazed the masses. He confounded the Jews of Damascus. Many days

later, the Jews tried to kill him so he escaped to Jerusalem. He met Barnabas who

introduced him to the apostles for the first time. They were all terrified of Paul, but

Barnabas convinced them to accept him. Now Paul and all of the apostles went on a

preaching campaign in and out of Jerusalem speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.

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However, according to the narration in Galatians, Paul saw his alleged vision.

“Immediately” he did NOT confer with “flesh and blood” nor did he go to Jerusalem to

see the apostles, but rather he traveled to Arabia then back to Damascus. He mentions no

preaching in any of these places. After at least three years he goes to Jerusalem for the

first time and meets only Peter and James and no other apostles. He stays with them for

fifteen days but, once again, he mentions no preaching campaign either with all of the

apostles, with some of them, or alone. He also has never been here in the past nor

performed a preaching campaign here in the past since he is unknown by face to them and

they have “heard only” of his claimed conversion.

Some of the contradictions are:

1) Galatians claims that after his alleged vision, Paul “Immediately” spoke to “no flesh

and blood” but rather traveled to Arabia and then to Damascus. So he did not

“straightway,” if at all, preach boldly in Damascus as claimed by Acts (How long

would it take to travel from Damascus to Arabia to Damascus? Could he go and

come back “straightway”?).

2) According to Galatians, Paul did not go to Jerusalem where the apostles were.

Rather, he went to Arabia then to Damascus. Now, after at least THREE YEARS

(not many days), he goes to Jerusalem. It explicitly states that “Neither went I up to

Jerusalem to them which were apostles.” So this is claimed to be his FIRST visit to

Jerusalem after his claimed vision. This FIRST visit is claimed to have occurred at

least THREE YEARS after Paul’s alleged vision. However, Acts claims that MANY

DAYS after his vision he traveled to Jerusalem and performed a bold preaching

campaign with all the apostles. Acts also mentions no intermediate journey to

Arabia.

3) According to Galatians, upon Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem he met Peter and James and

no other apostles. He can not have met any apostles in Jerusalem before this because

he claims that immediately after his vision “Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them

which were apostles” Rather, it claims that he FIRST went to Jerusalem at least

“three years” after his claimed vision. On the other hand, Acts claims that the first

time he met the apostles was many days after his claimed vision at which time he

met ALL of the apostles. This too is obviously his first meeting with them since they

all feared him. Notice the words “they were ALL afraid of him.” This would not be

the case if Peter and James had already met him since even if they had never

mentioned him to the other apostles, still, at the very least they themselves (Peter and

James) would not fear him. Also notice that it was only Barnabas who stood up for

him and not Barnabas, Peter, and James.

4) Galatians claims that after Paul’s first visit to Jerusalem all the apostles feared him

but then Barnabas convinced them to accept him and they ALL went hand in hand

“in and out of Jerusalem” preaching “boldly” to the Jews. However, Acts claims

that his first visit to Jerusalem was after THREE YEARS and upon this FIRST visit

he met ONLY Peter and James. He is not claimed to have gone with Peter and

James on a preaching campaign in and out of Jerusalem, nor could he have done so

in the past with ALL of the apostles since if he had done so he would not have been

“unknown by face to the churches of Judea,” they would also not have “heard

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only” of his conversion but would have witnessed his bold campaign with all of the

apostles with their own eyes.

If the author of the majority of the books of the New Testament can not even keep the

narration of own “salvation” straight then how are we expected to believe him in such

critical matters as the “true” meanings of Jesus’ words, or other matters?

Strange as it may seem, there is a logical explanation for the above contradictions. This

explanation is given by Paul himself. He says: “For if the truth of God has more

abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”

Romans 3:7. So Paul is telling his followers that it is necessary for a good Christian to

“lie unto God’s glory” in order for God’s truth to “abound.” Truth and morality will

never be sufficient to completely establish God’s “truth.” He is protesting to us that we

should not label him a “sinner” merely because he lied unto God’s glory. If he had not

lied unto God’s glory then God’s truth would never have been established so fully.

Sound logical?

The careful reader will notice many other holes in the story of Paul’s alleged

“conversion.” For instance, in Acts 22:9 Paul claims that when he spoke to Jesus (pbuh),

those traveling with him “saw the light,” but “they heard not the voice.” While in Acts

9:7 those who were with Paul are claimed to have “stood speechless, hearing a voice, but

seeing no man.” Don’t take my word for it, by all means “prove all things.” The

teachings of Christianity as they are known today are built upon the claims of Paul, the

author of the majority of the books of the New Testament. He is trusted blindly because

he claims to have seen Jesus (pbuh) in a heavenly vision, to have been vouched for by the

apostle Barnabas, to have met and been accepted by all of the apostles, to have preached

with all the apostles boldly in the name of Jesus throughout the land of Judaea, and as a

result of this to have endured severe hardship and persecution. However, anyone who

would simply read their Bible will find that Paul himself swears in the name of God

almighty that this is a fabrication because Judaea had never even seen his face and had

“heard only” of his alleged conversion. Further, he never met any of the apostles save

Peter and James. Even with all of this Christians insist on interpreting the words of Jesus

within the context of Paul’s teachings.

There are so many more similar examples of how Paul openly and blatantly made major

changes to the religion of Jesus that flagrantly contradicted both the teachings of Jesus

and his apostles. Another example can be seen in the following analysis: God almighty

commands in Genesis 17:10-14: “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me

and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And

ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant

betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,

every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with

money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he

that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in

your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh

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of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath

broken my covenant.” So God himself is telling us that His covenant can only be had

through circumcision. The significance of circumcision was also noted by Biblical

scholars as being not merely an external act: “This was His own sign and seal that Israel

was a chosen people. Through it a man's life was linked with great fellowship whose

dignity was it's high consciousness that it must fulfill the purpose of God” (Interpreter's

Bible, p. 613).

Circumcision was considered of such critical importance to Jewish faith that they

would even violate the Sabbath to circumcise their children if the eighth day fell on the

Sabbath. John 7:22 “and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the

Sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye

angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day?” Jesus

himself was circumcised on the eighth day just like all faithful Jews: Luke 2:21: “And

when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was

called JESUS.” After the departure of Jesus, circumcision became an issue of personal

conflict between the apostle Peter who insisted upon it (preach to Jews only) and Paul

who wanted to do away with it (preach to non-Jews also). Galatians 2:7: “I had been

entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with

the gospel for the circumcised.” Paul then goes into great details about how the apostles

were wrong and he was right and how even Barnabas followed in their “hypocrisy” and it

was necessary for him to show the apostles the truth (in the King James Version, the

actual word used by Paul in Galatians 2:13 is diplomatically translated as

“dissimulation..” However, in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible which was

compiled from more ancient manuscripts than the KJV, the word Paul used is honestly

translated as “hypocrisy”).

Paul now mentions James (James the Son of Thunder, James the Just), Peter (the Rock),

and Barnabas (Paul’s teacher and protector) in the following manner: Galatians 2:14 “I

saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel.” So now it

becomes apparent from Paul’s words that, in addition to all the above, the apostles were

also misguided. It would have been interesting to have heard for instance Barnabas’

version of these matters had he been chosen as the “majority author” of the Bible rather

than Paul. According to many similar passages, it seems that the apostles were constantly

in need of Paul’s guidance to recognize the truth. To get Barnabas’ version of these

matters, his opinion of Paul, as well as what really happened at the cross look for “The

Gospel of Barnabas,” ISBN 0089295-133-1, at your local library, or obtain your copy

from one of the addresses listed at the back of this book.

It is interesting to note that Paul himself was not even sure about his own “visions.” In

2 Corinthians 12:1-5 we read: “It is expedient for me to boast; nothing is to be gained

by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ

above fourteen years ago, whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the

body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I

knew such a man, whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;

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How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is

not lawful for a man to utter. Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,

but in mine infirmities..” So Paul did not know if the man in his “visions” was “in the

body” or “out of the body.” Paul’s vision also contained “unspeakable words” which

were “not lawful for a man to utter.”

If I told you that I had seen someone in a “vision,” had heard “unspeakable words that

are not lawful to utter” in this vision, had been commanded by this person to “lie unto

God’s glory,” and had been told to nullify the commandments which Jesus (pbuh) had

upheld his whole life, who would you say this described? Who had I seen?

The Qur’an says: “And if it be said unto them: Follow that which Allah has revealed,

they say: Nay, but we follow that wherein we found our fathers. What! Even though

the devil was inviting them to the torture of the fire?” The Qur’an, Lukman(31):21.

What is wrong with this picture? Even if we were to disregard Paul’s sworn admission

of fabrication and were to accept the established beliefs of Paul’s inspiration and

faultlessness (a very big “if”), then we are still left with the following picture:

Paul, a man who according to his own admission “beyond measure” severely persecuted

countless Christians “slaughtered” them, and also “wasted” the church (Galatians 1:13-

15, Acts 8:1-3, Acts 9:1-2, Acts 9:41, Acts 6:5.. etc.), a man who never met Jesus face to

face, underwent a “miraculous” conversion from a persecutor and killer of Christians into

a more perfect teacher of Christianity than the apostles themselves. He was singled out

by Jesus’ ghost to receive a “vision” which was denied the apostles who had

accompanied Jesus (pbuh) during his lifetime (Galatians 1:10-12). Paul had acquired such

a terrible reputation as a persecutor of Christians that no one was willing to accept his

claims of conversion. It was only the intervention of Barnabas, who’s words obviously

carried a great deal of weight with the apostles, which allowed the apostles to grudgingly

accept him. Barnabas then traveled extensively with Paul building up his reputation

among the Jews as a true convert. Once Paul acquired a reputation of his own, he had a

falling out with Barnabas (Acts 15:39, Galatians 2:13). They parted company. Paul now

claimed that Jesus (pbuh) wanted him to “relax” the law in order to make it a little more

palatable for new converts, and this is when Paul began to make drastic changes to the

law of Jesus (pbuh).

Paul decided that his “visions” were sufficient authority to contradict the teachings of

the apostles and consider them hypocrites. Even Barnabas, the apostle who traveled with

Paul teaching him and preaching to the Jews, who was willing to accept this persecutor of

Christians claims of conversion at face value, and the man who single handedly

convinced the apostles to accept this same persecutor of Christians is now considered by

Paul a hypocrite and less able to understand the religion of Jesus (pbuh) than himself.

Paul also believed that “...I labored more abundantly than they (the apostles) all” 1

Corinthians 15:10. So, the apostles of Jesus were such lazy layabouts that Paul was doing

more work than all eleven of them. All of this even though the apostles spent countless

years with Jesus (pbuh) learning directly from him while Paul, who has never met Jesus

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in person, practically overnight transforms from a persecutor and killer of Christians and

the apostles to a more perfect teacher of Christianity than the apostles themselves. It is

quite lucky for us that Paul received this “vision,” otherwise we might have been lead

astray by the lazy, misguided, hypocritical apostles. For Barnabas’ version of these

matters, read “The Gospel of Barnabas.”

Let us time out for a quick analyses of the above verses:

1) Paul according to his own admission “beyond measure” severely persecuted

countless Christians, strove to “slaughter” them, and also “wasted” the church

(Galatians 1:13-15, Acts 8:1-3, Acts 9:1-2, Acts 9:41, Acts 6:5.. etc.).

2) Paul receives “visions” and is saved (Acts 22:9, Acts 9:7...etc.)

3) Paul is not sure exactly what he saw in his visions.(2 Corinthians 12:1-5)

4) Paul’s visions contained “unspeakable words that it is unlawful to utter.” (2

Corinthians 12:1-5)

5) Paul tells us that the person in his visions was Jesus (pbuh). He declares that he

received his teachings of “Christianity” from these visions and from no one else, not

even the apostles. (Galatians 1:12).

6) Paul “lies” unto “God’s Glory” in order that God’s “truth” may “abound”(Romans

3:7).

7) The apostles differ with Paul regarding the “truth” of the circumcision ordained by

God and other matters.(1 Corinthians 7:19, Galatians 2:7...etc.).

8) The apostles, according to Paul, did not walk “uprightly” according to the “truth of

the Gospel” and were lazy, misguided, hypocrites (1 Corinthians 15:10, Galatians

2:14, Galatians 2:13).

9) Most of the books of the New Testament are written by Paul himself. In them, Paul

himself gives an unblushing pronouncement of how he was a vastly superior apostle

of Jesus (pbuh) than the apostles who accompanied Jesus (pbuh) during his ministry

and they all needed his guidance to see the “truth” of Jesus’ message and how Jesus

(pbuh) and the apostles appointed him the twelfth apostle..

Summary: If the truth of God needs lies unto God’s Glory to establish it, and Paul

himself admits to having lied unto God’s Glory, and the apostles were not following

this “truth” as close as Paul would have liked, then the apostles must not have been

lying against God’s glory enough for Paul’s taste.

Regardless, it is well known that just prior to Paul’s “miraculous” conversion and

“heavenly vision” he had been extremely infatuated with a woman called Popea and had

wished to marry her. Popea was the attractive but ambitious daughter of the high priest of

the Jews. She possessed haughty beauty, and an intriguing mind. She liked Paul but

rejected his offers of marriage. She went to Rome as an actress. She started on the stage

and ended up in Emperor Nero’s bed. She eventually married him and became the

Empress of the Roman Empire. Paul, therefore, had good reason to hate both the Jews

and the Romans. His “vision” coincided with Popea’s rejection. (Jesus Prophet of Islam,

Muhammad ‘Ata ur-Rahim, p. 57).

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These apostles that Paul looked down upon as lazy misguided hypocrites are the

selfsame apostles who had accompanied Jesus (pbuh) during his lifetime, who taught all

of mankind (including Paul himself) the teachings of Jesus (pbuh), and who endured the

persecution of many (including Paul) to convey this message. The Pauline Church (the

Roman Catholic church which later gave birth to other churches such as the Protestant

church) was to later go on and concoct the doctrine of the trinity about three hundred

years after the departure of Jesus, to severely condemn, persecute, and kill any Christians

who did not convert to their own personal brand of Christianity, to have presided over the

death of millions of Christians who did not adopt this belief. To have presided over the

destruction of many hundreds of “unacceptable” Gospels (some sources claim thousands)

some of which were written by the apostles themselves, and to have issued death warrants

for all those found concealing them... and on and on.

Even with all of this, the Gospel of Barnabas has managed to escape this campaign of

destruction of the Gospels and is available today. It confirms all that we have said and

what the Qur’an has been saying for centuries. It also presents Barnabas’ response to

Paul’s claims and his account of what truly happened at the cross and how Jesus (pbuh)

was not forsaken by God to the Jews, but was raised by God, and Judas the traitor was

made to look like Jesus (pbuh) and was taken in his place. Barnabas, of course,

accompanied Jesus (pbuh) and was an eye-witness to his mission. Paul was not.

Getting back to our story... Paul had a falling out with the apostles and decided that

“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the

commandments of God” 1 Corinthians 7:19. Even though circumcision was held in an

even higher regard than the Sabbath itself in the law of Moses and the “commandments

of God,” still, Paul taught that it is possible to keep the commandments even if, contrary

to the teachings of Jesus and the apostles, this foremost commandment of circumcision

was abandoned.

In the end, Paul decided that all the commandments of God through Moses (pbuh)

which Jesus (pbuh) had kept faithfully till the crucifixion and which the apostles had also

kept were all worthless decaying and ready to vanish away and faith was all that was

required, thereby completely nullifying everything his “Lord” Jesus had taught and

practiced during his lifetime. Romans 3:28: “Therefore we conclude that a man is

justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” He decided that the laws of Moses

(pbuh) (e.g. “thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill, ...etc.”) which Jesus (pbuh) had

taught the faithful during his lifetime were a “curse” upon them and no longer necessary,

Galatians 3:13 “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.” He then went

about explaining the “true” meanings of the teachings of Jesus and Paul’s preachings are

what are now known as “Christianity.”

Paul himself readily admits that he was both willing and able to recruit new converts by

any means at his disposal: 1 Corinthians 9:20 “And unto the Jews I became as a Jew,

that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law(Gentiles), as under the law,

that I might gain them that are under the law” and 1 Corinthians 9:22: “...I am made

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all things to all men, that I might by all means save some” and 1 Corinthians 6:12:

“...all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

What are some of these “means” Paul used to “save some,”? Well, as we have seen, one

of them is his admitted habit of LYING AGAINST GOD’S GLORY in order to propagate

his doctrine. However, he believed that the truth “abounded” through his lies (Romans

3:7). Paul also openly admits that his teachings were not obtained from the apostles of

Jesus, but from a vision of Jesus denied the apostles: Galatians 1:12 “For I neither

received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Did

Jesus (pbuh) come to Paul in a “vision” and command him to lie against God? Is God’s

light so week that it can only be advanced through Paul’s lies? Are Paul’s lies so “pious”

as to advance God’s glory in a manner that would be impossible through truth and light

alone? Is this what Jesus (pbuh) was teaching him in his “visions”? Is this the religion of

God?

Around the 25th of Sep. 1994 (I forget the exact day), a US newspaper ran an article

about a man in California alleged to be the “Thrill” killer. He was accused of killing six

people. During his trial he did something totally unexpected. He suddenly jumped up

and said three words: “I am guilty.” He had not consulted his lawyer and no one had

expected this turn of events. Was he thrown in jail? No. Was he sentenced to the

“chair.”? No! Well what did happen? This admitted killer of six people was proclaimed

to be mentally incompetent and his testimony could in no way benefit the prosecution.

Does this sound like justice? Does this sound like logic? Paul himself admits that he had

lied. He does not admit to just any lie but a lie against God’s Glory. Is he condemned as

a heretic? No. Is he called a blasphemer? No. Is he burned at the stake? No! He is called

a “saint.” Can any other Christian openly admit to having lied against God’s Glory and

get away with it? If a Christian were to jump up in church and shout at the top of his

lungs “I have lied against God’s Glory,” would the congregation proudly parade him up

and down the streets and call him a “saint”? Would they then burn their Bibles and ask

for divine inspiration from him? Would they “interpret” his “lie” sixty different ways to

make it a “good” and “pious” lie? Would they only interpret the words of Jesus (pbuh)

through his words? Can you picture anyone in their right mind doing such a thing? Is

this how we love God “with all our minds”?

The great apostle of Jesus (pbuh), Barnabas (the defender and benefactor of Paul), in

the opening statements of his Gospel has the following to say about Paul among others:

“True Gospel of Jesus, called Messiah, a new prophet sent by God to the world

according to the description of Barnabas his apostle. Barnabas, apostle of Jesus the

Nazarene, called Messiah, to all them that dwell upon the earth desire peace and

consolation. Truly beloved, the great and wonderful God has in these past days visited

us by His apostle Jesus (the) Messiah in great mercy of teaching and miracles, by reason

whereof many, being deceived by Satan, under pretense of piety, are preaching most

impious doctrine, calling Jesus the Son of God, repudiating the circumcision ordained by

God forever, and permitting every unclean meat: among whom also Paul has been

deceived, whereof I speak not without grief: for which cause I am writing the truth which

I have seen and heard, in the fellowship that I have had with Jesus, in order that you may

be saved, and not be deceived by Satan and perish in judgment of God. Therefore,

beware of everyone that preaches to you a new doctrine contrary to that which I write,

that you may be saved eternally. The great God be with you and guard you from Satan

and from every evil. Amen.”

Paul himself admits that there were those who were preaching a different Gospel than

his own and were gaining converts. He does not name his adversaries, but we can read

about his most noble adversaries in two places wherein Paul uses what Prof. Brandon

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calls “very remarkable terms” to describe them. The first is Galatians 1:6-9. “I marvel

that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto

another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would

pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any

other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you

than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

The second is 2 Corinthians 11:3-6 “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent

beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the

simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we

have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or

another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. For I

suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. But though I be rude in

speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you

in all things.”

These opponents of Paul were clearly preaching “another Gospel” and “another

Jesus,” they were also obviously operating among Paul’s own target group and

converting his converts. All of this even though their teachings did not exhibit the

“simplicity” that Paul preached but required their followers to work for their salvation.

However, Paul displays amazing restraint when referring to them by not lambasting them

with the vehemence of speech which he is so capable nor questioning their authority.

Rather, he gives a clue to their identity with the words: “...For I suppose I was not a whit

behind the very chiefest apostles” and “we, or an angel from heaven,” and “unto

another gospel: Which is not another.”

Christian scholars today unanimously agree that the very first Christians, including the

apostles of Jesus (pbuh) were all Unitarians and that the trinity was not concocted until

around the beginning of the fourth century. These Unitarians enjoyed a large following

and spread throughout much of North Africa among other places. During this period, any

Roman or Greek gentile who wanted to enter into Christianity pretty much was allowed to

choose which “Christianity” he wanted. The one preached by Barnabas and the apostles

which involved a strict and disciplined law of Moses (pbuh), or the much more simplistic

“New covenant” of Paul which only required “faith in Jesus” and which was later made

more appealing to them by the Pauline Church by incorporating a “Trinity” and other

changes into it so that it would more closely resemble the Roman and Greek established

beliefs of multiple Gods and father-Gods and son-Gods and Demi-Gods and Goddesses

...etc. Toland says in his book The Nazarenes: “...amongst the Gentiles, so inveterate

was the hatred of the Jews that their observing of anything, however reasonable or

necessary, was sufficient motive for a Gentile convert to reject it.” If Paul wanted to

convert these people, he would need to make Christianity a little more appealing to them,

which he (and his church) did.

One of these first Unitarian Christians, Iranaeus (130-200 AD), a follower of the

Gospels of Barnabas and the apostles, and one of the first Christians to be killed because

of their adherence to the unity of God, has the following to say about such as Paul and his

church: “In order to amaze the simple and such as are ignorant of the Scriptures of

Truth, they obtrude upon them an inexpressible multitude of apocryphal and spurious

scriptures of their own devising” (the Gospels in our possession today).

When the Pauline Church gained power and influence in Rome these Unitarian

Christians were officially condemned, persecuted and killed. An attempt was made to

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totally obliterate them and their books by forcing them to accept the trinity or else to be

killed as heretics and by burning their Gospels. Over a million of these Unitarian

Christians were then put to death because of their refusal to compromise their belief. In

spite of this, their beliefs have survived even to this day. When Islam came with the call

to one God and the belief in Jesus (pbuh) and his miracles, these Unitarian Christians

were among the first people to recognize the word of God and accept Islam.

So thorough has Paul and his church been in totally eradicating all of the teachings of

Jesus (pbuh) and his first apostles that very little has survived. Not even Jesus’ (pbuh)

preferred method of greeting his followers. From ancient times, the prophets of God

including Moses, Joseph, David, Jesus, the angels of God and many others including God

himself have made it their custom to greet the believers with the words “Peace be with

you.” This can be seen in such verses as Genesis 43:23, Judges 6:23, 1 Samuel 25:6,

Numbers 6:26, 1 Samuel 1:17, Luke 24:36, John 20:19, John 20:26, and especially Luke

10:5: “And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house” to name a

few. Can anyone guess what Muhammad (pbuh) taught his followers to say when

greeting each other or departing from each other? You guessed it! “Assalam alaikum” or

“Peace be unto you.” Have you ever met a Christian who greets other Christians with the

words of Jesus (pbuh): “Peace be unto you”?

So, what do the scholars have to say about Paul?:

Heinz Zahrnt calls Paul “the corrupter of the Gospel of Jesus.” From “The Jesus

Report,” Johannes Lehman, p. 126.

Werde describes him as “The second founder of Christianity.” He further says that due

to Paul: “...the discontinuity between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the Church

became so great that any unity between them is scarcely recognizable” . From “The

Jesus Report,” Johannes Lehman, p. 127.

Schonfield wrote: “The Pauline heresy became the foundation of the Christian

orthodoxy and the legitimate Church was disowned as heretical.” From “The Jesus

Report,” Johannes Lehman, p. 128.

Another Christian, Mr. Michael H. Hart, in his book “The 100, a Ranking of the Most

Influential Persons in History,” places Muhammad (pbuh) in first place, next comes

Paul, and Jesus (pbuh) after Paul. Like most other western scholars besides himself, he

recognizes Paul as being more deserving of credit for “Christianity” than “Christ”

himself.

Grolier’s encyclopedia has the following to say under the heading “Christianity”: “After

Jesus was crucified, his followers, strengthened by the conviction that he had risen from

the dead and that they were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, formed the first

Christian community in Jerusalem. By the middle of the 1st century, missionaries were

spreading the new religion among the peoples of Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Greece, and

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Italy. Chief among these was Saint Paul, who laid the foundations of Christian theology

and played a key role in the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect to a world

religion. The original Christians, being Jews, observed the dietary and ritualistic laws of

the Torah and required non-Jewish converts to do the same. Paul and others favored

eliminating obligation, thus making Christianity more attractive to Gentiles.”

“If by Christianity we understand faith in Christ as the heavenly Son of God, who did

not belong to earthly humanity, but who lived in the divine likeness and glory, who came

down from heaven to earth, who entered humanity and took upon himself a human form

through a virgin, that he might make propitiation for men’s sins by his own blood upon

the cross, who was then awakened from death and raised to the right hand of God, as the

Lord of his own people, who believe in him, who hears their prayers, guards and leads

them, who will come again with the clouds of heaven to judge the world, who will cast

down all the foes of God, and will bring his own people with him unto the home of

heavenly light so that they may become like His glorified body - if this is Christianity,

then such Christianity was founded by St. Paul and not by our Lord” Dr. Arnold Meyer,

Professor of Theology, Zurich University, Jesus or Paul, p. 122

As we can see, this information is not new. It has been well recognized and

documented for centuries now. Even centuries ago, it was well known that most of what

was claimed by the church could not be verified through the Bible. Thus, a shift was

made from obtaining ones inspiration from the Bible to obtaining it from the “Bride of

Jesus,” the church. Fra Fulgentio, for instance, was once reprimanded by the Pope in a

letter saying “Preaching of the Scriptures is a suspicious thing. He who keeps close to

the Scriptures will ruin the Catholic faith.” In his next letter he was more explicit:

“...which is a book if anyone keeps close to will quite destroy the Catholic faith.”

Tetradymus, John Toland.

Many Christian evangelists would love dearly to provide salvation for their non-

Christian neighbors. So much so that they can not understand how their neighbors can

not see the clear and obvious love God holds for them such that He would actually

sacrifice His only begotten son for them. In order to make this clear for their neighbors,

they draw many analogies. For example, a Christian gentleman from Canada once sent

our local Islamic center a six-page pamphlet with the goal of demonstrating the love of

God to us. The pamphlet contained a short fictitious story wherein all of the players had

Arab names. The story was about a fictitious Arab man who was very moral and upright.

One day, his son committed a serious crime that deserved capital punishment. The

authorities found evidence linking this crime to this man’s house. When the authorities

came, the father falsely admitted to the crime in order to spare his son. The pamphlet

concluded that just as the father’s love for his son made him sacrifice himself, in a similar

manner, God Almighty’s love for mankind drove him to sacrifice Jesus(pbuh).

Now, maybe it is just us, however, at the end of the story we were expecting the parallel

to be that God almighty “the father” would now sacrifice Himself in order that Jesus “the

son” would not have to die, just as the “Arab” father had sacrificed himself to save his

son. Although we appreciated the consideration, still, we could not see the similarity

between the two stories.

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When a person is good and upright, that person may be willing to sacrifice themselves

for the greater good or for a loved one. For example, if a mother sees her son in danger of

being run over by a car, she may very likely run in front of the car in order to save her

baby. If she raised the neighbor’s child with her own and grew very attached to that

child, then she might also be willing to sacrifice herself for the neighbor’s child too. She

might throw herself in front of the car for the neighbor’s child as well. However, have

you ever heard of a mother who, when she saw a car about to hit the neighbor’s child,

threw HER SON in front of the car so that the impact of her son’s body smashing into the

car’s windshield would cause it to swerve away from the neighbor’s child?

As the Bible says “prove all things, hold fast that which is good.” 1 Thessalonians

5:21. “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God ... with all thy mind ... : this is the first

commandment.” Mark 12:30

We would like nothing more than to present much more supporting evidence of these

matters, however, we must end somewhere. For a detailed historical account collected

from the writings of the church itself, I strongly recommend the book “Jesus, A Prophet

of Islam” by Muhammad `Ata ur-Rahim, and “Blood on the cross,” by Ahmed Thomson.

If you can not find these books at your local library then you may obtain a copy at one of

the addresses listed at the back of this book.

For a book that is claimed to have remained 100% the inspired word of God, the sheer

number of contradicting narrations boggles the mind (see chapter two). These matters

have been well known and documented by Christian scholars for a long time now. It is

the masses who don’t know this. The information is out there for anyone who will simply

look for it. The historical inconsistencies and scriptural contradictions are well

recognized in this century and countless books have been written about them. However,

their studies have always stopped short of the final step. People have generally believed

that there is no way to retrieve the original teachings of Jesus (pbuh) after such extensive

and continuous revision of the text of the Bible by the church over so many centuries as

well as the Paulian Church’s massive campaign of destruction of all Gospels not

conforming to their personal beliefs. But where human intellect has failed, God has

intervened. The Qur’an has been sent down by the same One who sent the Gospel. It

contains the original, uncorrupted teachings of God. We invite all readers to study the

Qur’an just as we have studied the Bible, and to make up their minds if our claims bear

merit.