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<p><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Evidence Apostle John Was Critical of Paul&nbsp; </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">[<a href="https://youtu.be/QOkt7j2POBg">Audio Reading</a> on YouTube by volunteer, Dan.]</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">[<a href="https://airtable.com/shrphqbr5BkiWRHCm">Audio MP3</a> for download, done by volunteer, Dan.]</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Apostle John comes from a different place than Paul on every issue involving the Gospel and God's commandments when you examine John in depth. The reason is tipped off by 1 John 5:2-3 -- your assurance that you love God's&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">children properly only comes from this:&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-weight: bold;">2&nbsp;</span>in this we know that we love the children of God, when<strong> we may love God, and His commands may keep</strong>;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-weight: bold;">3&nbsp;</span>for <strong>this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome</strong> (YLT)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">As we will show, both the Gospel of John and Revelation by John are critical of Paul. Before explaining how so, it is important to know the order in which John wrote these two works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;"><strong>Revelation is Two Decades Before Gospel of John</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Apostle John first wrote Revelation - also known as the Apocalypse. He did so while imprisoned at Patmos (Rev. 1:9). It is about the "eternal gospel" for every "nation" (<a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/14-6.htm">Rev 14:16</a>). The temple still stood at Jerusalem. For in Revelation 11:1-2, John is told in a vision to measure the Temple. He repeats a prophecy that the Gentiles will tread it under foot. This happened in 70 AD.</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;Thus, we can date Revelation to 68AD approximately. Most modern scholars concur that Revelation was written prior to the fall of the Temple in 70 AD. See Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, book 1, at <a href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.pdf">301 fn. 713.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Then when released from prison, John went to Ephesus. Apostle John then wrote the Gospel of John at Ephesus. (See "<a href="http://www.patmospapers.com/ndex/john.htm">Authorship of Revelation</a>," PatmosPapers.com.) This is sometime around 90 AD. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">This sequence of Revelation first, and John's Gospel second, is found in the writings of Bishop Papias. He knew Apostle John, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VxB4GqeXjSoC&amp;lpg=PR58&amp;ots=kD9RclFF-V&amp;dq=papias%20exoterica%20apocalypse&amp;pg=PR59#v=onepage&amp;q=papias%20exoterica%20apocalypse&amp;f=false">according to Irenaeus.</a> Papias&nbsp; died in 163 AD.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Eusebius in the 300s says that Revelation comes&nbsp;<strong>prior</strong>&nbsp;to the Gospel of John:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"He [the apostle John] wrote this Gospel in the Province of Asia, after he had composed the Apocalypse on the Island of Patmos.&nbsp;A few months before his death [18 September, 96], the emperor had discontinued the persecution of the Christians and recalled the exiles."&nbsp;Eusebius (Hist. eccl.,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250103.htm" style="color: #517291;">3.20. 5-7</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">This sequence was again summarized in a 10th Century <em>Bible of Toledo. </em>It relies on Papias. It reads:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt;">"This Gospel [of John] then, it is clear, was <strong><em>written after</em></strong> the Apocalypse [i.e., the book of Revelation], and was given to the churches in Asia by John, being still in the body, as the bishop of Hierapolis, Papias by name, a beloved disciple of John, who wrote this Gospel while John dictated, recounts in his&nbsp;Exoterica<strong>,</strong> that is, in the last five books." (John Wordsworth and Henry White,&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.org/details/nouumtestamentu00goog">Novum Testamentum Domine nostri Jesus Christu Latine Secundum Sancti Hieronymi</a>&nbsp;(1911)<strong>&nbsp;</strong>Vol. 1, pp. 490, 491. See also <em>Criticism of the New Testament: St. Margaret Lectures, 1902</em> at page <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EC8VAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA175&amp;ots=YkLPtGugie&amp;dq=papias%20exoterica%20apocalypse&amp;pg=PA175#v=onepage&amp;q=papias%20exoterica%20apocalypse&amp;f=false">175</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This paragraph was also similarly found in a 9th Century Vaticanus codex. See its reading in James David Audin, <em>The Gospel of John, the Original Version</em> at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ULGCBgAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PA262&amp;ots=55Fxop5Ld6&amp;dq=sibi%20dictante&amp;pg=PA262#v=onepage&amp;q=sibi%20dictante&amp;f=false">page 262</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This Vaticanus version about the sequence was apparently translated from Greek, as Lightfoot pointed out. As a result, it is a "reasonable inference" that the paragraph about Revelation coming first was in existence in the third century. See, John Henry Bernard, <em>St. John Vol. 1:1-7&nbsp;</em>(A&amp;C Black, 2000) at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VxB4GqeXjSoC&amp;lpg=PR58&amp;ots=kD9RclFF-V&amp;dq=papias%20exoterica%20apocalypse&amp;pg=PR58#v=onepage&amp;q=papias%20exoterica%20apocalypse&amp;f=false">lviii</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;"><strong>A Preliminary Proof that John's Revelation Has Anti-Pauline Aspect</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Now that we know Revelation came early and before John's Gospel, we will address its anti-Pauline character briefly. (We will treat later in depth how Revelation is anti-Paul.) But to make sure the reader knows this is legitimate at this early point, here is a pro-Paul Christian professor acknowledging this truth about John's Revelation.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Palmer_Gould" style="color: #517291;">Ezra Palmer Gould</a>&nbsp;had been a Baptist professor for 17 years and was a famous&nbsp;Christian writer at the turn of the last century. Before silence on this topic crept in, he explained in&nbsp;<strong>The Biblical Theology of the New Testament</strong>&nbsp;(MacMillan 1900):</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">"The&nbsp;<strong>Apocalypse</strong>&nbsp;[i.e., Revelation of John] ... represents an&nbsp;<strong>unqualified opposition to Paul</strong>....The Apocalypse [is]&nbsp;<strong>anti-Pauline</strong>."&nbsp;[<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jxpVAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=inauthor%3A%22Ezra%20Palmer%20Gould%22&amp;pg=PA125#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" style="color: #517291;">Page 125</a>.] "[Revelation is] a writing&nbsp;<strong>distinctly anti-Pauline</strong>." [<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jxpVAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=inauthor%3A%22Ezra%20Palmer%20Gould%22&amp;pg=PA131#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" style="color: #517291;">Page 131</a>.] </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Gould spun this as attributable to tampering by an anti-Paulinist. He offered no proof. But this shows you his orientation was to defend Paul, <strong>even if it meant disparaging the authenticity of Revelation</strong>. No one has ever offered proof how Revelation could be published, and John <strong>never correct it</strong> over the next approximately 20 years when he finally writes his gospel. In any event, Gould's observation confirms the path we are on is the correct one: &nbsp;John is removing Paul's influence from the time he leaves prison in the 60s until his death in the 90s.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;"><strong>Ephesus' Doctrine Once John Arrives After Paul's Death.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">The people of that area where John is released &ndash; especially Ephesus &ndash; knew Apostle John after they knew Paul decades earlier. Irenaeus in 180 AD comments in <strong>Against All Heresies</strong> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103303.htm">3:4</a>&nbsp;that Apostle John took over the church Paul founded at Ephesus:&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Then, again, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Church</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05490a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ephesus</a>, founded by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Paul</a>, and having&nbsp;John&nbsp;remaining among them permanently until the times of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15015a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Trajan</a>, is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15073a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">true</a><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15677a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">witness</a>&nbsp;of the tradition&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01626c.htm" style="color: darkblue; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">apostles</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Scholars agree that under John's later influence -- which continued for 30 years after Paul died, the community of Ephesus became non-Pauline in outlook. For long after Paul's death in about 64 AD, John leaves his prison on Patmos. He puts down stakes in Ephesus. Eusebius records in the early 300s the history that when Apostle John </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">"returned from Patmos to Ephesus, he went away upon their invitation to the neighboring territory of the gentiles, <strong>to appoint bishops in some places, in other places to set in order whole churches</strong>, elsewhere to choose to the ministry someone of those who were pointed out by the spirit." (Eusebius, Church History in Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol 1 at <a href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.pdf">309 #6.</a>)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Evangelical scholar F.F. Bruce explains how this disappearance of Pauline influence came about within orthodox circles at Ephesus when they fell under Apostle John's influence. David E. Blair summarizes Bruce's points:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The consideration of the Johannine community is perhaps the most conservative of these studies. Yet much evidence is weighed back and forth. Bruce locates the community at Ephesus. References to<em><strong> heretical thought in the Gospel of John</strong></em> are reflective of a Roman Asia location. Also, the early Church traditions of the John at Ephesus are strong and extend through Papias, Polycarp, and beyond. While aware of the adventurous work of J. Louis Martyn and Robert E. Brown in "The Community of the Beloved Disciple," Bruce leaves the question of the number of significant persons within the community open and sees <em><strong>a strong possibility of the apostle John at Ephesus and/or Patmos.</strong>&nbsp;The <strong>Pauline foundation in Roman Asia is seen to be eclipsed, and the ongoing Church there becomes a reflection of Johannine thought</strong></em><strong>.</strong> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3LKITM51V4TRQ" style="color: #517291;">Review</a>&nbsp;of F.F. Bruce,&nbsp;<em>Peter, Stephen, James and John: Studies in Early Non-Pauline Christianity</em>&nbsp;(Eerdman's 1980)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">Renan likewise in his famous pro-Paul work <em>Saint Paul</em> (Carleton 1869) explained the eclipse of Paul's doctrines. Renan says this came about by Apostle John's presence at Ephesus after John's release from the island prison at Patmos. None of the Christian writers who are contemporaries with John at Ephesus pay any attention to Paul. They instead emphasize doctrines belonging to the "Jewish" party at Jerusalem (<em>i.e.</em>, James whose epistle says faith alone does not save). So Renan writes about this eclipse of Paul at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&amp;pg=PA219#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">page 219</a> as follows:&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">Christianity burst forth like a sudden conflagra</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">tion throughout all&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>Asia Minor</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">. It is probable that the Jewish Christians labored on their side to spread the Gospel there. "John, who belonged to this party," was received in Asia as an apostle of&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>superior authority to Paul.</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;The Apocalypse [i.e., the book of Revelation] addressed in the year 68 to the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea on the Lycus,<em><strong> appears composed for the Jewish-Christians</strong></em>. Without doubt, between the death of Paul and the editing of the Apocalypse [i.e., Revelation], there was at Ephesus and in Asia, as it were, a second Jewish-Christian preaching. Nevertheless, if Paul had been for ten years the sole chief of the churches of Asia,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>we cannot understand how he should have been forgotten there so soon</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">. "St. Philip" and Papias," glories of the church of Hierapolis, Melito,&nbsp;glory of that of Sardis, were Jewish-Christians.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>Neither Papias nor Polycrates of Ephesus quotes Paul</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">. The authority of John has absorbed everything, and John is to these churches a Jewish chief priest. The churches of Asia in the second century, the church of Laodicea especially, are the scene of a controversy which attaches itself to the vital question of Christianity, and in which the traditional party shows itself not at all in harmony with the ideas of Paul.<span data-mce-mark="1"><sup>87</sup></span>&nbsp;Montanism is a sort of return to Judaism, in the bosom of Phrygian Christianity. In other words, in Asia, as at Corinth,<span data-mce-mark="1"><sup>88</sup></span>&nbsp;<strong><em>the memory of Paul after his death appears to have undergone a sort of eclipse during a whole century</em></strong>. Even the churches which he had established abandon him a</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>s too compromising a man</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">; so much so, that Paul, in the second century, appears&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>universally disowned</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;" data-mce-mark="1">.<span data-mce-mark="1"><sup>83</sup></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">Renan continues. He demonstrates how John's first Book of Revelation explains why John eclipsed Paul. It is the Book of Revelation that explains largely why orthodox doctrines at Ephesus reverted back to the Jerusalem church's views. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">For Revelation chapter two criticizes someone at Ephesus claiming to be an "apostle" who is not (Paul?). Jesus in chapter two of Revelation also condemns one who allows Christians to eat meat sacrificed to idols. Is it a coincedence that Paul definitely does so in 2 instances --see <a href="/books/jesuswordsonly/108-chapter-six-jwo.html">link</a>?<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">The Jesus of Revelation also speaks against one who says he is a "Jew" but who is not. In the early church known as the Ebionites, their investigation on Paul's background turned up the fact that Paul's parents were Herodians. He was not purely Jewish. This is why Paul was only circumcised late in life -- see <a href="/books/jesuswordsonly/117-chapter12jwo.html">link</a>.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">Based upon the foregoing, Renan recaps the anti-Paul effect of the Book of Revelation although he ascribes this to hate by Apostle John of Paul rather than valid quotes of Jesus in Revelation:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">This reaction must have taken place a short time after the death of the apostle, or perhaps even before. The&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><em>second and third chapters of the Apocalypse</em></strong><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;[i.e., the book of Revelation] are a <strong><em>cry of hatred against Paul </em></strong>and his friends. This church of Ephesus, which owes so much to Paul, is praised for "not being able to bear with them which are evil; for having tried them, which <em><strong>say they are apostles and are not&nbsp;</strong></em></span><em><strong>&nbsp;</strong></em><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><em><strong>for having found them liars</strong></em>; for hating the deeds of the Nicolaitanes,"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><sup>71</sup></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;"which I also hate," adds the celestial voice. The church of Smyrna is congratulated for "being</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;the blasphemy of them which<em><strong> say they arc Jews, and are not</strong></em>," but are "the synagogue of Satan." "But I have a few things against thee," says the divine voice to the church of Pergamos, "because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><strong><em>&nbsp;Balaam</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, <strong><em>to eat things sacrificed unto idols</em></strong>, and to commit fornication." So hast thou also [rejected] them that hold the doctrine of Nicolaitanes."<sup>70</sup>&nbsp;"I have a few things against thee," says the same voice to the church of Thyatira, "because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel," which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants, to commit fornication, and<strong><em> to eat things sacrificed unto idols.</em></strong> And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not. . . . As to the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak," I will put upon you none other burden."&nbsp;<sup>8</sup>&nbsp;And to the church of Philadelphia, "I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which <em><strong>say they are Jews and are not, but do lie</strong></em>, to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." &nbsp;Probably the vague reproaches addressed by the seer to the churches of Sardis and Laodicea<sup>81</sup>&nbsp;also contain allusions to the great discussion which was dismembering the church of Jesus.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;"><strong>John's Gospel Predictably Is Negative Too.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">With that background, it should not be surprising that the Gospel of John is a follow-up that continues the rejection of Paul. The Jesus of John's Gospel rejects again principles of Paul which the Jesus of Revelation by Apostle John likewise had rejected previously.&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">However, you cannot easily see the anti-Paul message in John&rsquo;s Gospel as presently translated. Many are surprised anyone could even think the Gospel of John undermines Paul. However, this is only because of the mistranslation of John&rsquo;s Greek active tenses as if they were simple present tenses in English. This is compounded by the mistranslation of the word <strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;exclusively as &ldquo;believes&rdquo; when in many places it should have been &ldquo;keep on obeying.&rdquo; The latter defect was apparently innocent when first made in the 1520s but since then has become increasingly inexcusable due to improved scholarship. Today, it is an artifact error which is left unchanged due to an unwillingness to translate John to sound anti-Pauline, as explained below.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Before we go into more detail on John's Gospel, we should realize that the Epistles of John are likewise critical of Paul &ndash; when John alludes to false teachers who say Jesus did not come in the flesh, but only appeared to be human. (Paul twice teaches this heretical view of Jesus' nature. Rom 8:3; Phil 2:7 - discussed at this <a href="/recommendedreading/110-chapter-thirteen-jwo.html">link</a>.) Apostle John's letters also speak of someone who tried joining the apostles at Jerusalem but who would not listen to them, and left the group, proving he was never truly of their group (Paul?). I discuss these subtle references to Paul in my book JWO, entirely free online. See <a href="/recommendedreading/110-chapter-thirteen-jwo.html">link</a>.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Finally, we now turn to the Gospel of John. This gospel destroys Paul&rsquo;s salvation doctrine. Surprised? Well, the verb <strong>pisteuo</strong> is key, but before we prove it means "obey" in key verses, let's note that John in many places emphasizes obedience and doing "good things" for salvation in his Gospel using other verbs meaning <em><strong>obeying</strong></em>. I review this in <em>Jesus Words on Salvation</em>, ch. 26, part 1. See <a href="/recommendedreading/161-chapter-26-1jwos.html">link</a>.&nbsp;This includes John 15:1-10; John 8:51, and John 5:28-29. These passages are echoes of Jesus' words in Revelation 22:14 and Rev. 3:13-16.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Next, John&rsquo;s Gospel has many present active verb tenses for salvation (e.g., &ldquo;keep on listening&rdquo;), while Paul had an aorist (a one time action) for salvation in two places, e.g., &ldquo;believed&rdquo; See, e.g.,&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/Romans10.9">Romans 10:9</a>. For detailed discussion, see JWO <a href="/recommendedreading/112-chapter-eight-jwo.html">Chapter Eight</a>. For proof Paul in Romans 10:9 mistranslated Isaiah 28:16, see this <a href="/recommendedreading/568-isaiah-2816-another-septuagint-mistranslation.html">link</a>. Present active tenses are the OPPOSITE of aorist tenses in Greek. &nbsp;I believe John is doing this deliberately &ndash; praying for inspired recollection of every statement from Jesus that undermines Paul&rsquo;s aorist --'One time belief' -- salvific statements. See <a href="/recommendedreading/123-appendix-a-greek-issues.html">Appendix to JWO.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Lastly, the Greek verb pisteuo was rendered by Luther always as &ldquo;believe&rdquo; in his 1500s Bible. This influenced many others thereafter to do likewise. However, Luther did not know Greek well enough. And Greek scholars had not yet established a scholarly Greek dictionary. For a milennium earlier, everyone assumed the New Testament was written in Latin. This was because for centuries the Roman Church ignored the Greek texts. But at least by the 1800s if not by 1611, scholars realized that Luther erred. &nbsp;A primary meaning of pisteuo was<em><strong>&nbsp;obe</strong><strong>y</strong></em> by examining ancient Greek texts. See <a href="/recommendedreading/161-chapter-26-1jwos.html">link</a>. &nbsp;This is in particular true when it is used in reference to a person, e.g., John 3:16, as opposed to about a fact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">In Greek, the word <strong><em>pisteuo</em></strong> as &ldquo;believe&rdquo; is the meaning if the preposition EN (meaning <strong><em>in</em></strong>) follows. So <em><strong>pisteuo</strong></em>&nbsp;in its third person form plus <strong><em>en</em></strong> would translate &ldquo;he believes in.&rdquo; &nbsp;However, <em><strong>pisteuo</strong></em>&nbsp;in its third person form, present participle active, plus <strong><em>EIS</em></strong> is &ldquo;he keeps on obeying unto.&rdquo; The latter is what you find in John 3:16! It is spoken about the one who keeps having eternal life by obeying unto the Son.&nbsp;<em>Id. &nbsp;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;"><em>"</em>Obey" or "trust" is the primary meaning of <em><strong>pisteuo</strong></em>; "believe" is the unusual meaning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">This is exemplified by Paul himself. For Paul except 2 times uses &ldquo;pisteuo&rdquo; (verb) and &ldquo;pistis&rdquo; (noun) to mean <strong><em>obey</em></strong> or <strong><em>trust</em></strong>, and <strong><em>faithfulness</em></strong> (synonymous for the term "obedience") respectively, not <strong><em>believe</em></strong> or <strong><em>faith. </em></strong>See <a href="/recommendedreading/166-chapter-26-6jwo-paul.html">link</a>.&nbsp;So even looking at Paul's typical meaning -- proven by virtue of reading the context, the correction to John 3:16 is overwhelmingly compelling.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">The <strong><em>obey </em></strong>meaning of <em><strong>pisteuo</strong></em> is clearly what is in John 3:16. It is true throughout most of the Gospel of John. If one starts with part 1 of chapter 26 of <em>Jesus' Words on Salvation</em> and follows the links to all parts of chapter 26, one will see the case unfold certainly and clearly. See <a href="/recommendedreading/161-chapter-26-1jwos.html">link to 26:1</a>.<a href="/books/jesuswordssalvation/161-chapter-26-1jwos.html"><br /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Based upon the above, Jesus inspired John to write his gospel<strong> to rebuff Paul</strong>, not support him. Jesus' purpose was the same as was the point of the earlier work of John in the book of Revelation, which in part, did likewise. The earlier book of Revelation too rebuffed Paul. By using active tenses for all kinds of salvation statements in John&rsquo;s Gospel, <em>e.g.</em>, John 10:28-29, &ldquo;all who <strong>keep on listening</strong> and <strong>following</strong> cannot be snatched from my hand," (see <a href="/recommendedreading/746-john-10-27-29-security-by-obeying-not-believingjohn-1027-29-is-security-by-obeying-or-believing.html">link</a> discussion), John&rsquo;s inspired recollections of Jesus&rsquo; statements destroy Paul&rsquo;s view in 1 Cor.15:1-6, Romans 8 and Romans 10:8-9 that a one time calling on the Lord and belief in the atonement and resurrection of Jesus&nbsp; saves you. See <a href="/recommendedreading/123-appendix-a-greek-issues.html">Appendix on Greek</a> in Jesus' Words Only. See also our discussion of John 6:39-40 in this <a href="/recommendedreading/657-john-6-39-40-biased-mistranslations.html">link</a>. See our discussion of John 10:27-29 at this <a href="/recommendedreading/746-john-10-27-29-security-by-obeying-not-believingjohn-1027-29-is-security-by-obeying-or-believing.html">link</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">To accept this conclusion about Jesus' purpose behind John's Gospel, unfortunately requires some diligence to read the Greek dictionaries referenced in the linked pages on the webpages previously cited.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">A concordance will not help because it does not claim to be a dictionary, but instead is a list of what English word was used to translate a Greek word in the source bible. For example, a KJV Concordance like Strong's is not a dictionary. Instead, Strong's is a listing of how in 1611 each Greek word was translated into English by the KJV.&nbsp; Strong himself was not even a linguist in Greek. But it was not a necessary skill. All he was doing was providing an index between the KJV's choice and the Greek root word it reflected.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Here are some proofs to help dislodge traditional misconceptions that Strong's can be used as a dictionary:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, generally known as Strong's Concordance, is a Bible concordance, <strong>an index of every [English] word in the King James Version</strong> (KJV).... ("<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%27s_Concordance">Strong's Concordanc," Wikipedia</a>)&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">"Strong's Concordance is ... <strong>not a lexicon/dictionary</strong> (and thus is <strong>not a reliable source for the meaning</strong> of a lexeme in a specific context)...." ("<a href="https://hermeneutics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/923/strongs-is-a-concordance-not-a-lexicon">Strong's Is Not A Lexicon/ Dictionary," Bible Hermenuetics</a>.) </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">"I have had such a problem explaining to some people that Strong is showing '<strong>how the words ARE translated</strong>' but that <strong>doesn't mean that the words should or can be translated that way</strong>. (Id., fn. 2.)</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">"James Strong was <strong>NOT a Linguist that understood Biblical Languages.&nbsp;</strong>Though James Strong was a professor, <strong>he was NOT a professor in Greek or Hebrew</strong>, and was <strong>not fluent in these languages</strong>, he received nothing but a <strong>summary introduction education</strong> in these languages. And his credentials as a Doctorate of theology are only honorary;....'" ("<a href="https://faithbibleministriesblog.com/2015/08/14/strongs-concordance-greek-words-word-studies-greek-dictionary/">THE PROBLEM OF USING STRONG&rsquo;S CONCORDANCE </a>" (2016), Faith Bible Ministries.)</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">"This <strong>great misunderstanding</strong> [about what Strong's represents] has <strong>created more false doctrine in churches</strong> because [it does...] not <strong>give us the exact meaning of God&rsquo;s will concerning that word</strong> as seen in Greek or Hebrew word studies."&nbsp;<em>Id.&nbsp;</em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;"><em></em>"Strong&rsquo;s is <strong>never meant to be preached from</strong>. It is meant to locate passages in the Bible if you know only one word in that passage,...."&nbsp;<em>Id.</em><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Thus one can see that a KJV &ldquo;concordance&rdquo; approach being pushed today as the last word -- from 1611 -- suits a strategy to not appear dishonest if you assert that a 'dictionary' omits&nbsp;<strong>pisteuo</strong>&nbsp;can mean &ldquo;obeys" "comply," etc. They lay out the concordance as a dictionary. It can fool you if your pastor or teacher does not tell you this is a misuse of Strong's. Your teacher makes you think it is a dictionary, but it is not. Thus the editors of such a concordance can continue to omit &ldquo;obeys&rdquo; / "comply" as a meaning of pisteuo even though there is no excuse any longer to think "pisteuo" means only "believe." Strong's can be republished forever with no update because it only claims to list the English word used in 1611 in the KJV for a Greek word.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">I also wish to suggest that the modern perverse misuse of Strong's is on top of an original perversion in the KJV itself. For the proof that the KJV translators already knew Pisteuo meant obey when used in reference to a person, e.g., John 3:16, is due to the fact they translated correctly A+Pisteo&nbsp; as "be disobedient." See&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+2%3A7&amp;version=KJV">1 Peter 2:7</a>. Hence, the KJV translators had to know PISTEO without the A -- a negative prefix -- had to mean "obey" when spoken in reference to a person. They had to know you can "believe" in a fact (one use of PISTEUO), but you "obey" a person (the other use of PISTEUO).</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">With that now cleared away, we can realize the Book of Revelation, John's Gospel and John's Epistles erased Paul. They did away with his anti-law, eat-meat sacrificed to idols, and faith-alone doctrine. Renan tells us that from the 100s to the 300s, Paul had no following among the orthodox Christian groups:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">After his disappearance from the scene of apostolic struggles we shall find him <strong>soon forgotten</strong>. His death was probably regarded by his enemies as the death of an agitator. The second century&nbsp;<strong><em>scarcely speaks of him</em></strong>, and apparently endeavors to systematically blot out his memory. His epistles are then&nbsp;<strong><em>slightly read</em></strong>, and only regarded as authority by rather&nbsp;<em><strong>a slim group</strong></em>.* His partisans themselves greatly weaken his pretensions." He leaves no celebrated disciples. Titus, Timothy, and so many others, who, as it were, constituted his court, disappear without renown. (Renan,&nbsp;<em>St. Paul</em>&nbsp;(1875) at 327 (excerpted at our<a href="/Recommended-Reading/renan.html" style="color: #517291;">&nbsp;link</a>.)</span></p>
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<h1>Conclusion</h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Mark Smith in 2016 rejects the Jesus' Words Only principle. He argues that Christians must also follow Paul, and not Christ alone, because he finds no sermons from the apostles to prove Paul is not to be followed. See this <a href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=2869&amp;page=100">link</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">However, we have better proof than sermons. We have prophecies of the Lord Jesus subtly placed as messages to arrive at the right time, and in the right dose when we need it most. These messages are in the two APOSTOLIC Gospels and the Apostolic book of Revelation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">First, we have already seen that Jesus inspired Matthew with a Gospel that has numerous subtle but yet plain criticisms of Paul. See&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/354-anti-pauline-passages-in-matthew.html">Anti-Paul Passages in Matthew</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Second, we saw above the same is true regarding the only other apostolic Gospel: the Gospel of John, and all his other writings, including the Book of Revelation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Finally, if you need one more apostle, and you agree Second Peter is written by Apostle Peter, it is highly negative about Paul, especially in 2 Peter 3:15-18. For this very reason, Calvin in the 1500s -- a pro-Paul advocate -- sought to have Second Peter rejected as non-canonical. See our article <a href="/recommendedreading/57-second-peter-reference-to-paul.html">Second Peter's Reference to Paul</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">STUDY NOTES<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #1f497d;"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The Greek of the Book of Revelation is less grammatical than the Greek of the Gospel of John. However, the reason likely stems from the fact Revelation was written while John was in prison on the island of Patmos, and John did not have any literary help to prepare the final manuscript. However, the Gospel of John was in a community of Ephesus where many helpers could supply assistance in writing grammatical Greek. This supports the inference that Revelation is closer to 100% John's thought with no well-meaning changes by the editors who helped with the Gospel of John.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The website PatmosPaperscom makes a valid point about this issue in its article entitled the <a href="http://www.patmospapers.com/ndex/john.htm">Authorship of Revelation</a>:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But more importantly, when Revelation was written, John was<em><strong> in exile on the Isle of Patmos</strong></em>. He had no scribes or literary helpers there to assist him in writing. John was an uneducated Jewish fisherman who had never taken a college class in Greek composition. When the Lord appeared to him on Patmos the apostle was instructed to record what he was seeing (Revelation 1:11), so he apparently scribbled out the vision as it was being shown to him (Revelation 10:4).</span></p>
<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We have reason to believe, on the other hand, that in the writing of the Gospel of John at Ephesus <em><strong>after his release from Patmos</strong></em>, the apostle may have had one or more literary helpers. It may have been one such scribe who in John 21:24 wrote, "And we know that his [John's] testimony is true."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Every Christian writer until the middle of the 3rd century, whose works are extant today and who mentions the matter at all, attributes Revelation to John the apostle. Examples include:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Justin Martyr at Rome&nbsp;<small>(c.&nbsp;<small>A.D.</small>&nbsp;100 - c. 165;&nbsp;<em>Dialogue With Trypho</em>&nbsp;81)</small></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Irenaeus at Lyons&nbsp;<small>(c.&nbsp;<small>A.D.</small>&nbsp;130 - c. 202;&nbsp;<em>Against Heresies</em>&nbsp;iv. 20. 11)</small></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tertullian at Carthage&nbsp;<small>(c.&nbsp;<small>A.D.</small>&nbsp;160 - c. 240;&nbsp;<em>On Prescription Against Heretics</em>&nbsp;36)</small></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Hippolytus at Rome&nbsp;<small>(died c.&nbsp;<small>A.D.</small>&nbsp;235;&nbsp;<em>Treatise on Christ and Antichrist</em>&nbsp;xxxvi)</small></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Clement of Alexandria&nbsp;<small>(died c.&nbsp;<small>A.D.</small>&nbsp;220;&nbsp;<em>Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?</em>&nbsp;xlii)</small>.</span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt;">Paul's Relative Insignificance in the Church as a Whole&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Peter in Acts 15 is still a key leader, and says the &ldquo;holy spirit&rdquo; a long while ago appointed him the Apostle to the Gentiles. &nbsp;The person who dominates at this time is James. James is the Bishop of Jerusalem. He is the one who makes the decision in Acts 15 on the 4 commands which Gentiles must keep, and then they must learn more by weekly Sabbath readings.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">To know how insignificant Paul is during all of Acts as a leader among Christians, one needs to focus upon Acts 21. Here James approaches Paul while Paul was again visiting Jerusalem, and tells him many &ldquo;myriads&rdquo; (tens of thousands&rdquo; of &ldquo;our people&rdquo; (Jews) have accepted Christ. Then he tells Paul he heard Paul is guilty of &ldquo;apostasia&rdquo; &ndash; turning from the Law, teaching that Jews themselves need no longer obey the Law. James then asks Paul to prove this is not so by complying with the ritual from Numbers 6&mdash;clear from context. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">This proves James was still running the shop as Bishop of Jerusalem, and Paul&rsquo;s influence was so minor that only rumors had come to James.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">The Book of Acts never spread Paul&rsquo;s influence, as that was not its purpose. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Luke&rsquo;s Acts was intended as a legal brief in the upcoming trial of Paul at Rome. Both Luke's Gospel and Acts were addressed to Theophilus -- apparently the investigator of Paul's case upcoming for trial of Paul. (See <a href="/recommendedreading/735-luke-wrote-gospel-acts-for-investigator-to-help-paul-in-trial.html">link</a> for full discussion.) The book of Acts ends with Paul at Rome awaiting trial. The Gospel of Luke explained Jesus&rsquo; teachings to Theophilus. The book of Acts explained to Theophilus Paul&rsquo;s role in Trophimus&rsquo;s breach of the temple by this Gentile&rsquo;s entering the temple in an uncircumcised state while Paul was elsewhwere at the ceremonial baths at the temple. Paul won dismissal of that original case, apparently due to Luke's efforts. See the article Trophimus <a href="/recommendedreading/65-trophimus.html">http://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/65-trophimus.html</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;The legal brief &nbsp;by Luke thereafter became mostly irrelevant &ndash; Paul does not even once allude to having read Acts! </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Not surprisingly, Paul had no impact on the early church once Paul died and Apostle John took over the very same churches. &nbsp;See above.&nbsp;Paul faded into oblivion. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul&rsquo;s writings only rose to mainstream influence when Constantine wanted to wipe out Sabbath, and make instead the &ldquo;Day of the Sun&rdquo; for his favored god of the sun (Sol Invictus) to be the day of worship. Now Paul began to have his day in the sun -- long after Paul had died. &nbsp;</span></p>
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