in this video i want to show why paul could not have been an apostle of god this is something you
can test for yourself i'll just explain what the uh the problem is the apostle paul in his letter
won thessalonians which is in the new testament speaks of christians as people who wait for
god's son from heaven who rescues us from the coming wrath that's 1 thessalonians 1
10. later in the letter paul adds that we who are still alive who are left till the coming
of the lord will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep 1 thessalonians 4 15. he does
not say those who are alive which could refer to some far future and yet as yet unknown group
but we who are alive thus showing his expectation that the lord will come before paul's death
falling asleep by the way is just a biblical way of saying to have died
furthermore paul boldly claims that this is the lord's own word 1 thessalonians 4 15.
the plain fact is that the end of the world simply did not come before paul's hearers had all died
paul was writing in the 50s a.d and today's year is 2021
so one can demonstrate empirically that paul was mistaken but why does this matter okay the
dude was mistaken what's the big deal when he was a human paul though said that his teaching
was the lord's own word but if this is the case then the lord presumably jesus for him
made a mistake and misled paul about jesus second coming paul therefore thought he had
a true word from the lord but the passing of historical time absolutely disproves this
a more plausible explanation is that paul who had several visions of jesus was not in
fact receiving truth from jesus or god but was a victim of his own religious imagination muslims
might suggest alternative possibilities that perhaps an evil jinn had uh infected his mind
somehow if we look in uh acts 26 uh verse 19 this is paul telling of his his preaching
and i'm reading here from the new revised standard version and he says after that king agrippa
i was not disobedient to the heavenly vision this heavenly vision is the road damascus vision where
paul encountered he thinks the living christ but declared first to those in damascus than in
jerusalem and throughout the countryside but also to the gentiles that they should repent and turn
to god and do deeds consistent with repentance for this reason the jews seized me in the temple
and tried to kill me so to this day i have to this day i have had help from god and so
i stand here testifying to both great and small saying nothing but what the prophets and moses
said would take place and this is paul's gospel that the messiah must suffer and that by being the
first to rise from the dead he will proclaim light both to our people and to the gentiles end quote
so he's telling agrippa here king agrippa that he had a vision and we know that his visions uh were
mistaken and then he says and this is why the jews persecuted him simply for pointing out for saying
nothing he says but what the prophets of moses say would take place that the messiah would suffer die
and rise again now i've said in a previous video and i'll say it again here it is very well known
that there is nothing in the jewish bible about a suffering messiah at all there's nothing about
a messiah dying and rising from the dead at all this is simply not there so when the jews says
the jews seized me in the temple and tried to give the jews were obviously outraged that he would lie
about uh god his word and the messiah so they you know like they vomited him out they threw him out
from the temple so paul i think uh was charitably a victim of his own religious imagination
others would say he was a victim of malicious forces but also he was preaching uh falsehoods
about the torah and god's messiah who we of course know is jesus
so if this is the case uh that paul the evidence leads to the belief uh our conclusion that paul
had a mistaken belief about the end of the world in one thessalonians this puts in serious doubt
the authenticity and veracity of paul's other visions of jesus above all the damascus road
vision in acts so this little problem passage in 1 thessalonians has momentous consequences
for christian belief which rely heavily on the integrity and truthfulness of paul's testimony
if paul was mistaken about the end of the world occurring in the first century
then we cannot automatically trust his other claims to have received divine revelation in
the rest of his letters so he he is basically damaged goods we can't trust him until next time