 Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, interesting video today. We're going to react to a presentation of Dr. Shabir Ali with the title, Was Paul Actually a False Prophet? You already know my take on the so-called Saint Paul, the so-called Apostle of Christ that never met Jesus Christ. However, I'm very excited to hear what Dr. Shabir Ali has to say on the subject. With no further ado, let's have a look. Now, to go further, I want to return to my history question. I have here a book entitled St. Peter, The Underestimated Apostle, by Martin Hengel. Martin Hengel, as you know, is widely recognized as a conservative scholar. And Martin Hengel now recognizes that there has been a split in the early church. There's been a division between Paul on the one hand and Peter on the other hand. This division is actually explained in more detail in a book by Entitled Evidence for Jesus by James Dunn. What these scholars are showing is that two streams of teaching went out in the early church. My video is back up, but now I'll just go without it. Two streams of teaching. On the one hand, there is Paul. And hence, we find in the New Testament statements about Paul saying, for example, that God came down, humbled himself, became Jesus. Philippians chapter 2, the Carmen Christi that... Think about it logically. If God is one, the one, the absolute existence, the absolute reality, and every single existence of ours is contingent upon him. He is the only true reality. He is the only true existence. Why would he need then to humble himself with this knowledge of knowing that he is all powerful, that there absolutely no competitors for him? Nobody can compete with God. He is the beginning and the end. Why would such a God need to humble him? Philippians chapter 2, the Carmen Christi that Nabil spoke about. First Corinthians chapter 8, verse number 6. Paul takes the Shema Israel and he makes two persons out of that one. In the Shema Israel, there was only one Lord God. Now Paul makes it... Here, Israel, your God is one. One Lord and one God. One Lord Jesus, one God the Father. He splits them. So we know the Hadron Collider has split the atom recently. Now Paul did a splitting way back when. But Paul is representing one particular view here. And the view of Peter and other early disciples of Jesus did not survive to be written for us in the New Testament. We do have two documents that are named 1 Peter and 2 Peter, apparently letters of Peter written in Peter's name actually. But according to Martin Hengel, these are pseudonymous works, which means that somebody else wrote them using Peter's name. Why would they want to do that? Well, one reason is that if you look at 2 Peter, you will see that 2 Peter praises Paul and speaks of him as brother Paul and speaks about his letters as if these are scriptures on par with the scriptures of God. Yes, absolutely. And this is why he is called Apostle Paul. I mean, think about this word play here. Every apostle that was alive during Jesus' time was an apostle because he was alive during Jesus' time. Paul, however, was not an apostle. He never saw Jesus. He allegedly had a vision. How would we confirm this? Why would we take his word now over Jesus's? What these scholars are saying is that somebody who is a follower of Paul wanting to show Paul in a good light and wanting to show that Peter accepted Paul wrote this in order to promote Paul. When we read Acts of the Apostles, which is a sort of history book in the Christian New Testament, we get the idea that there is a rapprochement between the various sides. Paul on the one hand, on the one hand, James now on the other hand. Peter has now gone off somewhere else. Why has he gone off somewhere else and we're not even told where? According to Martin Hengel, this is Luke's way of bringing people on stage, taking them off stage. That's why we have the pageants based on Luke's gospel at Christmas time. Luke is good at that, bringing people, taking them off stage. So Peter just goes off elsewhere. We don't know where in the Acts of the Apostles. We have to find that information elsewhere. And then James becomes the leader of the church. Who is James? It's mentioned as the Lord's brother. James now is shown to be the brother of Jesus. Paul comes to Jerusalem. When he comes to Jerusalem, James puts him to the test. Are you still following the Jewish laws? And to pass the test, Paul pays for the sacrifices of those who had entered into a vow. And he himself goes into that sacrificial routine. Now this is a couple of decades after Jesus has already said to be died on the cross. And Christians think, Jesus died on the cross. That means a new dispensation has been entered. Now we no longer follow the law. And Paul himself in his writing seemed to be saying we don't need to follow the law anymore. We have a new dispensation. But he comes to Jerusalem and what is he doing? Following the law, right up to the extent of performing the sacrifices, which we are told that the one sacrifice of Jesus did away with forever. Now what's happening here? Luke is reconciling and showing us that they are in agreement. But according to Black's New Testament commentaries, it seems hypocritical for Paul to behave in this way. So either he didn't behave in this way and Luke is just making it such, or perhaps he is all things to all men, as he said himself in order to win them to Christ. But when we look at this, we see that there was a division and the early Christian apostles who followed Jesus, their message did not survive. Their group survived as a group called Ibionites, named after Matthew's statement apparently, where Jesus says, blessed are the poor. So they were called the Ibionites, the poor ones. But their movement died out within the first few centuries of Christianity. What did they believe? They believed not in a triune God, but they believed that Jesus was a prophet and a messenger of God. They believed in only one God, as Muslims today believe. This was the earliest belief. Don Cupid in his book, Jesus and the Gospel of God, regrets the fact that the Reformation only questioned papal authority, but did not go back as far as to question Paul's authority. We need to ask, who made Paul really a disciple of Jesus? Did he really see Jesus on the road to Damascus? Or did he see something else? Didn't he himself say in his Corinthian correspondence that even the devil appears as an angel of light to deceive many? Exactly right. And this is something that my Orthodox brothers back in the day used to tell me over and over again. I talked about this prior. Yes, I had spiritual experiences. I had psychedelic experiences. During those experiences, I witnessed certain beings of light that came with a message of love. However, within the Orthodox Church, this would get discarded right away. They cannot be angels because even Lucifer, Satan, deceives the people and makes himself appear like an angel of light. Your visions are invalid. Done deal. However, when it comes down to Paul the Apostle, he had a certain vision where Jesus told him apparently, allegedly, he can eat what he wants now and the law is abolished. This is way, way after Jesus. Now we are not going to think about him being deceived. Of course not. He was on the right track. Now we can eat pork. And why did the original disciples of Jesus have a different view with Paul? And why was there this split between Paul and Peter, as acknowledged by Martin Hengel? And it's not enough to dismiss the scholars by saying Gregory Boyd is an open theist. Martin Hengel is dead now, so he must know that the Trinity is true. No, you have to look at the scholarship of these scholars. These are great scholars who have written their books. And yes, you can refute their books. They're not infallible. They're not God. But at the same time, they are scholars and they're given their reasons. Like Gregory Boyd has given his reasons. He has shown that Iqad and Elohim are actually used of other individuals who are not God. And they're singular. And yet these plural terms are used. So you cannot say because the plural term is used of God, that means that this is actually a multiplicity within the one God. All right, guys. And this is it for today's video. Absolutely beautiful presentation by Dr. Shabir Ali. Here I have to say that he came up with very strong points, yet again refuting the so-called Apostleship of the so-called yet again Saint Paul. There is such a big discrepancy if you look into the narrations of Paul. But moreover, if you simply use common sense, it does not add up. If you look at the life of Jesus during his time, he had a bunch of Apostles. During the time of Jesus, he was a law-abiding Jew. None of those Apostles ate pork. None of those Apostles ever thought that it would have been a good idea to abolish the law. Quite the opposite. If we talk about the Ebonites, what has happened after Jesus' ascension or Jesus' death, no matter what you think, those Ebonites, those early Apostles, still were within the temples and still participated in the Jewish life. So there you can see that they most definitely didn't become Christians of the modern day and age, where they're eating pork, drinking alcohol and whatnot. So then when you look at Paul conveniently, Paul worked for the Roman Empire. Moreover, Paul was persecuting Christians. He was killing Christians. But on the way to persecute more Christians, out of a sudden he has a vision, of course, that turns him to Christ. However, now he comes with a new message of the abolishing of the law. This not Christ message whatsoever. But he proclaims himself as an Apostle and now follow me. Conveniently, yet again after that, Christianity becomes Roman state religion. Yes, after Paul spreads his version of Christianity, Christianity gets adapted by the Gentiles and like that enforced by the Roman Empire. Mission accomplished. Alright guys, but this is it for today's video. Nothing new here, but nevertheless really really important to stress who this Paul was. This is it for today's video guys. If you liked it, leave a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. 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