MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
I thought that it was spread because of Constantine. Also why would the Romans accept Christianity and then kill Paul?
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
1)What exactly are these pagan myths, legends, and how did he incorporate them into Judaism?
Theres so many more as well... the pagan godman who turns water into wine, the god who sends a savior to earth, ceremonial washing(baptism), the great flood is a pagan legend as well. If you study it you will find it is very clear, the New Testament is just a bunch of pagan legends mixed with Jewish people.
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
2)That quote you have of Paul in reference to Christianity where did you get it? Is it from Corinthians?
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
3)Paul never talks about Christianity, he is talking about himself. The only one who would probably know for sure on this site might be HERESY, but I believe to become all things to all men simply means the equivalent of our "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
Saint Paul wouldn't have lived as long (or been heard) as he did had he not altered what he preached to suit the beliefs of pagans he was preaching to... I imagine he learned from the mistake of his fellow teacher/preacher Jesus Christ.
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
4) Any one reading Corinthians has to understand that those letters were written and answers were given, but for the most part no one knows what the questions asked were.
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
5)Also Paul makes a point about God's law in 1Cor 9:20. Which leads into the "all things to all men"
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
Yeshua preached God the father, God the son, and God the holy ghost. Saint Paul, as well as the other apostles, knew that Yeshua was YHWH. Yeshua said it himself and so does the original Greek text.
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
Where are you getting your information from, I've honestly never heard of Paul starting up Christmas. Although Saturnalia predates Yeshua and Paul, I haven't come across anything that would lead me to believe Paul started up Christmas in the church especially since the church prohibited any one celebrating Saturnalia until they formed a day, that was intentionally created on December 25. Christmas, or mass of Christ, was officially recognized by the Catholic church in the year 250.
It's like he was saying..."Hey you pagans were right, there is such things as multiple deities and deities born on earth, but hey look at this one he was Jewish, can you believe that? Jewish, and I swear I saw him resurrected by my own eyes he is obviously a god... alright, now that you're listening heres the ten commandments."
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
There is a difference between Christianity and Messianic Judaism, which is more or less where the early Christians [including Paul] fell into. Early "Christians" did not call themselves that nor did they wear crucifixes.
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
Anti-semitism could not have possibly have begun in Rome. Jews were constantly targeted by other cultures even before the Hellenistic Roman-Greco empires came into power. And even if it did start in Rome or Greece it would have definitely started when the traditional Hebrews would not conform to their new surroundings, thus there were 2 types of jews, Hellenistic ones and those that weren't.
MEXICANCOMMANDO said:
PS. The words Roma locuta est means "Rome has spoken," they were spoken by Augustine and has nothing to do with anti-semitism.
It was used as a justification for anti-semitist acts, this is what it became.