Would someone please… explain why the apostle Paul is so hated by so many?
Take away Paul’s writings and you take away about half of the New Testament. Then you’re left with the gospels that have what Christ taught in them. What Christ taught IS what Christianity should be. Not what Paul said. Those who follow Paul should be labeled something other than Christian in my opinion, since they usually give back seat to Christ himself. Paul was not an apostle. Christ was dead by the time he came on the scene. You can argue semantics all day long about that and it won’t change my mind a bit. The inclusion of Paul’s letters and writings in the canonized bible simply lends credence to my opinion that those who chose what went in it had an agenda. Christ was clearly not the focus of that agenda for the NT.
Whenever Paul stands before secular officials he obfuscates about being a Pharisee, he twists words to appear more magnanimous to the authorities. He repeatedly almost blatantly contradicts the clear and simple words of Jesus, by instituting his version of how the congregations should be run. Instituting harshness where love would suffice. It is obvious he was a man with a huge ego, even though he tried to make an effort at self deprecation, he still managed to get the entire governing Christian congregation in Jerusalem angry with him. Some believe that he was even excommunicated by that congregation of early Christians. If you read Jesus words, along with Paul’s harshness, you will see the reason why so many have concluded that Paul was the first Christian heretic. It was down hill from his era to this day. Edit for Robert p: Since none of us were present at any of the early 300ad and after councils that canonized our modern Bible, we can’t know for sure why certain writing were sele
Partly just the reason you like him others hate him. It starts with the early church when Paul persecuted the church, Some still dont like him for that. Some, just as the Judaisers hated him for not wanting the Gentiles to be saved without the Law and circumcision, those who say we must also follow the law dislike Paul. Others who dislike people who believe Paul is best Apostle dislike Paul because the person the hate likes him. Still others believe lies that Paul changed the Gospel just as some think that King James changed the Bible. Just something to say thinking that this is a reason to deny the truth so they can give an excuse for not following Christ. People still love their sin so much that if they can give reason for contention they can deny they are in sin. Yet in the end God will judge all rightly and those who hate the truth will be without excuse.
Quite frankly I did not know that the Apostle Paul is hated … I love him … he wrote the majority of the New testament after all. Perhaps you mean, why was he so hated and persecuted in the bible? Well Paul was a brilliant, highly educated Jew who started his political career as a major advocate against Christianity. In fact he was known for ordering and participating in the deaths of perhaps thousands of Christian converts (most of them Jews). Even after Paul’s dramatic conversion experience (on the road to Damascus), not surprisingly, many disciples still feared and distrusted him, and refused to have anything to do with him. Thank God for his compassionate and forgiving nature, which is so much greater than our own. God took the most violently outspoken critic of Christianity, and turned him into the greatest champion the Faith has ever known! Paul suffered intense persecution as a Christian, but never wavered in his belief, and determination to spread the Gospel. And in referenc
Paul is unfairly accused of misogyny. He is also accused of having been gay. A lot of people really condemn Paul, and I think it’s unfair! He was a saint. He went through a lot of horrible atrocities in his life- being shipwrecked, being thrown in prison, etc. He had a hard life, and he did wonderful things for the Lord. He deserves respect. Some folks apparently hate Paul because they assume (unfairly) that Paul was a woman hater, and that he disdained marriage. Not true at all. He just believed (as I do) that some people are meant to remain single.
