Jesus' Words Only or Was Paul the Apostle Jesus Condemns in Revelation 2:2

by Douglas Del Tonto

An attorney argues the inspired New Testament consists of Jesus' words only. Paul's status is questioned. First, Paul never made a valid prophecy. Second, Paul must be rejected under Deut. 13:5 because he taught the Law of Moses was nullified. Lastly, Jesus most likely intended we understand Paul was the person in Rev. 2:2 whom the Ephesians put on trial and proved was a false apostle. This Ephesus trial is alluded to in Acts ch. 19. Paul refers to it several times as well.

572 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2006

Reviews

[Charlene Mathe]

This book provides some original arguments for the school of scholars and commentators who view the Apostle Paul as the hijacker of early Christian faith. Most of the author's arguments are premised on the perception of Paul as an opponent of "the Law" and the original words of Jesus. There is a trap to these arguments that they are conducted in the very same Hellenistic/Roman framework that Paul is accused of using to subvert the HEBREW gospel. So much of the politics and cognitive worlds of the early church and the emerging rabbinic authority of the first century is lost to us in the modern world. The Apostle Paul is in the crosshairs of these contentions; and we read him through our particular lense two thousand years after his writing. I just have my doubts that without the work of Paul, we in the Western world would be reading the Bible at all. Then what would our world look like?

[Mr S Jarvis]

An interesting look at the differences between what Jesus says, to the Apostle Paul.