"Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,"
First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
" For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
But about the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anyone write to you.
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When people say, "Peace and safety!"
Then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day should come upon you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day.
We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
For those who sleep sleep in the night, and those who get drunk get drunk in the night. But we who are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love,
and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, so that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him. "
First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
" Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom of words,
so that the cross of Christ would not be made of no value. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved,
it is the power of God.
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since the world,
by its wisdom, in the wisdom of God, did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.
The Jews demand signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified."
Chapter 15
I remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you also received and have continued in, and by which you are being saved,
if you hold fast to it as I preached it to you; otherwise, you would have believed in vain. I delivered to you first of all what I also received: that Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures; that he was buried and rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he appeared to Cephas,
then to the twelve. Afterwards, he appeared to more than 500 brothers at once, most of whom are still living, but some have fallen asleep.
Afterwards, he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, he appeared to me also, as to one born out of due time; for I am the least of the apostles,
I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain.
Indeed, I labored more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. So then, whether it is I or they, this is what we
preach, and this is what you have believed.
Now if Christ is preached that he has risen from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain,
and your faith is also in vain. Indeed, we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ,
whom he would not have raised, unless the dead rise. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins, and therefore those who have fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
If only in this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now Christ has been raised from the dead,
he is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
And as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive, but each in his own order: Christ as the firstfruits, then those who are Christ's at his coming.
Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God and the Father, having destroyed all rule, all authority, and all power.
For he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For God has put all things under his feet.
But when he says that all things have been put under him, it is clear that he who put all things under him is excepted.
And when all things have been subdued to him, then the Son himself will be subdued to him who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.
Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they baptized for them?
And we, why are we in danger every hour? I am exposed to death daily, I testify, brothers, by my glorying in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If I fought with beasts at Ephesus for human reasons, what advantage do I have? If the dead are not raised,...
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?" You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
And what you sow is not the body that will be born, but a simple grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some other seed. Then God gives it a body as he pleases,
and to each seed he gives its own body. All flesh is not the same flesh; but the flesh of humans is one, that of fourfooted animals another,
that of birds another, and that of fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the brightness of the heavenly bodies is one,
that of terrestrial bodies is another. The brightness of the sun is one, the brightness of the moon is another, and the brightness of the stars is another; even one star differs from another in brightness.
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in contempt, it is raised in glory;
it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown as a natural body, it is raised as a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Therefore it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was not first,
but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man, from the earth, was earthy; the second man was from heaven. As the earthy,
such are those who are earthy; and as the heavenly, such are those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the earthy,
we will also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,
nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. The trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. When this corruptible has put on incorruption,
and this mortal has put on immortality, then the saying that is written will be brought to pass:"
Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
"I declare to you, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not from man, for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it,
but through a revelation from Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted and ravaged
the church of God, and how I advanced in Judaism above many of my peers and of my own nation, being overzealous for the traditions
of my fathers. But when it pleased him who had set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me, so that I
would preach him among the Gentiles, I immediately consulted neither flesh nor blood, nor went up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me,
but left for Arabia. Then I returned again to Damascus. Three years later, I went up to Jerusalem to meet Cephas, and I stayed with him for fifteen days. But I did not see any of the other apostles, except James, the Lord's brother. In what I write to you, behold, I am not lying before God.
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. Now I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which are in Christ; only they had heard that
He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once sought to destroy. And they glorified God because of me.
Fourteen years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas...
Seeing that the gospel had been entrusted to me for the uncircumcised, as to Peter for the circumcised—for he who made Peter the apostle to the circumcised also made me
the apostle to the Gentiles—and having recognized the grace given me, James, Cephas, and John, who are regarded as pillars, gave me
and Barnabas the hand of fellowship...
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he was reprehensible...
For through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
The fact that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me. I do not reject the grace of God;
for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
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Paul claims to be on a mission and duty to proclaim the good news to the uncircumcised: the wrath of God toward all those who have not recognized "Christ crucified,
died, buried, and risen as the only Son of God." He preaches the coming revolution with the return of Christ and his vengeance in God's name against
unbelievers. With the people, he plays on their desire for revenge against the powerful, their fear of death, and their credulity
in the possibility of escaping it by ascending to Heaven with a glorious body. Moreover, according to him, this end is near, but 2,000 years have passed
and we are still waiting for it. But if his God were not pleased with the humans he created, it is himself he should blame.
Why did he send his son to Earth to be killed? It doesn't make sense!
Les guerres judéo-romaines
The Gospels
Jesus was not the first Jew to claim to be the Messiah, the one already and always expected by the Jews to restore
the power of Israel. Jesus failed in this mission and was put to death for having made this claim.
In the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, all three well after the writings of St. Paul, to the Sanhedrin who asks Jesus if he is the Christ,
the son of God, Jesus responds: “You said so. Moreover, I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power
and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Obviously, the Jews could not give credence to such a story.
- The God of the Jews is not a Greek God who has affairs with humans; moreover, He is one and not two or three.
- God had already made a covenant with Abraham long after the original sin. This story of a second covenant seemed to say that God
had forgotten something the first time.
- This sentence that these three evangelists attribute to Jesus is absurd.
Neither the Sanhedrin, nor you, nor I had ever seen God in your lifetime and even less with Jesus seated at his right.
Finally when he comes, we will be able to see him carried by the clouds!!!
For Jews this is sacrilege and for me it makes no sense.How can we believe that we are the only living beings at the center of the universe and that God sent his only son to Earth, this very small planet,
to save this human species which is not worth much, through his sacrifice? ? What has he done for the other planets that are populated?
No, it's a story which makes no sense and which was invented when we thought that the sky revolved around the Earth, which denotes
phenomenal egocentrism.
With the gospels, we must believe in a story which tells the life of a character named Jesus, endowed with magical powers,
having had a tragic end, desired by his Father, accepted by him and executed for their misfortune, by the Jews.
But believing in a story is not believing in God. God is not a story. Worshiping stories or images is idolatry.
The accounts of miracles make me reject the Gospels. If these miracles were true, they would be the attributes of an arbitrary, unjust, and manipulative God.
This would be a God in the image of our worst tyrants, for whom laws are made only for the people.
The account of the prayer that Jesus supposedly offered to his father in the Garden of Gethsemane, on Holy Thursday, according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
is a forgery and a testament to inconsistency. Yes, in this account, his favorite disciples were just a stone's throw away, and they were asleep.
Who, then, could Jesus have heard and recorded his prayer?
The accounts of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection call for the following remarks:
- Rome was a state of law. The Jews needed Pilate's authority to put Jesus to death.
Since Jesus was not a Roman citizen, his death sentence involved crucifixion, which had been applied to slaves by the thousands during their great
revolt. But for Jesus, a special procedure was established; procedure never used before or subsequently.
The condemned man had to carry his cross, which probably weighed more than 100 kg, for more than a thousand meters. Moreover, He would not be
attached to the cross but nailed. The hands are not strong enough to support its weight and to nail the feet, you probably need to add a base
to the cross.
This special procedure out of nowhere, for me, totally discredits the veracity of the story.
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"And lo, the curtain of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks split, the tombs opened and many bodies
of deceased saints were resurrected: they came out of the tombs after his resurrection, entered in the Holy City and made themselves seen
by many people." Who can believe such nonsense?
- Mary Magdalene and Mary Cleophas, on Sunday morning, on their way to the tomb, were the first
to see the resurrected Jesus. But, according to the Gospel of Saint John, when they see him, they do not recognize him and take him for a gardener.
It is only when Jesus speaks that Mary Magdalene recognizes him and calls him: “Rabbouni”. Then he said to her: “Do not hold me like this,
for I have not yet ascended to my Father.” What is described there seems to be the vision of a ghost and not that of a flesh and blood man.
The same evening of that day, his disciples had shut themselves up for fear of the Jews, and Jesus appeared to them and showed them the wounds
on his hands and on his side. Again, it is a vision of a ghost passing through walls and still bearing the traces of its wounds.
This is not proof of Jesus' resurrection. If he were resurrected, we wouldn't see his wounds anymore, he wouldn't have done the job half-heartedly,
and he wouldn't have fun passing through walls.
The Last Judgment.
The Last Judgment seems to be a kind of bridge between the Old Testament and the Gospels, affirming that Jesus is both the Son
of God and the Messiah. But it is no longer the Messiah of the Jews who must restore Israel's power, but the One who comes to judge the living and the dead.
Therefore, the Son of God did not save mankind, for if that were the case, the Last Judgment would have no place.
The Last Judgment is the scarecrow that must terrify men into returningto the right path of the Church, and it gives God a monstrous aspect.
For many people, life on Earth is a hell where bad intent, lie, violence, corruption, and perversion reign.
These unfortunates are told that they must worship the One who gave them this hellish life, and that if they fail to show sufficient devotion to their tormentor,
their martyrdom will last forever. It's hard to do worse than to make us believe that God is just and good.
Moreover, heaven and hell are still empty because we must wait for this final judgment before those who are entitled to it can enter Heaven,
and the others are cast into Hell.
All this is not serious, how could I have believed such nonsense for so long?
Nevertheless, Christianity is still alive. Yes the success of Christianity is due to the Emperor Constantine who understood the benefit he could derive
from this belief to control
the bodies and souls of his subjects. The durability of his work comes from the violence with which his church and its successors imposed
this history which had become a dogma. It is power, ambition and passion that have been the driving forces of the church which has never had
the concern to seek the Truth.
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