THE TEACHING OF PAUL.

Apart from Paul teaching  a  very  different  theology  from  the
Jesus  of the Gospels.    It  is  interesting  to  note  that  he
recomended celibacy (1  Cor  7:1,7,8,25-26,29,32,38)  because  he
believed the end was imminent - 1 Cor 7:29,31. The very fact that
the first Christians  believed  that the end  of  the  world  was
imminent  over  1900  years ago    shows  the validity  of  their
teachings.  The nearness of the end  of  the  world    is  stated
elsewhere, eg. Heb 1:2, 10:37, James  5:7-9, 1 John 2:18,28, 3:2.
The author of Revelation makes it clear he thought all the things
of which he wrote (eg. the end of the world)  were imminent,  eg.
1:1,3, 3:11,  22:7,12,20.  NB. Encouraging lifelong celibacy is
echoed by Jesus (Matt 19:12) and in Rev 14:3-4, although virtually
all present-day  Christians conveniently ignore this.
Paul's teachings about women are distasteful to  say  the  least,
eg. they were to obey their husband and were creately solely  for
man -  1 Cor 11:3,7,8,9, women were to keep quiet and subordinate
and if they needed to know anything they should ask their husbands
 - 1 Cor 14:33-35, wives should be subject to their husband's rule
as he is their head - Eph 5:22-24,  women are to keep silent  and
not have authority over men. Mankind's separation from God and the
misery that has followed this was all caused through   the  first
woman being tricked - 1 Tim 2:11-15,  women were to be  'trained'
to be domesticated and submissive to their husbands - Titus 2:4ff.
The  author  of 1 Peter also  stated that wives were to submit to
their husbands - 1 Peter 3:l.

ACCURACY.
There are actually numerous fictional stories  in  the   Gospels,
(ie. stories of occurrences that  defy  historical  possibility),
eg. the Jews going to Pilate on their sabbath  day  -   something
quite  impossible (Matthew 28:62).  Note how Matthew  (26:l7-l9),
Mark  (l4:l2-l6)  and Luke (23:8-l3) say that it was the Passover
(this  was  eaten  on  the evening of l4 Nisan) that Jesus    ate
at the last supper. However in John, after the  meal,  after  the
arrest, after  the  trial  before  the  Sanhedrin,  the  Passover
still had not started  (John    l8:28)    and    even  after  his
appearance before Pilate the next day,  the  Passover  still  had
not begun - John l9:l4.  This   was    deliberately    done    by
John's author to have Jesus executed at the same  time  that  the
Passover lambs were slaughtered (the day before the Passover)  to
fit the idea in John l:29,36  that Jesus  was    a    sacrificial
lamb.  (NB. Lambs were NOT offered up as sacrifices for sin; only
rams and goats were - yet another error by the N.T authors).
If  the  Gospel writers could juggle things around so easily, how
can their accounts be reliable ? Each Gospel either contains det-
ails known to be incorrect (eg. that Herod was a king - Mark 6:l4
when  in fact he was only a petty tetrach - this is corrected  in
Matt and Luke), or they contradict one another. How can they   be
reliable historical documents ?
For example, the Synoptics have Jesus clearing the Temple at  the
end of his ministry (Mark ll:l5-l7 and par.), but John  has  this
at  the very beginning (2:l3-16).  John  has  Jesus    travelling
back  and  forth between Galilee and Jerusalem, but the synoptics
have him  in   Galilee  and  making  the  one  journey  south  to
Jerusalem ending in his execution.   It is clear that the Gospels
have no basis in factual history,  and are the creations of those
who wrote them.