(July 13, 2017 at 1:39 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(July 13, 2017 at 1:36 am)vorlon13 Wrote: It's not so much Paul is backwards, it's that he is committing heresy.
He was never authorized to countermand Jesus. Jesus would have (and did !) simply uttered His doctrine correctly in the first place, obviating any need for Paul to change anything.
Yeshua preached the Nazarene doctrine; Paul preached the Christian doctrine. They are not the same doctrines.
I'm not sure what the doctrine of the city of Nazareth is, but I think what's really happening here is that Christians are confusing the words "Nazarite" (one who upholds the Nazarite laws) with "Nazarene" (one who is from the city of Nazareth.) Really, it's a homophone. The words sound similar, but they mean different things and they're spelled differently.
I think the NT states that Jesus was from Nazareth, but that's not the same as being a Nazarite. We can easily demonstrate that Jesus wasn't a Nazarite (like Sampson) because he drank wine, and wine would be prohibited for Nazarites.
