Reply #35: What pious nonsense.

[Merlin]

The "power of Christian life" is that by following the teachings of Jesus, you make of yourself a force for a better world; you light a candle; you are a comforter, a teacher and a healer--not a judger, an agrandizer, or a punisher.

Paul has the temerity to say how you live doesn't matter--just what you believe: "if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved..." But Paul is wrong.

Paul never even met Jesus. He was a bounty hunting huckster who took the memory of the good and humble Jesus and turned him into a Christ--something Jesus never intended. How the hell did Paul have any idea whatsoever that simply believing in Paul's concocted mythology will cause a person to be saved? The answer is perfectly clear. He didn't He had no special link to the Almighty. Paul was a man just like you and me. Nobody claims otherwise. He was simply selling snake oil. If he were alive today, he would be appearing on those late night infomercials hawking something like spray-on hair.

Among the things I've come to know for certain in life is this: that the word of Paul is NOT The Word of God.