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PAUL THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY CHAPTER 1 THE ONLY SALES-POINT MOST INFLUENTIAL MEN Recently, an American historical researcher and mathematician, Michael H. Hart, published a book : THE 100, THE TOP HUNDRED OR THE GREATEST HUNDRED IN HISTORY. In his book he gives the names of the 100 Most Influential Men in History and his reasons for their positions in his list. Amazingly, he (most probably a Christian) puts Muhummed (peace be upon him) FIRST1 in his hundred, and with good reasons too. And with equally good reasons he places Jesus Christ (peace be upon him), the man accepted as Lord and Saviour by nearly all his fellow Americans, number THREE. 1. You can read this chapter here – Muhammed (pbuh) No.1, A Chapter by Michael H. Hart. I have also placed the chapter on Jesus Christ along side it REAL FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY Though there are at the moment 200 million more nominal Christians in the world than the 1000 million Muslims, Mr. Hart divides the credit for founding Christianity between Paul and Jesus, and he gives the greater portion to Paul. Hence the 3rd position for Jesus. Every knowledgeable Christian concedes that the real founder of Christianity is St. Paul and not Jesus Christ (peace be upon him). REASON FOR DIFFERENCE In any event, if there is any division between a Muslim and a Christian on the grounds of dogma, belief, ethics or morality, then the cause of such conflict could be traced to an utterance of Paul found in his books of Corinthians, Phillipians, Galatians, Thessolanians, etc., in the Bible. As against the teaching of the Master (Jesus) that salvation only comes through keeping of the commandments (Mathew 19:16-17), Paul nails the law and the commandments to the cross Paul nails the law and the commandments to the cross (Colossians 2:14) 1 and claims that salvation can only be obtained through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ:- If Christ be not risen from the dead, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain. (1 Corinthians 15:14) 1. One of the multifarious letters/correspondence of Paul among the 27 Books of the New Testament.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:12:45 +0000

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