Comments of the “Doctrine of Faith”

Prior to the year 66, St. Paul invented the “Doctrine of Faith” as a means of countering the conversions being carried out by St. Peter.  The adage “If you can’t beat them, join them” comes into play – if you cannot defeat an adversary from without, do so from within – explore their weakness and turn it against them.  Paul was wise, he was a self-proclaimed “Hebrew among Hebrews” who  stated that he never broke the commandments/Law – one law required that he accept those who converted to Mosaic teachings which he referred to as “The Circumcision”.

In Hebrew law, it is demanded that we, “love the convert, for you too were strangers in the land of Egypt" (Deuteronomy 10:19).  The strangers spoken of were the proto-Hebrews Hyksos nomads who conquered territories and then absorbed the children and virgins into their numbers – a fact clearly described in the Exodus story.  Subsequently, conversion became more of an intentional matter – one which reflected a desire to learn, prosper, and escape the hardship of a world based upon blind obedience to some king.  Granted, to follow the path of wisdom – be it through the model of Buddha, Confucius, or the Hebrew model  – is not easy; it requires a break from the people, customs and traditions of youth and take on the rules of good hygiene and intellectual development as established by an ancient culture, but promoted in the halls of modern academia and practiced everyday by the most advanced nations on earth.   In ancient times, the conversion was difficult – as St Paul realized and traded upon when he decided that the goals of good health and education should be forbidden in the name of faith.  If we look to Paul’s practices, we see a man who would not violate the law – and was proud of that fact – so he did not directly confront Peter’s teachings, but rather went to the territories Peter had yet to visit and only there presented his counter-position.  Of course, the beauty of it came others  wrote prophecies about the anticipated outcome: That those who came by faith  would not be recognized by the one who was to judge and clearly stated that not a letter of the law was to be changed or erased.  Recall that, faced with a potential convert who demanded to be taught all of the law while the teacher stood on one foot,  Hillel the Elder, stood on one foot and said: “That which is undesirable to you, do not do to your fellow. This is the entire Torah, the rest is all commentary.”  And, having demonstrated he was un-phased by the attempt to belittle the teachings, then commanded that the convert go and study the commentary.

St. Paul was a truly wise man – one who achieved his objective in a way that few can appreciate.  If not for Paul, if all converts had followed the “Circumcision” as required by the teachings of Paul – whose person and teachings were the foundation upon which the “Church would be established”, there would have never been the conditions which gave rise to the Black Plaque or any of the other scourges which decimated Europe.  Moreover, modern medicine would probably be a thousand years further advanced.

Now we are at an interesting point in history: Do we continue to practice medicine and promote (even if it is weakly) scholarship, or do we return to having a King?  And in that return, yield up our freedom and the rights bestowed by just laws?

It is the goal of those seeking to rule this nation --  and through the Jihad equivalent of evangelicalism, other nations --  that we destroy the planet, that we, by choice and greed and shortsightedness bring an end to this planet …

Ah the beauty of it …