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[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Originally Christianity was about the teachings of Christ as recorded in the gospels of Mathew Mark Luke and John but if you listen to any of our supposed Christian leaders today, especially in the U.S. you will know they hardly ever mention anything from the Gospels.

As for where I learned it... It's all in the bible you just have to read it with your eyes open.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They don't avoid the gospels because they like Paul better, they avoid the gospels because they think Jesus is a weak soyboy who's overly moral and too soft and too tolerant of sinners. They like "Paul" a lot because most of what is ascribed to him is forgeries from later scribes, as I mentioned before. The apostles weren't viewed as sacred until considerably later, so early scribes were free to make editorial revisions, inserting all kinds of ridiculous orthodox doctrines that churches love, even though many of them are downright evil and make Christians look awful.

The way they skirt around this problem is with the sola scriptura excuse: Jesus is only a small part of a canon that totally wasn't thrown together by Rome in 382 AD, so he can safely be ignored in comparison to everything else. And nothing in any of these books can be questioned (which basically means they can tell you whatever they want you to believe because it contradicts itself so much they can pick anything they want out of it).