Is Paul's Gospel at Odds with Jesus' Teaching?

According to some critics, Paul hijacked Christianity. He preached an entirely different Gospel than Jesus. We are asked why Paul’s teachings and tone are so different than what we read from Jesus in the four Gospels. Plus, there are times that Paul and Jesus are seemingly at odds with each other. Critics will say that modern Christians don’t believe in Christianity, but Paulinism.

This video examines that claim and finds that Paul and Jesus were on the same page. The wedge that critics try and drive between Jesus and Paul is vastly overstated.

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[tam_chris]

Hello there.. I am from India.. u do not know to what degree the polemics here thrash the gospel merely based on this false claim that Paul preached a differnet version than Jesus.. thank u for such a wonderful video .. good job

[amanda]

No contradiction between Jesus and Paul.

Jesus saved the other crucified criminal who believes in Him and promised to take him to paradise despite not having the chance to pay or repent for his own sins.

Jesus saved him by grace and not over the good deeds or bad deeds he had committed.

That’s what exactly Paul teaches. We are saved by grace.

When Jesus Himself taught us to follow the Moses law, that is when we He was still alive and before He had been crucified for our trespasses.

Paul was speaking after Christ.

[badassproductions]

As someone who seeks knowledge I'm glad I found your channel as some of the other Christian channels weren't cutting it.

[surrealpsalms]

( 2 Peter 3:15-16 ) “ And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, *which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.* “

[rubytuby]

Paul received information from Jesus that no one else received. It was given to him alone. Jesus revealed many mysteries, through Paul.

[DaddyBooneDon]

If in 1Corinthians, Paul says "not I but the Lord" in reference to the teachings of Jesus, then would it be safe to say that those teachings have been faithfully rendered in the gospels, and even circulated by mouth as early as the formation of the church?

[matthewbrown]

Perfect! I have friends that are dispensation believer and said that only Paul letters are for us. I thank my Lord that he used Paul to preach Jesus gospel. Thanks for the video

[jrat]

Wow. I was really hoping to have someone finally addressed the differences but it’s another video talking about the similarities. Bummer.

[DanielApologetics]

Added to a favorite featured playlist. Brilliant video!

[litigioussociety]

When Paul talks about the ministry of Jesus, it's completely in line with the gospels. The problem is when he's speaking personally, which at times he clearly mentions, others less so, but either way those things are not what most churches base their theology upon. There are some exceptions like baptism of the dead, which should be a good indicator that the problem is not Paul's writings, but the teachings of those churches.

Most churches would have the same style of fellowship and ministry with or without the epistles of Paul. The ones that don't should make a person consider whether or not the church is reading Paul's words through the lens of the gospels or the other way around. It's not unlike churches that base core aspects of their ministry on the other debated parts of the New Testament like Revelation. If fellowship demands a specific interpretation of Revelation, then that's a stumbling block to evangelism.

[bugsocsollie]

Does everyone ignore the mysteries given to Paul for the Gentiles specifically for this Dispensation? Paul did have a different Gospel than Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom being at hand. Paul didn't preach that because for this Dispensation, the Kingdom is not at hand: Israel rejected their Messiah.

Under the Kingdom Gospel and according to all the promises and prophecies, Gentiles would have access to God through Israel (salvation is of the Jews).

Today (as Paul says throughout his writings, "BUT NOW..." ) salvation is not of the Jews, it came to the Gentiles because Israel fell. Romans 11:11

But Israel is not fallen for ever or for good. They are only fallen and blinded until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. Romans 11:25. We are in the Dispensation of the Body of Christ which is a completely different Church than the called out believers of Israel. That is a Gospel for outside of this current Dispensation, and is not a valid Gospel today. Soon, though, there will be a close of this Dispensation and a beginning again of the Jewish program. As we see in Revelation with the 144, 000 Jews sent to preach their Gospel. They must endure till the end of the Tribulation. The Tribulation that was to follow is the reason for Mark 16:17-18, for tongues and all that stuff they were to endure to try them as gold in a fire. It all didn't happen because of the mystery Dispensation. It's all right there in Scripture.

[RantJamz]

Some of your references are hard to find with the timing of the video but I appreciate it

[MrJamiedaking]

According to you things that Jesus and Paul agree upon, what is your source of compiling that list

[jameskennedy]

Wow I never knew there were photographs of both Jesus and Paul . This is amazing !

[adamstewart]

Oftentimes when someone tries to say Paul contradicted what Jesus taught using the Bible, they'll quote-mine to make a contradiction by comparing two different things with similar wording both isolated from the surrounding context.

I recommended your blog article on this to someone telling me to look at an article he found but he was quick to dismiss it (without even reading) as "propagating the lie that the Bible is inerrant and that Paul agrees with Jesus when I've already seen he doesn't" so that's the attitude of some sceptics which is mildly frustrating.

[SothensKomplieze]

Thank you very much for your work. I just have I question I fail to answer.

Paul believed that Jesus would return in Paul's lifetime. So I wonder as to why that was the case while Jesus never explicitly told anyone when he would return. What does one make of that?

Thank you for your help.

[mjt]

He never answered the question. Answering the question means looking at the actual texts that (supposedly) contradict each other, and showing that they actually align. Mostly what he said was that Paul met with the disciples, and they (supposedly) didn't have any differences. If I want to know what Paul taught, I read Paul's letters. If I want to know what Jesus taught, I read the gospels. They simply often don't align.

[justinmayfield]

Thanks for pointing out how steeped in Jesus’ teaching Paul’s letters were.

Jesus said He was going to give His life as a ransom and that He had much more to tell His followers but the Holy Spirit would show them. Paul said God gave him a “thorn in the flesh” in order to keep him humble because of the revelations he’d been given.

That being said, Paul was great at fleshing out the theological implications of Jesus’ sacrifice, but God had already revealed the crux of theology to the Jerusalem believers before Paul’s ministry got started. He had revealed the abolition of the Law and saving of the gentiles to Peter and the Jerusalem believers’ reaction to Paul was to affirm as clear that we are saved by grace, not works, as you said.

[averageguy]

If Paul and Jesus were not on the same page, we can say he created a new faith, not just hijacked. I appreciate those critics. They help me to refocus on Jesus's teaching. We cannot deny there are many difference. In my church, we spent more time to study Pauline epistles than gospels. We often remember Paul's teaching and overlook Jesus's teaching. We don't realize there are some differences.

*I first notice the difference when I was listening to Gordon Fee's message about the Kingdom of God. Jesus's central message is "the Kingdom of God". Paul's central message is different.

Then, I notice his behavior toward Peter, his brother in the Lord. When Paul rebuked Peter (Galatians 2:11-14), I don't consider it was an act of love, but an act of self righteous. When we rebuke others, we consider we are right, they are wrong. But if we are in their situation, we might do the same thing. We don't even rebuke our children in public. It is to humiliate them.
John 15:12 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."
John 13:35 "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
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[littlegirlblue]

Thank you. I will show this to my mother, who horribly misunderstands Paul's teachings.