The Dishonest Apostle | Was Paul Caught in a Lie?

According to his letters, Paul felt the need to defend himself against accusations of financial deception. If we look through his own words, will we find the deceit for ourselves?

*Please keep in mind that all everything I say here is my subjective opinion, and is intended to deconstruct fundamentalist/evangelical/conservative Christian ideologies from an ex christian perspective*

Outro Music | "Pixels" by Jeff Kaale

tags | Ex christian, deconstructing christianity, exvangelical, former fundie, leaving christianity, gospels, jesus, bible, god, christian, evangelism, apologist, atheist vs christian, agnostic, recovering from religion

[tylertucker]

Paul was way before his time. He would have made a great modern day politician 😁

[mjjoe]

Sounds like Paul would have founded a mega church if he were around today.

[AliciatheCho]

“Robbing Peter to pay Paul” now makes 100% sense!

[Calvin.of.Martin.Street]

So he was a televangelist before tv was invented. Got it LOL

[seitanictendencies]

Paul basically in all his writings: "Look how humble I am!"

[Uryvichk]

You know you can trust a guy who has to say "I am telling the truth, I am not lying" multiple times in his letters to people with doubts about whether he was telling the truth and not lying.

[mrcase]

Lest we forget, the big reason we know Paul was honest, modest, and hard working is because Paul so frequently told us so. Because Paul was Paul's biggest fan and advocate. I honestly don't see how there's 10 cents of difference between Paul and men like Joseph Smith. He's a dude who never once met Jesus, but claimed to be speaking on Jesus' behalf. He just claims to have had a vision. How is that any different from any number of men who up and started religions? How do we know he wasn't a con man? How do we know he was mentally stable? Half the world just sort of blindly followed what the dude said.

[kingsize]

This badass woman is No Joke. Mad Respect. Not a lot of people (except, Richard Carrier, Christopher Hitchens, and the Mythvision) get me to think and understand religion the way she throws it down like that. Mad respect to homegirl. EFFING BADA$$.

[carlosaritelesdepaula]

Since I read the Bible for the first time when I was 11 I distrusted Paul! Now I realize that I'm not the only one. I like very much your videos!

[stan]

Seems to me Paul was doing what we refer to today as "gaslighting"!

[nicolasperrault]

Paul’s self-serving financial sophistry. He was already well on his way to preach the prosperity gospel. Had private jets existed then I doubt he would not have succumbed to temptation.

[robertwjeter]

I know it's a double comment but I've really learned a lot over the past several weeks from you. I stopped believing a while back. And you seemed to make me feel more comfortable with that. Thanks and keep posting.

[KeanuReevesIsMyJesus]

Paul was 100% the original Kenneth Copeland.

[chrislister]

He persecuted and murdered Christians until he realized he can profit from running his own scam of speaking on behalf of Jesus.

[Sham]

I always read the four gospels but somehow I just couldn’t take on the writings of Paul.

[soyevquirsefron]

Paul would rather die than not be able to boast? I didn’t know that. That’s the end of the “nobody would die for a lie” apologetic. If a lie allowed Paul to boast, he’d rather die than admit the lie, that’s what he’s telling us

[Sercheraboutthetruth]

Ex Muslim agnostic now
Welcome from egypt ❤

[BernardGreenberg]

Original joke: A famous theologian goes to Heaven, and meets Jesus. He asks, deferentially, "I always wanted to ask you: what do think of Paul?", and Jesus answers him, "Terrific guy, really creative stuff, amazing what he wrote, but John really got the idea it in a bigger way." The theologian responds, "So John is your favorite?" Jesus replies, "Sort of, but I really like _Hey Jude_ and _Yesterday_ ...."

[PrometheanRising]

The 2 Corinthians passage is stunning. Paul is literally accusing the people who pointed out that he is being paid when he said that he wasn't of being of the devil.

This is literally what TV preachers who get caught in scandals do 'Don't let the devil disrupt the good lord's work!'.

[pauligrossinoz]

*That was **_awesome_** Kristi!*

Clearly the "god" of Paul is a transactional god. Earthly food, fragrances, physical support, in trade for "preaching the gospel". 🤣

I suspect that the Corinthian Church felt Paul was a freeloader, so then Paul first goes out of his way to say that he doesn't need _any_ earthly support: He says *"I would rather die"!*

But next he admits that he _does_ freeload from _other_ churches, just not from the Corinthian Church. He got caught freeloading!

I don't think for a moment that Paul was an honest person. 🙄