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CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN |
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A wide gap had opened between St. Paul and the Nazarenes in connection with training and education. The conflict in which the Apostles were accused of hypocrisy can be seen in the Galatians.« But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles »(Galatians 2/11-15)
We can infer from the contents of this letter that St. Paul wanted to abrogate parts of the Law. The Nazarene opposed to this. They stressed the fact that Jesus Christ had come not to abolish the Law but to fulfill it. (Matthew 5/17) Paul had first persuaded Peter to abolish part of the Law so that he might impose his own doctrine. Nevertheless, James had warned him against it and he had recanted. When Paul came to Antioch he conflicted with Peter and accused the Nazarene community including James and Barnabas of 'hypocrisy'.
In his work entitled The Bible, the Qur'an and Science: the holy scriptures examined in the light of modern knowledge, (p. 52), Dr.Maurice Bucaille says: « Paul is the most controversial figure in Christianity. He was considered to be a traitor to Jesus's thought by the latter's family and by the apostles who had stayed in Jerusalem in the circle around James. Paul created Christianity at the expense of those whom Jesus had gathered around him to spread his teachings. He had not known Jesus during his lifetime and he proved the legitimacy of his mission by declaring that Jesus, raised from the dead, had appeared to him on the road to Damascus. It is quite reasonable to ask what Christianity might have been without Paul and one could no doubt construct all sots of hypotheses on this subject.”»
The conflict between Paul and the Nazarenes, the proponents of Christ, continued for years, before the former's teaching was accepted as the foundation of the present day Catholicity
St. PAUL RENDERS NULL AND VOID THE LAW