Jesus taught that one should follow the law. His brother James taught the same after Jesus' death.
Paul who never met Jesus then claims Jesus kept appearing to him in dreams teaching the opposite than what Jesus' family and the other apostles heard directly from him while he was alive. Paul's writings all over is filled with speaking against the law, and instead looking to replace it with faith. Book of Acts shows how their was a divide between Paul and the real apostles.
It would seem to me that Paul continued to persecute the follows of Jesus, but his new strategy was to subvert his religion altogether. Reading Paul's writings without the assumption that he is the continuation of Jesus, one starts to notice glaring differences between Paul and what Jesus taught and what his followers and family practiced.
For New Testament, I generally use NRSV with NOAB. The Entirety of Galatians 3 and other letters from Paul are teaching the exact opposite of Jesus' quote in Matthew. I don't know how one reads Paul and does not see he is a contradiction of Jesus. Acts clearly shows Paul who never met Jesus (but claims to have seen him in dreams) has a very different viewpoint from the apostles that did meet Jesus and were close to him.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to you. Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus."
Jesus taught that one should follow the law. His brother James taught the same after Jesus' death.
Paul who never met Jesus then claims Jesus kept appearing to him in dreams teaching the opposite than what Jesus' family and the other apostles heard directly from him while he was alive. Paul's writings all over is filled with speaking against the law, and instead looking to replace it with faith. Book of Acts shows how their was a divide between Paul and the real apostles.
It would seem to me that Paul continued to persecute the follows of Jesus, but his new strategy was to subvert his religion altogether. Reading Paul's writings without the assumption that he is the continuation of Jesus, one starts to notice glaring differences between Paul and what Jesus taught and what his followers and family practiced.
May I ask what Bible you are reading?
For New Testament, I generally use NRSV with NOAB. The Entirety of Galatians 3 and other letters from Paul are teaching the exact opposite of Jesus' quote in Matthew. I don't know how one reads Paul and does not see he is a contradiction of Jesus. Acts clearly shows Paul who never met Jesus (but claims to have seen him in dreams) has a very different viewpoint from the apostles that did meet Jesus and were close to him.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to you. Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus."
See this for a bit of a discussion on the topic: https://danizier.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/paul-vs-jesus-and-james/