A Need for Creed

The function of law is to regulate human conduct within any society in order to maintain a certain set of values and beliefs. Therefore, every legal system is based on a set of beliefs which it protects and derives its authority from. But if every law requires an inspiring belief system, would not every dogma entail a legal system to protect it? The logical answer is yes, but it was not apparently so for the founders of Christianity, who introduced a belief system that does not contain a self sustaining legal doctrine for some unknown reasons. 


The obituary of the Law of Moses, and therefore the New Testament’s relevance to public affairs, is majorly the work of Paul of Tarsus, the author of 13 books of the 27 books of the New Testament, and the apostle to whom half of the Book of Acts is dedicated. Paul’s de-activation of the comprehensive Halakhaic code took three insidious forms; the first is by nullifying the relationship between deeds and salvation, which lead to the duality of the metaphysical and physical realms, and denied the influential reciprocity between the body and the mind. The second was the obsoleteness of the autonomic political structure of the Jewish nation, which unified all forms of life in a fostering monotheistic set up. The third axis of the Paulian take over was the resilient superseding of revelation and the celebration of interpolation and sinister hermenutics. Paul said, "That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord", and by that statement 20 centuries of Christology were tainted by vicious hierarchy and scriptural irrelevance.
 

Paul selectively focused on the deterministic aspect of Abrahamic theology excluding the indispensible personal role in salvation. In an example of how Paul contravened the teachings of Jesus, he says, “they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus”, and “For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.” Later on in the same chapter he philosophizes one of his novelties as he says, “Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.” On the couldn't be further other hand, Jesus focuses on the role of one’s own deeds in justification as mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned” .Many Christians would be flabbergasted by the aforementioned quotes which corroborates the validity of the Jewish law regardless of demented hermeneutics and interpolations . However many would not be able to admit that the adventitious intervention by Saul, the former persecutor of Christians, narrowed down Christian morality to a mixture of ambivalent humanist ethics, political totalitarianism and ritual mysticism.


The detachment of deeds from salvation meant the irrelevance of non ritualistic actions to morality, and subsequently, facing the political false dilemma of choosing between brutal theocracy, and diabolic secularism. Not even a balanced dilemma as Paul has increased the bids on the second choice by preaching his followers to respect the political and economic systems under which they lived, and he also told them to pray for those who ruled over them in 1 Timothy 2:2. A theory that will lead to an inevitable secular Politiconomic alliance with the church.

Among myriads of his adverse messages to what Jesus had preached regarding the necessity of the law, Paul had brought the Jewish canon to an end by depicting the law as a curse, then transmitting this very curse to the slewed son of God in a clean disposal of the divine boo-boo. In Galatians 3:13, Paul fascinates his readers by the technical glitch resulting from God’s feeble mindedness which required a public sui/deicidal apology as he says, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us”. At this point the suspicious, lopsided, Paulian understanding culminates to make a room for all sorts of non monotheistic life shaping laws to refill the void, holy schema as it is announced In Rom.10, “For Christ is the end of the law, that everyone who has faith may be justified.". However, Jesus said verbatim, “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. He also says, “For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.”




Another theological perplexity of a seismic secular impact is the conflicting attitudes the Bible demonstrates towards the "Seclourum". Thanks to the infallible Paul, the freedom fighting followers of Jesus are told by Paul to love the world and nurture their political torpidity. Two passages of the gospel of John reveal this intrinsic contradiction. On the one hand,  John writes, “For God so loved the world [kosmon in Greek] that he gave his one and only Son”. But on the radical contrary, he quotes Jesus warning his followers saying, "Do not love the world [kosmon] or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in Him". But who cares, according to the founders of Christianity Jesus was so mystical and indecipherably ambiguous, unlike the plain language he preached in.
From a conspiratorial point of view, Robert Eisenman, the renowned Bible scholar, perceives Pauline Christianity as a method of containing a rebellious sect among radical Jews and making it appealing to Roman leadership. The American New Testament scholar, Bart D.Ehrman traces the political model of Rome upon which Pauline Christianity was based and made use of the administrative skills which Rome had possessed. The Roman organizational system of a single bishop for each town was, on this theory, the means by which it gained its hegemony.

The blustering resonance of secularism was firstly incepted in Christology as a rift between the political and liturgical realms, which later morphed into a complete schism between the social and religious spheres. The corrosive secularization of the message of Jesus is a loud reverberation of the intrinsic dissonance between faith and legal discipline in the New Testament. Paul of Tarsus is by and large the most important figure in Christianity before Jesus Christ himself, as his teachings managed to place those of Jesus in desuetude and gradual recession of relevance to life. A life that is riven by materialism and apostasy more than ever.