Douglas - Section 01, 02, 03

<Section #1> Clay Douglas states: “The Seduction: Judeo-Christianity OR Pauline Christianity? Saul of Tarsus: Paul. A different view. A magical effect is like a seduction. Both are built through careful details planted in the mind of the subject.’ Sol Stein

“‘You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit, Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.’ (Esu lmmanuel)”

In reply to section <#1>: It is fitting that Douglas opens this diatribe against Paul with a quote about deception from one who should know: a jew! Paul himself warned us against the jew deceivers (i.e. Acts 13:10; 20:29 et al.), yet the Anti-Paulists embrace the jews and their writings! This has already been demonstrated in these pages concerning H. Graber, and shall also be concerning Clay Douglas. Douglas quotes Matt. 7:16-20 here, and the name he attributes the statement to, “Esu Immanuel”, shall be treated shortly.

<Section #2> Clay Douglas cites Paul: “‘Let every person render obedience to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those in authority are divinely constituted...’ (Paul) (Romans 13, 1).”

In reply to section <#2>: Any serious student of Daniel and the Revelation should realize that Paul is entirely correct in his statements at Romans chapter 13. This too will be discussed shortly, for first Douglas’ comments on the topic shall be presented.

<Section #3> Clay Douglas states: “Jesus Christ (real name: Immanuel or Esu; it was Saul who changed Immanuel’s name) did not found Christianity. Paul did.”

In reply to section <#3>: Anyone who has read my pamphlet Yahshua to Jesus: Evolution of a Name has seen all of the linguistic evidence presented showing the various forms of Christ’s given name, Yahshua (Yashu, Ἰησοῦς, Iesus, Yesu), in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English languages. Yet I can’t imagine from which of the pits of hell Douglas retrieved the corruption “Esu”, and so can’t even comment on it since I’ve never seen it in any manuscript, lexicon or ancient document. Someone, probably some jew, must have tricked Douglas into using it, because it surely is a farce!

 The title “Immanuel” however, has somewhat more credibility. Matthew 1:23, quoting from Isaiah 7:14, states: “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God is with us.” But at Matt. 1:21 the messenger had commanded to Joseph: “thou shalt call His name Yahshua (Ἰησοῦς).” At Luke 1:31 we see that His mother, Mary, received the same instruction, where she was told that she “shalt call His name Yahshua (Ἰησοῦς).” Now a discerning mind may see one difference here immediately. For the messenger told His parents: “You shall call His name Yahshua”, and so Yahshua was His given name. Then the messenger said “They shall call his name Immanuel”, stating a prophecy, that the people at some later point would call him such. Immanuel is Hebrew (Strong’s #6005) for “with us is God”, which is exactly what the people did later say of Him, Paul included! But that doesn’t mean that His name was not Yahshua! Simon was called Peter by Christ, and so later he was either Simon, Peter, Kephas (the Hebrew equivalent of Peter), or Simon Peter, and by his own pen! Being called Peter doesn’t mean that he somehow lost the name Simon. The same for “Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas” (Acts 4:36), or James and John, whom Christ “surnamed them Boanerges” (Mark 3:17), and there are yet other examples of this, but already it should be explained sufficiently.

Yet Douglas insists: “it was Saul who changed Immanuel’s name”! Did Paul of Tarsus write Matthew 1:21? Mark 1:1 states: “The beginning of the gospel of Yahshua Christ ...”, did Paul write that? Did Paul write Luke 1:31? Okay, Douglas may retort that Luke was Paul’s cohort, but what about John? What does John’s gospel call Him? This is a ridiculous exercise, but necessary! The name Ἰησοῦς appears in John’s gospel alone, referring to Christ, over 240 times. The Revelation, written over 30 years after Paul of Tarsus was killed, written by John, opens: “The Revelation of Yahshua (Ἰησοῦς) Christ ...”! What does all this add up to? One thing: Clay Douglas is an idiot! For Douglas errantly states, as it shall be quoted below: “Paul ... wrote almost two-thirds of the New Testament.” Tell me Mr. Douglas, which one-third do you believe Paul did not write, and I’ll wager that we find the name “Ἰησοῦς Χριστός”, Yahshua Christ, mentioned quite often there also as He is the central figure. And since we have discovered through archaeology several papyri containing portions of both Matthew and John which are with certainty dated to the second century A.D. (see the Introduction to the NA27, page 58 comparing the dates from the appendix at pp. 684-688 for the papyri cited), it could not be that some later “church” could have changed all these names in our New Testament books! The name Yahshua Christ appears at James 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1, 2 Peter 1:1, 1 John 1:3, 2 John 3 and Jude 1. Was this Paul’s doing also, Mr. Douglas? Only one people have endeavored to destroy the name of Yahshua Christ from the beginning, Mr. Douglas: the Canaanite-Edomite jews. And you are their proselyte!

Douglas states that Paul, not Yahshua Christ, founded Christianity. The historian Josephus, writing not long after 70 A.D. at Antiquities 18:3:3, tells us that “... Jesus (Ἰησοῦς , Yahshua), a wise man ... was [the] Christ ... and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.” Josephus never mentioned Paul, and was a follower of those who persecuted Paul (those of Acts chapters 21-26). Did Paul write this also, Mr. Douglas?

In order for the Old Testament prophecies concerning the repentance of (genetic) Israel (who are not the jews) to be fulfilled, and the return of (genetic) Israel (not the jews) to Yahweh, which the Book of Hosea and most of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel are all about, the gospel of Yahshua Christ had to succeed in Europe. Peter went to Babylon (1 Peter 5:13, it is only a conjecture that he meant “Rome” metaphorically), and his first epistle was addressed only to those Israelites of Anatolia (Asia Minor). James remained in Jerusalem, and John made it to Ephesus (and was exiled at Patmos for a time, an island off the coast of Anatolia), a Greek city of Anatolia, only late in his life. Surely there were Israelites of many tribes: Greeks, Kelts, Romans, Parthians and others, in these areas. Yet the bulk of “lost” Israel was in Europe, or soon to be there (i.e. during the mass migrations of the 4th and 5th centuries).

While we have stories of apostles in Ireland and Spain at an early time, we have no substantial and contemporary (i.e. 1st or 2nd century) writings from the Irish or the Spanish to prove so. But with surety we know that Paul brought the gospel to Europe, initiating the fulfillment of the prophecies. And the Irish Celtic Church, which developed independently of the Romish Church and was never under Rome’s authority until the English sold it out to Rome in the 12th century, “cherished a deep love of the Bible, and from the Epistles of St. Paul developed their theology.” (The Celtic Church In Britain, Leslie Hardinge). That Douglas does not understand these things is not Paul’s fault. Perhaps it shall soon be evident that there is much more which Douglas does not understand!