I know people, who still think that St.
Paul is the towering, if not incipient figure in Christianity. TV evangelists and other preachers
appear to refer to him, to quote him, to rely on his letters spreading the word,
to almost total exclusion of the teaching of the Master whom, he, St. Paul, has
never met, yet whom he seemingly claimed to have been the principal promulgator. Alas, there is a
sad consequence to this predilection.
Paul, St. Paul,
if you like (after all, in Rome, he earned this title), appears to have forgotten the basic premise of Christianity. The Kingdom, his unknown Master claimed, is not of this world…
Not so, Paul seems to have said.
"I shall build a glorious kingdom in His name right here, on Earth, in this reality..." he might have said. Sadly, we now know that this reality is not real. That it is an illusion. That it is transient and populated by countless people who seem not aware of the Master's teaching.
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Nevertheless, in spite of Paul's many misapprehensions, his heart was in the right place. In Rome, under the influence of St. Peter, Paul learned about the folly on his ways. It was too late to edit his writing, but, well, we all make mistakes. After all, years ago, Peter denied knowledge of his Master thrice. Paul, on the way to Damascus found partial enlightenment.
Yet in Rome, they both found salvation.
My book, Peter & Paul, explains it all. Like Paul, I met neither Peter nor Paul. But years of listening to my inner voice opened my eyes to what must have happened. You might disagree, but no one can deny that both, Peter and Paul, in the last moments of their lives, found the truth. Alas, it was too late to correct Paul's errors. Yet they both found immortality — the Kingdom not of this world. It is never too late.
Never too late.
After all, we are all immortal, remember?
Perhaps we, too, might follow in their footsteps.
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