Institutionalization took 300 years and has many contributors

I understand. Since I will be speaking about Paul here I'm including u/Thisisnotanexit But, to me Paul or Saul of Taurus was not a real person. Or if it was could have been many individuals (assets). To me Paul is nothing more than an intelligence asset working on behalf of Roman imperial interests to neutralize the most dangerous threat the empire had ever faced, Jewish fanaticism. Something that the CIA & Mossad institution at that time would create/invent. That's what they do today 2,000 years later, think of it as the MKUltra program. What was the Roman empire then is the American (including Great Britain & Israel) empire today. Pax Romana became Pax Americana. That's why you have the Fasces symbol in the U.S. Congress. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Christianity did not spread because Jesus lived long enough to build it. It spread because Paul reinterpreted him for an empire. What most believers never examine is how theology, power, and historical context quietly reshaped Jesus's message after his death. What Jesus believed and taught is fundamentally different from what Christianity teaches us about Jesus. And that gap between the man and the myth, that distance between the teacher and the religion built in his name tells us something crucial about how power works, about how empires operate, about how ideas get transformed when they become useful to those in control. Initially it could have been someone called Saul who was born in Taurus. But, in order to understand how this works, you need to understand Roman history and politics. And you need to understand the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition. And in fact, at this time in history, there were individuals who possess all three sets of knowledge. They were called Hellenists in the Roman Empire. If you were a Hellenist Jew, meaning you grew up with Greek education in a Roman context, you had access to all three major knowledge systems, the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophy, and Roman history. And someone who fits this description was Saul from Taurus.

I believe you are familiar with Acts and the feud between James the Just and Paul. So I will skip that part. But his is how the story of Paul ends. He's in Rome. He can do whatever he wants. He can preach whatever he wants and no one can touch him. So who is this man? How does he have this power? He was in Jerusalem where a mob tried to kill him. Roman soldiers rescued him. He went to Rome and he told the Jewish leaders there, don't challenge me. And they backed down. Some even converted to his version of Christianity. Who is Paul really? So let's step back and look at all the questions in the story of Paul that don't make sense if we accept the official Christian narrative. First question, who is this guy? He has tremendous power and wealth. He has direct access to Roman authority at the highest levels. This is not normal for a religious preacher. This is someone with elite connections. Reminds me of someone recently in the news, Jefferey Epstein. Who also had elite connections and no one could touch him until they couldn't suppress the truth any longer. Then Epstein vanished, I know the official story says he committed suicide.

The other thing I find fascinating about the Paul story, Paul didn't quote Jesus. You would think that if Jesus was so important to Paul that Paul would constantly quote Jesus. He would reference Jesus's teachings. He would tell stories about what Jesus said and did. But Paul rarely quotes Jesus. Jesus's teachings, Jesus's sayings, Jesus's parables. Paul doesn't use them. Why not? If you had a vision of the founder of your religion, wouldn't you want to know everything he taught? Wouldn't you study his words carefully? But Paul doesn't seem interested in what Jesus actually said. And more importantly, the message that Paul preaches is fundamentally different from what Jesus taught. Jesus believed the kingdom of God is within us. Through generosity, through mercy, through good works, we can achieve salvation. Paul teaches it's belief in Jesus that matters. Only believe. You can do as much good as you want, but if you don't believe in Jesus as a son of God who died for your sins, you'll be damned to hell. So all those Buddhists, all those Hindus, all those doists who are living compassionate lives, helping others, seek enlightenment, too bad. They're going to burn in hell forever because they don't believe the specific Christian doctrine that Paul is teaching. This goes completely against the teachings of Jesus who said, "The kingdom of God is open to everyone who does good.". Jesus never said you have to believe in me specifically. He said follow the path. Do what's right. Love your neighbor. That's enough.

Another thing that bothers me, why is Paul so focused on organization? The heart of religion should be spiritual truth, spiritual experience, direct connection with the divine. But Paul doesn't really care about that. He cares about structure. He cares about building churches. He cares about appointing bishops and deacons. He cares about establishing procedures for who's in charge and how decisions are made and how to handle internal disputes. This is not spirituality. This is institution building. This is creating a power structure. why does Paul get in trouble with the Jews? And why do the Romans always save him? In every confrontation, the pattern is the same. Jews accuse Paul. Romans protect Paul. Jews try to hurt Paul. Romans rescue Paul over and over. If Paul were just a religious teacher who happened to be be a Roman citizen, you might see this once, maybe twice, but it's a consistent pattern throughout his entire career. The Romans are always there to protect him. Always. That suggests something more than coincidence. That suggests coordination. To be fair, Christians do have an explanation. The Christian explanation is that Paul was part of God's divine plan. Jesus brought spiritual truth into the world. Jesus taught the way of salvation. But it was Paul who created the structure and organization that allowed Christianity to spread throughout the world. I'm not buying it, but nevertheless it is an explanation.

I'm going to make an analogy here with the McDonalds franchise, because I think could highlight something important. In the 1950s, McDonald's was one restaurant in California run by the McDonalds brothers. They had great hamburgers. They had a good system, but it was just one location. Then a man named Ray Kroc visited the restaurant and he saw the potential. He said to the brothers, "Let me scale this out. Let me create a franchise model. Let me convince other people to open McDonald's restaurants all across America and eventually the world.". And the brother said, "Okay.". And Ray Kroc became one of the greatest salesman in history. He drove everywhere. He held meetings. He convinced people. And because Ray Kroc was such an effective salesman, McDonald's became the largest restaurant empire in the world. The Christian narrative says it's the same with Paul. Jesus was a founder who had the true message. But Paul was a business manager who created the system that allow the message to spread. Jesus taught spiritual truth. Paul built an organization that could spread that truth to millions of people across the entire Roman Empire and eventually across the entire world. But here's a problem with this analogy. Jesus was not selling hamburgers. In fact, Jesus hated hamburgers. Metaphorically speaking, the central message of Jesus is that wealth is wrong, business is wrong, hierarchy is wrong, organization and power structures are corruptions of spiritual truth. What matters is a direct experience of the divine spark in your own heart. Jesus explicitly rejected the idea that you need intermediaries, you don't need priests, you don't need institutions, you don't need buildings, the kingdom of God is within you, it's accessible directly. So even though the Christian explanation is that Paul was Jesus's business manager, the problem is Jesus didn't want a business manager. Jesus believed that institutionalizing spirituality destroys it. Each person has to discover truth for themselves to their own inner journey.

Institutionalization took 300 years and has many contributors

I understand. Since I will be speaking about Paul here I'm including u/Thisisnotanexit But, to me Paul or Saul of Taurus was not a real person. Or if it was could have been many individuals (assets). To me Paul is nothing more than an intelligence asset working on behalf of Roman imperial interests to neutralize the most dangerous threat the empire had ever faced, Jewish fanaticism. Something that the CIA & Mossad institution at that time would create/invent. That's what they do today 2,000 years later, think of it as the MKUltra program. What was the Roman empire then is the American (including Great Britain & Israel) empire today. Pax Romana became Pax Americana. That's why you have the Fasces symbol in the U.S. Congress. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Christianity did not spread because Jesus lived long enough to build it. It spread because Paul reinterpreted him for an empire. What most believers never examine is how theology, power, and historical context quietly reshaped Jesus's message after his death. What Jesus believed and taught is fundamentally different from what Christianity teaches us about Jesus. And that gap between the man and the myth, that distance between the teacher and the religion built in his name tells us something crucial about how power works, about how empires operate, about how ideas get transformed when they become useful to those in control. Initially it could have been someone called Saul who was born in Taurus. But, in order to understand how this works, you need to understand Roman history and politics. And you need to understand the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition. And in fact, at this time in history, there were individuals who possess all three sets of knowledge. They were called Hellenists in the Roman Empire. If you were a Hellenist Jew, meaning you grew up with Greek education in a Roman context, you had access to all three major knowledge systems, the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophy, and Roman history. And someone who fits this description was Saul from Taurus.

I believe you are familiar with Acts and the feud between James the Just and Paul. So I will skip that part. But his is how the story of Paul ends. He's in Rome. He can do whatever he wants. He can preach whatever he wants and no one can touch him. So who is this man? How does he have this power? He was in Jerusalem where a mob tried to kill him. Roman soldiers rescued him. He went to Rome and he told the Jewish leaders there, don't challenge me. And they backed down. Some even converted to his version of Christianity. Who is Paul really? So let's step back and look at all the questions in the story of Paul that don't make sense if we accept the official Christian narrative. First question, who is this guy? He has tremendous power and wealth. He has direct access to Roman authority at the highest levels. This is not normal for a religious preacher. This is someone with elite connections. Reminds me of someone recently in the news, Jefferey Epstein. Who also had elite connections and no one could touch him until they couldn't suppress the truth any longer. Then Epstein vanished, I know the official story says he committed suicide.

The other thing I find fascinating about the Paul story, Paul didn't quote Jesus. You would think that if Jesus was so important to Paul that Paul would constantly quote Jesus. He would reference Jesus's teachings. He would tell stories about what Jesus said and did. But Paul rarely quotes Jesus. Jesus's teachings, Jesus's sayings, Jesus's parables. Paul doesn't use them. Why not? If you had a vision of the founder of your religion, wouldn't you want to know everything he taught? Wouldn't you study his words carefully? But Paul doesn't seem interested in what Jesus actually said. And more importantly, the message that Paul preaches is fundamentally different from what Jesus taught. Jesus believed the kingdom of God is within us. Through generosity, through mercy, through good works, we can achieve salvation. Paul teaches it's belief in Jesus that matters. Only believe. You can do as much good as you want, but if you don't believe in Jesus as a son of God who died for your sins, you'll be damned to hell. So all those Buddhists, all those Hindus, all those doists who are living compassionate lives, helping others, seek enlightenment, too bad. They're going to burn in hell forever because they don't believe the specific Christian doctrine that Paul is teaching. This goes completely against the teachings of Jesus who said, "The kingdom of God is open to everyone who does good.". Jesus never said you have to believe in me specifically. He said follow the path. Do what's right. Love your neighbour. That's enough.

Another thing that bothers me, why is Paul so focused on organization? The heart of religion should be spiritual truth, spiritual experience, direct connection with the divine. But Paul doesn't really care about that. He cares about structure. He cares about building churches. He cares about appointing bishops and deacons. He cares about establishing procedures for who's in charge and how decisions are made and how to handle internal disputes. This is not spirituality. This is institution building. This is creating a power structure. why does Paul get in trouble with the Jews? And why do the Romans always save him? In every confrontation, the pattern is the same. Jews accuse Paul. Romans protect Paul. Jews try to hurt Paul. Romans rescue Paul over and over. If Paul were just a religious teacher who happened to be be a Roman citizen, you might see this once, maybe twice, but it's a consistent pattern throughout his entire career. The Romans are always there to protect him. Always. That suggests something more than coincidence. That suggests coordination. To be fair, Christians do have an explanation. The Christian explanation is that Paul was part of God's divine plan. Jesus brought spiritual truth into the world. Jesus taught the way of salvation. But it was Paul who created the structure and organization that allowed Christianity to spread throughout the world. I'm not buying it, but nevertheless it is an explanation.

I'm going to make an analogy here with the McDonalds franchise, because I think could highlight something important. But, I'm not sure you're going to read any further?? but if you are still reading, here it is. In the 1950s, McDonald's was one restaurant in California run by the McDonalds brothers. They had great hamburgers. They had a good system, but it was just one location. Then a man named Ray Kroc visited the restaurant and he saw the potential. He said to the brothers, "Let me scale this out. Let me create a franchise model. Let me convince other people to open McDonald's restaurants all across America and eventually the world.". And the brother said, "Okay.". And Ray Kroc became one of the greatest salesman in history. He drove everywhere. He held meetings. He convinced people. And because Ray Kroc was such an effective salesman, McDonald's became the largest restaurant empire in the world. The Christian narrative says it's the same with Paul. Jesus was a founder who had the true message. But Paul was a business manager who created the system that allow the message to spread. Jesus taught spiritual truth. Paul built an organization that could spread that truth to millions of people across the entire Roman Empire and eventually across the entire world. But here's a problem with this analogy. Jesus was not selling hamburgers. In fact, Jesus hated hamburgers. Metaphorically speaking, the central message of Jesus is that wealth is wrong, business is wrong, hierarchy is wrong, organization and power structures are corruptions of spiritual truth. What matters is a direct experience of the divine spark in your own heart. Jesus explicitly rejected the idea that you need intermediaries, you don't need priests, you don't need institutions, you don't need buildings, the kingdom of God is within you, it's accessible directly. So even though the Christian explanation is that Paul was Jesus's business manager, the problem is Jesus didn't want a business manager. Jesus believed that institutionalizing spirituality destroys it. Each person has to discover truth for themselves to their own inner journey.

Institutionalization took 300 years and has many contributors

I understand. Since I will be speaking about Paul here I'm including u/Thisisnotanexit But, to me Paul or Saul of Taurus was not a real person. Or if it was could have been many individuals (assets). To me Paul is nothing more than an intelligence asset working on behalf of Roman imperial interests to neutralize the most dangerous threat the empire had ever faced, Jewish fanaticism. Something that the CIA & Mossad institution at that time would create/invent. That's what they do today 2,000 years later, think of it as the MKUltra program. What was the Roman empire then is the American (including Great Britain & Israel) empire today. Pax Romana became Pax Americana. That's why you have the Fasces symbol in the U.S. Congress. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Christianity did not spread because Jesus lived long enough to build it. It spread because Paul reinterpreted him for an empire. What most believers never examine is how theology, power, and historical context quietly reshaped Jesus's message after his death. What Jesus believed and taught is fundamentally different from what Christianity teaches us about Jesus. And that gap between the man and the myth, that distance between the teacher and the religion built in his name tells us something crucial about how power works, about how empires operate, about how ideas get transformed when they become useful to those in control. Initially it could have been someone called Saul who was born in Taurus. But, in order to understand how this works, you need to understand Roman history and politics. And you need to understand the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition. And in fact, at this time in history, there were individuals who possess all three sets of knowledge. They were called Hellenists in the Roman Empire. If you were a Hellenist Jew, meaning you grew up with Greek education in a Roman context, you had access to all three major knowledge systems, the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophy, and Roman history. And someone who fits this description was Saul from Taurus.

I believe you are familiar with Acts and the feud between James the Just and Paul. So I will skip that part. But his is how the story of Paul ends. He's in Rome. He can do whatever he wants. He can preach whatever he wants and no one can touch him. So who is this man? How does he have this power? He was in Jerusalem where a mob tried to kill him. Roman soldiers rescued him. He went to Rome and he told the Jewish leaders there, don't challenge me. And they backed down. Some even converted to his version of Christianity. Who is Paul really? So let's step back and look at all the questions in the story of Paul that don't make sense if we accept the official Christian narrative. First question, who is this guy? He has tremendous power and wealth. He has direct access to Roman authority at the highest levels. This is not normal for a religious preacher. This is someone with elite connections. Reminds me of someone recently in the news, Jefferey Epstein. Who also had elite connections and no one could touch him until they couldn't suppress the truth any longer. Then Epstein vanished, I know the official story says he committed suicide.

The other thing I find fascinating about the Paul story, Paul didn't quote Jesus. You would think that if Jesus was so important to Paul that Paul would constantly quote Jesus. He would reference Jesus's teachings. He would tell stories about what Jesus said and did. But Paul rarely quotes Jesus. Jesus's teachings, Jesus's sayings, Jesus's parables. Paul doesn't use them. Why not? If you had a vision of the founder of your religion, wouldn't you want to know everything he taught? Wouldn't you study his words carefully? But Paul doesn't seem interested in what Jesus actually said. And more importantly, the message that Paul preaches is fundamentally different from what Jesus taught. Jesus believed the kingdom of God is within us. Through generosity, through mercy, through good works, we can achieve salvation. Paul teaches it's belief in Jesus that matters. Only believe. You can do as much good as you want, but if you don't believe in Jesus as a son of God who died for your sins, you'll be damned to hell. So all those Buddhists, all those Hindus, all those doists who are living compassionate lives, helping others, seek enlightenment, too bad. They're going to burn in hell forever because they don't believe the specific Christian doctrine that Paul is teaching. This goes completely against the teachings of Jesus who said, "The kingdom of God is open to everyone who does good.". Jesus never said you have to believe in me specifically. He said follow the path. Do what's right. Love your neighbour. That's enough.

Another thing that bothers me, why is Paul so focused on organization? The heart of religion should be spiritual truth, spiritual experience, direct connection with the divine. But Paul doesn't really care about that. He cares about structure. He cares about building churches. He cares about appointing bishops and deacons. He cares about establishing procedures for who's in charge and how decisions are made and how to handle internal disputes. This is not spirituality. This is institution building. This is creating a power structure. why does Paul get in trouble with the Jews? And why do the Romans always save him? In every confrontation, the pattern is the same. Jews accuse Paul. Romans protect Paul. Jews try to hurt Paul. Romans rescue Paul over and over. If Paul were just a religious teacher who happened to be be a Roman citizen, you might see this once, maybe twice, but it's a consistent pattern throughout his entire career. The Romans are always there to protect him. Always. That suggests something more than coincidence. That suggests coordination. To be fair, Christians do have an explanation. The Christian explanation is that Paul was part of God's divine plan. Jesus brought spiritual truth into the world. Jesus taught the way of salvation. But it was Paul who created the structure and organization that allowed Christianity to spread throughout the world. There's actually an analogy Christians use.

I'm going to make an analogy here with the McDonalds franchise, because I think could highlight something important. But, I'm not sure you're going to read any further?? but if you are still reading, here it is. In the 1950s, McDonald's was one restaurant in California run by the McDonalds brothers. They had great hamburgers. They had a good system, but it was just one location. Then a man named Ray Kroc visited the restaurant and he saw the potential. He said to the brothers, "Let me scale this out. Let me create a franchise model. Let me convince other people to open McDonald's restaurants all across America and eventually the world.". And the brother said, "Okay.". And Ray Kroc became one of the greatest salesman in history. He drove everywhere. He held meetings. He convinced people. And because Ray Kroc was such an effective salesman, McDonald's became the largest restaurant empire in the world. The Christian narrative says it's the same with Paul. Jesus was a founder who had the true message. But Paul was a business manager who created the system that allow the message to spread. Jesus taught spiritual truth. Paul built an organization that could spread that truth to millions of people across the entire Roman Empire and eventually across the entire world. But here's a problem with this analogy. Jesus was not selling hamburgers. In fact, Jesus hated hamburgers. Metaphorically speaking, the central message of Jesus is that wealth is wrong, business is wrong, hierarchy is wrong, organization and power structures are corruptions of spiritual truth. What matters is a direct experience of the divine spark in your own heart. Jesus explicitly rejected the idea that you need intermediaries, you don't need priests, you don't need institutions, you don't need buildings, the kingdom of God is within you, it's accessible directly. So even though the Christian explanation is that Paul was Jesus's business manager, the problem is Jesus didn't want a business manager. Jesus believed that institutionalizing spirituality destroys it. Each person has to discover truth for themselves to their own inner journey.

Institutionalization took 300 years and has many contributors

I understand. Since I will be speaking about Paul here I'm including u/Thisisnotanexit But, to me Paul or Saul of Taurus was not a real person. Or if it was could have been many individuals (assets). To me Paul is nothing more than an intelligence asset working on behalf of Roman imperial interests to neutralize the most dangerous threat the empire had ever faced, Jewish fanaticism. Something that the CIA & Mossad institution at that time would create/invent. That's what they do today 2,000 years later, think of it as the MKUltra program. What was the Roman empire then is the American (including Great Britain & Israel) empire today. Pax Romana became Pax Americana. That's why you have the Fasces symbol in the U.S. Congress. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Christianity did not spread because Jesus lived long enough to build it. It spread because Paul reinterpreted him for an empire. What most believers never examine is how theology, power, and historical context quietly reshaped Jesus's message after his death. What Jesus believed and taught is fundamentally different from what Christianity teaches us about Jesus. And that gap between the man and the myth, that distance between the teacher and the religion built in his name tells us something crucial about how power works, about how empires operate, about how ideas get transformed when they become useful to those in control. Initially it could have been someone called Saul who was born in Taurus. But, in order to understand how this works, you need to understand Roman history and politics. And you need to understand the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition. And in fact, at this time in history, there were individuals who possess all three sets of knowledge. They were called Hellenists in the Roman Empire. If you were a Hellenist Jew, meaning you grew up with Greek education in a Roman context, you had access to all three major knowledge systems, the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophy, and Roman history. And someone who fits this description was Saul from Taurus.

I believe you are familiar with Acts and the feud between James the Just and Paul. So I will skip that part. But his is how the story of Paul ends. He's in Rome. He can do whatever he wants. He can preach whatever he wants and no one can touch him. So who is this man? How does he have this power? He was in Jerusalem where a mob tried to kill him. Roman soldiers rescued him. He went to Rome and he told the Jewish leaders there, don't challenge me. And they backed down. Some even converted to his version of Christianity. Who is Paul really? So let's step back and look at all the questions in the story of Paul that don't make sense if we accept the official Christian narrative. First question, who is this guy? He has tremendous power and wealth. He has direct access to Roman authority at the highest levels. This is not normal for a religious preacher. This is someone with elite connections. Reminds me of someone recently in the news, Jefferey Epstein. Who also had elite connections and no one could touch him until they couldn't suppress the truth any longer. Then Epstein vanished, I know the official story says he committed suicide.

The other thing I find fascinating about the Paul story, Paul didn't quote Jesus. You would think that if Jesus was so important to Paul that Paul would constantly quote Jesus. He would reference Jesus's teachings. He would tell stories about what Jesus said and did. But Paul rarely quotes Jesus. Jesus's teachings, Jesus's sayings, Jesus's parables. Paul doesn't use them. Why not? If you had a vision of the founder of your religion, wouldn't you want to know everything he taught? Wouldn't you study his words carefully? But Paul doesn't seem interested in what Jesus actually said. And more importantly, the message that Paul preaches is fundamentally different from what Jesus taught. Jesus believed the kingdom of God is within us. Through generosity, through mercy, through good works, we can achieve salvation. Paul teaches it's belief in Jesus that matters. Only believe. You can do as much good as you want, but if you don't believe in Jesus as a son of God who died for your sins, you'll be damned to hell. So all those Buddhists, all those Hindus, all those doists who are living compassionate lives, helping others, seek enlightenment, too bad. They're going to burn in hell forever because they don't believe the specific Christian doctrine that Paul is teaching. This goes completely against the teachings of Jesus who said, "The kingdom of God is open to everyone who does good.". Jesus never said you have to believe in me specifically. He said follow the path. Do what's right. Love your neighbour. That's enough.

Another thing that bothers me, why is Paul so focused on organization? The heart of religion should be spiritual truth, spiritual experience, direct connection with the divine. But Paul doesn't really care about that. He cares about structure. He cares about building churches. He cares about appointing bishops and deacons. He cares about establishing procedures for who's in charge and how decisions are made and how to handle internal disputes. This is not spirituality. This is institution building. This is creating a power structure. why does Paul get in trouble with the Jews? And why do the Romans always save him? In every confrontation, the pattern is the same. Jews accuse Paul. Romans protect Paul. Jews try to hurt Paul. Romans rescue Paul over and over. If Paul were just a religious teacher who happened to be be a Roman citizen, you might see this once, maybe twice, but it's a consistent pattern throughout his entire career. The Romans are always there to protect him. Always. That suggests something more than coincidence. That suggests coordination. Now, let's be fair. Let's look at how Christians explain Paul. The Christian explanation is that Paul was part of God's divine plan. Jesus brought spiritual truth into the world. Jesus taught the way of salvation. But it was Paul who created the structure and organization that allowed Christianity to spread throughout the world. There's actually an analogy Christians use.

I'm going to make an analogy here with the McDonalds franchise, because I think could highlight something important. But, I'm not sure you're going to read any further?? but if you are still reading, here it is. In the 1950s, McDonald's was one restaurant in California run by the McDonalds brothers. They had great hamburgers. They had a good system, but it was just one location. Then a man named Ray Kroc visited the restaurant and he saw the potential. He said to the brothers, "Let me scale this out. Let me create a franchise model. Let me convince other people to open McDonald's restaurants all across America and eventually the world.". And the brother said, "Okay.". And Ray Kroc became one of the greatest salesman in history. He drove everywhere. He held meetings. He convinced people. And because Ray Kroc was such an effective salesman, McDonald's became the largest restaurant empire in the world. The Christian narrative says it's the same with Paul. Jesus was a founder who had the true message. But Paul was a business manager who created the system that allow the message to spread. Jesus taught spiritual truth. Paul built an organization that could spread that truth to millions of people across the entire Roman Empire and eventually across the entire world. But here's a problem with this analogy. Jesus was not selling hamburgers. In fact, Jesus hated hamburgers. Metaphorically speaking, the central message of Jesus is that wealth is wrong, business is wrong, hierarchy is wrong, organization and power structures are corruptions of spiritual truth. What matters is a direct experience of the divine spark in your own heart. Jesus explicitly rejected the idea that you need intermediaries, you don't need priests, you don't need institutions, you don't need buildings, the kingdom of God is within you, it's accessible directly. So even though the Christian explanation is that Paul was Jesus's business manager, the problem is Jesus didn't want a business manager. Jesus believed that institutionalizing spirituality destroys it. Each person has to discover truth for themselves to their own inner journey.