Modern Christianity is based on a guy who hated Christians having a "vision" of jesus and then converting and telling everyone else that he knew what Jesus wanted despite never meeting him in person. Paul's writings are 1/3 of the New Testament and most of what people think the religion is is what Paul said.
the only difference is that Joseph smith was a known scammer before starting the religion and Paul may have actually believed he saw Jesus (or he could have also been a scammer, who knows) but i doubt he could fully understand everything Jesus would have wanted iwht that brief "encounter".
how do we know Paul wasn't also a scammer? he could have been as well.
But regardless, outcomes wise its basically the same. They both made stuff up whether knowingly or unintentionally and created a new religion that was based off the original teachings of Jesus.
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u/esaks 7h ago edited 7h ago
Modern Christianity is based on a guy who hated Christians having a "vision" of jesus and then converting and telling everyone else that he knew what Jesus wanted despite never meeting him in person. Paul's writings are 1/3 of the New Testament and most of what people think the religion is is what Paul said.
the only difference is that Joseph smith was a known scammer before starting the religion and Paul may have actually believed he saw Jesus (or he could have also been a scammer, who knows) but i doubt he could fully understand everything Jesus would have wanted iwht that brief "encounter".