Religion

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As is explained in the article About Christianity, Paul was not an apostle (as even the apostles stated), and he had never heard or seen Jesus in person. And yet, because Paul had a spiritual experience and was converted to Christianity after having “heard the voice of Jesus” from out of the blue, and believed he was a “chosen vessel” of the Christ, he assumed his interpretation of the Hebrew Torah and Tanakh was correct, and he even assumed he could elaborate and expand on it.

The problem is, Paul was not accurate in his references to and interpretation of the Old Testament, and in certain instances he was just wrong. That's why the theology of Christian Apologetics he invented is rejected by Jews, many progressive Christians and Muslims, and many others. And Jefferson was just one of many Enlightenment thinkers who realized that.