Atheists, did Paul really have a small "god complex"?

Question

Some people say that he did, and I'm just wondering if it's true. ^_^

Answer 1

Read his letters and listen to him begging for money, playing one church off against the other in order to increase the size of the donations. He even praises one church because they had the money already done up in a parcel for him when he arrived to collect it.

That's what Paul was on about - money. He probably didn't even believe in god.

Answer 2

Why ask us? You're the one who thinks you're going to meet him. Ask him yourself.

Answer 3

Paul had a lot of anger in him, there is no doubt.  Usually if a person can't control their anger very well while writing official documents (wanting the knife to slip and cut those he opposed comes to mind, of course), they will have such trouble in real day to day life too.

"God complex" is simply a term of overzealous-ness...an over-bearing boss at your job could be said to have a "god-complex".  It really doesn't mean somebody is saying Paul is equating himself with God, it's simply a comment about his personality.

Answer 4

If he had one, it was lost in his sea of other issues.

He and St. Augustine, man. If professional counseling had been available back then, the face of religion as we know it would be way less misogynistic.

Answer 5

Paul who?

Answer 6

I wouldn't know, he was fake too.

Answer 7

Not so much that but he did think highly of himself.

He was a Jew who seemed to dislike Judaism.

Answer 8

Rumor has it he also had a small p****r

Answer 9

No, I frankly doubt Paul had a small "god" complex. What he did have was a collossal ego and the effrontery to pretend, on the basis of a presumed hallucination that he knew more about Jesus and what and who he was than the disciples like Peter and James his brother which is totally ludicrous. Then, thanks to Paul, the original religion of Jesus, a form of Judaism and purpose, the overthrow of Rome, was reinvented, corrupted, totally destroyed, and Paul created a new Jesus that suited him better: a totally effeminate, sanctimonious holy man and Messiah, who came to die for our sins.  Total bullocks.

Paul, one of the most virulent woman haters to have ever lived and had such enormous influence towards corrupting the Roman Empire and all other societies which his bogus version of Christianity infected, was most probably, as Bishop Spong and others have suggested, a latent homosexual.

It is this latent homosexuality which is the "thorn in the flesh", the messenger of Satan sent to tempt him and caused his extremely demented attitudes towards sexuality.

He could not come to grips with what he really was so turned the Jesus movement into a grotesque Puritanical hypocritical flim-flam boobois religion.

So who really killed Jesus? Totally eradicated the real Jesus and replaced with a fake?  The Jews? NO.  The Romans. NO.  It was Paul, the egomaniac who was fond of boasting "I count it not flattery to consider myself the very chiefest of the Apostles", yet the same egotistical Paul was fond of feigned humility. He changed his name from Saul to Paul, a Latin word meaning "small" or "little" as nothing more than a religious stunt.

Thanks mostly to this corrupt and demented lunatic Paul, the infection of his brand of theology spread and destroyed classical civilization. The efficient Roman state became a totalitarian state, the populace totally enslaved by a system of stupid laws unimaginable in pagan times, and the women enslaved by a brutal sexuality and the men turned into spineless, gutless cowardly sheep.

All thanks to Paul, the greatest liar and nutcase to have ever lived.

I am a Jew, and Paul's claim to an in depth knowledge of Judaism and to have been a student of the great Gamaliel is like me pretending to have studied martial arts under Bruce Lee, a total fabrication and lie.  The real Jews, not the half-pagan hellenized Jews like Paul, know a phony from the real thing a mile off.

While no educated or sane Jew accepts Jesus as a god, godman, or the Messiah--his claim was inadequate---we still can respect the courage and brilliance of Jesus of Nazareth. This stupid Paul is totally beneath contempt.

Answer 10

Well he apparently had a big ego...so it goes hand in hand with a deity.

But you know what they say about guy's with big ego's, small packages....

Answer 11

Nope. Paul just loved Jesus with all of his heart and life.

He also had A LOT of light and revelation from the Holy Spirit.

Answer 12

According to scripture, Paul had a huge God complex, because he killing the people who believed in God.  but God's love turned his life around and he later repented of his sins and believed.  

Answer 13

No, Paul had a huge god complex. Paul, a former pharisee who zealously and brutally persecuted the followers of Christ, never even offered an apology to the other 'True' Disciples'. It was Paul who proclaimed that he was "preaching a new gospel'. It was Paul who managed to get 13 of his letters (that somehow became Scripture) included into the New Testament. How the heck can Paul have 13 books out of 27 attributed to himself!? Simple, he was still a Roman citizen. It was Paul that taught in opposition to Christ. It was Paul that claimed to have exorcised demons and raised the dead. Was he trying to be like Christ!? Yeah, Paul had issues.

Answer 14

No, it's just a cry for help.

Answer 15

Well they chopped off his head for some reason.

Answer 16

How could one possibly know what was in the mind of such a person? He obviously was the consummate marketer/salesman. Personally, my feeling is that he had an agenda that had nothing to do with god or Jesus.