Michael Bradley
Paul’s mission unfolded within the last-days crisis of Israel’s covenant, not as an open-ended outreach to humanity.
He went to Torah-observant Jews and proselytes (who were considered to be Jews) first. Then, he went to people within Israel’s covenantal structure who were rejected and despised by Jews, some of them referred to as gentiles (people Paul believed were descendants of the ten northern tribes of Israel and uncircumcised god-fearers like Cornelius) attached to Israel thru covenantal inclusion.
People who weren’t attached to Israel in any meaningful covenantal way weren’t Paul’s intended audience. They weren’t guilty under the law, weren’t in danger of the law’s curse, weren’t in danger of an end of the age judgement and didn’t need Jesus, salvation and redemption.
Paul’s gospel addressed a time-bound, covenant-specific crisis, offering Jesus as salvation and redemption for those caught within Israel’s final eschatological moment—not as a timeless message for all peoples everywhere. The need for both Jesus’s and Paul’s message ended in AD70.
The Christianity you believe exists today was invented by Greek-cultured Jews after Israel’s original covenant crisis had ended. They reframed and universalized Israel’s covenant narrative into a philosophical religion shaped by Hellenistic categories rather than Hebrew prophetic fulfillment.
Today’s so-called Christianity is a powerless, godless fraud.
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