The Most Misleading Red Letter in the Bible: How One Verse Inside Another Man's Vision Became the Foundation of Pauline Christianity
A Focused Examination — eFireTemple The Claim There are thousands of red-lettered words across the New Testament. Most of them are presented as direct speech by Jesus in narratives where he is physically present — teaching crowds, debating Pharisees, speaki…
2026-05-13 · library→articleThe Law That Would Never Pass Away — Until Paul Said It Did
Part 3 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Two Statements There are two statements in the New Testament about the law of Moses. They cannot both be true. The first is from Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:17-19: "Do not think that I ha…
2026-05-13 · library→articleThe Law That Would Never Pass Away — Until Paul Said It Did
Part 3 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Two Statements There are two statements in the New Testament about the law of Moses. They cannot both be true. The first is from Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:17-19: "Do not think that I ha…
2026-05-13 · library→articleFabricated Authority: How Paul's Apostleship Was Built on Unverifiable Claims
Part 2 of the FABRICATED AUTHORITY Series — eFireTemple A Note on the Title The word "fabricated" requires precision. This article does not claim that Paul, Luke, or Ananias sat down and deliberately invented a false story. It claims something more specific…
2026-05-13 · library→articleThe Red Letter Problem: How a Nineteenth-Century Editorial Decision Obscures the Foundation of Pauline Authority in Acts
Published by eFireTemple Abstract Red-letter editions of the Bible, first introduced by Louis Klopsch in 1899, print words attributed to Jesus in red ink to visually distinguish them as uniquely authoritative. This article argues that the application of red…
2026-05-13 · library→articleTwo Letters, Two Worlds: What James and Paul Were Actually Writing About
From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple The Zoroastrian tradition has a precise name for what happens when an institution gradually replaces the original fire with a convincing replica of it. The process is not conspiracy. It is not malice. It is the op…
2026-05-13 · library→articleWhat Paul Doesn't Quote: The Silence That Tells You Where His Authority Came From
From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a line in Yasna 31.3 that Zarathushtra writes about fire. The Avestan phrase is mainyu athra-cha asha-cha — "through mind, through fire, and through Asha." The fire he is describing is not the flame on an…
2026-05-13 · library→articleDepart from Me, Workers of Lawlessness: The Sermon on the Mount Already Refuted Pauline Salvation
Part 10 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Passage That Should Have Ended the Argument There is a passage at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that, if read plainly, ought to have ended every Pauline-versus-Synoptic argument about how a person…
2026-05-13 · library→articleJames the Just: The Christianity Before Paul
The Other Gospel: The Lost Jerusalem Files — Part I Before Christianity became a religion of Paul, it was a movement in Jerusalem. Before it became centered on the theology of the cross, justification, faith apart from works, and the cosmic Christ preached …
2026-05-13 · library→articleThe Pharisee Who Rebuilt the Cross: Jesus, Paul, and the Recoding of the Original Message
The Paradox at the Heart of Christianity Christianity begins with a man executed after colliding with the religious and political powers of his age. That man was Jesus of Nazareth. He preached the kingdom of God. He healed the poor. He rebuked hypocrisy. He…
2026-05-21 · library→articleThe Persecutor Who Replaced the Prophet: Paul, Acts, and the Erasure of Jesus
The most consequential figure in the history of Christianity never met Jesus. He spent the first chapter of his career hunting down and killing the people who did. What followed is the most successful ideological takeover in the history of religion — and th…
2026-06-03 · library→articleThe Straight Line: From Zarathustra to Paul, and What Got Lost Along the Way
By Diesel the Magus | eFireTemple There is a direct, documented, traceable line running from the religion of ancient Iran through the Babylonian exile, through the anonymous author of Isaiah 40–66, through the Pharisaic sect, through Paul of Tarsus, and int…
2026-06-03 · library→articleFire of the Week – Article I
Gaza, Genocide, and the Shadow of Druj: Why Israel Has Lost the Mandate of Light Subtitle: From chosen narrative to cosmic judgment—the fire of truth reveals what the world tried to deny. The Moment the Lie Collapsed By mid-2025, the world has seen too much…
2025-05-29 · library→articleThe Architect
Paul of Tarsus Built Christian Theology. He Was From Persian Territory. And His Theology Shows It — Precisely Where It Goes Beyond Anything in the Hebrew Bible We have documented what entered Judaism during the Persian period. We have documented what entere…
2026-05-11 · library→articleThe Apostle Who Was Not There
The Other Gospel: The Lost Jerusalem Files — Part II Paul changed Christianity more than any other figure after Jesus. That fact alone should make him one of the most carefully examined men in religious history. And yet, in most churches, Paul is not examin…
2026-05-13 · library→articleJames the Brother
The Voice Christianity Buried The earliest figure named in Christian history after Jesus himself is not Peter. It is not Paul. It is not John. It is a man whose name appears in the oldest layer of the New Testament, who led the original community in Jerusal…
2026-05-21 · library→articleThe Other Pharisees
Paul Was Not Alone. Five More Figures — Each With Pharisaic Formation or Authority — Each Shaping What Was Remembered, What Was Preserved, and What Was Lost. The previous article in this series documented what Paul's Pharisaic formation produced in Christia…
2026-05-24 · library→articleThe Father's Face
A Portrait of God Drawn Exclusively from the Words of Jesus — No Paul, No Creeds, No Doctrine. Only What He Said. BYDIESEL THE MAGUS · EFIRE TEMPLE · THE OLDEST FLAME This article has one rule and it will not be broken: every characteristic of God described…
2026-05-24 · library→