>>14265722More on Christianity by based Leo Tolstoy.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Why_the_Christians_are_in_such_distress_nowWhile the meaning of Christ’s teaching (just like anything truly great) is simple, clear, accessible to all and can be expressed in one word: a human is a son of God, - the essence of Paul’s teaching is artificial, dark, and totally incomprehensible for any free of hypnosis person.
The essence of Christ’s teaching is that the true well-being of a human is in the fulfillment of the will of the Father. And the will of the Father is in the unity of people. And therefore the award for the fulfillment of the will of the Father is the fulfillment itself, the merging with the Father. The award now is in the acknowledgment of the unity with the will of the Father. This acknowledgment gives the highest joy and freedom. It is only possible to reach it by raising the spirit in oneself, by shifting life into the spiritual life.
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While according to Christ’s teaching the reward for shifting one’s own life to the spiritual essence of each person is joyful freedom of the awareness of the connection with God, and according to Paul’s teaching the reward for the good life is not here but in the future, in the post mortem state. According to Paul’s teaching, one needs to live the good life chiefly in order to get a reward for it “there”. With its usual illogicality, he says, as a proof of existence of the afterlife blessings: “If we don’t live a life of debauchery and if we deprive ourselves of the pleasure of doing mean things here, and if there is no reward in the future life, then we will get fooled.”
Yes, the foundation of Christ’s teaching – truth, its meaning – the purpose of life. The foundation of Paul’s teaching - cunningness and fantasy.
