In view of all that, for Gnostics like Paul, the Commands in Torah which are to be performed with the physical body — take for example the Covenant Circumcision — were considered to be absolutely sinful, thus causing the loss of righteousness and therefore salvation. According to all Gnostics like Paul and all the Christians/Paulinists of all centuries, righteousness was a matter of the mind — a set of correct beliefs. For them "faith" is something totally alien to what they call the "body of death." Sounds like Paul? Of course! No wonder you read in Galatians 5:4,
4 You have been severed from Christos — you who are seeking to be justified by the (physical obedience to the) Law. You have fallen from "grace"!
Notice that Paul's so-called "grace" is directly conditional to disobeying Torah. According to his this takes place on account of believing a "wrong doctrine" which leads people to seek HaShem's approval — which he calls "seeking to be justified". Paul's totally Gnostic concept of "justification" is solely based on the mental acceptance of a belief, which he wrongly calls "faith".
Romans 4:5
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith (i.e. "gnosis" without obedient works) is accounted for righteousness.
Yes, to Gnostics it was absolutely sinful obeying Torah with the supposedly "sinful flesh", for them that meant "living in the flesh." But for those who new Torah since childhood, as well as for those who knew Yeshua, it was entirely different. James, who was the shepherd of the congregations of Jewrusalem — where all the true disciples of Yeshua met and taught — confronted Paul directly by saying:
James 2:20-24
20 But are you willing to recognize — oh, empty man! — that "faith" without works is worthless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that his Faith was joined with his works, and as a result of the works, Faith was perfected. 23 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "and Abraham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him as Righteousness," and he was called 'The Friend of Elohim'. 24 So you see that a man is justified by works and not by "faith" alone.
Abraham and Elohim were Friends. Now, Paul simply ignored that in a true friendship there is always much more that mere thoughts and emotions. There is also a lot of physical work for one another. James obviously knew that Paul was using totally out of context — to his convenience, as he always did — the momentous events and the great lesson of Genesis chapter 22.
Just as Abraham went to sacrifice his son, Noah also built the ark. Both proved their Faith to be more than the mere acceptance of a true fact. Now, how about if Noah had not built the ark? Would his Faith had saved him and his family? Surely Paul, as all Gnostics/Christians, lived in a spiritual La-la-land.
So, for Gnostics like Paul "getting in the flesh" was performing works or actions with the legitimate religious purpose of obeying — let along with the intent to please the "demands of the flesh" many of which according to the Jewish Scriptures are perfectly licit, whereas others are illicit due to their bad consequences.
Gnostics — Paul and all his followers included — strove to find, accept and believe the "right knowledge or doctrine" ("gnosis") which they thought/think would lead them to "live in the spirit" rather than "living in the flesh." In that way they thought/think that they would attain righteousness and salvation by the right knowledge!
All of the above explains why Gnostics — including Paul and all the Christians/Paulinists of all ages — have given such a disproportionate and intense importance to their beliefs and doctrines — something totally alien to ancient and modern Judaism — and to the teachings of Yeshua himself. For Paulinist Gnosticism (aka Christianity) "gnosis" (i.e. doctrines and beliefs) was/is far above any physical obedience to any Law in Torah, again, an obedience which is to be performed by the physical body — like the Paul-hated Circumcision. Consequentially, Gnostics of all ages have always thought that a wrong way of thinking — i.e. a bad doctrine — can lead man into perdition by eventually approaching him to the works of the flesh. This is exactly why Paul, the evil Gnostic Guru from Tarsus, taught his contemporary followers and Christians/Paulinist of all ages: to believe that obedience to the Commands of Torah would increase sin in them, and thus lead them to destruction.
Romans 5:20
20 The Law came in so that the transgression would increase. But where sin increased, Grace abounded all the more.
Knowing now what a real Gnostic was and how he thought, as well as having considered the possibility that Paul could have been one of them, let us now analyze the teachings of Paul, the Ravenous Wolf of Tarsus, in a litlte more depth and find out for good if he was a true Gnostic or not.
Romans 7:4-6
4 Therefore, my brothers, you too were made to die to the Law through the body of Christos, so that you might be joined to another one — to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for Elohim. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for Death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound (the works of the sinful body), so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Now, first of all, observe Paul's obsession with the body or the flesh, that is anything physical or material. Such was the main obsession of all Gnostics, was it not? Observe also how he says that the physical works of the members of the body produce Death. This is a 100% Gnostic concept. For Paul, being released from physically obeying the Law led to the possibility of being able to serve the Almighty with the immaterial spirit. Again, 100% Gnostic.
Paul admits his belief that there is another law of his interests that he vastly prefers over Torah: "you too were made to die to the Law through the body of Christos, so that you might be joined to another one". That other one is one that only pertains to the mind, which he calls the spirit. This is so because in his Gnostic mind "the oldness of the letter" of Torah can only produce sin due to the use it does — at leas in part — of the physical body which is the one that has to work in order to obey many Torah Mitzvot. For Paul, like for all Gnostics, Torah was sinful since it caused sin through the works of flesh it commands. Like all Gnostics Paul thought that by achieving an enlightenment through the faith deposited on a certain knowledge — a "gnosis" which in Paul's case is the knowledge of the death and resurrection of Yeshua, whom he equates with Christos — they could be "released from the Law" "of sin and death". The righteous desire that a HaShem-obedient man could have of obeying Torah was, therefore, deemed by Paul as mere "sinful passions which were aroused by the Law" because, again, such truly righteous obedience would lead to "sinning" by using the body to obey Torah. Yes, Paul, the Satanic Heretic of Tarsus, was a blasphemous Gnostic and a Ravenous Wolf who posing as a little enlightened lamb created a new Gnostic sect called Christianity.
Meanwhile, this self-proclaimed "Jew", self-proclaimed "disciple of Yeshua" and self-proclaimed "prophet" vividly describes the agony that all Gnostics constantly experienced, which was to be "bound to a sinful body of death."
Romans 7:23-26
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?!
In drastic divergent contrast of the low appreciation that Paul and all other Gnostics had of their physical bodies, David Melech (King David) had a very grateful one.
Psalm 139:14
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.
Of course, King David was very far from being and seeing things like Gnostic Paul.
Romans 7:8-9
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind, because apart from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the Commandment came, sin became alive and I died.
So, according to this evil man the effect of Torah is to produce sin and death. Could there be any darker outlook on Torah?
If it is true that "apart from the Law sin is dead," then when Elohim gave Torah to Israel? According to Paul, HaShem's intentions were not in reality — as it truly was — to instruct His people with the Loving Intent to protect them, but the exact opposite! Under such a satanic premise this means that HaShem caused his people to sin and die! What a blasphemous satanic thought indeed!! Only Satan could have thought of this. Think about it. Since once sin is alive people are dead, then according to Paul, the Intentions of Adonai were completely destructive! Hillul HaShem!!! But wait, there is more.
