He is effectively telling his followers that their loyalty belongs to him and his version of the
faith, rather than the original foundation in Jerusalem. However, the entire chapter is once again Paul self-justifying himself.
The christian scholars work diligently to make us believe that there was only one christian religion, and that in the beginning there was no separation between what the Asia Minor true churches of Christ taught and what they taught. They need to maintain this facade to prevent people from realizing that christianity began as the adversary of Yah!
When we look at Paul’s words as the first christian, and then how his later churches treated them, and what they called them as they rejected them, There is no room for doubt as to the fact that they began and continued even through today, as the adversary to the true churches of Yashava. The historical records confirm that the Asia churches of the eyewitnesses, The Nazarenes, The Ebionites, as well as others are all of the same faith and teachings. We will now provide historical quotes from the advocates, historians, and leaders of the Christian faith.
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Here is the first direct quote from Epiphanius of Salamis (Panarion 29.7.2, 5) regarding the Nazarenes, whom he identifies as the descendants of the original Jerusalem Church:
“But these same Sectarians… did not call themselves Iesseans, or keep the name of Jews, or term themselves Christians, but Nazoraeans… They use not only the New Testament but the Old as well, as the Jews do… They live according to the preaching of the Law.”
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Direct quote from Epiphanius (Panarion 29.7.7-8), specifically identifying their geographical origin and their direct tie to the Jerusalem Church:
“This sect of Nazoraeans is to be found in Beroea near Coele-Syria, in the Decapolis near the region of Pella, and in Basanitis… For they had moved from Jerusalem and lived in Pella because Christ had told them to leave Jerusalem and withdraw from it because of the siege that was to come.”
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This next quote comes from Epiphanius (Panarion 30.13.1), where he records the specific teaching of the Ebionites regarding their relationship to Paul:
“There are some who do not admit the Apostle Paul, as is the case with the two sects of Ebionites, who regard him as an apostate from the Law.”