Keith,

If I might be so bold. I read your article. Jesus again and again taught that the Jewish laws were not the way. He taught that the spiritual was important and that through knowing Jesus anyone could be spiritual, that is, have God in their lives.

When you write "Unfortunately, what the Church also covers up, is that Paul didn’t have the official authority to preach anything in the name of Jesus or the Apostles from the Jerusalem Church (Synagogue)!", you don't seem to understand that anyone who knows Jesus has the authority to evangelize and bring the Good News to all other people. I can see where Paul may have overstepped his boundaries but he may not have. He was someone who had God in his life and was trying to help his fellow Christians and bring the Good News to the Gentiles. If he had not spoken up, Christianity would have died. Jesus told Christians to spread His Gospel and follow his teachings. Last night, I watched a documentary about how Christians were being swayed by the Pagan beliefs. Paul was trying to prevent this.

In Matthew 23:8 Jesus said “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers." So, no, there should not be a Pope but there should not be anyone believing that he has sole right to teach others about Jesus, that includes any pastor in a Protestant church including televangelists and megachurches or any Christian who believes that he should follow Jewish laws. To follow Jewish teachings shows that you do not follow Jesus. Jesus explained which Jewish scriptures were correct and which were not. The correct teachings were always about the heart. For example, Jesus said that physical circumcision was not from Moses but from the patriarchs, the descendants of Abraham. In other words, they were wrong and should not have been in the Hebrew Bible. John 7:22. Jesus also taught that circumcision of the heart was important.

Also, Leviticus was not from God. That can be proven by the fact that God told Noah " Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." in His covenant with Noah in Genesis 9. So, God gave no food prohibitions. That was from man. So, was hate for LGTBQ+ people.

What is really amazing to me is the number of people who don't know the first thing about God but speak very loudly.

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

We are in that time.