From the beginning of human creation God has sent Prophets to guide the mankind to the straight path. Many persons in the past had claimed to be Prophets. The Holy Bible gives the criteria by which the Prophethood of a person should be judged.

  It says: "When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18-22).

  The real founder of Christianity is Saint Paul of Tarsus. Out of the 27 books of New Testament, 14 books are attributed to St. Paul. He claimed that, on his way to Damascus, he saw a vision of Jesus (P*) speaking to him in person (Acts 22:8). He later claimed Prophethood, receiving revelations from Jesus (P*).

  He wrote: "the gospel which was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ... I did not confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days." (Galatians 1:11-12, 16-18).

  Although St. Paul claimed to be a Prophet receiving revelations from Jesus (P), his prophesy did not come to pass. He promised to word of the Lord, that we who are alive, ... shall be caught up together with them (raised from dead) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17). St. Paul is dead. The heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a The Holy Bible also says : "The law of the "For all who rely on the works of the law are under St. Paul declared abolition of those laws: a curse" (Galatians 3:10). "you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from But when St. Paul wanted to silence the women he took the shelter of the law. "the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says” (1 Corinthians the people: “For this we declare to you by the Lord did not return while he was alive and he did not rise to the clouds to meet him in the air. This proves that St. Paul was a false prophet and he did not receive any revelation from Jesus (P*).

  St. Paul said : "To the Jews I become as a Jew, ... to those under the law I become as one under the law- though not being myself under the law ... To the weak I become weak ... I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some" (1 Corinthian 9:20-22). Webster's Dictionary says "one who feigns to be what he is not is a hypocrite."

  St. Paul also admitted of lying: “But if through my falsehood falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?" (Romans 3:7).

  Jesus further said "Think not that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets; ... till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.” (Matthew 5:17-19).

  But when St. Paul wanted to silence the women he took the shelter of the law. "the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says” (1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ).

  Again when St. Paul was brought to trial he said to the governor: “I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the law or written in the prophets” (Acts 24:14).

  God made a covenant with Abraham: "This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. ... So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant" (Genesis 17:10, 13).

  St. Paul said: "Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22).

  "Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith" (Romans 3:25)

  Jesus (P*) taught people to pray like this: “Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ... Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors” (Matthew 6:9,-12). He did not say anything about shedding of sinless blood for forgiveness.

  Seventeen years after his vision of Jesus (P*) when St. Paul went to meet the apostles in Jerusalem, they charged him: "you teach all Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs. ... Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you but that you yourself live in observance of the law. ... Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself with them” (Acts 21:26).

  St. Paul was able to change the apostles to give exemption from circumcision to the already converted Gentiles under the Noachide law which governed Gentiles under Jewish administration. The apostles agreed to this as a temporary measure to heal the rift between the Gentile and Jewish converts. Thus St. Paul 'lead astray the very elecť. Apostle Peter followed St. Paul to Antioch to discuss application of laws to Gentiles. St. Paul observed some weakness on the part of Apostle Peter in the observance of law and said to him "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

  St. Paul claimed to have had a vision of Jesus (P*) and there after got revelations from him. According to the criteria of the Bible, he was a false prophet, and according to his own admission, he was a hypocrite and a liar. As Jesus (P*) warned, St. Paul wore the sheep's clothing of a prophet but inwardly he was a ravenous wolf destroying the teaching of Jesus (P*). It is difficult to understand why Jesus (P*), after he left this earth, would choose a hypocrite and a liar to negate all that he taught and stood for, instead of revealing them to his own selected apostles? Again, why did he, being a God, teach or say wrong things in the first place?

  If your father had divided his property to his children before his death in a specific way and then after his death your cousin comes and informs you that he had a vision of your father in his dream. Your father has now changed his mind and has given all the property to your cousin.
Will you accept it ?

Now it is for the readers to reason, judge, and then decide whether to follow a false prophet only because the family and friends follow him or use common sense and seek for the truth.