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I often wonder: Paul didn't really do anything wrong (according to his limited Old Testament application). He was then the perfect man for the New Testament job... with a new application.
1. St John 5:43 (Paul is not fooling God any, he is only fooling 99.99% of the population) Could all the nations be deceived with out the false doctrine of Paul? "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not. (Jesus) If another shall come in his own name, him (Paul) ye will receive. (Believe) St John5:43 Would God say work out your own salvation? Or
Profitable for doctrine, for reproof, (rebuking) For correction, (change from wrong to right) ? Or
I might hsve a prosperous journey? Or
The gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. (What about St John 3:3-5 you must be born again and receive the Holy Ghost) Or
Love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. (The law ended with John the Baptist0 OR
Go by what I tell you, (Your Son was only the Son of God don't listen to him) ? His Gospel was bunk.
At Paul's so called conversion, has that happened in your church, a light hit you on the side of the head? OR
You go from faith to the works of the law. (What about the Gospel that Jesus died for?)
99.99% of people on the planet earth makes me sick.
"It grieved God in His heart that He made man on the earth." Genesis 6:6
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My response: I would say that this is...
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2 Peter 3:15-16
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles , speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures , unto their own destruction.
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The unlearned and unstable still wrestle with Paul's epistles just like they still wrestle with the other Scriptures.
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My response: Paul preached the same Gospel as 100% of Jesus post-resurrection apostles.
Mickey preaches a FALSE gospel that cannot be found anywhere in the Bible.
Paul is persecuting the early Christian church according to his way…his ideas for the purity and survival of his Jewish religious tradition…totally unaware until Damascus that Jesus of Nazareth is in fact the Messiah and Savior…the divine Son of God.
In a split-second of time…God instantaneously flips the highly educated yet culturally prejudiced, rabbinical Pharisee Saul/Paul into a new, different person now having the deepest personal humility in relation to the polytheistic, idol-worshipping Gentiles he will soon be sent out to evangelize…through the powerfully persuasive perspective of his own personal conversion experience.
By an ingenious stroke of God…Paul is now both perfectly suited and qualified to take the new gospel message of hope and deliverance…the real truth about Jesus Christ…both scholastically and experientially…out to the larger Greco-Roman world.
From the time of Damascus onward Paul can no longer culturally look down his nose at…and reject along with many of his countrymen…these heathen Gentile foreigners according to the social and religious prejudices of the time…because their false worship of dumb idols as Gentiles cannot possibly exceed Paul’s own, individually misguided persecution of Jesus and the early Christian church.
Paul sees the immense grace and forgiveness of God instantly applied to his own life…now available and being freely offered to the Gentiles through faith rather than the works of the law…like no other Jew of his time with the possible exception of Peter.
No human could or would invent this brilliantly original and innovative life-script for Paul…having the totally unconventional element of God doing things His way.
Is this evidence for the divine origin of the calling and ministry of Paul?
What are your thoughts?