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This is like what I wrote about the OT being the picture and the NT being the caption underneath the picture.
And yet, who was the Christ? We see the picture of Him in the New Testament. But must go to the Gospel of Christ to find out who HE was.
Luke 24: 25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Surely Paul knew this, and also teaches that the Gospel of the Christ "of the Bible" is the Law and Prophets. Why would I argue with, or ignore the Words, of the very Christ who God sent to save me?
It sounds like you are blaming divisions and sects in the church to the Apostle Paul.
Again, you are sure adding a lot to negative connotations my posts.
2 Pet. 3: 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", (Law and Prophets) unto their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing "ye know these things before", beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
When did I suggest or even imply that it is Paul's fault that religious men misrepresent his words? But one thing is absolutely true. It is the "Wresting" of Scriptures by men who "transform themselves onto Apostles of Christ", who call Jesus Lord, Lord, but DO NOT what HE says, that cause all the differing religious businesses and sects in this world God placed us in. Paul never "wrested" the Holy Scriptures. He believed in them. If you need confirmation of this, he tells us as much in Acts 24:14.
There were sects among God's people before Christ came and His apostles wrote things.
No, You have no evidence that there were differing "Religious Sects" among God's People before the Christ Came. There were religious sects who "Professed to know God", who persecuted God's People before the Christ came. But the Church of God was not divided among several different religious sects. Now if you can find evidence of this, please show me. But I have found nothing to support your assertion in this matter.
There were different voices in the garden God placed them in, just as there were for Eve. And like this other voice, the differing "Sects" had "wrested" the Words of the Holy Prophets, and preach from the imagination of their own heart, and not from God. This is not my opinion, as it is spelled out in the Gospel of Christ.
Jer. 23: 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
There is and was only ONE Church of God and One voice that leads them.
You can't say "We are going to hold Paul responsible for sects among God's people."
Before Paul was even a twinkle in his mother's eye there were twisters and perverters of God's words and sects damaging unity among
God's people. Right?
I never once implied such foolishness about Paul being responsible for men twisting His or God's Words. Paul was not a perverter of God's Word. Many religious men, who call Jesus Lord, Lord, are the perverter of God's Word that we are to beware of. And Jesus warned us not to be deceived by them.
Maybe we can come back to this. But I certainly do not blame the immaturity of many of divisive brothers on Paul.
And neither have I.
I mean that would be like saying Moses is to blame for Judah verses the Northren Kingdom of Israel.
If I had made the case, or even implied that it was Paul's fault that religious men "transformed themselves into Apostles of Christ" in order to deceive people, perhaps a discussion could be had. But I never so much as even implied such a thing.
I have learned that discussions like these can go one and on. The goal post being moved over and over and over. I ask you questions but you refuse to answer them. Where is the edification in that? I think it edifies to establish one truth at a time.
"What was the LAW of the Spirit of Life that was in Christ Jesus? Was it God's Law given by Him to Moses? Or did Jesus walk in another Law?"
"When Paul "delighted in the Law of God after the inward man, but found another law bringing him into captivity to the "doing what he didn't want to do"? Was this before he humbled himself to serve the Law of God in his mind, or after?"
According to Paul, where is the Gospel of Christ found?
These are simple questions, relevant to this discussion. I have answered in detail your every question to me. Should you not answer mine?
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