What throws me is your assertion in a previous post that Paul, under the Holy Spirit, lied as he wrote God's word.
Did I misunderstand that?[/QUOTE]
Yes, sorry you misunderstood your assertion is not what I meant to say.
This is what I said which is different then what you assumed ..”Yes Paul the liar wrote the word of God under the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Paul the liar which is saying the same as Paul sinner, wrote the word of God under the power of the Holy Spirit. God uses sinners and is no respecter of persons .
I offer, that liar equals sinners because of the verse that speaks, as soon as they are born they go forth telling lies. Since a baby cannot speak lies before hearing the truth .I think it must mean born a sinner, one who cannot keep the commandments of God , therefore must be born again of the Spirit of Christ.
It is why I believe the directive is as it reads.
Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
I would offer. As we defend the faith of God it defends us to help us when we are judged.
Every man, I believe is Paul, the Pope or any man that has corrupted flesh . They would be called daysman. And as the Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit of God graciously informs us in chapter 9 of Job. God is not a man as us and neither is there a daysman as an infallible interpreter, an umpire between God and man to call the balls and strikes. God is no respecter of persons .It is like Paul mentioned, if we have freely received it from God why would we boast as if we did not receive it? The boating would be in vain.
The word apostle with no other meaning added mean sent one, s simply one sent from God to declare the word of God. In that sense anyone who obeys the commandment of God to go out into the would with the gospel is a apostle. It would seem to me the somewhere along the line a new meaning was added.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Job 9:33
Eastons Bible dictionary ...... Daysman an umpire or arbiter or judge (Job 9:33). This word is formed from the Latin diem dicere, i.e., to fix a day for hearing a cause. Such an one is empowered by mutual consent to decide the cause, and to "lay his hand", i.e., to impose his authority, on both, and enforce his sentence.
Strongs lexicon... 03198 yakach {yaw-kahh'}
a primitive root; TWOT - 865; v
AV - reprove 23, rebuke 12, correct 3, plead 3, reason 2, chasten 2, reprover + 0376 2, appointed 1, arguing 1, misc 9; 59
1) to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to decide, judge 1a2) to adjudge, appoint 1a3) to show to be right, prove 1a4) to convince, convict 1a5) to reprove, chide 1a6) to correct, rebuke 1b) (Hophal) to be chastened 1c) (Niphal) to reason, reason together 1d) (Hithp) to argue
