The simple fact is...,many folks they have made Paul the Author of their Salvation. They completely bypass the Gospel of Jesus Christ and head straight for Paul's epistles. The Gospel of Christ is only used for Christian holidays, like Christmas and Easter. I remember back, when I was a kid, being dragged to church every Sunday. The pastor did teach in the Gospel, but only those parts for which he could create an entertaining story.
It was never used as a guide to salvation. Those teachings always came from Pauls epistles. And they never gave instruction on what one must do....to be saved, but what we must do,...after they are saved. Paul taught...What one must do after they are saved, not what one must do to be saved. I believe this is what causes so much confusion among Christians. They believe they are saved, but don't know they were saved, so they can not instruct others what they must do to be saved. So they took the entire Gospel of Christ and condensed it all down....to (John 3:16)
Just believe, and you are saved..no works involved there!! But then again, if they were saved because they believe, didn't they save themselves? I mean,....if they weren't saved before they believed, but they were saved after they believed...they saved themselves by believing.
“The simple fact is...,many folks they have made Paul the Author of their Salvation. They completely bypass the Gospel of Jesus Christ and head straight for Paul's epistles.”
amen that’s exactly what has happened and was always going to happen
“For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears;
and
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4 KJV
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And
many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
2 Peter 2:1-2 KJV
amen to the rest there paulmis acceptable until we really hear his words then we realize he’s preaching to same gospel teaching the same things for the same purpose repentance , eternal judgment according to works , doing the things we’re actually taught to do living out the faith we claim we’re saved by
sort of if you wuote this from Paul is great for them
“For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God:”
Ephesians 2:8 KJV
That upholds thier doctrine but this is completely unacceptable within thier doctrine in the same epistles
“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
Ephesians 5:3-7 KJV
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21 KJV
it’s like if Paul’s teaching something real it’s not acceptable but if he seems to be saying “ grave alone don’t do anything “ that’s acceptable and is the right understanding yet to say “ saved by grace through faith “ is a summary and lacks any actual understanding but summarized the source of salvation
of faith means never having to do what God said it’s acceptable tonthe hyper grace idea but if faith without works is dead and we need to actually do what we believe it’s no longer grace in the twisted ideology
They accept only the basic milk and the nest and potatoes that makes one strong goes out the window with the bath water
sad to see how much false doctrine has led the church astray