I don't reject Paul. I believe every word he says. Every word he says lines up with Jesus', the original source.
Jesus's words are the original truth. Paul's words agree with Him. But if it comes down to believing what we "think" Paul said when that view contradicts Jesus' words, I'll believe Jesus words first, and then see how Paul's words must line up with them.
Jesus's words are the original truth. Paul's words agree with Him. But if it comes down to believing what we "think" Paul said when that view contradicts Jesus' words, I'll believe Jesus words first, and then see how Paul's words must line up with them.
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Another point often overlooked...
2Pe 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;
2Pe 3:16 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.
So, if there arises even the smallest question about what Paul is saying, we should go to Christ first. All of Paul's statements must (and do) harmonize with what Christ said. We interpret what Paul said by first of all what Christ said. One cannot just pick out a verse or a passage of scripture and build a doctrine on it...
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
We must search out all fo the scriptures on a subject and put them together and then remember this overriding principle, there is no contradiction in the scriptures...
Joh 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
If we think there is a contradiction, then our understanding is at fault.