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If Paul would of been false he would of been rejected and hammered by the early members of the 1st century churches. He would not have had almost half of the N.T. canonized and what he wrote would of contradicted the bible (it doesn't) and would not of made it into what is identified as the Word of God. God is strong enough to keep his word down thru the centuries so as to give all humanity a chance and He chose to send Paul unto us that we too can be grafted in to that which was natural.
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Don't forget Paul's radical transformation from persecuting Christians to preaching Christ. The only thing that explains such a change within Paul is that the experience he had with Jesus on the road to Damascus was real. And if that experience was real, then God really called him and annointed him with the Holy Spirit to preach the Gospel to many different places with Jews and Gentiles alike. Does it make sense that Paul's experience and calling from God are real, but yet everything Paul preached be wrong? No, I don't think so.
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There are many on CC who seem to be following this line of doubting/questioning Paul. Hebrew Roots/Judaizers.
I don't know anywhere where it says people will suddenly find the truth in the end, but rather they will lose it in the end. Denying Paul's apostleship is a falling away.
I don't know anywhere where it says people will suddenly find the truth in the end, but rather they will lose it in the end. Denying Paul's apostleship is a falling away.
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I think Shaul (Paul) is misunderstood and his words twisted, a false version of his writing is the main line teaching making many question his writings.
His writing are THE ONLY writings SINGLED out as being hard to understand, people twist all Scripture but his are the only called hard to understand.
2 TImothy 3:15-16, "And recognize that the longsuffering of Yahweh our Savior is salvation; just as our beloved brother Shaul, in accordance with the wisdom given to him, has written to you, As also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."
And when his writings are almost exclusively studied and quoted and Messiah words and the other Scriptures are ignored it is nearly a guarantee to misunderstand and twist Shaul's (Paul's) words.
His writing are THE ONLY writings SINGLED out as being hard to understand, people twist all Scripture but his are the only called hard to understand.
2 TImothy 3:15-16, "And recognize that the longsuffering of Yahweh our Savior is salvation; just as our beloved brother Shaul, in accordance with the wisdom given to him, has written to you, As also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."
And when his writings are almost exclusively studied and quoted and Messiah words and the other Scriptures are ignored it is nearly a guarantee to misunderstand and twist Shaul's (Paul's) words.