1 Corinthians 4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
1 Corintians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I ofApollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
There’s should be no dividing line TO REAL CHRISTIANS, while others say they follow Paul’s teaching or of Peter, James or John. They are the same being taught by the Lord. They were ministers given by the Lord to every man to be saved by grace through faith. Now if we want to follow Christ but No to Paul, then we are in disagreement to what the scriptures sayeth. Paul was taught by Christ and he follows him. Paul’s beg the Corinth believers, “be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” so if none in the Corinth obeys him, they are not obeying Christ. Likewise, one cannot say he obeys Christ but not obeying what Paul says of Christ and the wonderful, amazing grace.
The truth is Christ. He is the truth, thus his words are true and because He is the truth and his words are true, His teaching is of truth. Christ is the personification of the truth, the scriptures are the written truths while the Holy Spirit is guiding us to the truth. We have to remember always that
Romans 16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
I'm absolutely OPPOSED in full to anyone who thinks that Paul has even a tiny bit of authority over Jesus words. absolutely in perfect opposition. and you've like a lot do not heard me. I understand paul, He is not opposed to Jesus, Hes enabling sinners to be righteous by and only by revealing what the atonement meant. WHAT I AM saying is this, all Christians every single CHRISTian is called to folloe JESUS and the gospel. paul didn't =create a new gospel, and the death and resurrection is not the whole gospel at ALL. The gospel is also and much more the 4 gospel accounts of Jesus birth, life, words, death and resurrection. you are right, there is no difference they were ALL teaching Jesus. I'm not the one who has to omit a single word from paul or any other apostle. WHY? Because Jesus is the Lord, those great men were teaching to obey Jesus. People are lost here big time. they I guess assume these churches paul wrote to weren't established upon the Great commission.
matthew 28:19-20 "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
THIS is the very foundation of any CHRISTIAN church. a "real
Christian as you put it does one thing, OBEYS JESUS GOSPEL. His teachings or "commands" anyone trying to be saved through paul, or any other apostle will find a terrible end. Jesus is the ONLY salvation. His gospel meaning His words, teachings and commands are what all of these churches, all of these men taught the churches. absolutely they carried that commission out to all nations and established all churches on the ONLY gospel. Paul is a good man, an apostle of Jesus true story, I thank God that I understand what He is saying. no argument hes a good example. He did not ever make up some different gospel. He taught the atonement. Jesus Christ is the only King well have, only savior, only way, only truth only Life to mankind for eternal salvation. period end of story.
actually, peter 1 and 2 has everything that paul taught as well, but even clearer and more to the point. he also taught the grace for salvation, the atonement, rebirth and obedience to Jesus. same as paul, and same as paul he taught that all men will stand berfore God and give an account of their actions. all the same things JESUS taight them to teach, the actual Gospel of Jesus Christ.
look at the chapters before your quote. look how upset paul was at someone saying " I follow paul" he thanks God that he didn't even baptize them so they couldn't say that why???was paul crucified for you? were you baptized in pauls name?? no that upset paul dearly because CHRISTIANS FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST.
10I appeal to you, brothers and sisters,[SUP]
a[/SUP] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
11My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
12What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas[SUP]
b[/SUP] ”; still another, “I follow Christ.”
13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15so no one can say that you were baptized in my name.
16(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else.)
17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
we aren't saved by the apostles at all, they are servants of the only one who saves that's it, all they were doing was carrying the Gospel to the nations, the onlt=y gospel is Jesus and His words. peoplecan choose to lord paul over Jesus, trust pauls words but their mistaken badly. those few letters came after all the gospel was established that's why you see the references to " now you have obeyed the truth" or by obeying the gospel" by following paul as the authority of scripture it is absolutely OMITTING the only one who has the gospel, which is Jesus words.
so yep, anyone who is following paul, is opposed to me in every way. because to follow an imagined doctrine that they think paul made up and changed at all, when all he was doing was describing the atonement and sharing Jesus teachings the same things different words, by doing that they come up with a doctrine that OMITS the only salvation. so yeah, pauls NOT the authority in scripture, that is One name, One word Jesus. so if you must differ, differ and keep your peace, I'm not EVER moving from the Lord and King and everything elose. people will get there to Jesus eventually so long as they don't omit Him lol
Good nite imna get back to work. see the difference in this here is this, if your following Jesus, pauls things are already in you. and you don't have to try to follow paul, BUT if they are omitting JESUS to follow paul......THAT is my issue. I love paul, but I follow JESUS only. those men are good and worth repsect and honor they are far and miles above me, as you, and any other believer is above me. BUT I will never EVER not FOLLOW Jesus words. a person can study 1 and 2 peter n depth and have all the knowledge of pauls many epistles. condensed. I love paul don't get me wrong began reading Him in my early teens, love His writing learned of the atonement through Him. but never ever would I have taken him as an authority over Jesus or thought paul meant to not take Jesus words as the TRUTH and only gospel.
sorry, I'm passionate about Jesus and this subject and this doctrine that omits Jesus words in favor of Pauls. this is just a rant not aimed at you I love your comment actually especially the end part God bless. but any human who is OMITTING Jesus in favor of any apostles words is mistaken. the only authority, and the foundation of all Christian doctrine is found in matthew mark Luke and John. Jesus words. I was meaning a person "could" remove pauls writings and still find all he said in peter and james and john easily, actually just peter pretty much covers pauls writings really. but id never omit paul I love him and every w0rd he said is true, its just reeeellly misunderstood to think it somehow takes precedence over Jesus words, that's a huge blunder on anyones part. Night and God bless