I don't prefer Paul.
Go read my other posts.
I use everyone, Book, Chapter, Writer according to the question being asked.
You're reading into something that is not there.
I would choose Christ's Words or Peters over Paul's any day until it comes to the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Paul's version of Baptism matches Luke's, Marks, Peters, and the other 5 examples of Water Baptism found within the Book of Acts.
I know most are Baptized Matthew 28:19.
But why if they they think Paul is correct on everything else?
Shouldn't they also be Baptized according to Paul if they use Paul for everything else?
Seems strange to use Paul Paul for their Grace Message, their Gifts Message, their example of living for Christ example, but not be Baptized like Paul.
That was my entire Point.
How you have completely missed that is quite astonishing to be honest.
You've really went off into the deep end on this one!
basing anything on Paul’s letters as a foundation of Christianity is erroneous is
My point Obviously my response is to your original Post I’m. It basing it on every post you have made but on the argument you are making in the op regarding Paul’s letters
what you I don’t think understand is those letters are only a drop in the bucket and you have no clear view of certain things in Paul’s Letters . Consider the letter to the Ephesians church
but first realize this part Paul had spent three years with them preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God about repentance deeds of faith , lives among them earning hen day and night to repent and turn to God by thier actions .
also warned them that after he had left them others would come and start distorting his message within the church
“And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.”
Acts 20:17, 20-21, 25-27, 29-31
when we read the Ephesians letter we shouldn’t have the mirage that three years of in person preaching the gospel of kingdom of God , warning them again and again even he says with tears the. Is magically instilled in a letter that was sent back to these people who had already accepted and believed thy gospel of the kingdom to address a specific issue at the time and offer encouragement
Paul’s letters are just glimpses into what he taught is the point to base anything on them is like Making a foundation out of pebbles and rocks , when the gospel of the kingdom is the rock of salvstion and we have four accounts that are relatively exhaustive
Paul was always writing letters to believers of the gospel that men like his partner Luke recorded for us.
“Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.”
Luke 1:1-4 KJV
that’s doctrine , Paul’s letters are compliments and companions of the gospel full of the understanding about grace and also repentance and eternal
Judgement
Paul was always preaching to people who had already heard the gospel d then he came offering revelation he’s a servant of the people and messenger of the gospel not to gentile only or specifically but to all creatures like the others
his writings don’t require knowledge of prophecy Gentiles re able
to grasp the gospel more by accompanying them with Paul’s letters.
With Paul’s letters those personal arguments he makes about his authority are there for reason. They didn’t fully trust him he hadn’t been from the beginning like the others he was suspect in some minds he always defended his position as an equal apostle we shouldn’t think Paul had any more or less than anyone else he was a wonderful brother and will sit on one of the twelve thrones of the apostles and have his name inscribed on the foundations of the new Jerusalem but he’s not different from Peter or James , John all we’re commanded tomoresch to anyone who would hear
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