Jesus did not say follow preachers, He said follow Me.

would you just show me where I did not believe the entire bible. cuz I surely don't remember it and I don't agree with that I trust scripture, yes.

I will clarify your question this way. You are living in the flesh and I am living in the Spirit as Paul writes once we surrender to God we are a new creation so God is in me and I am in Him. This is scripture in 1 Corinthians,
I don't remember saying I disagree with Paul but I will agree you saw it. show me where there is a penalty for
not believing any of the letter writings. I probably don't disagree with him, more likely it is it is not important to me.

by the way you third millennium Pharisees have peppered me with questions that I have answered to the best
of my ability. you would have no idea of the Spirit so you wouldn't know that when you living in the heart of God,
His answers don't require words. you should recall the Pharisees question every word Jesus said...why?
because they did not understand being in the Spirit. and they even so desperate they had to kill Jesus.
I am with God as I have been with Him since He called me. You don't understand me one bit so you need to
continue asking me questions. I can I sure you that I dwell in the Lord's house every moment of the day and
I will continue to be with Him in the next world. you and your friends have been very mean to me and I do
not deserve it if I decide that something isn't of value I pass it over. Be assured my journey to God's mansion
is never going to be in doubt...sadly, I think yours might be. Even Jesus did not go on to His sermons and
parables with a scroll and site His information word for word of scripture...so you and your pals should just get off my back. because in my life I have been where you are but you will never be what I am. I mean accepting
what you are trying to say would be going backwards for me.

You started the thread with
"So many are told that Paul's writings are laws but they are not laws.... is like those verse are the authority. Well they are not..."

And you did not expect to be told you were in error? Your plan was to ignore the rebuttals and say "Stop being mean to me"?

Relic I do not think you are a red letter Christian and I do believe you are saved but something you need to understand about this site is that regardless if your being attacked questioned and hazed or misunderstood by others responding in the way you did never helps, I understand you are getting frustrated and I have been there but calling people these things and responding in an agitated state only leads to more conflict.

I have been harassed and attacked plenty on here but I always respond as patient and as mature as I can because even though sometimes people simply cannot be reasoned with at the very least the fruits of your heart will show itself. I do think you have been misundered but at the same time many here have also been civil and asked you to clairify and I know you have tried so I will go back to your original post and try to navigate through the posts to better explain what your saying

Ok see this right here You are living in the flesh and I am living in the Spirit This is not how you respond I know Reneweddaybyday and I can say for certain he/she does not live in the flesh. In this post and in several other I noticed by you you show a bit to much pride and arrogance and more assumptions of people than I would like to see

Everyone I think the issue here is on both sides of the debate, I think perhaps Relic tried but is not the greatest at explaining himself and also on the other end the perspective of what he is saying seems to be influencing what we understand he is saying.
Now from what I understand he is not saying Pauls letters are not scripture or true, he is not a red letter Christian either but he is saying that we can put to much stack in in an authority view in people in Pauls letters in preacher ect. He is correct in saying that Pauls letters are guidelines as is most scripture the bible is the authority it is God breathed it is holy and sacred but it also is a guidebook for the believer meaning it is our example but it is for us to choose to follow it or not he does not force anything on us.

I think perhaps saying it is not law was not the best way to explain the op, we are commanded to follow it but again we have to choose to do so there are plenty of commandments we are all commanded to obey yet we fail at doings so at times because we are human we can choose to not do it we are not perfect and are sinners.

As to why he chose to say this about Paul in particular I do not know I think it would have been a much better thing to not speak of any one person in particualr and simply make the point of the op for authority figures in general because I think speaking of Paul in particular made a misrepresentation of the message in the op itself and set in peoples minds he was attacking Paul and from then on with this mindset everything just went haywire

I may be wrong in my understanding of all of this but from I have seen this is what happened and yes Relic did respond in ways he probably shouldn't have but this is not uncommon in the bdf even for the most seasoned of believers.
Relic if I am correct in my understanding of your original message in that we are to follow Jesus not any one person of authority in Christ as I used the verse in my early post about people saying they fallow Peter or they follow Paul and Paul makes it a point that they follow Jesus and not to hold any of the them in higher p[osition because they are merely man then perhaps it would be better next time to relay the message in a different way not naming anyone in particular as to not cause confusion or a misunderstanding of the message.

Because it seems instead of seeing the message itself everyone saw what you said with Paul and that became the focus of the message.

The church as a whole does not understand the new covenant. Scripture tells us the old is obsolete, the church tells us it is cancelled, big difference. Does that mean, do you think, that the church today does not have the Holy Spirit?

Oh ok I think I understand now my apologies. It is true we are to follow God but we also cannot think that the scriptures are any less than God's word itself it is God breathed alive and I have personally seen the power it that flows through those pages. If relic is not understanding that the scriptures are just as in authority as God himself then I suppose I was the one who misunderstood him and for that I apologize. I do think Relic has a good heart but perhaps he needs to better understand the importance of scripture.

Going on with this is not beneficial to either of us so for me this will be my last post and I will leave the rest as it stands except to say I am over 70 and God found me. I was not looking for Him. I had a long term in bible study.
I was deep into all what you are. I am saved and have utmost faith I will be in God's mansion. So this Christian
life is about being here and now. That is to live in the heart of God. So what you are espousing is of no value
to me because I am living in the Spirit of God. I communicate with God only and often and I will continue
to have and intimate relationship with Him. Any further communication from you will be ignored.

If you want to set yourself up as the judge of people you can expect the same fate as the Pharisees. Even though they knew the Scriptures thoroughly they applied them to other people. I suggest that you read this section of Luke...

Luke 18:9-14, "To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Also, James 3:1, "Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

I would advise you to examine yourself and your attitude toward others.

You said, " I communicate with God only and often and I will continue to have and intimate relationship with Him." Yet here you are posting on this forum.

Do you think that you alone communicate with God and that you are infallible? It sure seems that way -- to yourself at least.

I forgot about that verse, in my first week of being saved I experienced that very thing I just devoured the word it was as if my soul was being fed good food and was being satisfied kind of how when your body is lacking nutrients even the most simple foods replesnished you and tastes better than it normally would. however as much as I love his word after that week when I had my fill I never experienced that again idk why.

I have absolutely no idea what a red letter Christian is. I believe I am just a Christian. Thanks for your comments
and you are right I am too soft and when someone attacks it hurts me. Tell you a quick story:

In 1988 at age 43 I was up skiing I suffered a heart attack. It was in the lower descending artery.
Doc said there was a small percentage of survival but God pulled me true. I was already Christian
at the time. So I survived. 5 years later I had a cardiac arrest, meaning dead on arrival but with
remarkable circumstances against all odds God brought me through. I then had to wear an implanted
defibrillator which shocks your heart when it stops. So I wore that about 12 years until the time when
my heart was like a balloon and useless. So I had a choice, medication or Heart transplant. I felt like
that choice was no choice, I would take the transplant choice. My prayer to God was Lord they are wheeling
me to put me to sleep. When I wake up I will either be here or I will be in heaven; either way Lord I will be
with you. So by the grace of God I remained here, for better or worse. It wasn't easy. Although I didn't
know any of this, my transplanted heart would start and stop a few times. The surgeon said there is nothing
we can do but my cardiologist didn't want to stop....so while they were discussing with all the wires un hooked,
on its own it started beating. That was over twelve years ago and it hasn't missed a beat. My borrowed heart
has done great for. My point is that God has done great things for me and I love him dearly just as if He was
alive with me. I have an unbridled love for Him. So I try to share it with others without them knowing the
inside of it of course. So I have surrendered to God and I am living in the Spirit. As Paul said in 2 Corrinthians
when we surrender to God, we are no longer in the flesh. but we are in the Spirit. Life is beautiful here and
I could never go back. The joy of intimacy with God is Beyond words. But once in a while I come for some
fellowship. So as I take my example, of course without anyone knowing the above. So I like to express to them
that there is a better way than having your nose in a book, to have life and have it in abundance scripture say.
Then someone comes along and starts throwing verses at me and says I'm devilish, it bothered me. It won't
happen again, I won't get drawn in. I've been initiate now after the last month or two. Thanks for hearing.

Wow now that needs to be made a testimony And yes I also was like that to soft and easily bruised so much so I began to not say what I really believe or think just to not be attacked but you will find that after being in heated debates for a time you begin to thicken your skin.

1Cor1:11-13
"My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mea
You see yourself in Apollos and that's why you like him. Same personality I guess.

I took a fun christian personality test to see who I am most like in the bible it said I am like Moses the results said
You are the sacrificial leader that’s always solving problems for others. You naturally are the leader in any group you’re on and God can trust you to walk in humility and be a conduit of His presence for others. You’re not easily given to pride and in fact regularly examine yourself to make sure that you haven’t fallen out of alignment of God’s will.
I was like... ummm yeah right a leader? me? XD