And yes, I do think there are other instances of apostles dropping the ball.
This is called unbelief. If we don not believe all Scripture to be true and righteous altogether, then we are not believing the God of Scripture to be the true God and eternal life.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Scriptures of God by His prophets and apostles are not just the ideas of men, some good, some not:
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
If any man says a prophet or apostle erred, he is saying the Spirit of God erred, since all Scripture is inspired by Him.
The door is then opened to dismiss or change any Scripture we don't like, so that it is no more God by Scripture renewing our mind, but us cherry-picking God's Scriptures to keep our own mind the same.
Rightly dividing the word of truth includes using all Scripture to interpret any single Scripture, that appears to make absolutely no sense, or is ridiculously stupid on the surface.
Even in books of men, there is no common ground of understanding the author, if we are free to throw out parts of the book he authored: we are then destroying the integrity of the book and the author.
I.e. we only believe what we want to believe, and no one, including God, can objectively challenge what we believe.
And so, with Scripture of God it is far better to seek other Scripture to interpret any Scripture that challenges our credulity, and so confirm that the eternal true God knows what He is talking about, and is not stupid.
If Paul or any other prophet is stupid in any verse of Scripture, then he can be stupid in all verses we think are stupid.
This is called unbelief. If we don not believe all Scripture to be true and righteous altogether, then we are not believing the God of Scripture to be the true God and eternal life.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Scriptures of God by His prophets and apostles are not just the ideas of men, some good, some not:
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
If any man says a prophet or apostle erred, he is saying the Spirit of God erred, since all Scripture is inspired by Him.
The door is then opened to dismiss or change any Scripture we don't like, so that it is no more God by Scripture renewing our mind, but us cherry-picking God's Scriptures to keep our own mind the same.
Rightly dividing the word of truth includes using all Scripture to interpret any single Scripture, that appears to make absolutely no sense, or is ridiculously stupid on the surface.
Even in books of men, there is no common ground of understanding the author, if we are free to throw out parts of the book he authored: we are then destroying the integrity of the book and the author.
I.e. we only believe what we want to believe, and no one, including God, can objectively challenge what we believe.
And so, with Scripture of God it is far better to seek other Scripture to interpret any Scripture that challenges our credulity, and so confirm that the eternal true God knows what He is talking about, and is not stupid.
If Paul or any other prophet is stupid in any verse of Scripture, then he can be stupid in all verses we think are stupid.