Verses do the talking not opinions.
Let's see if you can list Scripture WITHOUT your interpretation :)
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""You keep demanding verses from Paul,""
Acts 9:15, Gal 2:7-9, Rom 11:13, Rom 15:16, Gal 1:11-12, 1 Tim 1:16 << That's why
In all those verses, none suggest that Paul was to give a different message to present to the gentiles than Peter was given to witness to the Jews. Same message, different audience....though Paul at times was scathing when speaking about the Jewish leadership, as the foremost case of the persecution of Christ’s disciples, no one had more right to do that.
When Judas defected and betrayed his Master, a replacement was needed.....why did God choose Matthias? Why did he not wait for Paul?
Paul was an “apostle to the nations”, as well as to “the sons of Israel”.....but his mission involved addressing men in power, where uneducated fishermen would not have held any credibility. ((Acts 9:15-16) Immediately, he began preaching in the Synagogues. (Acts 9:20-22) The Jewish leaders were so incensed that one of their own was exposing them, they plotted to kill him. (Acts 9:23-25) What did he preach to the Jews that was a different Christ to the Gentiles?
So inferring that Paul had a different message or gospel about the Christ in his day, is false.
Only Paul has the Christ given role as Apostle & Minister to teach Salvation to believers 'today'
Nonsense. Paul was not one of the 12....who were made the very foundations of God’s Kingdom. (Rev 21:14)
Paul played a very important role in addressing the people of the nations especially the learned philosophers and rulers of the day.....one who could hold his own with such an audience who could not argue with his education. His address at the Areopagus was a masterful example. (Acts 17:22-31)
If you disagree, list the verses that teach Christ gave the 12 authority over Paul to teach salvation to Paul's audience today.
Paul received the same education that the other apostles did...the only difference was that Christ in spirit taught Paul all he needed to fulfill his assignment. The other apostles did not need to teach him anything, but they all had one belief and one assignment (1 Cor 1:10)....and that was to spread the gospel of the Kingdom “in all the inhabited earth as a witness to all the nations” (Matt 24:14: 28:19-20).....one message of salvation to both Jews and Gentiles. (Rom 10:12-13) But they have to be calling on the right “Lord”. (Joel 2:32; Zeph 3:9)
""Romans 6:2. Dead men do not keep living the same old life.""
Are you going to state you no longer sin ?
List the verses from Paul that teach 'PERFORMANCE' is a condition to be saved/sealed/justified.
What is this “performance” you speak of?
Being in imperfect flesh, even Paul was aware that his salvation was not a given...he had to live and die faithful. (1 Cor 9:24-27)
When the Scriptures speak of “works”, it is referring to ‘works of the Law’ whom the Jews failed in all their history to carry out successfully. Why did God give a perfect Law to imperfect people? To demonstrate to them, the need for a Savior...one who would fulfill the Law, and take its “curse” away from them. (Rom 10:2-4; Rom 7:14-25; Gal 10:10)
“Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers…""
1 Cor 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified....
AGAIN, list the verses where Paul teaches 'PERFORMANCE' is a requirement to be saved/justified/sealed
“That is what some of you were” means that in the past, they committed sins deserving of death under the Law....but now, since Christ’s sacrifice, and their acceptance of its terms and conditions.....repentance and a determined effort to avoid the act of sinning, even whilst sin still resides in their flesh, they were not without a means to be forgiven, but only if repentance was genuine.
Christ’s sacrifice has conditions....because there are two kinds of “sin” (an archery term that means to miss the mark) “Sin” is inborn as a result of inheriting the propensity to commit sinful acts from a sinful heart. But not all sin is deserving of death. On a regular basis, the Jews could be forgiven of their daily sins by sacrificing an animal, whose blood temporarily atoned for their sin.
Jesus’ blood is what provided the permanent solution to sin for those who accepted him as God’s Savior. Did it mean that all sins were automatically atoned for before they were even committed? No.
That was not the message at all.....in order to demonstrate the faith we profess as Christians, our lifestyle has to show that we accept Christ’s teachings in our everyday life. We should stand out as different from the world alienated from the God and Father of our Lord Jesus. We live by Christ’s teachings, not finding ways to justify sin.
If we take the position that we can still sin with impunity, we are sacrificing the Christ all over again by devaluing his teachings as not applying to us.....they apply to all who put faith in his sacrifice, not ever taking it for granted, but in every way showing ourselves worthy of it....like Paul did.
