Barrd
His Humble Servant
I have a rule that I follow, and no one is ever going to convince me otherwise.
My rule is: If anything in the Bible seems to contradict something that Jesus has said, then either I do not understand it properly (which is possible, I am not perfect), or it is dead wrong (which is not as likely as the first one, but not completely impossible.)
Funny thing, this rule only comes into play when dealing with some of the stuff Paul has written.
Then, again, Peter does say that there are things in Paul's writings that are hard to understand, that people will "wrest to their own destruction"...
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
The way I see it, Paul did not die for me. Paul can not give me eternal life. I am not a disciple of Paul.
Jesus says that those who love Him will keep His commandments.
Now, either we are misunderstanding Paul here, which is entirely possible...
Or Paul is wrong.
I prefer to think we are misunderstanding Him. After all, Paul also struggles to keep the law...
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
My rule is: If anything in the Bible seems to contradict something that Jesus has said, then either I do not understand it properly (which is possible, I am not perfect), or it is dead wrong (which is not as likely as the first one, but not completely impossible.)
Funny thing, this rule only comes into play when dealing with some of the stuff Paul has written.
Then, again, Peter does say that there are things in Paul's writings that are hard to understand, that people will "wrest to their own destruction"...
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
The way I see it, Paul did not die for me. Paul can not give me eternal life. I am not a disciple of Paul.
Jesus says that those who love Him will keep His commandments.
Now, either we are misunderstanding Paul here, which is entirely possible...
Or Paul is wrong.
I prefer to think we are misunderstanding Him. After all, Paul also struggles to keep the law...
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.