Ray,
you are really losing it here!!!!!!!! from a Christian point of view anyway.
You said of Paul:
In the end, Paul decided that all the commandments of God through Moses (pbuh) which Jesus (pbuh) had kept faithfully till the crucifixion and which the apostles had also kept were all worthless decaying and ready to vanish away and faith was all that was required, thereby completely nullifying everything his "Lord" Jesus had taught and practiced during his lifetime.
FALSE!
Romans 2: 31 " Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the Law.
Learn this Ray and respond please>
At the time Paul wrote this there were some misunderstandings between the Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome. Worried Jewish Christians were asking Paul, " does faith wipe out everything Judaism stands for? does it cancel our Scriptures, put an end to our customs, declare that God is no longer working through us? " Absolutely not says Paul.
Faith does not wipe out the Old Testament. Rather, it makes God's dealings with the Jewish people understandable.
We know why Abraham was chosen, why the Law was given, why God worked patiently with Israel for centuries.
Ray, something you probably don't know about Christian faith and the bible is the following: The Law was given to us to point us to Christ. Through the Law we could know and understand that we are sinful because NO MAN CAN STAND UP TO THE LAW AND KEEP THE LAW PERFECTLY EXCEPT CHRIST OF COURSE. How can we know we are doing something wrong if we don't know what is wrong? The Law points us to Christ and Paul talks of the new Covenant made with us by Christ. A covenant of grace by which all can be brought back to the Father.
Please take these words to heart and respond to them without starting a new argument. Your take on Paul is so wrong Ray. |
