THE APOSTLE PAUL—- A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS ???
THE APOSTLE PAUL AND HIS WRITINGS [14 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT] HAVE BEEN USED IN MANY WAYS, OFTEN IN CONTRADICTION TO THEMSELVES.
I AM HERE MOVING IN ON THOSE WHO TRY TO USE PAUL AS THE MAN WHO “DID AWAY” WITH THE 4TH COMMANDMENT OF THE GREAT TEN, OR TOLD PEOPLE THEY COULD “PICK THEIR OWN WEEKLY SABBATH.”
I HAVE SEEN BOTH OF PAUL’S WRITINGS USED BY PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS— ONE THERE IS NO WEEKLY SABBATH TO OBSERVE; TWO— YOU CAN PICK WHICHEVER WEEKLY DAY YOU LIKE AS THE SABBATH DAY.
IT WOULD SEEM THESE PROTS [PROTESTANT] DO NOT EVEN READ THEIR OWN WRITINGS ON THE SUBJECT.
THE ONE TEACHING THAT THE SABBATH IS ABOLISHED IS TAKEN FROM COLOSSIANS 2: 16. “LET NO MAN JUDGE YOU IN FOOD, OR IN DRINK, OR IN RESPECT OF AN HOLY-DAY….OR OF THE SABBATH.”
TAKING THIS VERSE OUT OF CONTEXT IT LOOKS LIKE PAUL IS SAYING NO MAN CAN TELL YOU TO OBSERVE A WEEKLY SABBATH DAY.
THEN OTHERS OF THE PROTS POINT YOU TO ROMANS 14 AND SAY YOU CAN PICK ANY DAY OF THE WEEK AS YOUR SABBATH DAY. “ONE MAN ESTEEMS ONE DAY ABOVE ANOTHER; ANOTHER ESTEEMS EVERY DAY ALIKE. LET EVERY MAN BE FULLY PERSUADED IN HIS OWN MIND. HE THAT REGARDS THE DAY, REGARDS IT UNTO THE LORD; AND HE THAT REGARDS NOT THE DAY, TO THE LORD HE DOES NOT REGARD IT.”
SO AGAIN, TAKING VERSES OUT OF CONTEXT, AS THE ATHEISTS CLAIM, YOU CAN MAKE THE BIBLE SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO SAY.
PETER GAVE WARNING TO TEACHERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, ADMITTING THAT PAUL WROTE SOME THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND, BY THOSE WHO BRING DESTRUCTION ON THEMSELVES AND OTHERS WHO FOLLOW THEM. PETER REGARDED SUCH AS THOSE WHO ARE UNSTABLE AND UNLEARNED, WHO REST [TWIST] AS THEY DO OTHER SCRIPTURES— 1 PETER 3: 16.
ALL THIS BRINGS LAUGHTER FROM THE UNBELIEVERS AS A LARGE PORTION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS.
THEY WOULD SAY— HOW CAN YOU HAVE FAITH IN A MAN WHO CONTRADICTED HIMSELF.
THE PROTS BRING SHAME AND DISRESPECT TO A HOLY GOD, WHO CLAIMS AS JESUS DID, THAT THE SCRIPTURES CANNOT BE BROKEN—— CONNOT CONTRADICT THEMSELVES.
IT IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF THIS SHORT STUDY TO EXPLAIN ROMANS 14 AND COLOSSIANS 2: 16. I HAVE GIVEN TWO OTHER STUDIES THAT EXPOUND THOSE SECTIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
I WILL HERE SAY WHAT JESUS SAID, THE SCRIPTURES CANNOT BE BROKEN.
TO KEEP THE PURE INTEGRITY OF A HOLY GOD, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE THAT ANY VERSE OF THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTRADICTS ANOTHER VERSE. YOU CANNOT BE “DOING AWAY WITH” THE SABBATH IN ONE VERSE TO ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE, THEN IN ANOTHER VERSE TELL ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE, THEY CAN PICK ANY DAY OF THE WEEK FOR SABBATH KEEPING.
THE THOUGHT THAT IT IS SO, IS SO PREPOSTEROUS IT IS TRULY A THEOLOGY FROM PLANET PLUTO, IF NOT FROM SOME OTHER GALAXY.
THEN, THERE IS MORE!
THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS CALLED AND TAUGHT THE GOSPEL, AS HE EXPLAINS IN GALATIANS 1 AND 2. IT WAS BY DIVINE ORIGIN THAT PAUL GOT HIS THEOLOGY. AND THOSE APOSTLES AT JERUSALEM ADMITTED.
GOD WHO GAVE HIM INSTRUCTION WOULD NOT GIVE A “DOING AWAY WITH THE SABBATH” AND THEN A TEACHING TO “PICK ANY DAY YOU LIKE FOR SABBATH KEEPING.”
YOU NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION— “DID PAUL FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST’S EXAMPLE OF LIVING?”
IS THERE A SCRIPTURE WHERE PAUL SAID HE FOLLOWED JESUS?
YES THERE IS——
“FOLLOW ME, AS I FOLLOW CHRIST” —-
THERE IS IS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 11: 1.
“BE YOU FOLLOWERS OF ME, EVEN AS I ALSO AM IN CHRIST.”
LET’S BE LOGICAL!
THERE WERE 4 THINGS IN THE LIFE AND THEOLOGY OF THE JEWS BACK WHEN JESUS AND PAUL LIVED.
1. THE TEMPLE AND SACRIFICES
2. THE PRIESTHOOD OF ISRAEL
3. PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION
4. THE WEEKLY SABBATH
THE JEWS WERE SO SCARED OF BREAKING THE SABBATH THEY HAD ABOUT 600 LAWS GOVERNING SABBATH KEEPING.
THE JEWS WERE FANATICAL ABOUT PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION, AND WEEKLY OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.
SO FANATICAL WERE THEY ABOUT PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION, THAT MANY PHARISEES ENTERING THE CHURCH OF GOD, TAUGHT PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION WAS NEEDED TO BE SAVED!
THE CHURCH HAD TO CALL A MINISTERIAL MEETING TO DEBATE THE ISSUE—— ACTS 15.
DO YOU LOGICALLY BELIEVE PAUL TAUGHT TWO OPPOSING TEACHINGS ON THE SABBATH COMMAND, AND THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A MINISTER CONFERENCE ON THE MATTER?
DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE SABBATH COULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, WITHOUT A MINISTER CONFERENCE ON THE MATTER AS LIKE FOR PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION OF ACTS 15?
IF YOU DO THEN ALL I CAN SAY IS—— WHICH GALAXY DID YOU SAY YOU WERE FROM?
PAUL VERY PLAINLY SAID HE FOLLOWED CHRIST!
NOW ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE GOSPELS AND SEE WHICH SABBATH DAY JESUS OBSERVED.
HE DEBATED WITH THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES ON HOW TO OBSERVE THE WEEKLY SABBATH, BUT HE NEVER DEBATED WITH THEM ON WHICH DAY TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH—— IT WAS AS THE JEWS HAVE DONE FROM MOSES, TO THE PRESENT DAY—— THE 7TH DAY OF THE WEEK.
GOD HAS DELIBERATELY SCATTERED THE JEWS ALL OVER THIS PLANET, AND ALL RELIGIOUS JEWS KNOW WHICH DAY IS THE 7TH DAY. THEY HAVE NEVER LOST THE TRACK ON TIME.
YES IT IS JUST THAT SIMPLE; THE RELIGIOUS JEWS KNOW THE 7TH DAY, AND THE CALENDAR FOR GOD’S FESTIVALS.
MATTHEW 24
END TIME PROPHECY
SOME WILL BE WILLING TO LOOK AT MARK 13 AND LUKE 21. WILL THEY LOOK AT MATTHEW 24? WILL YOU LOOK AT MATTHEW 24?
I READ MATTEW 24 DOZENS OF TIMES WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER. I WAS RAISED IN A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL FROM AGE 7. AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ALSO FROM AGE 7. I WAS TOLD WE ARE TO OBSERVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. BEING RAISED IN THE 1940s AND 1950s, THE TOWNS CLOSED DOWN ON SUNDAY, THERE WAS NO PRO SPORTS ON SUNDAY.
I BELIEVED SUNDAY WAS THE 7TH DAY; NOT ONE PERSON, PRIEST OR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER EVER TOLD ME SUNDAY WAS NOT THE 7TH DAY. THE QUESTION NEVER CAME UP. CALENDARS WERE HARDLY USED BACK THEN, CERTAINLY I NEVER HAD NEED OF ONE; I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING AND WHEN I WAS DOING IT, THE CALENDAR WAS IN MY HEAD AS TO WHEN AND WHERE AND WHAT I DID EACH DAY AND EACH EVENING.
MATTHEW 24 IS A PROPHECY FOR THE COMING AGAIN OF JESUS CHRIST; IT IS AN END TIME PROPHECY. AND THERE IS COMING A TIME OF SUCH TRIBULATION, NOTHING BEFORE OR AFTER IT, WILL EVER BE AS GREAT. IT IS A TIME FOR CHRISTIANS TO FLEE—— AND JESUS SAID PRAY THAT YOUR FLEEING WILL NOT BE IN THE WINTER OR ON THE SABBATH DAY!
JESUS WAS TAKING ABOUT THE SABBATH DAY HE OBSERVED, AND HIS DISCIPLES OBSERVED!
I WAS A CHILD, AND I HAD BELIEF THAT THE 4TH COMMANDMENT CONCERNING SABBATH KEEPING, WAS BEING OBSERVED BY ALL THE CHRISTIANITY AROUND ME, IN SCHOOL AND OUT OF SCHOOL.
I WELL REMEMBER IN THAT CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL WE WERE TO MEMORIZE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN EXODUS 20, WORD FOR WORD, AS IN THE KJV BIBLE I WAS GIVEN. I COULD RECITE THEM PERFECTLY, EVERY SINGLE WORD; SO I KNEW EXACTLY ALL THE WORDS IN THE 4TH COMMANDMENT. IT WAS NOT “ONE IN SEVEN” DAYS, IT WAS THE 7TH DAY!
THE APOSTLE PAUL DID NOT CONTRADICT HIMSELF!
ROMANS 14 AND COLOSSIANS 2: 16 CAN BE UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY BY THE CONTEXT.
PAUL OBSERVED AND LIVED AS JESUS LIVED. HE SAID HE WAS A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST JESUS.
TIME TO ASK YOURSELF, IF YOU CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN— DO I FOLLOW CHRIST?
YOU CAN FOLLOW HIM BY READING ABOUT HIS TEACHINGS AND OBSERVANCES IN THE FOUR GOSPELS.
Keith Hunt
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