Our lives are to be like Jesus's even in our death. His death on the cross is to be our model. We do not get to choose the manner of our death but we accept it and in so doing--He our risen Lord, helps us bear our pain and suffering. Your teaching is very good ❤
Paul was a man like us trying to follow the precepts of the Lord... and our struggles today proves Pauls dedication to getting it right, even against wind !!!
Wonderful! This lecture gives what to me was an in-depth look into Wright's thinking on Paul and on justification. And it isn't just a lecture, it's a sermon in which you really get to see some of the depth of Wright's faith and love for the Lord and his appreciation for Paul and what he did.
Very much appreciating Dr. Wright's words (@35:45), "I have a mantra, which I run regularly, which goes like this: We must stop giving 19th century answers, to 16th century questions. And, start giving 21st century answers to 1st century questions. That's hard." Amazing insight… Here are a couple of hard 1st century questions, for 21st century theologians: Paul said Moses veiled the Old Testament, that was only UNveiled by the "Spirit of the Lord" (2Cor 3:12-18 KJV). Certainly, that's a "Comforter", the Holy Spirit of Truth, kinda thing. The proverbial mark of Cain being exemplary. Jesus' Divine Paternity was challenged in John 8:12+, responding that according to Mosaic Law (Deu 17:6; 19:15), "two witnesses", Jesus and His Father, testify to His Divine Paternity (John 8:17, 18). Jesus' testimony was something He "saw with" His Father (John 8:38). God's testimony was a "truth" Jesus "heard from God", something Abraham never heard (John 8:40). Both of those OT testimonies are veiled in the OT. Two entities (Jesus, and Father/God), in two testimonies (John 8:38, 40), by "two witnesses" (John 8:17, 18)… according to Mosaic Law (Deu 17:6; 19:15)… that “converted” (v. 15, Mat 13:10-17) Jesus’ ‘believers’, into His “disciples indeed” (John 8:31, 32). Something seen, and something heard... eyes to see, and ears to hear (Mat 13:10-17). Recall the Great Commission. Speaking of "disciples indeed", Acts 11:KJV, 25. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: 26. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Paul, fluent in the OT, evidently taught the explicit and succinct details of those two testimonies (John 8:38, 40), that authenticated Jesus' Divine Paternity: "And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch". So, the original Christians were Jesus' "disciples indeed"; and, Paul even stayed with one before the scales fell from his eyes (Ananias, Acts 9). I've asked a half-dozen PhD theologians in a familiar accredited university, about that scenario. The sad state of affairs is only one even realized there WERE two testimonies authenticating Jesus' Divine Paternity (John 8:38, 40). And, he humbly responded that he'd been pondering those testimonies for about eight years, to no avail. Perhaps those two unveiled testimonies (John 8:38, 40) are too hard for 21st century theologians. All disciples are indeed, Christians. But, Christians are evidently not all disciples, nowadays. Somewhat plagiarizing, "truth" is greater than the sum of all knowledge... And, what makes those testimonies hard, is their unveiling totally shifts the framework of the Bible… Folk will find themselves being Mat 8:19, 20 followers of Jesus… because there are no churches that teach what Paul evidently taught at Antioch. What are the explicit and succinct details, of those two testimonies (John 8:38, 40)? Kayaker, neologian.
Good question!! And with a little effort we could add all 70 or 80 more questions like this...🤔 Glad God wrote such a clear book... befitting his omniscience...🤭
Pray unceasingly is the key to unlocking the Holy Spirit teaching us the truth of the scriptures and referencing the Jewish traditions as it relates to the scriptures is a great help as he shared in this video. That has been my experience to learning the scriptures. Good video. Thanks.
I think the point he has been making in his lecture is the view of Paul and so to tell by looking through his eyes I can see and understand his point of view about it.
Galatians 6 : 7 - 9 " Don't deceive yourselves ; no one can make a fool of God ; whatever a man sows this he will also reap. He who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Life eternal."
Very soft science. The sheer weight of records from our past show 500 years of documents of torture & looting by the Jesus-lingo cults. Even today, we give a pass to intelligence insulted by those suggesting we make progress with one foot in fantasyland. God, let us pray.
From the comprehensive study of the scriptures, placing the content of the New Testament within its historical context, it is clearly revealed to us that the conversion of Paul (Shaul) consists in that he is an Israelite Jew from the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee, a disciple of Gamaliel, who believed that Yahshua is the Messiah of the Hebrew people, prophecied by the word of God within the same Hebrew tradition. Because of having believed in Yahshua, Shaúl (Paul) is baptized in the baptism of Yohanan (John, who is a respected Jew considered a prophet by the people of Israel) for repentance of sins. God instructed the people of Israel about these sins that they had to repent and turn away from through the Torah (law of Moses). Shaúl (Paul) was chosen by Yahweh, God of the Hebrew patriarchs to know his will and was sent by Yahshua to minister to both the Gentiles and the kings and children of Israel, for which he received the Holy Spirit through the imposition from the hands of Ananias (who is also a Jew). Here we can clearly notice that it is not a question of a conversion to "Christianity" or to Catholicism, considered as a new church or religion separated from the people of Israel and the Hebrew tradition. (Acts 22: 6 to 21), but rather this conversion implies the abandonment of the religious beliefs dictated by rabbinic Judaism to deliver their Faith to the Messiah of the people of Israel announced by the Hebrew prophets, within the same Israelite tradition. The truth that the scriptures reveal to us is that Paul never denied his origin or his Jewish faith, what he abandoned was his stubbornness to deny that Yahshua is really the savior expected by the people of Israel and recognized him as Messiah. He never claimed to be "Christian." The great value of Paul's ministry is that, while fully preserving his Jewish identity (Pharisee of Pharisees, disciple of Gamaliel, connoisseur of the Torah), he showed a genuine interest, dedication and love to share his faith and the gospel of the Messiah of people of Israel with all the Gentiles outside their tradition, fully convinced that Yahshua is the resurrected son of God, and made a great effort to introduce the gospel to all nations, facing the rejection of the Hebrew orthodoxy that refused to recognize Yahshua. He rejects the hellenization of the Jews avoiding paganizing the tradition, but neither does he tries to convert all gentiles into orthodox Jews, however he insists that the law (the Torah) and the prophets must be known. He never teaches two different gospels, he teaches only one based on the teachings of the Messiah of Israel. The prophets tell us of the vision that the gentiles will abandon idolatry and come to worship the God of Israel. The idea propagated by the fathers of the Greco-Roman church that the mission of Paul the Jew was to start a new religion is as absurd as thinking that Yahshua came to found a new religion. The "church based religion" is an invention of the "church fathers" that came after the disciples of Yahshua were gone, based on the missinterpretation of Paul´s epistoles. If there is something that Christian theologians master with great skill, it is the use of Greek techniques of rhetoric. Personal testimony that Paul made in his defense before Rome, according to the word we read in Acts 25: 7-8 “When he arrived, the Jews who had come from Jerusalem surrounded him, presenting against him many and serious accusations, the which they couldn't prove; Paul alleging in his defense: Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned in anything. " Words that are ratified in Chapter 28:17 “And it came to pass that three days later, Paul summoned the chief of the Jews; to whom, after they were together, he said: I, male brothers, having done nothing against the people, nor against the customs of our fathers, have been delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans; " the same in Philippians 3: 6 as to the justice that is in the Torah, I have been blameless. So there are only two possibilities: either Paul lied by stating on different occasions in his epistles that he never did anything against the Torah and its traditions, or those who are lying are Christian theologians who claim that Paul invented christian theology.
well stated "The idea propagated by the fathers of the Greco-Roman church that the mission of Paul the Jew was to start a new religion is as absurd as thinking that Yahshua came to found a new religion." See my comment pinned at the top affirming the same. Paul discovered from within Torah all that he taught. the only meaning of "invent" would be an archaic understanding which most would not even be aware of. So it is unfortunate that the speaker used a term so misleading.
@@joe-jg4bh getting back to watching it now. The speaker suggests a very late date for Acts. my understanding on the two books authored by Luke written to Theophilus a Roman official was an attempt to show the accusations against Paul to be false. look at the words charged against Paul by his accusers and the record given by Luke. He seems to deal with them all. The book ends before a record of Paul's death. So if it is written after his death two questions arise. One why make the defense since it would be irrelevant. and Two why is there no record of his death. the second could be answered because both Luke and Acts are written on the longest scrolls available and there was no more room to include that information however the first objection has no good answer. if Paul is dead why write a defense for him? So I would question a late date for the writing of Acts. it was written after Luke but before Paul's death and must have been written shortly after Luke. I also pick up a suggestion that Paul was starting a non Jewish anti-law/Torah movement. i see this as popular but inaccurate of the Biblical evidence. Paul was continuing as an observant Jew his argument for Gentile inclusion is Torah based. it was agreed upon by the Apostles in Jerusalem if Luke's account in Acts is valid. Even James gave Paul and Barnabas a letter of authorization. They would not do this if there was no Hebrew Scriptural authority for the position the held.
If it's the case that Paul's central symbol is the church itself, in that the way the church conducts itself is how the world sees "a new reality is let loose", then the picture over the last 2000 years has been pretty mixed, to put it mildly. I say that not in mockery or provocation, but in grief.
Speaking of thinking, what fruit does the knowledge of good and evil produce? It's not and Apple or an orange. It isn't a lemon either but it is a sour fruit and most often turns quite bitter. Eating the fruit means building an attachment to your concept of right and wrong. Attachment is the eating part and judgment is the fruit produced by the knowledge of good and evil. Appology, forgiveness or humility is spitting the Fruit back up and grace is leaving it on the Tree; reserving judgment or at least your attachment to it.
Being led by the spirit of God actually has a very specific meaning: it isn’t just a bunch of words. The led are actors - you don’t know any of them, they aren’t people you come across in daily life. Christ is very pessimistic about the response to the teaching, because all the great prophets are well briefed as to the dismal state of humanity. They know the impact is minimal. They know the response is dominated by self-serving hypocrisy - just as described in the gospels and in Acts
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Some people dont like to read and compare the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul who quoted the OT one hundred times in his writings. People who say that Jesus and the Apostle Paul have two different theological views have never analyzed the New Testament. The Apostle Paul gave his life promoting the teachings of Jesus. Here are thirty doctrines of Jesus which are exactly same was the Apostle Paul: #1 Jesus taught and argued with Jews (Matthew 23:1-22) Paul taught and argued with Jews (Acts 17:11-12) #2 ...Jesus taught to obey Governing authorities (Matthew 22:21) Paul taught to obey governing authorities (Romans 13:1) #3 Salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22) The Jews are God’s people (Romans 11:1) #4 Jesus taught you must be born again (John 3:3) Paul taught you must be a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). #5 Jesus said to let your good works (Matthew 5:16) Paul says that rich in good works (1 Tim 6:17-19) #6 Jesus taught that he would lay down His life (John 10:17) Paul taught we are saved by the life of Jesus (Roman 5:10) #7 Jesus taught that all have sinned (John 3:19) Paul taught that all have sinned (Romans 3:23) #8 Jesus taught God's will is stronger than man's will (John 15:15). Paul taught God's will is greater than man's will (Romans 9). #9 Jesus taught against false prophets (Matthew 7:15) Paul taught against false prophets (2 Cor 11:13) #10 Jesus taught that He is God (John 14:9, John 10:31, John 8:58 Paul taught that Jesus is God, (Romans 9:5) #11 Jesus taught to love your enemies, (Luke 6:27-28) Paul taught to love all people including enemies, (2 Cor 10:4) #12 Jesus taught prayer in secret places (Matthew 6:6) Paul taught prayer away from public places, (Acts 16:13) #13 Jesus taught prayer and fasting is powerful (Matthew 17:21) Paul taught prayer and fasting is powerful, (1 Cor 7:5) #14 Jesus taught to pray always (Luke 21:36) Paul taught to pray always (2 Thess 1:11) #15 Jesus taught to put out the immoral sinner from the church.(Matthew 15) Paul taught to put out the immoral sinner from the church (2Cor 5:5). #16 Jesus claimed to be from heaven, (John 6:51) Paul claimed that Jesus was from heaven (1Cor 15:47) #17 Jesus the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20) Paul taught the New Covenant (1Cor 11:25, 2 Cor 3:6) #18 Jesus taught that the sheep (followers) will not perish (John 10:27-28) Paul taught that there is no condemnation to those who are in Jesus Christ, (Rom. 8:1-2) #19 Jesus taught salvation by believing in Jesus (John 6:29) Paul taught salvation by believing in Jesus (1Cor 1:21) #20 Jesus said He sets us free (John 8:36) Paul said that Jesus sets us free (Romans 6:18) #21 Jesus taught the Torah taught about Him (John 5:38-39, John 17:12, Luke 24:44) Paul taught the Torah taught of Jesus (2 Timothy 3:16, Romans 3:31, Romans 11:26). #22 Jesus give life (John 10:10) Paul taught that Jesus gives life (1Cor 15:45) #23 Paul said: "Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses." (2 Corithians 13:1) Jesus said: "In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true (John 8:17). #24 Jesus taught He is a Man (John 8:40) Paul taught Jesus is a Man (Gal 3:19-20; 1Tim 2:5) #25 Jesus taught that He is LORD (Mark 2:28) Paul taught that Jesus is LORD (I Cor 1:2) #26 Jesus taught that God is inside of him (John 14:10) Paul taught God was in Jesus (2 Cor 5:19) #27 Jesus taught the was Good News was His death, burial (John 2:19-21, Luke 24:44 Mark 13:10) Paul taught that death, burial and resurrection is the GOOD NEWS (1Cor 15:1-4) #28 Jesus said the Good News of Jesus was sent to the WHOLE WORLD (Mark 13:10) Paul said the Good News was to go to the WHOLE WORLD (Romans 10:18). #29 Jesus said that His CHURCH will be established (Matthew 16:18) Paul taught and established CHURCHES (1Cor 16:19, Acts 15:41) #30 Jesus taught He is God (John 8:58). Paul taught that Jesus is God (Roman's 9:5). Conclusion: THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT!!!! Romans 9:1 The Apostle Paul said: “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost…”
@@Scrollermania1963 Muslim scholars quote the Holy Bible and so do I. Shalom. I LOVE the BIBLE. Dont you? Muslims dont like the Jesus of the Bible because he does NOT teach Islam. Here are 50 Bible Verses that CONFIRM the Identity of Jesus Christ 1 - Jesus Was Never Created | Micah 5:2 & Heb 13:8 2 - Jesus Essence Has Never Changed | Heb 13:8 3 - Jesus is God | John 1:1, 14 4 - Jesus is The Creator of Everything | Col 1:16, John 1:3 5 - Jesus is All-Powerful | Matt 28:18 16 - Jesus is All-Knowing | Col 2:3 Jn 16:30 7 - Jesus is Ever-Present | Matt 18:20 8 - Jesus is Holy | Luke 1:35 9 - Jesus is Righteous | Isa 53:11 10 - Jesus is Just | Zech 9:9 11 - Jesus Had No Deceit | 1 Pet 2:22 12 - Jesus is Sinless | 2 Cor 5:21 13 - Jesus is Spotless | 1 Pet 1:19 14 - Jesus is Innocent | Matt 27:4 15 - Jesus is Gentle | Matt 11:29 16 - Jesus is Merciful | Heb 2:17 17 - Jesus is Forgiving | Luke 23:34 18 - Jesus Receives Worship by Demons | Mark 5:2,6 19 - Jesus Receives Worship by Men | John 9:38 20 - Jesus Receives Worship by Angels | Heb 1:6 21 - Jesus Receives Worship by Disciples | Luke 24:52 22 - Jesus Receives Worship in Heaven | Rev 7:9-10 23 - Jesus Will Receive Worship from Everyone | Phil 2:10-11 24 - Jesus Was Human | 1 Tim 2:5 25 - Jesus Was Conceived by the Holy Spirit | Luke 1:34-35 26 - Jesus Took On Man’s Nature | Heb 2:9-18 27 - Jesus Humbled Himself | Phil 2:8 28 - Jesus Was Subject To Human Emotions | Heb 5:7 29 - Jesus Raised His Body From The Dead | John 10:18 30 - Jesus Blood Brings Reconciliation With God | Eph 2:13-16 31 - Jesus Blood Brings Redemption for Man | Rom 3:24-25 32 - Jesus Blood Allows Man To Be Justified before God | Rom 5:9 33 - Jesus Blood Sanctifies Man | Heb 10:29 34 - Jesus Blood Brings Spiritual Victory | Rev 12:11 35 - Jesus Blood Brings Eternal Life | John 6:53-56 36 - Jesus Came to Save Sinners | Luke 19:10 37 - Jesus Will Bring in Everlasting Righteousness | Dan 9:24 38 - Jesus Destroyed the Works of Satan | 1 John 3:8 39 - Jesus Fulfilled the Old Testament | Matt 5:17 40 - Jesus Gives Life Now | John 10:10 41 - Jesus Is Our Advocate | 1 John 2:1 42 - Jesus Gives Eternal Life | John 10:28 43 - Jesus Is Eternal Life | 1 John 5:20, John 5:24 44 - Jesus Sends The Holy Spirit To Us | John 15:26 45 - Jesus Will Take His People To Heaven | John 14:3 46 - Jesus Will Return To The Earth After The Tribulation | Matt 24:29 47 - Jesus Will Return To The Earth In Power & Glory | Matt 24:30 48 - Jesus Completes Revelation | Heb 1:1 49 - Jesus Will Never Send You Away If You Come To Him | John 6:37 50 - Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life | John 14:6. WE INVITE ALL PEOPLE WHO READ THESE 50 FACTS ABOUT JESUS TO COME TO HIM and ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE. Shalom.
Paul says in Romans 10:8: "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that is , the word of FAITH, which we preach." When you unceasingly pray, for instance, "Hear O Israel: The Lord Our God is one God," it will drop down into your heart and in due time Christ is being formed or birthed. This is mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations---"Christ in you, the hope of glory." If you know who you are in Christ, you know you have all authorty of heaven and earth to destroy the works of Satan who deludes Christians into believing that you are slaves to yoke of bondage.
Released from Bondage to the commandments of men. God's burden is light and as Jesus taught.... a light yoke. Romans 3:31. Christ removed sin which means the covering for sin is improved with the Torah written on the heart & the Holy Spirit to give us strength to recognise and overcome lies of men who are teachers of the false Jesus as a lawlessness Saviour. : )
The only kind of bondage is to sin. 1 John 3:4 For sin is transgression of the Law. Christ removes sin by writing the Law of God on our hearts according to Jerimiah 31:31 as the New Covenant. Being in Christ means doing what God considers good. And Christ broke down the middle wall of separation between Jew & gentiles. The New Testament tells us that were the dogmas of ordinances....additions & subtraction from God's law through misapplication by men. Like the rules of handwashing ( only for Levitical priests approaching for Temple service ) & the ORAL instruction to not associate with Gentiles which is not in the Torah at all. Christ is King of the Righteous not the wicked. We praise Him for setting us free from bondage to sin & the burdensome commandments of men that have no power to save. Hallelujah!!😃💓Blessings to truth seekers!! May we love the truth that sets us free!!😁👍👍🌼🙏🐑🐑
The citation of ..GOD IS ONE..is at odds with the TRINITY. The TRINITY says that God is THREE in ONE. Paul invented stuff and we need to repudiate them. Of course his counsel has some nice lessons that we can use. Just like any other counselor.
Well the problem with the language is that one Hebrew word can have 25 different translations and More in other languages and it loses the richness of the true meaning from Hebrew to other languages truly Hebrew is God's language
There is no problem with language. The word of God is ONE, as is God himself! The culprit is more likely the world, the flesh and the Devil. The WORLD disbelieves and frowns on belief, the FLESH is lazy and selfcentered and so does not seek God/Truth, and the DEVIL temps us to instead lean on part, partial, false, and mischevious interpretations of other men, which are further removed from Truth. All of which lead to and support what we call "problems in the bible." Meaning is found in the ONEness of God's Word: [Matthew 4.4] Still I must agree, ancient Hebrew, not Yiddish, is God's language. Shalom!
Eliihu Bailey - The answer is a very simple one. People feel that there have been HUGE LIES on the whole subject. THAT attracts and fixes attention. Anybody's desire is to clear the story, not to have it mixed up for ANY reasons, usually evil, so that nobody can reach the truth
Thats right... Paul did not say things you liked so he must go as God can not keep his bible pure like he said I am guessing.. and after you toss out Paul then toss out Peter..because he said...And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are
Paul was a believer as per Peter but he was not an Apostle as of himself saying he was lessor than them. Paul also was not on Par with Jesus as many have said but rather should be taken as a commentary on what the old testament and the gospels actually say.
@@samuelswenson1505 Paul may not have thought much of himself but ,,, 2 Peter 3:15-16: "Consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation - as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures."
Peter did not write 2nd Peter. Peter was chosen by Jesus to be the Apostle to the gentiles., not Paul. Paul is a 13th Apostle. There are only 12 Apostles. Matthias replaced Judas. Check how many names of Apostles are on the foundations of the New Jerusalem. Paul preached "his" gospel, not the gospel of the Apostles.
I am a mystic and a woman, so I handled the ideas of Paul through two divergent lenses for decades. But as a theist and mystic I know only my own practice and suspect that is true of any. So Wright's weird service to what he imagines Paul imagined and his focus too on place in discussions of a religion with a messiah who pointed to his body as the temple and asserted god is spirit makes this lecture, which I skimmed resemble Dante's march through hell or how I felt learning who knows how to starch the altar cloth or how to polish brass.
Paul sezs 1Corinthian 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. The Holy Spirit, sezs Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2 Peter 1:20-21 Knowing this first of all that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. God sezs to Paul Acts 26:16-18 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you, delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ God tells Ananias Acts 9:10-17 In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The LORD called to him in a vision, "Ananias!" "Yes, LORD," he answered. The LORD told him, "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight." "LORD," Ananias answered, "I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name." But the LORD said to Ananias, "Go! I will show him how much he must suffer for my name." Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, "Brother Saul, the LORD-Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here-has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit." Finally, Peter sez 2 Peter 3:15-16 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, ..............WHICH THE IGNORANT AND UNSTABLE.............. twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. So which are you? I hope it’s just confused. The only reason Paul is an issue is because God said, " This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel" and satan attacks anything or anybody that brings the gospel to humans. Acts 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch,. Where was Paul at this time ? In His Service,
Yet by the end of that same book Paul says he's the greatest of the epistles?? Paul can't be an apostle! 1) the requirements of apostleship acts 1:15-26 2)revelation says ONLY 12apostles not 13 3) Paul says he's the only apostle to the Gentles? Really? Acts 10 Peter was sent by holy spirit to the Gentles? PAUL seems pridefully wrong!
Scott Louis Smith : He had all the power and wealth without joining the earthly poverty the disciples of Jesus were living. Why would he lie to have encountered Jesus? For what benefit?
I like that NT Wright brings up, "Teach someone to think in Christ.” As I see it, the springboard of Paul's presentations is summarized in the two choices he gave to Felix and Drusilla in Acts 24:24-26: "Faith in Jesus Christ" or "righteousness, self-control and the coming judgment." Which will it be? Paul’s letters then walk his readers through how he thinks. They’re organic beginning with this agreed-to proposition of faith in Jesus Christ. They are “if this then that" kind of discussions. Problem is we sincere Christians will take Paul conclusions-and turn them into a verse-by-verse “believe this and do that” religion, rather than understand his whole argument. Knowing how Paul thinks however, we should be able to begin at the same place, and come to the same conclusions.
Paul was not opposed to righteousness, self control or the judgment to come as if it is juxtaposed to faith in Christ. the one leads to the other just as cause leads to effect. Faith in Christ bring completeness based upon the gift of God's righteousness demonstrated in the Christ event. When we believe we become one with him and the Holy Spirit which Jesus deserves becomes ours and then "the righteousness of the Law shall be fulfilled in us who walk not by the flesh but by the Spirit." However, "by the righteousness of the law shall no flesh be justified." The righteousness of God in Christ is what justifies. it is the cause the righteousness of the Law that shall be fulfilled in us is the effect. They are not juxtaposed as if opposites one leads to the other. Paul writings are full of exhortations after he conveys the Gospel of God's covenantal faithfulness manifested in Jesus' death for sin and resurrection for our justification. God's work is the basis of our inclusion into God's people. But as citizens of the kingdom we embrace "righteousness, self control and (we look forward) to the coming judgment" where we will be fully restored. We now only have a down payment but then we will be fully clothed in righteousness. We are declared to be complete in Christ and we strive to become what we are said to be. But our stiving does not lead to God's righteousness, it is only the result of it. Many distort Paul by thinking he advocates faith is juxtaposed to Law. But he claims "faith establishes the Law.." It puts it into proper perspective. God's work done "for us" results in God's work "in us." the two are not equal they need to be distinguished but they are not in opposition they come together. One is primary and the other is secondary but noone will be saved without both being evidenced.
@@fleetwd1 Mankind's answer to injustice is righteousness. But people naturally understand righteousness as a consequence of self-control according to some standard of judgment (as in the Law). Jesus didn't propose righteousness as the answer to injustice, but mercy-and a union with himself-a yoking as in a bride and bridegroom. A simple relationship. That relationship forms the basis for any righteousness that results. So as the letters argue, the believer's righteousness is in God himself, and his justification is by faith.
Interesting title. Remarkable that so much of Christian theology is based on Paul's "inventions" and expanded intrepretations (Paul might say based on visions and revelations) rather than the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Paul's theological inventions beyond Jesus teachings seems akin to later inventions of elaborate rituals to 'perfect' Christianity by the Roman church itself. (Perhaps the later are even a result of Paul's emphasis on the church?)
The Church is actually a beautiful revelation. The institutions that existed up to that time none, not even the Nation of Israel, could achieve the great vision of God in bringing humanity together in one body....in some sense we could say the church joined in spirit to Christ was the new creation the womb through which God could bring forth children unto God. So all that is true of Christ, Paul saw is true of Him in the church...he saw that man must let go of every divisive endeavour and embrace the new revelation which is not a mystical revelation as we have come to think but merely the correct/spiritual way of interpreting life. I think Christianity has suffered primarily because we have misunderstood this. When Christ said the kingdom is within you the western mind has taken it to mean a secret, private and personal enjoyment of God..and I think I heard the presenter make that similar point. It is not private or secret at all. It is the he birthright of all the nations. "Jesus is Lord" Is the theme of the entire bible. This is the churches message but sad to say we have retired into our four-walled corners thinking we "saved ones" are the privileged lot.
What is so interesting about these comments is one person is trying to out do another in their scriptural knowledge of the God of Love. You can argue the laws and the dispensations all you like one true resounding message is very clear, love one and other. In the end do you think your sum total of life will be how you all argued so well about what the words mean't or will the sum total of life be how you treated people with love. Paul did put it beautifully when he basically said do not drag yourself down and get involved in humanities attempts to understand God. Get on with loving life and one and other. If your understanding of the words enable you to hurt another human being you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Tom Wright should give a the on the sciences, this talk should be published and sent to his science peers at the major UK universities for critical review. His talk should be on the science behind the resurrection and virgin birth. I would like to hear from his science peers and there thoughts on miracles. I thinkTom Wright would not be up for such difficult task?
Tom will not be reading comments on videos so I don't know what your point is. it has nothing to do with the video so i have no reason to reply. Would your desire be interesting? perhaps but I doubt it would be done. so it is speculative at best.
The quotes in big blue bars put me off at first, but they also did the trick. Once I realized how central the first two blue-barred statements were, I learned to love them. "The Jews did not ask how they could understand God more." "The Jews did ask, 'When is God coming back?'" I hear the siren song of full preterism (not from NT Wright, of course -- just in my own mind). What do you think about the sky rolling up like a scroll? It seems to me the only apocalyptic imagery left after 70 AD is the remaking of the heavens and the earth. Could the sky/scroll image be interpreted as the fulfillment of the old covenant, and following that, the new covenant as the remaking? Then of course, there's the general resurrection. I'll follow the good bishop's inaugerated eschatology until I become overwhelmingly convinced of preterism, but that sure would make my life easier.
@@scottlouissmith2382 So, you are of the notion that Paul is a false apostle? Speak openly what is on your mind, as opposed to crafty proselytizing. State your belief on the validity of the "New Testament".
It seems a high school class must have been invited to comment on this video. One that had studies the eminent scholarship of Dan Brown, Bill Maher, and Bart Erhman who rejects he authenticity of "The Declaration of Independence" and the claim that Lincoln authored "The Gettysburg Address" due to their variation in the text of copies. Perhaps most misleading is the word "Imvented" in the title of this video. Paul describes things that were taught to him by Christians in Antioch who had learned it from the Disciples. Being the most educated of the apostles he seems a wise choice to both record and build out these ideas on a larger theological framework. Paul was "inventor" of Christian theology, in the same respect that Neil Armstrong was "inventor" of the moon!
Paul claims the very opposite. "For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Gal 1:12. So it is incorrect to claim that Paul was taught anything by Christians in Antioch who had learned it from the Disciples - who oddly enough were still alive at the time..
We must return the Texts of Scripture to it's original form, respecting The Word, The Names and the culture of a people in their historical context. Mattithyahu 7:22-23 English Standard Version (ESV) On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
Rab Shaul did jewish theology as he says Romans 3:1-2 to the jew was given the logía of God. The thing Is It Is misstranslated using wrongly logos "word". The greek text uses "logía"
I do not know what translation you are reading from but mine does not use "word" it uses "oracles." Oracles means divine spoken words. so not much different than word. just more emphatic that it was from a divine source. The Greek dictionary covers "oracles" of God under the section dealing with "word." your translators might have thought "word" was an easier concept to understand. it is similar in meaning.
@@fleetwd1 I am reading directly the greek text as It Is always the best source. There It says that to the jews was commited the "logía tou Theo" or Theology. Logía meaning science/knowledge. That science/ knowledge to interpret the scripture is the theology rab Shaul (Paul )learned from his rabi Gamliel and that was what he used all over his writings.
@@IsmaelZaldivar-yq2fu My source is from the best Greek Scholars found in The Dictionary of New Testament Theology editor Colin Brown. I think they are better equipped to understand what you have read. "logía tou Theo" is translated "oracles of God" found in many good translations. not once is it translated science/knowledge as you claim. .
@@fleetwd1 Oracle comes from the latín word "oraculum" the greek for that word is "manteion" Which Is not obeying to the original text .it Is obvious that the translators are not translating but altering the text of the Bible.. Logía means science/ knowledge and It Is used in words like "biology" 'the science of life" for a short definition. In Jeremiah 3:15 God says "And I Will give you pastors according to mine heart Which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding" And that Is what was commited to the jews. The advantage of rab Shaul was precisely The logía tou Theo or Theology, the science/ knowledge commited to them by God. Which He learned from his rabi Gamliel. He didnt invent a so called " Christian Theology"
God didn't inspire those who wrote the holy word to do so that others could take it apart and analyze it, God gave it to be read and prayed over so His spirit could lead us to the truth.
While I agree that it is prayer and faithfulness that guide us to realize truth, I believe that God gave us His word for the express reason of reading it, analyzing it, and interpreting it so that we may apply what we learn in our daily life. Christianity is all about the personal experience and relationship that each of us have with God through the sacrifice of Christ-and because all of us have different needs and life experiences personal interpretation and understanding of the Holy scriptures is essential in building faith and drawing closer to God. The key is praying for wisdom and discernment in studying the Bible.
He said that he was confronted by the risen Lord where he went into the desert and was given this theology, he invented nothing he said he serves Christ and Christ alone he wasn’t sent by men or approved by men
"Jewish narrative with quite fresh analysis" - I agree. But I'm surprised he didn't address the critical issue that separated Paul from the Jewish culture at large-and still does: "This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place" (Acts 21:28). Paul's continuing argument against tradition, justice and law in favor of grace through faith in God is at the heart of his Gospel.
,@Black God Disciple Stone Nation of course you're talking about someone who lived centuries later than the Paul of the book of Acts. Still, I'm sure even the one formerly known as Saul of Tarsus could have been seen as an "imposter." by his contemporaries. That might be important to some, but Paul's Gospel wasn't about Paul the celebrity. It was explained in what he said, did and wrote.
@Black God Disciple Stone Nation tracing authorship has limited unimportance if Paul said nothing new in regard to Israel’s blessing to the world. All he did was (rather thoroughly) reason the grace (= gift, or blessing) of God over the law.
What is clear from all this and the separation between Paul and Barnabas is that Paul was teaching what Jesus never taught or asked his desciples to teach. Jesus taught strict obeisance to the law. In his sermon to his followers Jesus said " It was said in the past ...........but I say unto you......". He actually tightened the law. So by any imagination Paul's teachings were an aberation to what Jesus Christ and his desciples taught. Now the importatnt question is , did Jesus know that someone like Paul will come after him and did he mention it ? Absolutely yes. Jesus warned about the coming of the false prophets who will come "IN HIS NAME " and may mislead even the very elect. In fact Paul has been very successful in this and his industry has become a trillion dollars money making machine. Jesus was a thorough bred practicing Jew who prayed to God the creator like every Jew and never claimed to be God. Paul's industry has gone to absurdities by proclaiming Jesus as God.
@@jakpanana3938 Paul said nothing new. All he did was make it clear that the grace of God (which comes by faith) overrules the law. It always has. This was the case with the marauding gentile nation Nineveh, the 40-year fugitive Moses-a murderer under the Noahide law, and David with his multiple infractions of the Law of Moses. Regarding the "tightening" of the law-yes Jesus did that exactly when he virtually equated lust with adultery, and anger with murder. But more than that, Jesus explained the origins of adultery and murder as the passions of the flesh. That was his real point-which the apostles expanded on in their letters. Then why should Jesus not be God? If God could speak through a jackass or burning bush, could his word not also become flesh? If God could lead Israel with a pillar of smoke and fire, should he not also lead the whole world as a shepherd? But I'm convinced enough by what he did and said as "Son of God" and "Son of Man."
Why are unbelievers mysteriously drawn to these videos? I know why, but they will say it's not true, but they will not explain why they are drawn to these videos either. They somehow think if they can openly derogate Christian videos, it will somehow make it untrue, they can't seem to shut that thing inside of them up that says, there's a God. Why do you guys seem to flock to these videos? I believe Oswald acted alone, therefore I don't 'do a search' for conspiracy videos. So, why are you here?
Eli' Bailey There's no mystery to why "unbelievers" are drawn to these videos. It's the same reason you're drawn to the area under the sink to fight the mold and cockroaches.
Again. Why are you hear? Why does it bother you? You can't just laugh it off and mutter, 'Crazy Christian'? I'm not drawn to atheist' videos. And there's plenty of mold under that sink.
Eli' Bailey The same way Roaches and mold spread disease, Christians spread ignorance and prejudice. “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis Although this is undeniable, there are still those who are on the fence. I fight for their freedom from the chains of superstition and nonsense.
This video isn't trying to convince an atheist of anything, it's for Christians. Those 'riding the fence' have all the influence needed in the world so,....again. why are you here?
Eli' Bailey I've explained why I'm here several times and you've ignored me several times. This video is for the public as evidenced by the fact that it can be viewed publicly.
There's lots of rumors in the air. The Bible says we are to study to show ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (II Timothy2:15) Until we come to know the Word incarnate, Jesus Christ, as our own personal Savior and have the Holy Spirit to guide our understanding, then all of our worldly knowledge is futile. There is a lot of misinformation being spread about the Apostle Paul. I believe the accounts in the Bible about who he was and Who chose him to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and offer it to gentiles. In my youth, a child of five years old, I accepted Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior, which was over 60 years ago. I have proven God's Word over and over again in my own life, the power of God's salvation through his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. I will always take His truth over human reasoning. I can rely on His Word and the Holy Spirit to guide me. Apostle Paul (Part 1/4)
A large number of people have come to see that a serious bible study is the way to get to know the will of the Almighty, so how do you view their research when it is kept separate from popular church doctrine.?How do we adjust to the separating of the wheat from the weeds?
+James JAH Avey You dig. When you go to "church" ask about small groups or bible studies. Hebrews 11:6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.
+truethinker Great bible studies and online classes and tools here: www.xenos.org/ Get some friends together and dig deep! What town / area are you in? These guys are from Columbus, OH. I live in metro Detroit.
I find Paul contradicts some of Jesus teachings and the apostles. Paul does make some good points in his books. Maybe God wanted this so we would want to delve into the Bible. Gods Brilliant.
Yes God is brilliant. I don't readily see Paul contradicting Jesus. There seems to be a contradiction between James and Paul. But contextually they are dealing with standing/justification between different entities. James is talking about being justified to fellow believers/men and Paul is dealing with justification before God. Paul also teaches what James teaches but uses a different choice of words that do not seem contradictory as James did. James also gives credence to Paul's understanding of Gentiles being accepted by faith rather than works of the law when the discussion is raised in Jerusalem and they put few restrictions than the law would. These seeming contradictions reveal the divine mind. and they are throughout scripture. example being justified by faith apart from works of the law yet also being judged according to your deeds. God being sovereign yet he has man choose. there are many many more. they appear contradictory but they are actually paradoxes (two equally true statements that appear to contradict but don't)
@@blanktrigger8863 Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. John 5:28-29 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But wait there's more....
1 Corinthians 8:4-5, 7-8, 10-11 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? (Ok as long as it doesn't offend a "weaker" brother) 1 Corinthians 10:19, 27-28 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof (Plausible deniability) Revelation 2:2, 9, 14, 20 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Clearly Jesus doesn't think of an idol as nothing! Clearly Jesus is talking about foods sacrificed to idols as spiritual fornication/adultery!!!! Paul has deceived the whole world with his wishy-washy doctrines. How much easier is it going to be for the Anti-christ of Revelation to deceive those already conditioned by Paul.
Jesus said I HAVE NOT COME FOR THE GENTILES BUT FOR THE JEWS, so if he did not come for the gentiles, who else started christianity, because he clearly didn't.
Patricia Treslove Jesus did indeed come to the Jews. Ultimately, as the Messiah, he came to restore Israel. Through his death and resurrection of Jesus, this restoration was complete. A restored Israel could finally fulfill the promise made to Abraham: "By you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Gen. 12:3). The turn to Gentiles is the necessary consequent of a restore Israel. Indeed, Jesus, about to ascend into heaven: "You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). If there was not a turn to Gentiles in the early Church, Jesus never really restore Israel and thus failed in his mission to the Jews.
Paul was fully accepted as an apostle--by the apostles. he saw Christ. The Gospels are historical documents with over 600 copies dated from pre-100 AD. Acts is obviously a continuation of Luke and Paul's theology is confirmed therein. Paul was martyred after a lot of his followers... Read Paul if you want to hear his own defense against later day ass-clowns..just read Luke, Acts and Paul. Everything is going to be alright, ask Paul--he told us about the wolves.
Marcionism... That is what kept Paul alive in the post Christian Jewish era.. and when Roman Christianity needed an authority to defend it's evil and corrupt doctrines of predestination, original sin, denial of free will, denial of man made in the image of a Holy God and the enduring and eternal moral Law of God, it found a friend in "Brother Paul" (not an apostle or disciple of Jesus according to Peter) . Paul would be horrified how evil and ignorant men have twisted his ideas and thoughts to come up with the evil doctrines of Augustinian, Reformed and Calvinistic theology (2 Peter 3:15 etc.)
Acts seeks to unite Paul and Peter's doctrine. But Acts has to distort Paul's writings. For instance, the Jerusalem Council decided that Gentiles are to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, but Paul teaches many times that you can eat any meat.
I just caught 10 minutes of this lecture so far. The early church didn't hold Jesus as divine. We all know how this changed. Is any one out there who believe that Jesus is not divine, but for the pressure wielded by Constantine who didn't himself convert to Christianity? How about this question, anybody know Bart Ehrman and his work?
yes familiar with Bart but David Capes and many others like Larry Hurtado have shown the early tradition of Jesus divinity go back very early. the song of Philippians 2 that Paul quotes is from the early church. Capes has a book more in-depth titled "The divine Christ" but i have a 3 video lecture series where he covers a lot of it. Just do a channel search on my channel for David Capes if you are interested.
SAUL (PAUL) WAS WELL EDCUATED AND WELL CONNECTED ALL AROUND IN JEWISH AND ROMAN CIRCLES AND A ZEALOUS PERSECUTER AND KILLER OF EARLY CHRISTIANS. SOMETHING HAPPENED SUPERNATURALLY TO THIS MAN TO MAKE HIM SERVE AND SPREAD THE WORD OF CHRIST FOR DECADES AND WALK 10,000 TO BE MARTYRED.
I can see the message Wright is getting at here, but he should have started off with the understanding that "all scripture is God-breathed" and worked out his title and message from there. God worked through Paul using him as a vessel by which to reach all mankind with the Gospel message and, yes, God used a new way of getting that message across through the God-breathed inspired New Testament scripture. God is the "inventor" of all theology and simply uses man as a vessel to deliver the message.
I disagree, God gives us truth, but “theology” is the different ways we try to UNDERSTAND that truth. So God doesn’t just give us theology directly, but lets us have the opportunity to explore it ourselves (hopefully with the Spirit’s guidance).
@@TV-fu1ec you had made a comment that i can not find. I thought it was a good thought. i may look in spam but i have no idea of how, or why, it would have been placed there.
@@TV-fu1ec i looked in Spam it was not there either. you were saying the Covenants were God's way to communicate his will and you were not sure if Christianity had continued that. my thoughts are I think many in Christianity have failed to understand the Hebraic roots which our faith is based upon. I think Paul went back to Genesis and based grace upon the promise of God to Abraham. this covenant proceeded the Covenant with Moses at Sinai and Paul reasons the later covenant had not nullified the former. So Jesus comes to fulfill both the Abrahamic and the Mosaic covenants and we are recipients of the blessings promised upon all who have the faith of Abraham. We would do well to know the deep roots that we are part of.
@@TV-fu1ec it happened again. i could read the alert sent me of your reply but could not reply to it because it was not there. Yes i agree with you also. Hebrews talks about the Covenant with Moses passing away and a covenant based on better promises. many see this as Old Covenant and New Covenant but Paul argues the Abrahamic Covenant which is older than the Mosaic is the basis. Jesus brings both together. He becomes Israel and fulfills their promised to do all that is declared in the Decalogue at Mount Sinai. He also fulfills the promise God makes to Abraham that all nations will be blessed through his promised seed. The giving of the Spirit coincided with the celebration of the Covenant held at Mount Sinai. So the Law was fulfilled and the blessing promised came in the form of the Spirit being poured out. the covenants were called the Everlasting Covenant so they were not abolished they were established and the New is a renewal of the Abrahamic where God alone promises to bring about his promise to Abraham.
Divine love has specified "without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness" Hebrews 9:22 “For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.” 1 Peter 1:18-19 HCSB
So you're saying that Paul--the one guy on the planet at that time, who had the entire Torah memorized beFORE going to study with Gamaliel, the preeminent Torah teacher, the Paul that says he was as zealous for God--that God picked Paul to say to the entire world "The law is done away with"? That makes no sense and isn't true. Paul spends his time explaining the Torah to those who had not grown up with it. It's only the "Church" that decided it was something new when they hadn't fully understood the actual Scriptures.
it is a misunderstanding that characterizes Paul as being against the law. NT Wright surely would not make that juvenile characterization. Paul esteemed the law highly and says so often. i think you must be imposing a popular view thinking it is in this video. I assure you it is not.
@Martin Solomon Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. www.oneforisrael.org/
corruption of the old testament and the many type of torah the masoratic text the original hebrew the septuagint corruption the many stream of translation we dont know where many of them but just some survived translation the samaritan torah only 5 book of moses these three are disagree with each other in many places quran have no interpolation unlike bible that come in transmission period return to original text is the very purpose of bible textual criticism which indicate a problem in the journey its make sense to god resend a new book and then preserve it for real unlike bible and for the whole world bcz the book is preserve to end time genesis 5:31 septuagint said 753 years for lamech masoratic said 777 years for lamech samaritan said 653 years for lamech Transmission break #1 - Sometime between Moses (approx. 1300 BCE) and King Josiah (approx. 600 BCE) Transmission break #2 - Sometime between King Josiah (approx. 600 BCE) and Ezra (approx. 400 BCE) And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.” [Hebrews 1:6] The above quotation is made by Paul in the New Testament and is citing Deuteronomy 32:43. masoratic doesnt have taht septuagint translate man in exodus to be 600.000 in numbers whiches being denied by scholars that men in exodus cannot be taht much or even surpass the 100.000 the septuagint miss passage some of jeremiah compare to dead sea scroll septuagint also have cainan as arphaxad child which not found in earlier manuscript and best manuscript taht used by church father and josephus 32:8 and 32:43. Even though we are comparing the same chapter of Deuteronomy, the texts never completely agree in all verses. Sometimes the DSS agree with the MT over the LXX, as in verse 32:43[ii], and sometimes the DSS agree with the LXX over the MT, as in verse 32:8[iii]. Genesis 16:16, Abraham was 86 years old when Ishmael was born: Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael. And according to Genesis 21:5, Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac was born: Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. just talking about text differences not talking about the inconsistency factual error and ethical error in OT and NT the textual variant so many that is much more than the text in NT itself why bcz we have so many manuscript but of them from 1000 AD the most of differences are in spelling but the number of manuscript from 1000 ad are eclipses the the textual variation as if its just spelling, but the variant that was matters important and theologically effective and some of them stay inside the text for centuries and regarded a part of the text until scholars remove it, many scholars only regard the original autography to be innerant not the copy from the transmission bcz we cant deny its many differences interpolation changes and substraction as it happen in torah and NT is as it follow Throughout the Middle Ages, scribes did not realize just how much different the manuscripts they were copying were from one another. It was not until 1707 that scholars began to realize the enormity of the problem. so the editing to the original words takes time, That was the year that an Oxford scholar named John Mill (no relation to the Victorian John Stuart Mill) published an edition of the New Testament that included a list of places where there were variant readings in the manuscripts. also important to know that some of these differences are extremely important, affecting how significant passages-or even entire books-are interpreted. Obviously knowing the original text in these places is important: you can’t very well say what the New Testament means if you don’t know what it says! Unfortunately, there are dozens of passages whose original wording scholars debate, and for some passages where we will probably never know. sometimes even there are evenly divided variants so new testament use them both so divided translation have two of this variant * the longer ending of Mark, see Mark 16 (Mark 16:9-20).400 ad addition approximately * Jesus sweating blood in Luke, Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44). * the story in John of the woman taken in adultery, the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). approximately 450 ad addition * an explicit reference to the Trinity in 1 John, the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7-8). late 4th century addition vast of kjv verse omitted and is the living proof of bible changes and corruption interpolation in bible is still inside the bible for centuries until scholars dissected it and choose the right reading so its not perfect since the get go but went through some porblem quran is here to fix the messed up with previous religion they dont even agree about which book is in canonical from uthman quran onward is absolutely preserved precisely quran better manuscript same as uthman so after uthman codex and from our book back to uthman codex is fixed quran kuffa text is soo goood transmission only three palimcest quran no interpolation boring job to be critics of quran and its fixed text disappointed critics all manuscript we have is standard text and bible is indeed more severe in text mathew go to galilee luke and john go to jerusalem quran said we reveal it in arabic so u may understand and that what the proof said is like what exactly quran said i feel like even tho quraish is codified the nature of that revelation is still exist beautifully arabic is basically poetic language amd quran is above them quran is extreeme precise since uthman nothing like this probably like masoratic because they were jew it’s absolutely beautiful once strandarize its always like that all manuscript we have is uthmanic quran is neat they do come from same architype before uthman already good copy quran very stable text no interpolation after uthman quran established since very beginning get over it no interpolation Luke 10 is the only place where we find the account of Jesus sending a specific 70 (or 72) disciples to prepare the way before Him. The discrepancies in the number (70 or 72) come from differences found in approximately half of the ancient scrolls used in translation. The texts are nearly evenly divided between the numbers, and scholars do not agree on whether the number should be 70 or 72 earlier manuscript is sometimes have widely attested differences compare to modern bible for example in luke there is cainan as the son of arphaxad instead of selah now this thing was not in earlier manuscripts that used by josephus, eusibius , africanus and other early church father the interpolation of john the baptist as a mere warner of christ coming and no taht graet significant is christian interpolation to make jesus is more important figure the earlier manuscript Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. “yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. “ this word is not in earleir manuscript and in a luke 2:33,43 it said joseph and his mother marveled but other translation read his father and his mother marvelled the first reading inkjv is widely attested in majorit greek manuscript amd early latin copies and use by early saint and many manuscript and famous manuscript but modern translation choose the 2nd one contradiction in translation usually modern translator render the mistake or contradiction in old testament masoratic or even septuagint so theyreading is new reading which is corrected like 2 Samuel 21:19 the New NET translation also kjv and nkjv change that Elhanan killed the brother of goliath but many other translation said elhanan killed goliath the gittite and they follow masoratic amd septuagint several verses that fake were in bible for centuries until scholars take it out only after found earlier manuscript and compare them so its not pristine in the journey of transmission so taht we could have it without textual criticism which found the original word you can see your self about inconsistencies Remember that in the other Gospels, Jesus actually eats the Passover meal with his disciples before his arrest. John’s timing of the story is different - he has Jesus die before the Passover meal is eaten. Why did John’s author alter the story? We find a clue in the Gospel of John when he refers to Jesus as the “Lamb of God”: “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’” [John 1:29] We can see that in the Gospel of Matthew, Mary Magdalene is presented as having found the tomb empty, but after that she actually encountered Jesus as she was running away from the tomb. In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene is also presented as having found the tomb empty. However, after she flees the tomb she doesn’t encounter Jesus but instead runs to the disciples and tells them that the body of Jesus had been stolen. Now, these two accounts of the resurrection are a contradiction; if Mary Magdalene met Jesus at the tomb, as Matthew says, then why did she report that the body had been stolen, according to John ?
N.T. Wright is a good scholar and has written valuable works on the Christian religion. However his new perspectives on Paul is way off! And I question his understanding of sin and redemption as the basis for his errors on Paul. The reference to Akiba is one example of this? Akiba, though valiant and courageous never received the God of Israel's Messiah. Therefore he did not receive the heart spoken of in the Prophet Ezekiel and plainly spoken of by our Lord Jesus in John chapter 3. Which means he died in his sin and was never regenerated! The fact that Wright cannot see this proves his misunderstanding of salvation and true conversion? These are serious errors and the kind of problem that follows the new perspective? The Westminster confession other than in its faulty view of Baptism is thoroughly biblical and evangelical. Jews can talk of grace but it is just talk until they receive the Messiah. No unsaved person does good works from a natural heart! The Saints under the old covenant were indeed regenerated the same as they are under the new! The new lays out all the details and provides the reasons that are behind a true and genuine salvation and conversion experience. In Matthew Jesus tells us of multitudes who do good works and think that they have done them in truth and sincerity only to find that they were never saved and that their faith and deeds were done from the flesh and not from the power of the Spirit of God. Devout Jews labor under the same condition. Religion without regeneration is a damning thing. Knowing the difference separates genuine faith from a false deluded faith. Those spoken of in Matthew had a false and carnal faith and were trusting in themselves and their religious zeal and good works. Wright misses this notable distinction and serves as the reason for his errors with respect to Paul and what Paul taught in all of his writings. Paul himself was a devout religionist and thought that he was a good Jew who operated from right motives only to find he was as lost as the devil until he had his conversion experience and became a truly righteous man in Messiah and thus fit to preach the gospel to both Jews and gentiles. Wright and others have evaded this important point because thy do not have the biblical understanding of the depths and deception of mans dead and depraved heart? Truth and error are a fatal combination!
As believers in Jesus Christ we are not condemned or disallowed from thinking and speculating. Predestination. That's an interesting subject mainly because we are not absolutely sure what it is or what it means. But isn't it odd or unusual how we all seem to have particular preferences. Some might be musicians in orchestras. Others might be teachers. Others builders and so on, all because of some aptitude to be able to function much more usefully in one field than another. How did this happen? Could it be that we were predestined to be what we are? If so then why? And how did all that come about? Paul hints that some are predestined to become followers of Jesus Christ. Could it be that we chose before birth or before conception, before entering the womb, that we would be for or against God? And this earthy existence is simply the proving of that decision. For surely God who knows all things doesn't need proof of our loyalty because he knows without the proof. Therefore why are we proving what we are? Is it for our own sake? Is it for the sake of a jury? Why is satan allowed to prove what he is? Surely proof in his case isn't necessary. Could it be that he requires the proof of what he is? As we appreciate with satisfaction the proof, proved to ourselves by ourselves that we are on the LORD'S side, maybe the impenitent need for the sake of justice, proof that the final judgment against them is just, so that they can perish with a recognition that they deserve the judgment met out to them by God. The believers who are few, see the deluding power of the deception of the enemy of Christ, that very powerful delusion, and they also can recognise that the same deluded soul could have been just as deluded before conception if the temptations pre birth were just as great as they are on earth. Maybe before birth we were all tempted to not follow God. However just as satan is here with us before his great destruction. when he becomes ashes under our feet, for he has chosen his path of rebellion, could it be that those too who are against God need the opportunity to prove their guilt so that they may know that they have been judged fairly by God and acknowledge that they are deserving of His judgment involving their own destruction. Interesting subject isn't it.
Mature in their thinking process? Really???? the power of the Holy Spirit is definitely not a part of this program....another one!!! twisted doctrine at hand.....thought of the day....if I live my life with Jesus as my savior and I am correct, then I have lost nothing, but if I live my life as there is no Jesus and I am wrong and there is, then I have lost everything.
Burying one's head in the ground by requiring PHYSICAL, historical evidence to accept the validity and authenticity of historical events is a sad way to live. If I claimed to have oatmeal for breakfast this morning but had no physical evidence, am I trustworthy enough for someone to accept my word? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, and Paul, for starters, all record that Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be the long-prophesied Messiah who came to bring us real life -- and that life is found IN HIM. What a blessing to not have to trust in only one source!!! The evidence is without a doubt OVERWHELMING that Jesus of Nazareth is fully the God of all creation and simultaneously fully a man who lived life the way we were intended to live!! Hallelujah!!! Each and every one of us, whether we admit it or not, lives by trust -- whether in ourselves (foolish choice), in another created being, in another created being's notions, or in the Divine Creator himself. It is a choice filled with peril to ignore and/or suppress a nagging conscience that the Creator of all things in the universe has clearly -- by observing the evidence of creation -- designed us for relationship with him and to bear his image in his creation. The idea that our merciful God has included me in his family through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection is a profound truth that allows me to live with deep confidence each day -- confidence that his life at work in and through me is contributing to things that matter now and will matter after my body dies. What an amazing experience and life to be a part of God's kingdom!!!
+Christopher Hall Child's play is more aptly described as cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Honest reactions to the four Gospels include, 1) accepting them as historical accounts of actual events, people, and places that stir the reader toward understanding Jesus of Nazareth as the Creator of the universe, or 2) accepting them as historical accounts of actual events, people, and places that don't seem to be relevant to the reader at the time of analysis. Critics that describe these documents as myths and the events as impossible because the concept of "supernatural" has no evidence are ignoring the obvious. To observe the universe and all that it contains without admitting that the supernatural was required in CREATING the ELEMENTS/MATTER that comprise the objects in the universe is turning one's head away from the evidence.
+Christopher Hall When someone trusts in himself as the source of truth and authority, faith is just as involved as it is when one chooses to have faith in Jesus of Nazareth because the evidence is as compelling as it is. All men exist day-to-day by faith whether they accept it or not. The issue is who or what each of us trusts.
+Christopher Hall I admit that the God of all creation included us in HIS creation because he wanted to share the love that is part of his wonderful essence. If I am at fault for anything, may his great mercy be demonstrated through me.
I was disappointed in this. I thought this was going to be an academic lecture about Pauline Christianity versus the doctrines that Jesus the historical figure was likely to have produced in his Jewish historical context. Instead, it was just a long sermon.
Well according to Luke who wrote the book of Acts, in chapter 19, demonic spirits knew the authority of Jesus and Paul. Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
This is a bit confusing. If indeed Paul changed the teachings of Jesus then how come his letters are still kept in the Bible?? Jesus was circumcised Paul said no need. Same with pork. So it's a fact that if Jesus come back today he won't recognise christianity as it is practiced and preached.
***** I haven't read Wright's "Jesus and the Victory of God". However, I am quite sure NONE of the gospel writers actually witnessed Jesus's acts/speeches.
***** Nope, the current scholarly consensus that the gospel writers were not eye-witnesses to Jesus' life. They are no-one known to history. Besides that, they are writing religious propaganda, not history.
***** It depends on what you mean by theology. By normal Protestant definition what the author of Hebrews calls "the elementary teachings of Christ" (Hebrews 6) namely "repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment" are NOT theology. "Theology" in Protestant terms, and even in Catholic terms, is CHRISTOLOGY. Jesus taught a moral system built around faith in God and ending in judgement based on works. Paul and friends taught christology about Jesus which began as adoptionist (even in Paul) but ultimately ended up as Arian christology (as in Colossians), and Paul in particular ended up bolderizing Jesus' teachings, as the writer in Hebrews 6 says "Therefore let us leave behind the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity" meaning that Paul and the followers of his heresy believed Jesus' own teachings were infantile but their nonsense is mature.
Didn't Jesus Christ give his ministry to his brother James? It appears the Roman trying to take credit for something was god didn't give them in the first place Thou shall not steal Thou shall not lie
The Bible is the authority, it trumps scholarly concensus. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, God-breathed. God can not lie Titus 1:2 . The Bible holds all the answers: Compare scripture with scripture just as the Bible tells us: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line: here a little and there a little" (Isaiah 28:10). The Bible is not one book but 66 books written over a period of 1500 years. The Bible is the authority on the Bible! Jesus himself said in John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, "he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." IITim3:16 "All scripture is "given by inspiration of God", and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 2 Peter 1:21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but "men spoke from God" as they were carried along "by the Holy Spirit." Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in man, the "breath of the Almighty", that makes him understand. 2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, "being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen," in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.
Thank you for your thought. Some hold to the idea you express, however I don't agree with that. Except where Paul "says" he speaks for himself on certain points for example having to do with marriage (I Cor 7) we know that the Bible says ALL scripture is given by "inspiration" which means "God breathed". So, to say that Paul is not inspired is really quite an amazing conclusion you have drawn. The Apostle Paul was CHOSEN, singled out by God on the Damascus Road. Your ideas are contrary to the truth in the Word of God. That's between you and the Lord, but it has nothing to do with whether Paul was inspired, because the Word says differently than your words. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Peter, it is the authoritative Word of God.
stubucks2 Its amazing to say Paul is not inspired because Paul says "All scripture is inspired"? Really? First, Paul doesn't say that. A good case can be made that it should be translated not "All scripture is inspired and is profitable..." but "All scripture that is inspired is also profitable..." But be that as it may. Its pretty obvious that when Paul says "All scripture is inspired" he obviously isn't referring to his own writings, but to the Old Testament and the Gospels. How can anyone brainwash themselves into thinking that he's self-referencing here? Only by brainwashing themselves, obviously, but that's just plain absurd.
stubucks2 As for Acts, Luke accurately records Paul's bogus claims and later embellishments of his conversion story as the lie evolves in Paul's mouth over time. Luke's accurate recording of this information is a confirmation that there is something deeply wrong with Paul, not a confirmation of Paul's story (actually, stories, plural). And one thing to be noted of special significance is that Luke never calls Paul an apostle except in one verse where he's second fiddle to Barnabas "The apostles Barnabas and Paul rent their clothes." In what sense is Barnabas, here given seniority over Paul, an apostle? In the sense that he was sent out by the church at Antioch, an apostle of men, an apostle of a congregation, not of Jesus Christ. Paul lies in Galatians disclaiming that he's an apostle of men in the same sense as Barnabas, saying "Paul, an apostle not of men nor by man but by Jesus Christ," but Luke already exposed him as merely an apostle of men like Barnabas so the gig is up.
More like farther from Islam, Jesus never told his followers to execute people who leave the faith or conquer and tax nonbelievers, but Paul did have better dead list.
Why did Paul doubt the gospel he preached? Paul said that he received his gospel directly from Jesus. 11 For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. Galatians 1:11-12 But when Paul met the Apostles in Jerusalem he had doubts concerning his gospel. 1 Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also. 2 It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. Galatians 2:1-2 Don't you think it is strange that on the one hand, Paul claimed that he received his gospel directly from Jesus. But on the other hand he found it necessary to submit his gospel to the Apostles in private for fear that he had been preaching in vain?
You are begging the question. You assume from the beginning that Paul doubted his gospel, and therefore feared he had run in vain, and therefore submitted it to the Apostles. Would it not be better to ask first what "running in vain" means? As Wright discusses in this lecture, one of the primary emphases of Paul is the transnational, trans-ethnic, pluriform Church which justification by faith through grace creates. Acts 15 makes clear that the issue at stake was the inclusion of the Gentiles. Paul may not mean that if the other Apostles rejected his gospel then his revelation was wrong, but that it would fracture the Church so as to undo the work at which his gospel was aimed. Evidently, Paul realized the necessity of an apostolic consensus for the kind of unity he was preaching.
Apostles were no less subject to doubt than anyone else. Its not difficult to believe that the accuser of the brethren used his tactics on Paul so that Paul doubted. It is natural for most Christians to be so overwhelmed by their sin that they may doubt they understand the Gospel.
This is one of the BEST lectures by Bishop Wright's !
Brilliant, master theologian! Paul's message of Christ truly comes alive through N.T. Wright's lectures!
Our lives are to be like Jesus's even in our death. His death on the cross is to be our model. We do not get to choose the manner of our death but we accept it and in so doing--He our risen Lord, helps us bear our pain and suffering. Your teaching is very good ❤
Thank you so much for making this lecture available!!! Food for thought!
Listening to Bishop Wright has been a blessing to my life. Such rich intellect to take to the pulpit as I mature in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul was a man like us trying to follow the precepts of the Lord... and our struggles today proves Pauls dedication to getting it right, even against wind !!!
Wonderful! This lecture gives what to me was an in-depth look into Wright's thinking on Paul and on justification. And it isn't just a lecture, it's a sermon in which you really get to see some of the depth of Wright's faith and love for the Lord and his appreciation for Paul and what he did.
Very much appreciating Dr. Wright's words (@35:45), "I have a mantra, which I run regularly, which goes like this: We must stop giving 19th century answers, to 16th century questions. And, start giving 21st century answers to 1st century questions. That's hard." Amazing insight… Here are a couple of hard 1st century questions, for 21st century theologians:
Paul said Moses veiled the Old Testament, that was only UNveiled by the "Spirit of the Lord" (2Cor 3:12-18 KJV). Certainly, that's a "Comforter", the Holy Spirit of Truth, kinda thing. The proverbial mark of Cain being exemplary. Jesus' Divine Paternity was challenged in John 8:12+, responding that according to Mosaic Law (Deu 17:6; 19:15), "two witnesses", Jesus and His Father, testify to His Divine Paternity (John 8:17, 18).
Jesus' testimony was something He "saw with" His Father (John 8:38). God's testimony was a "truth" Jesus "heard from God", something Abraham never heard (John 8:40). Both of those OT testimonies are veiled in the OT. Two entities (Jesus, and Father/God), in two testimonies (John 8:38, 40), by "two witnesses" (John 8:17, 18)… according to Mosaic Law (Deu 17:6; 19:15)… that “converted” (v. 15, Mat 13:10-17) Jesus’ ‘believers’, into His “disciples indeed” (John 8:31, 32). Something seen, and something heard... eyes to see, and ears to hear (Mat 13:10-17). Recall the Great Commission. Speaking of "disciples indeed", Acts 11:KJV,
25. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
26. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Paul, fluent in the OT, evidently taught the explicit and succinct details of those two testimonies (John 8:38, 40), that authenticated Jesus' Divine Paternity: "And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch". So, the original Christians were Jesus' "disciples indeed"; and, Paul even stayed with one before the scales fell from his eyes (Ananias, Acts 9). I've asked a half-dozen PhD theologians in a familiar accredited university, about that scenario. The sad state of affairs is only one even realized there WERE two testimonies authenticating Jesus' Divine Paternity (John 8:38, 40). And, he humbly responded that he'd been pondering those testimonies for about eight years, to no avail.
Perhaps those two unveiled testimonies (John 8:38, 40) are too hard for 21st century theologians. All disciples are indeed, Christians. But, Christians are evidently not all disciples, nowadays. Somewhat plagiarizing, "truth" is greater than the sum of all knowledge... And, what makes those testimonies hard, is their unveiling totally shifts the framework of the Bible… Folk will find themselves being Mat 8:19, 20 followers of Jesus… because there are no churches that teach what Paul evidently taught at Antioch. What are the explicit and succinct details, of those two testimonies (John 8:38, 40)?
Kayaker, neologian.
Good question!!
And with a little effort we could add all 70 or 80 more questions like this...🤔
Glad God wrote such a clear book... befitting his omniscience...🤭
No, we need 1st century answers to 21st century questions. Wright is a Hegelian puppet.
Well the gospel of John was written many years later than when Paul began his ministry.
Pray unceasingly is the key to unlocking the Holy Spirit teaching us the truth of the scriptures and referencing the Jewish traditions as it relates to the scriptures is a great help as he shared in this video. That has been my experience to learning the scriptures. Good video. Thanks.
Unity:
Purpose is the fruit of life. Community is the soil that we plant our purpose in.
Blessed to hear such a great message on St Paul. I was waiting to hear such Informative message on St Paul.
Most of my Q has been answered
Thanksgiving. IT IS the most useful and fresh and so needed. THANKS.
I have to thank Mr. Wright for sharing his insights.
I think the point he has been making in his lecture is the view of Paul and so to tell by looking through his eyes I can see and understand his point of view about it.
Galatians 6 : 7 - 9 " Don't deceive yourselves ; no one can make a fool of God ; whatever a man sows this he will also reap. He who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Life eternal."
Church double speak Mr. Bishop.
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Thank you sir...
God Bless you sir for this excellent message!
Enjoyed this message on "Doing Theology"".......DW.
Thanks for sharing this video! What a rich wealth of Biblical education! Thank you!
Definately one of my favourite New Testament scholars. Tooshay Dr Wright
Thank you so much!
Theology is the queen of the sciences. ❤
Very soft science.
The sheer weight of records from our past show 500 years of documents of torture & looting by the Jesus-lingo cults.
Even today, we give a pass to intelligence insulted by those suggesting we make progress with one foot in fantasyland. God, let us pray.
Jesus is the devil
Repent accept jahovah and do good works
Boy, he give's me a lot to think about.
Wow! My eyes have opened!!
Spiritual eyes..!!!
@@alwyndsilva1858 and we may a lot for our group
IM VERY BLESSED FOR THIS TEACHING
Yes I agree with you.. Same with me
Thank you.
a pleasure
From the comprehensive study of the scriptures, placing the content of the New Testament within its historical context, it is clearly revealed to us that the conversion of Paul (Shaul) consists in that he is an Israelite Jew from the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee, a disciple of Gamaliel, who believed that Yahshua is the Messiah of the Hebrew people, prophecied by the word of God within the same Hebrew tradition. Because of having believed in Yahshua, Shaúl (Paul) is baptized in the baptism of Yohanan (John, who is a respected Jew considered a prophet by the people of Israel) for repentance of sins. God instructed the people of Israel about these sins that they had to repent and turn away from through the Torah (law of Moses). Shaúl (Paul) was chosen by Yahweh, God of the Hebrew patriarchs to know his will and was sent by Yahshua to minister to both the Gentiles and the kings and children of Israel, for which he received the Holy Spirit through the imposition from the hands of Ananias (who is also a Jew). Here we can clearly notice that it is not a question of a conversion to "Christianity" or to Catholicism, considered as a new church or religion separated from the people of Israel and the Hebrew tradition. (Acts 22: 6 to 21), but rather this conversion implies the abandonment of the religious beliefs dictated by rabbinic Judaism to deliver their Faith to the Messiah of the people of Israel announced by the Hebrew prophets, within the same Israelite tradition.
The truth that the scriptures reveal to us is that Paul never denied his origin or his Jewish faith, what he abandoned was his stubbornness to deny that Yahshua is really the savior expected by the people of Israel and recognized him as Messiah. He never claimed to be "Christian." The great value of Paul's ministry is that, while fully preserving his Jewish identity (Pharisee of Pharisees, disciple of Gamaliel, connoisseur of the Torah), he showed a genuine interest, dedication and love to share his faith and the gospel of the Messiah of people of Israel with all the Gentiles outside their tradition, fully convinced that Yahshua is the resurrected son of God, and made a great effort to introduce the gospel to all nations, facing the rejection of the Hebrew orthodoxy that refused to recognize Yahshua. He rejects the hellenization of the Jews avoiding paganizing the tradition, but neither does he tries to convert all gentiles into orthodox Jews, however he insists that the law (the Torah) and the prophets must be known. He never teaches two different gospels, he teaches only one based on the teachings of the Messiah of Israel. The prophets tell us of the vision that the gentiles will abandon idolatry and come to worship the God of Israel. The idea propagated by the fathers of the Greco-Roman church that the mission of Paul the Jew was to start a new religion is as absurd as thinking that Yahshua came to found a new religion. The "church based religion" is an invention of the "church fathers" that came after the disciples of Yahshua were gone, based on the missinterpretation of Paul´s epistoles. If there is something that Christian theologians master with great skill, it is the use of Greek techniques of rhetoric.
Personal testimony that Paul made in his defense before Rome, according to the word we read in Acts 25: 7-8 “When he arrived, the Jews who had come from Jerusalem surrounded him, presenting against him many and serious accusations, the which they couldn't prove; Paul alleging in his defense: Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned in anything. " Words that are ratified in Chapter 28:17 “And it came to pass that three days later, Paul summoned the chief of the Jews; to whom, after they were together, he said: I, male brothers, having done nothing against the people, nor against the customs of our fathers, have been delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans; " the same in Philippians 3: 6 as to the justice that is in the Torah, I have been blameless. So there are only two possibilities: either Paul lied by stating on different occasions in his epistles that he never did anything against the Torah and its traditions, or those who are lying are Christian theologians who claim that Paul invented christian theology.
well stated "The idea propagated by the fathers of the Greco-Roman church that the mission of Paul the Jew was to start a new religion is as absurd as thinking that Yahshua came to found a new religion." See my comment pinned at the top affirming the same. Paul discovered from within Torah all that he taught. the only meaning of "invent" would be an archaic understanding which most would not even be aware of. So it is unfortunate that the speaker used a term so misleading.
Thanks for the detailed comment. What do you think about this lecture on Paul: ua-cam.com/video/gWfOd-6pTNI/v-deo.html
@@joe-jg4bh just the first minute I would say sounds very promising. i do not have time to watch the whole of it now but will ASAP.
@@joe-jg4bh getting back to watching it now. The speaker suggests a very late date for Acts. my understanding on the two books authored by Luke written to Theophilus a Roman official was an attempt to show the accusations against Paul to be false. look at the words charged against Paul by his accusers and the record given by Luke. He seems to deal with them all. The book ends before a record of Paul's death. So if it is written after his death two questions arise. One why make the defense since it would be irrelevant. and Two why is there no record of his death. the second could be answered because both Luke and Acts are written on the longest scrolls available and there was no more room to include that information however the first objection has no good answer. if Paul is dead why write a defense for him? So I would question a late date for the writing of Acts. it was written after Luke but before Paul's death and must have been written shortly after Luke. I also pick up a suggestion that Paul was starting a non Jewish anti-law/Torah movement. i see this as popular but inaccurate of the Biblical evidence. Paul was continuing as an observant Jew his argument for Gentile inclusion is Torah based. it was agreed upon by the Apostles in Jerusalem if Luke's account in Acts is valid. Even James gave Paul and Barnabas a letter of authorization. They would not do this if there was no Hebrew Scriptural authority for the position the held.
@@fleetwd1 thanks for the feedback I appreciate it.
If it's the case that Paul's central symbol is the church itself, in that the way the church conducts itself is how the world sees "a new reality is let loose", then the picture over the last 2000 years has been pretty mixed, to put it mildly. I say that not in mockery or provocation, but in grief.
sad, but you are right.
Awesome lecture.
Being anti Paul at one point, I love Paul very much because of Mr. Wrights work in explaining it all better
glad to hear of your reversal. Paul can be easily misunderstood not only today but also in his day as 2 Peter 3:15-16 writes about.
@@fleetwd1 2 Peter 3:15-16 is such an excuse!
@@IsraeliteDefense not an excuse, an example.
Imagine if all churches had a preacher like this :)
Speaking of thinking, what fruit does the knowledge of good and evil produce? It's not and Apple or an orange. It isn't a lemon either but it is a sour fruit and most often turns quite bitter.
Eating the fruit means building an attachment to your concept of right and wrong. Attachment is the eating part and judgment is the fruit produced by the knowledge of good and evil.
Appology, forgiveness or humility is spitting the Fruit back up and grace is leaving it on the Tree; reserving judgment or at least your attachment to it.
Good analogy… maybe we shouldn’t “spit up” since it might fall on our face…
For as many that are led by the spirit of GOD they are the SONs of GOD.
Being led by the spirit of God actually has a very specific meaning: it isn’t just a bunch of words. The led are actors - you don’t know any of them, they aren’t people you come across in daily life. Christ is very pessimistic about the response to the teaching, because all the great prophets are well briefed as to the dismal state of humanity. They know the impact is minimal. They know the response is dominated by self-serving hypocrisy - just as described in the gospels and in Acts
@@johnlawrence2757 that's why Christ promised the comforter, who will come and glorify him and God
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God bless you you are a true inspiration and a blessing for anyone they can hear it great job keep up the good work
I was there! Awesome lecture!
Hes a viper
Configuration Dr. Only don't understand psychologist Christian that search through your mind and aren't true Christian, this message is biblical message.
Some people dont like to read and compare the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul who quoted the OT one hundred times in his writings.
People who say that Jesus and the Apostle Paul have two different theological views have never analyzed the New Testament. The Apostle Paul gave his life promoting the teachings of Jesus. Here are thirty doctrines of Jesus which are exactly same was the Apostle Paul:
#1
Jesus taught and argued with Jews (Matthew 23:1-22)
Paul taught and argued with Jews (Acts 17:11-12)
#2
...Jesus taught to obey Governing authorities (Matthew 22:21)
Paul taught to obey governing authorities (Romans 13:1)
#3
Salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22)
The Jews are God’s people (Romans 11:1)
#4
Jesus taught you must be born again (John 3:3)
Paul taught you must be a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17).
#5
Jesus said to let your good works (Matthew 5:16)
Paul says that rich in good works (1 Tim 6:17-19)
#6
Jesus taught that he would lay down His life (John 10:17)
Paul taught we are saved by the life of Jesus (Roman 5:10)
#7
Jesus taught that all have sinned (John 3:19)
Paul taught that all have sinned (Romans 3:23)
#8
Jesus taught God's will is stronger than man's will (John 15:15).
Paul taught God's will is greater than man's will (Romans 9).
#9
Jesus taught against false prophets (Matthew 7:15)
Paul taught against false prophets (2 Cor 11:13)
#10
Jesus taught that He is God (John 14:9, John 10:31, John 8:58
Paul taught that Jesus is God, (Romans 9:5)
#11
Jesus taught to love your enemies, (Luke 6:27-28)
Paul taught to love all people including enemies, (2 Cor 10:4)
#12
Jesus taught prayer in secret places (Matthew 6:6)
Paul taught prayer away from public places, (Acts 16:13)
#13
Jesus taught prayer and fasting is powerful (Matthew 17:21)
Paul taught prayer and fasting is powerful, (1 Cor 7:5)
#14
Jesus taught to pray always (Luke 21:36)
Paul taught to pray always (2 Thess 1:11)
#15
Jesus taught to put out the immoral sinner from the church.(Matthew 15)
Paul taught to put out the immoral sinner from the church (2Cor 5:5).
#16
Jesus claimed to be from heaven, (John 6:51)
Paul claimed that Jesus was from heaven (1Cor 15:47)
#17
Jesus the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20)
Paul taught the New Covenant (1Cor 11:25, 2 Cor 3:6)
#18
Jesus taught that the sheep (followers) will not perish (John 10:27-28)
Paul taught that there is no condemnation to those who are in Jesus Christ, (Rom. 8:1-2)
#19
Jesus taught salvation by believing in Jesus (John 6:29)
Paul taught salvation by believing in Jesus (1Cor 1:21)
#20
Jesus said He sets us free (John 8:36)
Paul said that Jesus sets us free (Romans 6:18)
#21
Jesus taught the Torah taught about Him (John 5:38-39, John 17:12, Luke 24:44)
Paul taught the Torah taught of Jesus (2 Timothy 3:16, Romans 3:31, Romans 11:26).
#22
Jesus give life (John 10:10)
Paul taught that Jesus gives life (1Cor 15:45)
#23
Paul said: "Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses." (2 Corithians 13:1)
Jesus said: "In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true (John 8:17).
#24
Jesus taught He is a Man (John 8:40)
Paul taught Jesus is a Man (Gal 3:19-20; 1Tim 2:5)
#25
Jesus taught that He is LORD (Mark 2:28)
Paul taught that Jesus is LORD (I Cor 1:2)
#26
Jesus taught that God is inside of him (John 14:10)
Paul taught God was in Jesus (2 Cor 5:19)
#27
Jesus taught the was Good News was His death, burial (John 2:19-21, Luke 24:44 Mark 13:10)
Paul taught that death, burial and resurrection is the GOOD NEWS (1Cor 15:1-4)
#28
Jesus said the Good News of Jesus was sent to the WHOLE WORLD (Mark 13:10)
Paul said the Good News was to go to the WHOLE WORLD (Romans 10:18).
#29
Jesus said that His CHURCH will be established (Matthew 16:18)
Paul taught and established CHURCHES (1Cor 16:19, Acts 15:41)
#30
Jesus taught He is God (John 8:58).
Paul taught that Jesus is God (Roman's 9:5).
Conclusion: THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT!!!!
Romans 9:1 The Apostle Paul said: “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost…”
@ Matthew Paulson...
AMEN
@@Scrollermania1963 Muslim scholars quote the Holy Bible and so do I.
Shalom. I LOVE the BIBLE. Dont you? Muslims dont like the Jesus of the Bible because he does NOT teach Islam.
Here are 50 Bible Verses that CONFIRM the Identity of Jesus Christ
1 - Jesus Was Never Created | Micah 5:2 & Heb 13:8
2 - Jesus Essence Has Never Changed | Heb 13:8
3 - Jesus is God | John 1:1, 14
4 - Jesus is The Creator of Everything | Col 1:16, John 1:3
5 - Jesus is All-Powerful | Matt 28:18
16 - Jesus is All-Knowing | Col 2:3 Jn 16:30
7 - Jesus is Ever-Present | Matt 18:20
8 - Jesus is Holy | Luke 1:35
9 - Jesus is Righteous | Isa 53:11
10 - Jesus is Just | Zech 9:9
11 - Jesus Had No Deceit | 1 Pet 2:22
12 - Jesus is Sinless | 2 Cor 5:21
13 - Jesus is Spotless | 1 Pet 1:19
14 - Jesus is Innocent | Matt 27:4
15 - Jesus is Gentle | Matt 11:29
16 - Jesus is Merciful | Heb 2:17
17 - Jesus is Forgiving | Luke 23:34
18 - Jesus Receives Worship by Demons | Mark 5:2,6
19 - Jesus Receives Worship by Men | John 9:38
20 - Jesus Receives Worship by Angels | Heb 1:6
21 - Jesus Receives Worship by Disciples | Luke 24:52
22 - Jesus Receives Worship in Heaven | Rev 7:9-10
23 - Jesus Will Receive Worship from Everyone | Phil 2:10-11
24 - Jesus Was Human | 1 Tim 2:5
25 - Jesus Was Conceived by the Holy Spirit | Luke 1:34-35
26 - Jesus Took On Man’s Nature | Heb 2:9-18
27 - Jesus Humbled Himself | Phil 2:8
28 - Jesus Was Subject To Human Emotions | Heb 5:7
29 - Jesus Raised His Body From The Dead | John 10:18
30 - Jesus Blood Brings Reconciliation With God | Eph 2:13-16
31 - Jesus Blood Brings Redemption for Man | Rom 3:24-25
32 - Jesus Blood Allows Man To Be Justified before God | Rom 5:9
33 - Jesus Blood Sanctifies Man | Heb 10:29
34 - Jesus Blood Brings Spiritual Victory | Rev 12:11
35 - Jesus Blood Brings Eternal Life | John 6:53-56
36 - Jesus Came to Save Sinners | Luke 19:10
37 - Jesus Will Bring in Everlasting Righteousness | Dan 9:24
38 - Jesus Destroyed the Works of Satan | 1 John 3:8
39 - Jesus Fulfilled the Old Testament | Matt 5:17
40 - Jesus Gives Life Now | John 10:10
41 - Jesus Is Our Advocate | 1 John 2:1
42 - Jesus Gives Eternal Life | John 10:28
43 - Jesus Is Eternal Life | 1 John 5:20, John 5:24
44 - Jesus Sends The Holy Spirit To Us | John 15:26
45 - Jesus Will Take His People To Heaven | John 14:3
46 - Jesus Will Return To The Earth After The Tribulation | Matt 24:29
47 - Jesus Will Return To The Earth In Power & Glory | Matt 24:30
48 - Jesus Completes Revelation | Heb 1:1
49 - Jesus Will Never Send You Away If You Come To Him | John 6:37
50 - Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life | John 14:6.
WE INVITE ALL PEOPLE WHO READ THESE 50 FACTS ABOUT JESUS TO COME TO HIM and ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE. Shalom.
Sir.... Thank u so much for deeper teaching for the apostle Paul in his theology.
Etymology of Apostle = go out and stand (in office)
Paul says in Romans 10:8: "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that is , the word of FAITH, which we preach."
When you unceasingly pray, for instance, "Hear O Israel: The Lord Our God is one God," it will drop down into your heart and in due time Christ is being formed or birthed. This is mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations---"Christ in you, the hope of glory."
If you know who you are in Christ, you know you have all authorty of heaven and earth to destroy the works of Satan who deludes Christians into believing that you are slaves to yoke of bondage.
Thankyou. The Lord is obviously is wih you. Peace!
Released from Bondage to the commandments of men. God's burden is light and as Jesus taught.... a light yoke. Romans 3:31. Christ removed sin which means the covering for sin is improved with the Torah written on the heart & the Holy Spirit to give us strength to recognise and overcome lies of men who are teachers of the false Jesus as a lawlessness Saviour. : )
What does this destruction look like to you, a practical example
The only kind of bondage is to sin. 1 John 3:4 For sin is transgression of the Law. Christ removes sin by writing the Law of God on our hearts according to Jerimiah 31:31 as the New Covenant. Being in Christ means doing what God considers good. And Christ broke down the middle wall of separation between Jew & gentiles. The New Testament tells us that were the dogmas of ordinances....additions & subtraction from God's law through misapplication by men.
Like the rules of handwashing ( only for Levitical priests approaching for Temple service ) & the ORAL instruction to not associate with Gentiles which is not in the Torah at all.
Christ is King of the Righteous not the wicked. We praise Him for setting us free from bondage to sin & the burdensome commandments of men that have no power to save. Hallelujah!!😃💓Blessings to truth seekers!! May we love the truth that sets us free!!😁👍👍🌼🙏🐑🐑
The citation of ..GOD IS ONE..is at odds with the TRINITY.
The TRINITY says that God is THREE in ONE.
Paul invented stuff and we need to repudiate them.
Of course his counsel has some nice lessons that we can use. Just like any other counselor.
awesome
Well the problem with the language is that one Hebrew word can have 25 different translations and More in other languages and it loses the richness of the true meaning from Hebrew to other languages truly Hebrew is God's language
There is no problem with language. The word of God is ONE, as is God himself! The culprit is more likely the world, the flesh and the Devil.
The WORLD disbelieves and frowns on belief, the FLESH is lazy and selfcentered and so does not seek God/Truth, and the DEVIL temps us to instead lean on part, partial, false, and mischevious interpretations of other men, which are further removed from Truth. All of which lead to and support what we call "problems in the bible."
Meaning is found in the ONEness of God's Word:
[Matthew 4.4]
Still I must agree, ancient Hebrew, not Yiddish, is God's language.
Shalom!
Eliihu Bailey - The answer is a very simple one. People feel that there have been HUGE LIES on the whole subject. THAT attracts and fixes attention. Anybody's desire is to clear the story, not to have it mixed up for ANY reasons, usually evil, so that nobody can reach the truth
Thats right... Paul did not say things you liked so he must go as God can not keep his bible pure like he said I am guessing.. and after you toss out Paul then toss out Peter..because he said...And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are
Paul was a believer as per Peter but he was not an Apostle as of himself saying he was lessor than them. Paul also was not on Par with Jesus as many have said but rather should be taken as a commentary on what the old testament and the gospels actually say.
@@samuelswenson1505 Paul may not have thought much of himself but ,,, 2 Peter 3:15-16:
"Consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation - as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures."
@@SharonBalloch He said Brother, not Apostle though. Key difference.
@Sharon Balloch , why did you vomit up your own understanding, then not have the respect to respond to those addressing you?
Peter did not write 2nd Peter. Peter was chosen by Jesus to be the Apostle to the gentiles., not Paul. Paul is a 13th Apostle. There are only 12 Apostles. Matthias replaced Judas. Check how many names of Apostles are on the foundations of the New Jerusalem. Paul preached "his" gospel, not the gospel of the Apostles.
I am a mystic and a woman, so I handled the ideas of Paul through two divergent lenses for decades.
But as a theist and mystic I know only my own practice and suspect that is true of any. So Wright's
weird service to what he imagines Paul imagined and his focus too on place in discussions of a religion with a messiah who pointed to his body as the temple and asserted god is spirit makes
this lecture, which I skimmed resemble Dante's march through hell or how I felt learning who knows how to starch the altar cloth or how to polish brass.
Paul sezs
1Corinthian 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
The Holy Spirit, sezs
Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Peter 1:20-21
Knowing this first of all that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
God sezs to Paul
Acts 26:16-18
But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you, delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
God tells Ananias
Acts 9:10-17
In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The LORD called to him in a vision, "Ananias!" "Yes, LORD," he answered.
The LORD told him, "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight."
"LORD," Ananias answered, "I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem.
And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name."
But the LORD said to Ananias, "Go!
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."
Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, "Brother Saul, the LORD-Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here-has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
Finally, Peter sez
2 Peter 3:15-16
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, ..............WHICH THE IGNORANT AND UNSTABLE.............. twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
So which are you? I hope it’s just confused.
The only reason Paul is an issue is because God said, " This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel" and satan attacks anything or anybody that brings the gospel to humans.
Acts 11:26
and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch,. Where was Paul at this time ?
In His Service,
Yet by the end of that same book Paul says he's the greatest of the epistles??
Paul can't be an apostle!
1) the requirements of apostleship acts 1:15-26
2)revelation says ONLY 12apostles not 13
3) Paul says he's the only apostle to the Gentles? Really? Acts 10 Peter was sent by holy spirit to the Gentles?
PAUL seems pridefully wrong!
And Paul never meet Jesus on the road to Damascus! He lied!
Scott Louis Smith : He had all the power and wealth without joining the earthly poverty the disciples of Jesus were living. Why would he lie to have encountered Jesus? For what benefit?
@@scottlouissmith2382
St.Paul encountered Jesus "in the Spirit", no physical encounter was necessary.
@@70AD-user45 Yeah, that's what the Christians say!
That's like saying the difference between a noun and a verb God is a verb
30:13 - Renewed mind Col. 3:2
I like that NT Wright brings up, "Teach someone to think in Christ.”
As I see it, the springboard of Paul's presentations is summarized in the two choices he gave to Felix and Drusilla in Acts 24:24-26: "Faith in Jesus Christ" or "righteousness, self-control and the coming judgment." Which will it be?
Paul’s letters then walk his readers through how he thinks. They’re organic beginning with this agreed-to proposition of faith in Jesus Christ. They are “if this then that" kind of discussions.
Problem is we sincere Christians will take Paul conclusions-and turn them into a verse-by-verse “believe this and do that” religion, rather than understand his whole argument.
Knowing how Paul thinks however, we should be able to begin at the same place, and come to the same conclusions.
Paul was not opposed to righteousness, self control or the judgment to come as if it is juxtaposed to faith in Christ. the one leads to the other just as cause leads to effect. Faith in Christ bring completeness based upon the gift of God's righteousness demonstrated in the Christ event. When we believe we become one with him and the Holy Spirit which Jesus deserves becomes ours and then "the righteousness of the Law shall be fulfilled in us who walk not by the flesh but by the Spirit." However, "by the righteousness of the law shall no flesh be justified." The righteousness of God in Christ is what justifies. it is the cause the righteousness of the Law that shall be fulfilled in us is the effect. They are not juxtaposed as if opposites one leads to the other. Paul writings are full of exhortations after he conveys the Gospel of God's covenantal faithfulness manifested in Jesus' death for sin and resurrection for our justification. God's work is the basis of our inclusion into God's people. But as citizens of the kingdom we embrace "righteousness, self control and (we look forward) to the coming judgment" where we will be fully restored. We now only have a down payment but then we will be fully clothed in righteousness. We are declared to be complete in Christ and we strive to become what we are said to be. But our stiving does not lead to God's righteousness, it is only the result of it. Many distort Paul by thinking he advocates faith is juxtaposed to Law. But he claims "faith establishes the Law.." It puts it into proper perspective. God's work done "for us" results in God's work "in us." the two are not equal they need to be distinguished but they are not in opposition they come together. One is primary and the other is secondary but noone will be saved without both being evidenced.
@@fleetwd1 Mankind's answer to injustice is righteousness. But people naturally understand righteousness as a consequence of self-control according to some standard of judgment (as in the Law). Jesus didn't propose righteousness as the answer to injustice, but mercy-and a union with himself-a yoking as in a bride and bridegroom. A simple relationship. That relationship forms the basis for any righteousness that results. So as the letters argue, the believer's righteousness is in God himself, and his justification is by faith.
24:58 - Three stages
Interesting title. Remarkable that so much of Christian theology is based on Paul's "inventions" and expanded intrepretations (Paul might say based on visions and revelations) rather than the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Paul's theological inventions beyond Jesus teachings seems akin to later inventions of elaborate rituals to 'perfect' Christianity by the Roman church itself. (Perhaps the later are even a result of Paul's emphasis on the church?)
The Church is actually a beautiful revelation. The institutions that existed up to that time none, not even the Nation of Israel, could achieve the great vision of God in bringing humanity together in one body....in some sense we could say the church joined in spirit to Christ was the new creation the womb through which God could bring forth children unto God.
So all that is true of Christ, Paul saw is true of Him in the church...he saw that man must let go of every divisive endeavour and embrace the new revelation which is not a mystical revelation as we have come to think but merely the correct/spiritual way of interpreting life.
I think Christianity has suffered primarily because we have misunderstood this. When Christ said the kingdom is within you the western mind has taken it to mean a secret, private and personal enjoyment of God..and I think I heard the presenter make that similar point. It is not private or secret at all. It is the he birthright of all the nations. "Jesus is Lord" Is the theme of the entire bible. This is the churches message but sad to say we have retired into our four-walled corners thinking we "saved ones" are the privileged lot.
Jesus never called himself Lord of anyone
@@jbcom2416 no we call him Master for so he is.
What is so interesting about these comments is one person is trying to out do another in their scriptural knowledge of the God of Love. You can argue the laws and the dispensations all you like one true resounding message is very clear, love one and other. In the end do you think your sum total of life will be how you all argued so well about what the words mean't or will the sum total of life be how you treated people with love. Paul did put it beautifully when he basically said do not drag yourself down and get involved in humanities attempts to understand God. Get on with loving life and one and other. If your understanding of the words enable you to hurt another human being you are part of the problem, not the solution.
this is absolutely AWESOME! it is like eating a spiritual feast for the soul!
Tom Wright should give a the on the sciences, this talk should be published and sent to his science peers at the major UK universities for critical review.
His talk should be on the science behind the resurrection and virgin birth.
I would like to hear from his science peers and there thoughts on miracles.
I thinkTom Wright would not be up for such difficult task?
Tom will not be reading comments on videos so I don't know what your point is. it has nothing to do with the video so i have no reason to reply. Would your desire be interesting? perhaps but I doubt it would be done. so it is speculative at best.
#183 The Quran 19:36 (Surah Maryam)
The Quran 19:36 (Surah Maryam) Jesus said: “Verily! Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him
Jesus has been given a name above ALL names so His name is over Allah or Yahweh
+Abu taj md mahbub Ul alam by his father. Who is one with him. The one that called him son. Something the Muslim God is incapable to be
but bart ehrman argue that it is a historical fact that jesus was crucified doesnt that contradict the quran?
@Abu taj md mahbub Ul alam what messianic thing did he accomplish in the quran?
@Abu taj md mahbub Ul alam JESUS IS ALMIGHTY GOD WHO CAME DOWN IN HUMAN FORM TO DIE FOR MAN
The quotes in big blue bars put me off at first, but they also did the trick. Once I realized how central the first two blue-barred statements were, I learned to love them. "The Jews did not ask how they could understand God more." "The Jews did ask, 'When is God coming back?'" I hear the siren song of full preterism (not from NT Wright, of course -- just in my own mind). What do you think about the sky rolling up like a scroll? It seems to me the only apocalyptic imagery left after 70 AD is the remaking of the heavens and the earth. Could the sky/scroll image be interpreted as the fulfillment of the old covenant, and following that, the new covenant as the remaking?
Then of course, there's the general resurrection. I'll follow the good bishop's inaugerated eschatology until I become overwhelmingly convinced of preterism, but that sure would make my life easier.
wright builds his case from the ground up, brick by brick, when does he get to the "Main Event", Historically nebulous !
I remember that goal by Wilkinson. Devastating to us Aussies.
he needs an organ playing behind him, and he shouldn't be sipping tea with old ladies. Does he believe in evolution?
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Amen. He is the wolf.
Gen 49:27
What exactly are you saying, 9th saint? Would you care to elaborate on your post?
@@bruceeipperle2770 Its in your bible! Don't you read it?
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@@scottlouissmith2382 So, you are of the notion that Paul is a false apostle? Speak openly what is on your mind, as opposed to crafty proselytizing. State your belief on the validity of the "New Testament".
Paul lived that life. Life of Christ. Really he became an apostle.
Etymology of apostle = go out and stand (in office)
It seems a high school class must have been invited to comment on this video. One that had studies the eminent scholarship of Dan Brown, Bill Maher, and Bart Erhman who rejects he authenticity of "The Declaration of Independence" and the claim that Lincoln authored "The Gettysburg Address" due to their variation in the text of copies.
Perhaps most misleading is the word "Imvented" in the title of this video. Paul describes things that were taught to him by Christians in Antioch who had learned it from the Disciples. Being the most educated of the apostles he seems a wise choice to both record and build out these ideas on a larger theological framework. Paul was "inventor" of Christian theology, in the same respect that Neil Armstrong was "inventor" of the moon!
Paul claims the very opposite. "For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Gal 1:12. So it is incorrect to claim that Paul was taught anything by Christians in Antioch who had learned it from the Disciples - who oddly enough were still alive at the time..
We must return the Texts of Scripture to it's original form, respecting The Word, The Names and the culture of a people in their historical context.
Mattithyahu 7:22-23 English Standard Version (ESV)
On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
That was mental gymnastics at its best. Well played 👍🏼
Rab Shaul did jewish theology as he says Romans 3:1-2 to the jew was given the logía of God. The thing Is It Is misstranslated using wrongly logos "word". The greek text uses "logía"
I do not know what translation you are reading from but mine does not use "word" it uses "oracles." Oracles means divine spoken words. so not much different than word. just more emphatic that it was from a divine source. The Greek dictionary covers "oracles" of God under the section dealing with "word." your translators might have thought "word" was an easier concept to understand. it is similar in meaning.
@@fleetwd1 I am reading directly the greek text as It Is always the best source. There It says that to the jews was commited the "logía tou Theo" or Theology. Logía meaning science/knowledge. That science/ knowledge to interpret the scripture is the theology rab Shaul (Paul )learned from his rabi Gamliel and that was what he used all over his writings.
@@IsmaelZaldivar-yq2fu My source is from the best Greek Scholars found in The Dictionary of New Testament Theology editor Colin Brown. I think they are better equipped to understand what you have read. "logía tou Theo" is translated "oracles of God" found in many good translations. not once is it translated science/knowledge as you claim.
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@@fleetwd1 Oracle comes from the latín word "oraculum" the greek for that word is "manteion" Which Is not obeying to the original text .it Is obvious that the translators are not translating but altering the text of the Bible.. Logía means science/ knowledge and It Is used in words like "biology" 'the science of life" for a short definition. In Jeremiah 3:15 God says "And I Will give you pastors according to mine heart Which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding" And that Is what was commited to the jews. The advantage of rab Shaul was precisely The logía tou Theo or Theology, the science/ knowledge commited to them by God. Which He learned from his rabi Gamliel. He didnt invent a so called " Christian Theology"
God didn't inspire those who wrote the holy word to do so that others could take it apart and analyze it, God gave it to be read and prayed over so His spirit could lead us to the truth.
I think I can agree that the truth is beyond the "holy word" and only the spirit could lead us to the truth.
+randolph temple Randy, you are a stupid, stupid man.
While I agree that it is prayer and faithfulness that guide us to realize truth, I believe that God gave us His word for the express reason of reading it, analyzing it, and interpreting it so that we may apply what we learn in our daily life. Christianity is all about the personal experience and relationship that each of us have with God through the sacrifice of Christ-and because all of us have different needs and life experiences personal interpretation and understanding of the Holy scriptures is essential in building faith and drawing closer to God. The key is praying for wisdom and discernment in studying the Bible.
Not analyzed but interpreted. To read Scripture is as he says to rehearse the mighty deeds of the Lordand to worship Him.
randolph temple it's called exegesis and hermeneutics
He said that he was confronted by the risen Lord where he went into the desert and was given this theology, he invented nothing he said he serves Christ and Christ alone he wasn’t sent by men or approved by men
look at my post which is pinned to remain visible to all who comment.
"Jewish narrative with quite fresh analysis" - I agree. But I'm surprised he didn't address the critical issue that separated Paul from the Jewish culture at large-and still does: "This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place" (Acts 21:28). Paul's continuing argument against tradition, justice and law in favor of grace through faith in God is at the heart of his Gospel.
Check out Ez 44:7,9
Pauls actions there were prophetic.
,@Black God Disciple Stone Nation of course you're talking about someone who lived centuries later than the Paul of the book of Acts. Still, I'm sure even the one formerly known as Saul of Tarsus could have been seen as an "imposter." by his contemporaries. That might be important to some, but Paul's Gospel wasn't about Paul the celebrity. It was explained in what he said, did and wrote.
@Black God Disciple Stone Nation tracing authorship has limited unimportance if Paul said nothing new in regard to Israel’s blessing to the world. All he did was (rather thoroughly) reason the grace (= gift, or blessing) of God over the law.
What is clear from all this and the separation between Paul and Barnabas is that Paul was teaching what Jesus never taught or asked his desciples to teach. Jesus taught strict obeisance to the law. In his sermon to his followers Jesus said " It was said in the past ...........but I say unto you......". He actually tightened the law. So by any imagination Paul's teachings were an aberation to what Jesus Christ and his desciples taught.
Now the importatnt question is , did Jesus know that someone like Paul will come after him and did he mention it ? Absolutely yes.
Jesus warned about the coming of the false prophets who will come "IN HIS NAME " and may mislead even the very elect. In fact Paul has been very successful in this and his industry has become a trillion dollars money making machine. Jesus was a thorough bred practicing Jew who prayed to God the creator like every Jew and never claimed to be God. Paul's industry has gone to absurdities by proclaiming Jesus as God.
@@jakpanana3938 Paul said nothing new. All he did was make it clear that the grace of God (which comes by faith) overrules the law. It always has. This was the case with the marauding gentile nation Nineveh, the 40-year fugitive Moses-a murderer under the Noahide law, and David with his multiple infractions of the Law of Moses.
Regarding the "tightening" of the law-yes Jesus did that exactly when he virtually equated lust with adultery, and anger with murder. But more than that, Jesus explained the origins of adultery and murder as the passions of the flesh. That was his real point-which the apostles expanded on in their letters.
Then why should Jesus not be God? If God could speak through a jackass or burning bush, could his word not also become flesh? If God could lead Israel with a pillar of smoke and fire, should he not also lead the whole world as a shepherd? But I'm convinced enough by what he did and said as "Son of God" and "Son of Man."
"To the Israelite first, then to the gentile." I would say Paul's theology is, first and foremost, an explication of Yeshua as Israel's messiah.
Why are unbelievers mysteriously drawn to these videos? I know why, but they will say it's not true, but they will not explain why they are drawn to these videos either. They somehow think if they can openly derogate Christian videos, it will somehow make it untrue, they can't seem to shut that thing inside of them up that says, there's a God. Why do you guys seem to flock to these videos? I believe Oswald acted alone, therefore I don't 'do a search' for conspiracy videos. So, why are you here?
Eli' Bailey There's no mystery to why "unbelievers" are drawn to these videos. It's the same reason you're drawn to the area under the sink to fight the mold and cockroaches.
Again. Why are you hear? Why does it bother you? You can't just laugh it off and mutter, 'Crazy Christian'? I'm not drawn to atheist' videos. And there's plenty of mold under that sink.
Eli' Bailey The same way Roaches and mold spread disease, Christians spread ignorance and prejudice.
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
Although this is undeniable, there are still those who are on the fence. I fight for their freedom from the chains of superstition and nonsense.
This video isn't trying to convince an atheist of anything, it's for Christians. Those 'riding the fence' have all the influence needed in the world so,....again. why are you here?
Eli' Bailey I've explained why I'm here several times and you've ignored me several times. This video is for the public as evidenced by the fact that it can be viewed publicly.
starts at about 4:00. intro humor before--save time!
There's lots of rumors in the air. The Bible says we are to study to show ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
(II Timothy2:15) Until we come to know the Word incarnate, Jesus Christ, as our own personal Savior and have the Holy Spirit to guide our understanding, then all of our worldly knowledge is futile. There is a lot of misinformation being spread about the Apostle Paul. I believe the accounts in the Bible about who he was and Who chose him to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and offer it to gentiles. In my youth, a child of five years old, I accepted Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior, which was over 60 years ago. I have proven God's Word over and over again in my own life, the power of God's salvation through his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. I will always take His truth over human reasoning. I can rely on His Word and the Holy Spirit to guide me. Apostle Paul (Part 1/4)
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@@Nicene325ad ask the Holy Spirit in your life and give up your false self. Then know truth. 2nd Corinthians 5:17
A large number of people have come to see that a serious bible study is the way to get to know the will of the Almighty, so how do you view their research when it is kept separate from popular church doctrine.?How do we adjust to the separating of the wheat from the weeds?
+James JAH Avey
You dig. When you go to "church" ask about small groups or bible studies.
Hebrews 11:6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to
him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.
+John Gault I dig that's deep !
+truethinker
Great bible studies and online classes and tools here: www.xenos.org/ Get some friends together and dig deep!
What town / area are you in? These guys are from Columbus, OH.
I live in metro Detroit.
LOL at all the haters thinking this was going to be anti-Paul!
apparently a lot of them did. Paul is being abused by their ignorance of his teaching.
I wouldn't include "not eating with non-Jews" in that list of laws they adhered to. That's not scriptural like the other instructions listed.
Galatians 2 isn't clear in _what_ Paul felt Peter violated. He accuses him of sin, without laying a clear charge against him.
I find Paul contradicts some of Jesus teachings and the apostles. Paul does make some good points in his books. Maybe God wanted this so we would want to delve into the Bible. Gods Brilliant.
Yes God is brilliant. I don't readily see Paul contradicting Jesus. There seems to be a contradiction between James and Paul. But contextually they are dealing with standing/justification between different entities. James is talking about being justified to fellow believers/men and Paul is dealing with justification before God. Paul also teaches what James teaches but uses a different choice of words that do not seem contradictory as James did. James also gives credence to Paul's understanding of Gentiles being accepted by faith rather than works of the law when the discussion is raised in Jerusalem and they put few restrictions than the law would. These seeming contradictions reveal the divine mind. and they are throughout scripture. example being justified by faith apart from works of the law yet also being judged according to your deeds. God being sovereign yet he has man choose. there are many many more. they appear contradictory but they are actually paradoxes (two equally true statements that appear to contradict but don't)
Find rightly deviding the word of truth 2 Timothy 2.15 verse it tells you how to study your bible it a all truth but not all to you
I ask this every time I see people say it, but what are some examples of these contradictions?
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Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
John 5:28-29 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
But wait there's more....
1 Corinthians 8:4-5, 7-8, 10-11 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
(Ok as long as it doesn't offend a "weaker" brother)
1 Corinthians 10:19, 27-28 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof
(Plausible deniability)
Revelation 2:2, 9, 14, 20 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Clearly Jesus doesn't think of an idol as nothing! Clearly Jesus is talking about foods sacrificed to idols as spiritual fornication/adultery!!!!
Paul has deceived the whole world with his wishy-washy doctrines. How much easier is it going to be for the Anti-christ of Revelation to deceive those already conditioned by Paul.
Jesus said I HAVE NOT COME FOR THE GENTILES BUT FOR THE JEWS, so if he did not come for the gentiles, who else started christianity, because he clearly didn't.
Patricia Treslove Jesus did indeed come to the Jews. Ultimately, as the Messiah, he came to restore Israel. Through his death and resurrection of Jesus, this restoration was complete. A restored Israel could finally fulfill the promise made to Abraham: "By you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Gen. 12:3). The turn to Gentiles is the necessary consequent of a restore Israel. Indeed, Jesus, about to ascend into heaven: "You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). If there was not a turn to Gentiles in the early Church, Jesus never really restore Israel and thus failed in his mission to the Jews.
Paul was fully accepted as an apostle--by the apostles. he saw Christ.
The Gospels are historical documents with over 600 copies dated from pre-100 AD.
Acts is obviously a continuation of Luke and Paul's theology is confirmed therein.
Paul was martyred after a lot of his followers...
Read Paul if you want to hear his own defense against later day ass-clowns..just read Luke, Acts and Paul.
Everything is going to be alright, ask Paul--he told us about the wolves.
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Marcionism... That is what kept Paul alive in the post Christian Jewish era.. and when Roman Christianity needed an authority to defend it's evil and corrupt doctrines of predestination, original sin, denial of free will, denial of man made in the image of a Holy God and the enduring and eternal moral Law of God, it found a friend in "Brother Paul" (not an apostle or disciple of Jesus according to Peter) . Paul would be horrified how evil and ignorant men have twisted his ideas and thoughts to come up with the evil doctrines of Augustinian, Reformed and Calvinistic theology (2 Peter 3:15 etc.)
No. There are no first century copies of the Gospels in existence.
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Great comment, Tatiana. Thank you and bless you.
Acts seeks to unite Paul and Peter's doctrine. But Acts has to distort Paul's writings. For instance, the Jerusalem Council decided that Gentiles are to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, but Paul teaches many times that you can eat any meat.
I just caught 10 minutes of this lecture so far. The early church didn't hold Jesus as divine. We all know how this changed. Is any one out there who believe that Jesus is not divine, but for the pressure wielded by Constantine who didn't himself convert to Christianity? How about this question, anybody know Bart Ehrman and his work?
yes familiar with Bart but David Capes and many others like Larry Hurtado have shown the early tradition of Jesus divinity go back very early. the song of Philippians 2 that Paul quotes is from the early church. Capes has a book more in-depth titled "The divine Christ" but i have a 3 video lecture series where he covers a lot of it. Just do a channel search on my channel for David Capes if you are interested.
SAUL (PAUL) WAS WELL EDCUATED AND WELL CONNECTED ALL AROUND IN JEWISH AND ROMAN CIRCLES AND A ZEALOUS PERSECUTER AND KILLER OF EARLY CHRISTIANS. SOMETHING HAPPENED SUPERNATURALLY TO THIS MAN TO MAKE HIM SERVE AND SPREAD THE WORD OF CHRIST FOR DECADES AND WALK 10,000 TO BE MARTYRED.
no doubt.
Paul keep Torah and never walked away from it
Then he wouldn't have called circumcision mutilation.
Phil 3, Gal 5.
I can see the message Wright is getting at here, but he should have started off with the understanding that "all scripture is God-breathed" and worked out his title and message from there. God worked through Paul using him as a vessel by which to reach all mankind with the Gospel message and, yes, God used a new way of getting that message across through the God-breathed inspired New Testament scripture. God is the "inventor" of all theology and simply uses man as a vessel to deliver the message.
I disagree, God gives us truth, but “theology” is the different ways we try to UNDERSTAND that truth. So God doesn’t just give us theology directly, but lets us have the opportunity to explore it ourselves (hopefully with the Spirit’s guidance).
30:37 - knowledge Col. 3:10
It takes this guy a long, long, long time to clearly state what he means when he says Paul invented Christianity.
can you state it in a nutshell? my comment is pinned for all to see. But few, if any, commentators read it.
@@TV-fu1ec you had made a comment that i can not find. I thought it was a good thought. i may look in spam but i have no idea of how, or why, it would have been placed there.
@@TV-fu1ec i looked in Spam it was not there either. you were saying the Covenants were God's way to communicate his will and you were not sure if Christianity had continued that. my thoughts are I think many in Christianity have failed to understand the Hebraic roots which our faith is based upon. I think Paul went back to Genesis and based grace upon the promise of God to Abraham. this covenant proceeded the Covenant with Moses at Sinai and Paul reasons the later covenant had not nullified the former. So Jesus comes to fulfill both the Abrahamic and the Mosaic covenants and we are recipients of the blessings promised upon all who have the faith of Abraham.
We would do well to know the deep roots that we are part of.
@@TV-fu1ec it happened again. i could read the alert sent me of your reply but could not reply to it because it was not there. Yes i agree with you also. Hebrews talks about the Covenant with Moses passing away and a covenant based on better promises. many see this as Old Covenant and New Covenant but Paul argues the Abrahamic Covenant which is older than the Mosaic is the basis. Jesus brings both together. He becomes Israel and fulfills their promised to do all that is declared in the Decalogue at Mount Sinai. He also fulfills the promise God makes to Abraham that all nations will be blessed through his promised seed. The giving of the Spirit coincided with the celebration of the Covenant held at Mount Sinai. So the Law was fulfilled and the blessing promised came in the form of the Spirit being poured out. the covenants were called the Everlasting Covenant so they were not abolished they were established and the New is a renewal of the Abrahamic where God alone promises to bring about his promise to Abraham.
Agree with you. A long-winded lecture!
There is forgiveness WITHOUT the shedding of blood. Its called Divine Love!
Divine love has specified "without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness" Hebrews 9:22
“For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.”
1 Peter 1:18-19 HCSB
David was forgiven without sheding of blood so I mean
So you're saying that Paul--the one guy on the planet at that time, who had the entire Torah memorized beFORE going to study with Gamaliel, the preeminent Torah teacher, the Paul that says he was as zealous for God--that God picked Paul to say to the entire world "The law is done away with"? That makes no sense and isn't true. Paul spends his time explaining the Torah to those who had not grown up with it. It's only the "Church" that decided it was something new when they hadn't fully understood the actual Scriptures.
it is a misunderstanding that characterizes Paul as being against the law. NT Wright surely would not make that juvenile characterization. Paul esteemed the law highly and says so often. i think you must be imposing a popular view thinking it is in this video. I assure you it is not.
@Martin Solomon Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. www.oneforisrael.org/
corruption of the old testament and the many type of torah
the masoratic text the original hebrew
the septuagint corruption the many stream of translation we dont know where many of them but just some survived translation
the samaritan torah only 5 book of moses
these three are disagree with each other in many places
quran have no interpolation unlike bible that come in transmission period
return to original text is the very purpose of bible textual criticism which indicate a problem in the journey
its make sense to god resend a new book and then preserve it for real unlike bible and for the whole world bcz the book is preserve to end time
genesis 5:31
septuagint said 753 years for lamech
masoratic said 777 years for lamech
samaritan said 653 years for lamech
Transmission break #1 - Sometime between Moses (approx. 1300 BCE) and King Josiah (approx. 600 BCE)
Transmission break #2 - Sometime between King Josiah (approx. 600 BCE) and Ezra (approx. 400 BCE)
And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.” [Hebrews 1:6]
The above quotation is made by Paul in the New Testament and is citing Deuteronomy 32:43. masoratic doesnt have taht
septuagint translate man in exodus to be 600.000 in numbers whiches being denied by scholars that men in exodus cannot be taht much or even surpass the 100.000
the septuagint miss passage some of jeremiah compare to dead sea scroll
septuagint also have cainan as arphaxad child which not found in earlier manuscript and best manuscript taht used by church father and josephus
32:8 and 32:43. Even though we are comparing the same chapter of Deuteronomy, the texts never completely agree in all verses. Sometimes the DSS agree with the MT over the LXX, as in verse 32:43[ii], and sometimes the DSS agree with the LXX over the MT, as in verse 32:8[iii].
Genesis 16:16, Abraham was 86 years old when Ishmael was born:
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
And according to Genesis 21:5, Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac was born:
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
just talking about text differences not talking about the
inconsistency
factual error
and ethical error in OT and NT
the textual variant
so many that is much more than the text in NT itself why bcz we have so many manuscript but of them from 1000 AD
the most of differences are in spelling but the number of manuscript from 1000 ad are eclipses the the textual variation as if its just spelling, but the variant that was matters important and theologically effective and some of them stay inside the text for centuries and regarded a part of the text until scholars remove it, many scholars only regard the original autography to be innerant not the copy from the transmission bcz we cant deny its many differences interpolation changes and substraction as it happen in torah and NT is as it follow
Throughout the Middle Ages, scribes did not realize just how much different the manuscripts they were copying were from one another. It was not until 1707 that scholars began to realize the enormity of the problem. so the editing to the original words takes time, That was the year that an Oxford scholar named John Mill (no relation to the Victorian John Stuart Mill) published an edition of the New Testament that included a list of places where there were variant readings in the manuscripts.
also important to know that some of these differences are extremely important, affecting how significant passages-or even entire books-are interpreted. Obviously knowing the original text in these places is important: you can’t very well say what the New Testament means if you don’t know what it says! Unfortunately, there are dozens of passages whose original wording scholars debate, and for some passages where we will probably never know. sometimes even there are evenly divided variants so new testament use them both so divided translation have two of this variant
* the longer ending of Mark, see Mark 16 (Mark 16:9-20).400 ad addition approximately
* Jesus sweating blood in Luke, Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44).
* the story in John of the woman taken in adultery, the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). approximately 450 ad addition
* an explicit reference to the Trinity in 1 John, the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7-8). late 4th century addition
vast of kjv verse omitted and is the living proof of bible changes
and corruption interpolation in bible is still inside the bible for centuries until scholars dissected it and choose the right reading so its not perfect since the get go but went through some porblem
quran is here to fix the messed up with previous religion
they dont even agree about which book is in canonical
from uthman quran onward is absolutely preserved precisely
quran better manuscript same as uthman
so after uthman codex and from our book back to uthman codex is fixed quran
kuffa text is soo goood transmission
only three palimcest
quran no interpolation
boring job to be critics of quran
and its fixed text
disappointed critics
all manuscript we have is standard text
and bible is indeed more severe in text
mathew go to galilee
luke and john go to jerusalem
quran said we reveal it in arabic so u may understand and that what the proof said is like what exactly quran said
i feel like even tho quraish is codified the nature of that revelation is still exist beautifully
arabic is basically poetic language amd quran is above them
quran is extreeme precise since uthman nothing like this probably like masoratic because they were jew it’s absolutely beautiful
once strandarize its always like that all manuscript we have is uthmanic
quran is neat they do come from same architype
before uthman already good copy
quran very stable text
no interpolation after uthman
quran established since very beginning get over it no interpolation
Luke 10 is the only place where we find the account of Jesus sending a specific 70 (or 72) disciples to prepare the way before Him. The discrepancies in the number (70 or 72) come from differences found in approximately half of the ancient scrolls used in translation. The texts are nearly evenly divided between the numbers, and scholars do not agree on whether the number should be 70 or 72
earlier manuscript is sometimes have widely attested differences compare to modern bible for example in luke there is cainan as the son of arphaxad instead of selah now this thing was not in earlier manuscripts that used by josephus, eusibius , africanus and other early church father
the interpolation of john the baptist as a mere warner of christ coming and no taht graet significant is christian interpolation to make jesus is more important figure
the earlier manuscript
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
“yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. “
this word is not in earleir manuscript
and in a luke 2:33,43 it said joseph and his mother marveled
but other translation read his father and his mother marvelled
the first reading inkjv is widely attested in majorit greek manuscript amd early latin copies and use by early saint and many manuscript and famous manuscript
but modern translation choose the 2nd one
contradiction in translation usually modern translator render the mistake or contradiction in old testament masoratic or even septuagint so theyreading is new reading which is corrected like
2 Samuel 21:19 the New NET translation also kjv and nkjv
change that Elhanan killed the brother of goliath
but many other translation said elhanan killed goliath the gittite and they follow masoratic amd septuagint
several verses that fake were in bible for centuries until scholars take it out only after found earlier manuscript and compare them so its not pristine in the journey of transmission so taht we could have it without textual criticism which found the original word
you can see your self about inconsistencies
Remember that in the other Gospels, Jesus actually eats the Passover meal with his disciples before his arrest. John’s timing of the story is different - he has Jesus die before the Passover meal is eaten. Why did John’s author alter the story? We find a clue in the Gospel of John when he refers to Jesus as the “Lamb of God”: “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’” [John 1:29]
We can see that in the Gospel of Matthew, Mary Magdalene is presented as having found the tomb empty, but after that she actually encountered Jesus as she was running away from the tomb. In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene is also presented as having found the tomb empty. However, after she flees the tomb she doesn’t encounter Jesus but instead runs to the disciples and tells them that the body of Jesus had been stolen. Now, these two accounts of the resurrection are a contradiction; if Mary Magdalene met Jesus at the tomb, as Matthew says, then why did she report that the body had been stolen, according to John ?
Correction: The Empirical Roman Orthodox Church used a handful of letters (half are proven frauds) to create a theology (AKA belief system).
N.T. Wright is a good scholar and has written valuable works on the Christian religion. However his new perspectives on Paul is way off! And I question his understanding of sin and redemption as the basis for his errors on Paul. The reference to Akiba is one example of this? Akiba, though valiant and courageous never received the God of Israel's Messiah. Therefore he did not receive the heart spoken of in the Prophet Ezekiel and plainly spoken of by our Lord Jesus in John chapter 3. Which means he died in his sin and was never regenerated! The fact that Wright cannot see this proves his misunderstanding of salvation and true conversion? These are serious errors and the kind of problem that follows the new perspective? The Westminster confession other than in its faulty view of Baptism is thoroughly biblical and evangelical. Jews can talk of grace but it is just talk until they receive the Messiah. No unsaved person does good works from a natural heart! The Saints under the old covenant were indeed regenerated the same as they are under the new! The new lays out all the details and provides the reasons that are behind a true and genuine salvation and conversion experience. In Matthew Jesus tells us of multitudes who do good works and think that they have done them in truth and sincerity only to find that they were never saved and that their faith and deeds were done from the flesh and not from the power of the Spirit of God. Devout Jews labor under the same condition. Religion without regeneration is a damning thing. Knowing the difference separates genuine faith from a false deluded faith. Those spoken of in Matthew had a false and carnal faith and were trusting in themselves and their religious zeal and good works. Wright misses this notable distinction and serves as the reason for his errors with respect to Paul and what Paul taught in all of his writings. Paul himself was a devout religionist and thought that he was a good Jew who operated from right motives only to find he was as lost as the devil until he had his conversion experience and became a truly righteous man in Messiah and thus fit to preach the gospel to both Jews and gentiles. Wright and others have evaded this important point because thy do not have the biblical understanding of the depths and deception of mans dead and depraved heart? Truth and error are a fatal combination!
As believers in Jesus Christ we are not condemned or disallowed from thinking and speculating. Predestination. That's an interesting subject mainly because we are not absolutely sure what it is or what it means. But isn't it odd or unusual how we all seem to have particular preferences. Some might be musicians in orchestras. Others might be teachers. Others builders and so on, all because of some aptitude to be able to function much more usefully in one field than another. How did this happen? Could it be that we were predestined to be what we are? If so then why? And how did all that come about? Paul hints that some are predestined to become followers of Jesus Christ. Could it be that we chose before birth or before conception, before entering the womb, that we would be for or against God? And this earthy existence is simply the proving of that decision. For surely God who knows all things doesn't need proof of our loyalty because he knows without the proof. Therefore why are we proving what we are? Is it for our own sake? Is it for the sake of a jury? Why is satan allowed to prove what he is? Surely proof in his case isn't necessary. Could it be that he requires the proof of what he is? As we appreciate with satisfaction the proof, proved to ourselves by ourselves that we are on the LORD'S side, maybe the impenitent need for the sake of justice, proof that the final judgment against them is just, so that they can perish with a recognition that they deserve the judgment met out to them by God. The believers who are few, see the deluding power of the deception of the enemy of Christ, that very powerful delusion, and they also can recognise that the same deluded soul could have been just as deluded before conception if the temptations pre birth were just as great as they are on earth. Maybe before birth we were all tempted to not follow God. However just as satan is here with us before his great destruction. when he becomes ashes under our feet, for he has chosen his path of rebellion, could it be that those too who are against God need the opportunity to prove their guilt so that they may know that they have been judged fairly by God and acknowledge that they are deserving of His judgment involving their own destruction. Interesting subject isn't it.
Mature in their thinking process? Really???? the power of the Holy Spirit is definitely not a part of this program....another one!!! twisted doctrine at hand.....thought of the day....if I live my life with Jesus as my savior and I am correct, then I have lost nothing, but if I live my life as there is no Jesus and I am wrong and there is, then I have lost everything.
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Burying one's head in the ground by requiring PHYSICAL, historical evidence to accept the validity and authenticity of historical events is a sad way to live. If I claimed to have oatmeal for breakfast this morning but had no physical evidence, am I trustworthy enough for someone to accept my word? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, and Paul, for starters, all record that Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be the long-prophesied Messiah who came to bring us real life -- and that life is found IN HIM. What a blessing to not have to trust in only one source!!! The evidence is without a doubt OVERWHELMING that Jesus of Nazareth is fully the God of all creation and simultaneously fully a man who lived life the way we were intended to live!! Hallelujah!!!
Each and every one of us, whether we admit it or not, lives by trust -- whether in ourselves (foolish choice), in another created being, in another created being's notions, or in the Divine Creator himself. It is a choice filled with peril to ignore and/or suppress a nagging conscience that the Creator of all things in the universe has clearly -- by observing the evidence of creation -- designed us for relationship with him and to bear his image in his creation. The idea that our merciful God has included me in his family through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection is a profound truth that allows me to live with deep confidence each day -- confidence that his life at work in and through me is contributing to things that matter now and will matter after my body dies. What an amazing experience and life to be a part of God's kingdom!!!
#183 The Quran 19:36 (Surah Maryam)
The Quran 19:36 (Surah Maryam) Jesus said: “Verily! Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him
+Christopher Hall Child's play is more aptly described as cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Honest reactions to the four Gospels include, 1) accepting them as historical accounts of actual events, people, and places that stir the reader toward understanding Jesus of Nazareth as the Creator of the universe, or 2) accepting them as historical accounts of actual events, people, and places that don't seem to be relevant to the reader at the time of analysis. Critics that describe these documents as myths and the events as impossible because the concept of "supernatural" has no evidence are ignoring the obvious. To observe the universe and all that it contains without admitting that the supernatural was required in CREATING the ELEMENTS/MATTER that comprise the objects in the universe is turning one's head away from the evidence.
+Christopher Hall When someone trusts in himself as the source of truth and authority, faith is just as involved as it is when one chooses to have faith in Jesus of Nazareth because the evidence is as compelling as it is. All men exist day-to-day by faith whether they accept it or not. The issue is who or what each of us trusts.
+Christopher Hall Equivocation is found in copious amounts in every camp.
+Christopher Hall I admit that the God of all creation included us in HIS creation because he wanted to share the love that is part of his wonderful essence. If I am at fault for anything, may his great mercy be demonstrated through me.
34:12 - the scriptures and the Gospel.
I was disappointed in this. I thought this was going to be an academic lecture about Pauline Christianity versus the doctrines that Jesus the historical figure was likely to have produced in his Jewish historical context. Instead, it was just a long sermon.
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Church is divided, and some Jews jump in for curiosity, but the next minute they jump out immediately.
And your point is?
Yes, it does seem that Paul changed the teachings into the start of a whole new religion; a religion that Jesus would not have recognized .
Well according to Luke who wrote the book of Acts, in chapter 19, demonic spirits knew the authority of Jesus and Paul.
Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
This is a bit confusing. If indeed Paul changed the teachings of Jesus then how come his letters are still kept in the Bible?? Jesus was circumcised Paul said no need. Same with pork. So it's a fact that if Jesus come back today he won't recognise christianity as it is practiced and preached.
All i took from this so far is the rugby world cup!!! eleven years on and Australia is still bitter LOL
Jesus had almost nothing to do with the theology about him. It was created by his followers.
***** I haven't read Wright's "Jesus and the Victory of God". However, I am quite sure NONE of the gospel writers actually witnessed Jesus's acts/speeches.
Except that Jesus taught it to them.
***** Nope, the current scholarly consensus that the gospel writers were not eye-witnesses to Jesus' life. They are no-one known to history. Besides that, they are writing religious propaganda, not history.
***** Jesus taught theology to his disciples? At a university,you would be laughed at for saying that.
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It depends on what you mean by theology. By normal Protestant definition what the author of Hebrews calls "the elementary teachings of Christ" (Hebrews 6) namely "repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment" are NOT theology. "Theology" in Protestant terms, and even in Catholic terms, is CHRISTOLOGY. Jesus taught a moral system built around faith in God and ending in judgement based on works. Paul and friends taught christology about Jesus which began as adoptionist (even in Paul) but ultimately ended up as Arian christology (as in Colossians), and Paul in particular ended up bolderizing Jesus' teachings, as the writer in Hebrews 6 says "Therefore let us leave behind the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity" meaning that Paul and the followers of his heresy believed Jesus' own teachings were infantile but their nonsense is mature.
Very simple study Torah
Didn't Jesus Christ give his ministry to his brother James?
It appears the Roman trying to take credit for something was god didn't give them in the first place
Thou shall not steal
Thou shall not lie
The Bible is the authority, it trumps scholarly concensus. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, God-breathed. God can not lie Titus 1:2 . The Bible holds all the answers: Compare scripture with scripture just as the Bible tells us: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line: here a little and there a little" (Isaiah 28:10). The Bible is not one book but 66 books written over a period of 1500 years. The Bible is the authority on the Bible! Jesus himself said in John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, "he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." IITim3:16 "All scripture is "given by inspiration of God", and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 2 Peter 1:21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but "men spoke from God" as they were carried along "by the Holy Spirit." Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in man, the "breath of the Almighty", that makes him understand. 2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, "being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen," in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.
Paul is not inspired.
Thank you for your thought. Some hold to the idea you express, however I don't agree with that. Except where Paul "says" he speaks for himself on certain points for example having to do with marriage (I Cor 7) we know that the Bible says ALL scripture is given by "inspiration" which means "God breathed". So, to say that Paul is not inspired is really quite an amazing conclusion you have drawn. The Apostle Paul was CHOSEN, singled out by God on the Damascus Road. Your ideas are contrary to the truth in the Word of God. That's between you and the Lord, but it has nothing to do with whether Paul was inspired, because the Word says differently than your words.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Peter, it is the authoritative Word of God.
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Its amazing to say Paul is not inspired because Paul says "All scripture is inspired"? Really? First, Paul doesn't say that. A good case can be made that it should be translated not "All scripture is inspired and is profitable..." but "All scripture that is inspired is also profitable..." But be that as it may. Its pretty obvious that when Paul says "All scripture is inspired" he obviously isn't referring to his own writings, but to the Old Testament and the Gospels. How can anyone brainwash themselves into thinking that he's self-referencing here? Only by brainwashing themselves, obviously, but that's just plain absurd.
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As for Acts, Luke accurately records Paul's bogus claims and later embellishments of his conversion story as the lie evolves in Paul's mouth over time. Luke's accurate recording of this information is a confirmation that there is something deeply wrong with Paul, not a confirmation of Paul's story (actually, stories, plural). And one thing to be noted of special significance is that Luke never calls Paul an apostle except in one verse where he's second fiddle to Barnabas "The apostles Barnabas and Paul rent their clothes." In what sense is Barnabas, here given seniority over Paul, an apostle? In the sense that he was sent out by the church at Antioch, an apostle of men, an apostle of a congregation, not of Jesus Christ. Paul lies in Galatians disclaiming that he's an apostle of men in the same sense as Barnabas, saying "Paul, an apostle not of men nor by man but by Jesus Christ," but Luke already exposed him as merely an apostle of men like Barnabas so the gig is up.
Sounds like somebody needs some Dark Matter cartoons!
35:20 what is Paul talking about.
What do you get when you filter Paul out of Christianity?
Islam.
Al Hazen Actually Judaism....Islam came much later. Salaam Akk
More like farther from Islam, Jesus never told his followers to execute people who leave the faith or conquer and tax nonbelievers, but Paul did have better dead list.
Wrong. Just wrong. We see the Divinity of Jesus before Paul's writings.
Why did Paul doubt the gospel he preached?
Paul said that he received his gospel directly from Jesus.
11 For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. Galatians 1:11-12
But when Paul met the Apostles in Jerusalem he had doubts concerning his gospel.
1 Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also. 2 It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. Galatians 2:1-2
Don't you think it is strange that on the one hand, Paul claimed that he received his gospel directly from Jesus. But on the other hand he found it necessary to submit his gospel to the Apostles in private for fear that he had been preaching in vain?
You are begging the question. You assume from the beginning that Paul doubted his gospel, and therefore feared he had run in vain, and therefore submitted it to the Apostles. Would it not be better to ask first what "running in vain" means?
As Wright discusses in this lecture, one of the primary emphases of Paul is the transnational, trans-ethnic, pluriform Church which justification by faith through grace creates. Acts 15 makes clear that the issue at stake was the inclusion of the Gentiles. Paul may not mean that if the other Apostles rejected his gospel then his revelation was wrong, but that it would fracture the Church so as to undo the work at which his gospel was aimed. Evidently, Paul realized the necessity of an apostolic consensus for the kind of unity he was preaching.
Darren Burdett You're ust an Apologist who will make up any story to protect your supernatural BS.
Apostles were no less subject to doubt than anyone else. Its not difficult to believe that the accuser of the brethren used his tactics on Paul so that Paul doubted. It is natural for most Christians to be so overwhelmed by their sin that they may doubt they understand the Gospel.