Originally Posted by Hastings
I avoid Paul's epistles. As 2nd Peter advises, Paul is hard to understand and people use his words to their own destruction.
So you avoid sections of the Bible that don't fit into your narrative?

Paul wrote the bulk of what orthodox Christianity uses for doctrine and you ignore it? Have you ever read Romans what what Paul says about the state of sinful humanity and about the grace of God that saves us?

I'd be very careful about what I discounted in the Word, esp the NT.