[quote= Hastings]It was the Roman church masquerading as Christian that disowned the Jews, not God, not Jesus.
So, once again you call Jesus a fool for tagging Paul to be his emissary to the Gentiles. You say that Jesus made a mistake because Paul would be a heretic. You don't seem to know that Jesus is omniscient, all knowing. He knew from the beginning exactly what Paul would do and say. Jesus was apparently too dumb to know that Paul wasn't really the best man to carry his message to us. You have to invent all this crap to convince yourself that Jesus made a mistake. Jesus told Ananias that he would teach Paul how much he would have to suffer for Jesus' name. He's still suffering today because people like you still reject his message that he got directly from the Holy Spirit.
"[/quote= Hastings/]Mighty strange that Jesus publicly called the others and publicly vouched for them but he met Paul out in the desert and gave him an appointment without telling the rest of the apostles about it. And to boot the rest of the apostles figured him out as did the Asian churches and kicked him out. Reckon they were all wrong?
Think about it, Paul had to leave under heavy guard and he himself (if it wasn't forged) said in a letter to Timothy that all the Asian churches had turned away from him. The Revelation of Jesus Christ has some specific messages to the Asian churches but not once does he scold them for forsaking Paul. As a matter of fact he commended the church at Ephesus.
No amount of scripture twisting can change Jesus' words that Paul was his specially chosen man. Period. Yes, some of the churches turned away from Paul but that was Satan's work. Paul wrote his letters that have come down to us via the Holy Spirit to be the foundation of Gentile Christianity. To fight against that is to fight against the work of the Holy Spirit.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
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