Isn’t that a quote of Paul in a letter to the Romans?
Man, fuck Paul.
From my perspective, he’s the one who helped destroy Christ’s message while claiming to preach it all over.
This IS the guy who was a rich dude named Saul who magically converted after going blind when he supposedly heard the voice of Jesus then spent his whole life shaping the religion of Christ to himself and his own views after the Resurrection when Jesus was conveniently absent and unable to gainsay him.
Over half of the books of the New Testament are by this dude. Over half. Granted some of those are in dispute but wtf.
And most of those books are about Paul going around preaching and what he thought about issues.
'Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from man, but directly by “the revelation of Jesus Christ” ’
Brother hadn’t even heard the good word, it seems.
Sorry for the mini rant, I just cannot fucking stand Paul the more I have read.
To be fair to Paul, he didn’t consciously write the Bible, he just wrote to other churches and gave personal advice. What you’ve read from him is likely an English translation, which have historically been more than happy to bake sexism and homophobia in where it isn’t necessarily present in his original writing.
What pisses me off with stuff like this video, is pulling verses out like it’s some gotcha implying that this church just didn’t read that bit and has no answer to it. I wonder how she’d respond if to having 1 Corinthians 11:5 shouted at her in her church.
I sympathize with that position but the letters of Paul are still important because they are the oldest Christian writings we have. All gospels were written later based on the various oral traditions that had been passed down.
Paul was neither a disciple nor in charge of the church, but he was the only one whose writings survived to this day.
As such, even though the letters of Paul are arguably the least authoritative books in the New Testament, they are the most authentic.
I would strongly NOT recommend treating Paul’s opinions as guidelines for how to live your life, but they still provide valuable insight into the character of the early church.
Isn’t that a quote of Paul in a letter to the Romans?
Man, fuck Paul.
From my perspective, he’s the one who helped destroy Christ’s message while claiming to preach it all over.
This IS the guy who was a rich dude named Saul who magically converted after going blind when he supposedly heard the voice of Jesus then spent his whole life shaping the religion of Christ to himself and his own views after the Resurrection when Jesus was conveniently absent and unable to gainsay him.
Over half of the books of the New Testament are by this dude. Over half. Granted some of those are in dispute but wtf.
And most of those books are about Paul going around preaching and what he thought about issues.
'Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from man, but directly by “the revelation of Jesus Christ” ’
Brother hadn’t even heard the good word, it seems.
Sorry for the mini rant, I just cannot fucking stand Paul the more I have read.
To be fair to Paul, he didn’t consciously write the Bible, he just wrote to other churches and gave personal advice. What you’ve read from him is likely an English translation, which have historically been more than happy to bake sexism and homophobia in where it isn’t necessarily present in his original writing.
What pisses me off with stuff like this video, is pulling verses out like it’s some gotcha implying that this church just didn’t read that bit and has no answer to it. I wonder how she’d respond if to having 1 Corinthians 11:5 shouted at her in her church.
I sympathize with that position but the letters of Paul are still important because they are the oldest Christian writings we have. All gospels were written later based on the various oral traditions that had been passed down.
Paul was neither a disciple nor in charge of the church, but he was the only one whose writings survived to this day.
As such, even though the letters of Paul are arguably the least authoritative books in the New Testament, they are the most authentic.
I would strongly NOT recommend treating Paul’s opinions as guidelines for how to live your life, but they still provide valuable insight into the character of the early church.