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Does Jesus Share Salvation Doctrine with Paul?
Conclusion
The Parable of the Sower is an amazing nugget of Jesus' doctrine. For here is the whole true gospel of salvation from Jesus' lips. It is all contained in a very unassuming Parable of the Sower. Jesus tells you how to be saved and what is necessary to complete your salvation. Jesus tells you also how to be lost even after you have faith and accepted His word with joy and experience initial growth ("sprouted").
Accordingly, the Parable of the Sower puts an end to the salvation by faith alone idea. It puts an end to the idea that producing fruit is not essential. It shows the folly of thinking you can get to heaven having believed and withered, or having grown significantly and then having been choked, never bringing your works to completion.
Thus Jesus in this parable shows the error of Paul's starkly different doctrine. If you read Paul, it is all over once the seed is successfully sown , no matter what happens next. Paul's main salvation verses at odds with this Parable of the Sower are well-known:
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(Rom. 3:28) ("man is justified by faith apart from observing the law").
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(Rom. 4:5) ("To the man who does not work, but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness").
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(Gal. 5:4) ("You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace").
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(Rom. 7:6) ("Now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in a new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code").
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(Gal. 2:16) ("A man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, because by observing the law no one will be justified").
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(Eph. 2:8-9) ("For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith, this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.")
Paul has a different voice than our Lord Jesus. Paul's themes are alien to Jesus's message of salvation. They undercut, if not destroy, the message of Jesus. The true sheep of Jesus recognize His voice, and will not follow another. (John 10:27-29). Who are you following?
Thus, how many times must Jesus make the same points about repentance from sin and productivity at odds with Paul's different message before we will listen? If we think the Parable of the Sower is some distorted addition to Scripture, then think again. It appears in all three Synoptic gospels. (Matt. 13:3 et seq\ Luke 8:5 et seq\ (Mark 4:3) etseq.) There is no lineage of any early manuscript that ever omitted it. You have to deal with Jesus' Words alone versus Paul's different message.
The fact we cannot find Paul's gospel in Jesus' words brings us back to the fundamental questions presented in this book:
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When will we finally make a commitment to keeping Jesus' words only?
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What is our Biblical justification for adding Paul to Scripture?
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What fulfilled prophecy did Paul give?
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Even if Paul gave a valid prophecy, does Paul seek to seduce us from following the Law and thus is disqualified from being added to Scripture by virtue of the Law's strict disqualification rule in (Deut. 4:2) and 13:1-5 and (Isa. 8:20)?