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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 7pt; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+7%3A15%2C+21-23&version=KJV" style="color: #517291;">(Matt 7:15, 212-23 KJV.)</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Thus, the upcoming review of the commendation issue is central to unravel to whom Paul was aiming his "super apostles" and "false apostles" charge. These are obviously the same whom Paul says they preach a "different Jesus" and gospel than Paul taught. The commendation issue is the thread which emerges to clearly point at the actual 12 apostles at all times as the opponents of Paul as apostle and evangelist. These facts are clearly reflected in Paul's own letters.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Incidentally, when one reads Luke's Acts as a legal brief to get Paul and Christianity off the hook at an upcoming trial of Paul before Caesar Nero at Rome (see <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/735-luke-wrote-gospel-acts-for-investigator-to-help-paul-in-trial.html" style="color: #517291;">link</a>), one will realize why Luke does not mention this religious disagreement more than what we hear in Acts 21:21 between the leadership and Paul. If the split already happened by the time of the end of Acts, unity was key to keeping Rome from outlawing Christianity as a rebel faction that might aim to undermine Roman law. We discuss elsewhere the limited purpose of the Book of Acts. These facts are likewise generally ignored for the same reason the Ebionite story is ignored. See <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/735-luke-wrote-gospel-acts-for-investigator-to-help-paul-in-trial.html" style="color: #517291;">Luke wrote Gospel-Acts for an Investigator on Paul's Upcoming Trial</a>, and <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/465-luke-is-a-legitimate-gospel-history.html" style="color: #517291;">Luke's Gospel is a Non-Pauline Gospel</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Luther and many pro-Paul scholars admit Paul's Epistle to the Galatians reflects (1) Paul's putting down the leading apostles, intending us to understand they are "false apostles" who teach "another Jesus" than Paul (see <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/436-paul-knew-the-12-taught-another-jesus.html" style="color: #517291;">Paul Knew the 12 Taught Another Jesus</a>); and (2) the 12 apostles had refused to give Paul a commendation in writing as Paul had hoped.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">As to proof of #2, see Jason File, Letters of Recommendation in Early Church (2006) at <a href="https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/79407z386" style="color: #517291;">pages 70-72 </a>of PDF (refuting contrary views.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Also as proof of #2, see our article <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/component/content/article/1-jwo/342-eisenman-on-paul.html" style="color: #517291;">Eisenman on Paul</a> (detailing proofs that Paul did not receive apostolic letters of recommendation, based upon 2 Cor. 10:9-18; 2 and 1 Cor. 9:1-2 when read together with 2 Cor. 11:13-15 and 2 Cor. 3:1.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Paul thus himself impliedly admits the 12 rejected supporting Paul's authority in the true church which Paul hoped to receive by a written commendation - a key element to be accepted in that era as a representative of a social group. Otherwise, the Christians at Corinth whom are tied to the 12 at Jerusalem should reject Paul.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">This conflict boiled over in Paul writing that he did not need anyone else's commendation for he "commends" himself "in every way," by "great endurance,...hard work," and "through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report, genuine, yet <strong>regarded</strong> as <strong>impostors</strong>." (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+6&version=NIV" style="color: #517291;">2 Cor. 6:3-6 </a>NIV.)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Hence, the refusal by the 12 to commend Paul was evidently because they regarded Paul as an impostor apostle.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;">Professor Dunn alludes to and cites these passages, and says they reflect the earliest Jerusalem Church's view. Yet, Professor Dunn does not mention that this aligns perfectly with the earliest canon as Metzger describes the early church's first approach -- only Jesus' words were canon besides the Law & Prophets. Here is Professor Dunn on the issue: </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 18.6648px; text-indent: 48px;">“The most direct heirs of the Jewish-Christian group­ings within earliest Christianity [<em>i.e.</em>, the early Jerusalem church]<strong><em> </em>regarded Paul as the great apostate</strong>, an arch enemy,” citing <em>Epistula Petri</em> 2.3; <em>Clem. Hom</em>. 17:18-19. (</span><span style="line-height: 18.6648px; text-indent: 48px;">James D. G.<strong> Dunn, The Cambridge Companion to St. Paul</strong> </span><em style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6364px; line-height: 18.6648px; text-indent: 48px;"></em><span style="line-height: 18.6648px; text-indent: 48px;">(Cambridge University Press, 2003) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TNXPGiKx-mkC&lpg=PA271&vq=apostate&pg=PA2#v=snippet&q=apostate&f=false" style="color: #517291;">2</a>.)</span> </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In concurrence, the Berlin pastor-scholar, Herman Detering, explains that the Clementine Homilies were re-written by Catholic authorities to change Paul's name to Simon Magus in passages that would embarass Paul. For this reason and because Rufinus apparently destroyed the much earlier original Greek texts, some scholars insist upon calling it the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. However, with this minor correction - revising Simon Magus back to Paul in several passages -- we can readily restore the authentic early text that Rufinus was not willing entirely to destroy.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">How did Detering conclude this alteration was made from Paul to Simon Magus? Why do all other scholars on the Clementines concur?</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The transmitter of the Clementine Homilies was Rufinus who made a Latin translation. "Only the Latin translation was preserved." (See <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sacred_Writings_of_Pseudo_Clementine/lhiQtsqPf8MC?hl=en&gbpv=0">link</a>.) Thus, by Detering referring to Rufinus, we know Rufinus admitted elsewhere that it was his duty to change anything that was unacceptable heresy in his era of the 300s and early 400s into something neutralized or altered even though an earlier orthodoxy had a different view. He confessed this in his translation of Origen's works from the 200s. Rufinus said he found "stumbling blocks" in the original Greek of Origen, so in his translation to Latin (while destroying the Greek copies), Rufinus explains he "smoothed" and corrected them in translation, that a Latin reader would "meet with <strong>nothing</strong> which could appear <strong>discordant</strong> with <strong>our belief</strong>." (Origen, de Principiis, "Prologue of Rufinus,"" Ante-Nicene Fathers (1905), vol. 4 at <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Ante_Nicene_fathers/ne1YAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=smoothed%20and%20corrected%20prologue%20of%20rufinus&pg=PA237&printsec=frontcover&bsq=smoothed%20and%20corrected%20prologue%20of%20rufinus" style="color: #517291;">237</a>.) For more on Detering's analysis, see our </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Thus, the first generation after the apostles quoted Peter to prove Paul was an apostate and also rejector of the teachings of the true Jesus. The first generation was circulating materials quoting Peter to this effect. This directly ties back to Acts 21:21 where James says that he has been informed that Paul is guilty of "apostasy" -- the seduction of a false prophet criminalized in Deut 13:1-5. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But the true teachings of Paul did not apparently get resolved by the end of Acts. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">As mentioned before, in Acts 21, James gives Paul a test to perform to prove to James and everyone else that Paul does not renounce the Law's ongoing validity. Paul complies. James is assuaged for a time. However, we all know from Paul's epistles that Paul's true heart on the issue was precisely in accepting <strong>the apostasy law was just as much abrogated as all the law.</strong> He could renounce it and believe (supposedly) he was not a false prophet. Paul was afraid, obviously, to declare this openly to the Jerusalem church, but clearly they found out later. This explains the passages just quoted from the Clementine Homilies as well as the Ebionite ruling to exclude Paul from even being read, as a false apostate.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Another concern of theirs was no doubt over Jesus' status as "sole pastor." Jesus said this about Himself in <a href="https://biblehub.com/john/10-16.htm">John 10:16</a> (G. poimen - pastor.) Jesus in turn was quoting <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+37%3A24&version=YLT">Ezekiel 37:24</a>. This is a prophecy of the future David "<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+37%3A24&version=OJB">Messiah</a>" who would be humanity's "sole pastor" aka "sole shepherd." </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, Peter's remark in the Clementines that the apostles serve no role other than as messengers of Jesus' quotes means this did not permit using a letter of anyone, including from themselves, as an authority when the letter has no quotation of Jesus at all. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">None of Paul's epistles even once quote a revelation from Jesus except 2 Cor. 12:7 - a horrible attribution by Paul to the "Lord" -- evidently Jesus. Paul-fan-scholars reject these quotes are truly from Jesus which Paul attributes to the "Lord" -- evidently Jesus. For Paul claims our Jesus supposedly told him he would not free Paul from oppression by an "Angel of Satan" despite Paul praying three times for release. "How could this be so?!" Even Paul defenders agree it cannot be. See <a href="/recommendedreading/721-paul-never-served-the-role-of-a-messenger-of-jesus.html">Paul Never Served as a Messenger of Jesus' Words</a>. Or, as I would say, Paul's "Lord" cannot be the true Lord Jesus, that is, Paul was a dupe.</span></span></p>
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