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<h1><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #0000ff;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul's Contradictions of Jesus</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Here is a list of the major contradictions by Paul of things Jesus taught. Each topic is hyperlinked to where it appears on this page. At the end of each topic, there are navigation links to bring you back to this Table of Contents.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a id="TOC"></a>Hyperlinked Table of Contents: </strong></span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>24 Contradictions</strong></span></h3>
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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; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">• <a href="#idolmeat" target="_blank" title="Jesus Says No to Eating Idol Meat but Paul says OK">Jesus Says Not To Eat Meat Sacrificed to Idols, But Paul Says It Is </a></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="#idolmeat" target="_blank" title="Jesus Says No to Eating Idol Meat but Paul says OK">Ok</a>.</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; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">• <a href="#Lawcontinues" target="_self" title="Jesus says law continues but Paul says no.">Jesus Says The Law Continues, But Paul Says No</a>.</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; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">• <a href="#phariseesarerigorous" target="_self" title="Paul Says Pharisees Rigorously Follow the Law but Jesus says Not So">Paul Says The Pharisees Followed The Law Rigorously, But Jesus </a></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="#phariseesarerigorous" target="_self" title="Paul Says Pharisees Rigorously Follow the Law but Jesus says Not So">Says They Were Lax About The Law</a>.</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; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">• <a href="#salvationbyrepentance" target="_self" title="Jesus says salvation is by repentance and obedience but Paul says it is heresy">Jesus Says Salvation Initiates And Continues By Repentance From </a></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="#salvationbyrepentance" target="_self" title="Jesus says salvation is by repentance and obedience but Paul says it is heresy">Sin and Obedience Besides Faith; Paul Says This is Heresy</a>.</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; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">• <a href="#teachpreascension2" target="_self" title="Jesus says teach his preascension commands but Paul says no">Jesus Tells Apostles To Teach His Commands Given Prior </a></span><a href="#teachpreascension2" target="_self" title="Jesus says teach his preascension commands but Paul says no"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">to His Ascension</span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="#teachpreascension2" target="_self" title="Jesus says teach his preascension commands but Paul says no"> While In The Flesh,</a> But Paul Says Not To Do So.</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; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;"><a href="#eldersentitledtopay" target="_self" title="Paul says elders entitled to pay for preaching and teaching but Jesus says no"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">• Paul Says Elders Are Entitled To Pay for 'Preaching & Teaching,' But </span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Jesus Says No.</span></a></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;"><strong><a id="idolmeat"></a>Jesus Says Not To Eat Meat Sacrificed to Idols, But Paul Says It Is Ok </strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Three times Jesus in the Book of Revelation condemns eating meat sacrificed to idols, even saying this is the doctrine of a false prophet. (Rev.<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%202:6&version=NIV"> 2:6</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%202:14&version=NIV">14</a> (Ephesus); Rev. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%202:14&version=NIV">2:14</a>-15 (Pergamum); Revelation <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%202:20&version=NIV">2:20</a> (Thyatira).)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">This absolute prescription also was set forth in James' ruling at the Jerusalem Council in Acts <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2015:20&version=NIV">15:20</a>. Then it is repeated when it was put in a letter. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2015:29&version=NIV">Acts 15:29</a>.) Finally, James reiterates this for a third and final time in Acts chapter 21. James tells Paul that many claim Paul is teaching lawless doctrine -- "apostasia." (<a href="https://biblehub.com/acts/21-21.htm">Acts 21:21.</a>) So James reminds Paul what was the ruling at the Jerusalem Council. He tells Paul that previously "we wrote giving judgment that they [<em>i.e</em>., the Gentiles] should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols...." (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2021:25&version=NIV">Acts 21:25</a>.) James asks Paul to reassure everyone that Paul believes the Law is still valid by Paul performing the vow from Numbers chapter six. Paul agrees, impliedly leading James to assume Paul never wavered from the principle that it is unlawful to eat meat sacrificed to idols. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">However, Paul clearly teaches multiple times that there is nothing wrong in itself eating meat sacrificed to idols. Paul reasoned that a "strong" conscience knows an idol is nothing. Thus, eating meat sacrificed to nothing can have no consequences. Those who thought otherwise Paul says were "weak" minded in thinking the fact an idol was involved meant eating meat sacrificed to an "idol" made it wrong to do so. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%208:4-13&version=NIV">1 Corinthians 8:4-13</a>, and <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2010:19-29&version=NIV">1 Corinthians 10:19-29</a>. See also <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Romans </span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2014:21&version=NIV" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">14:21</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Why did Paul devote so much time, and take the risk endorsing eating idol meat unless you were in the presence of such a "weak" minded brother?</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Well, idol temples apparently gave such meat away free to anyone who would come to the idol's temple after the sacrifice to sit and enjoy the feast of meats. Such feasts was a primary way the public enjoyed any game-meat. So this was an important teaching by Paul which would attract poor followers to Paul's doctrines. Obviously, others in the church, including the Jerusalem council of the 12 Apostles in Acts 15, had the opposite view. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">The first time Paul addresses the question of "eating meat sacrificed to idols," Paul answers: "But food will not commend us to God; neither if we eat not...." (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor.%208:8-9&version=NIV">1 Cor. 8:8</a>.) Paul then explained it is only necessary to abstain from eating such meat if you are around a "weaker" brother who thinks an idol is something. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor.%208:7&version=NIV">1 Cor. 8:7</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor.%208:10&version=NIV">8:10</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor.%209:22&version=NIV">9:22</a>.) Then, and only then, must you abstain. The reason is that then a brother might be emboldened to do something he thinks is sinful. The brother is "</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">weak," Paul says, for believing eating meat sacrificed to an idol is wrong. This is thus a sin for the "weak" brother to eat, Paul explains, even though you know it is not sinful to eat meat sacrificed to idols. Thus, even though you know better than your weaker brother that it is no sin to eat such meat (1 Cor 10:28-29), it is better to abstain eating at the idol's temple in his presence than cause a "brother" to sin against his weak conscience and become "perished" (lost) / "destroyed." (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor.%208:11&version=NIV">1 Cor. 8:11</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">In saying this, Paul clearly implied it was alright to eat at the idol's temple if no weak-minded brother was around. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">First, in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+8%3A4-12&version=NIV">1 Cor. 8:10</a>, Paul said: </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">For <strong>if any man see <span style="color: #ff0000;">thee</span> which has knowledge <span style="color: #ff0000;">sit at meat in the idol's temple</span></strong>, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols: & through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren and would their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. (KJV). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Please notice that Paul does not condemn going to the idol's temple to eat if no "weak" minded Christian is able to see you doing so. You only decline if the circumstances render it disadvantageous to eat -- when you can be seen by a weak-minded brother eating such meat at the idol's temple, you thereby do harm to the "weak"brother's will-power to not violate his own conscience. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Incidentally, obviously Paul restricted the circumstances when one impliedly could eat such meat at the idol's temple only to a time period after the pagan ceremony was over. At that point, the food now represented, in Paul's explanation that an "idol" is "nothing," just a free meal. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Finally, Paul makes it clear that in the absence of any Christian with a "weak" conscience being in eye-shot, you with a "strong" conscience could eat such meat without any self-reproach. For in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+10%3A28-29&version=KJV">1 Cor. 10:28-29</a> KJV, Paul says:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 60px;">28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29 I am referring to the <strong>other person’s conscience, not yours</strong>. For <strong>why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience? </strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">In Galatians, Paul refers to those claiming to be brethren who were trying to "spy out <strong>our liberty which we have in Christ</strong> that they might <strong>bring us into bondage</strong>." <a href="https://biblehub.com/galatians/2-4.htm">Gal. 2:4</a>. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Luther said Paul meant that those 'spying out our liberty' in Gal. 2:4 were agents of the 12 Apostles. Paul supposedly correctly stood against the 12 due to their concern that Paul should follow at least the Torah laws given at the Jerusalem conference for them (which included not eating idol meat). Paul calls all such Torah laws "bondage" in Galatians. Luther thought Paul justly in this dispute called the 12 of "no repute," and only "seemed to be somewhat," and Paul was right to say their church-positions "made no difference to me," and what they revealed "in <strong>conference</strong> [Acts 15 Jersalem conference on idol meat?] <strong>added nothing to me</strong>." (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gal.+2%3A6&version=NIV">Gal. 2:6</a>.) For more background, see <a href="/topicindex/436-paul-knew-the-12-taught-another-jesus.html">Paul Believed 12 Followed Another Jesus Per Luther</a>. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Obviously, the most burning difference that supposedly justified Paul's ire was this issue about eating meat sacrificed to idols. His followers wanted reassurance they could eat it. Paul knew his adherents would be less inclined to follow Paul if he had to abandon teaching an "idol" is nothing, and instead had to concede that food sacrificed to an idol is "something" more than an issue whether an idol is real or not. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">By contrast, the 12 apostles previously made clear they wanted Gentiles to obey this Law. This was part of the list of starter laws that all Gentiles must obey that was issued at the Jerusalem Conference in Acts 15. Paul was tasked to deliver this ruling to the leadership at the Gentile-dominated church at Antioch, Syria.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">This question indeed was a "major controversy," as <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><em>Wikipedia</em> records: </span><br /></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">A <strong>major controversy</strong> among <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Christians">Early Christians</a> concerned whether it was permissible to eat meat that had been offered in pagan worship, see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Jerusalem" title="Council of Jerusalem">Council of Jerusalem</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, who agreed to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Decree" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Decree">Apostolic Decree</a>, also wrote that<strong><em> it was permitted to do so</em></strong>, as long as a blessing was pronounced over it, and provided that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandal_(theology)" title="Scandal (theology)">scandal</a> was not caused by it. ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry_and_Christianity">Idolatry and Christianity</a>," <em>Wikipedia</em>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Those who favor Paul admit that Paul contradicts Jesus in Revelation where Jesus three times prohibits eating meat sacrificed to idols. However, they believe Apostle John was expressing <strong>hatred</strong> toward Paul, thereby discounting that Jesus validly was speaking. The Christian scholar, Renan, in his famous work <em><strong>Saint Paul</strong> </em>(G.W. Carleton, 1875) at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA220#v=onepage&q&f=false">220 </a>admits all this: </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">The </span><strong style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><em>second and third chapters of the Apocalypse</em></strong><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"> are a <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>cry of hatred against Paul</strong></span> and his friends. This church of Ephesus, which owes so much to Paul, is praised for "not being able to bear with them which are evil; for having tried them, which <em><strong>say they are apostles and are not</strong></em> </span><em style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"> </em><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">for having found them liars; for hating the deeds of the Nicolaitanes," </span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><sup>71</sup></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"> "which I also hate," adds the celestial voice." The church of Smyrna [is told] </span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">I have a few things against thee," says the divine voice to the church of Pergamos, "because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;"><strong><em> Balaam</em></strong></span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; line-height: 21px;">, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, <em><strong>to eat things sacrificed unto idols</strong></em>, and to commit fornication." So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of Nicolaitanes."<sup>70</sup> "I have a few things against thee," says the same voice to the church of Thyatira, "because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel," which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants, to commit fornication, and <strong>to eat things sacrificed unto idols</strong>. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">For more discussion, see Chapter Six of Jesus Words Only, available at this <a href="/topicindex/108-chapter-six-jwo.html">link</a> to an html page. </span></p>
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<h1><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a id="Lawcontinues"></a>Jesus Says The Law Continues, But Paul Says No</strong></span></h1>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>CAVEAT</strong>: The Law given Moses applicable to "foreigners/sojourners" (Gentiles) is a relatively small set of moral commands primarily from Leviticus, incorporating most of the Ten Commandments. So if the Law given Moses applies to Gentiles, it is not a burdensome list. Yet, we are still applying literally the Law, just as James did in Acts 15, by treating the term "foreigner/sojourners" versus "sons of Israel" as literally as possible. This distinction perfectly explains why James in Acts 15 did not extend circumcision to Gentiles to become followers, <em>i.e.</em>, Leviticus <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2012:1-3&version=KJV">12:1-3</a> only requires sons of "Israel" to be circumcised except if a gentile wanted to observe passover or enter the Temple. See this <a href="/topicindex/98-law-applicable-today.html">webpage</a> where we discuss this issue in more depth.</span></p>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>Jesus's View on the Law</strong>. Jesus emphasized the validity of the Law up through the passing away of Heaven and Earth, thus confirming its inspiration and ongoing validity. In Matthew <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:17-19&version=ASV">5:17-19</a> we read:</span></p>
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<p class="Quote" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">(17) Think not that I came to destroy<em><strong> the Law [of Moses] </strong></em>or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. (18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in <strong><em>no wise pass away from the Law</em></strong>, till all things be accomplished [<em>i.e.</em>, all things predicted appear on the stage of history]. (19) Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and<em> <strong>shall teach men so</strong></em><strong>,</strong> shall be called <strong><em>least</em></strong> in the kingdom of heaven: but <strong><em>whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great </em></strong>in the kingdom of heaven. (ASV)</span></p>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"> "It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law." (Luke<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+16&version=NIV" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;"> 16:16</a>-17 NIV.)</span></p>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Thus, Jesus can never be accused of seducing any Christian from following the Law. Jesus cannot be a false prophet under Deuteronomy <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deuteronomy%2013:5&version=KJV">13:5</a> (false prophet is anyone who has miracles and wonders but seduces you from following the Law). Jesus said the Law remained valid until the Heavens and Earth pass away. This passing of heaven and earth occurs at the end of the Millennium. This is 1000 years after Christ's Second Coming, according to the Book of Revelation.</span></p>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul in Romans 10:4 say "For Christ is the <strong>end</strong> of the Law for righteousness for everyone who believes." Paul is blunt the Law has ceased for anyone who follows Jesus in Ephesians 2:15, Colossians 2:14, 2 Cor. 3:11-17, Romans<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rom.%207:13&version=ASV"> 7:1-3</a> et seq, and Galatians 3:19 et seq. The Law is "abolished," "done away with," "nailed to a tree," "has faded away,' and was "only ordained by angels...who are no gods." </span></p>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">If [Jesus] is saying [in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A17&version=NIV">Matt 5:17</a> by saying He fulfilled the Law, and meant] he is the 'end of the Law' [as Paul taught in Romans 10:4], then why does he say in the next verse that the Law will never disappear [until heaven and earth pass away]? ...There is something exasperating about trying to understand a verse like this....What the verse seems to say<strong><em> contradicts what we know from other verses in the New Testament</em></strong>. The truth is <strong><em>we cannot be expected to understand this vers</em></strong>e.</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Paul Says The Pharisees Followed The Law Rigorously, <a id="phariseesarerigorous"></a>But Jesus Says They Were Lax About The Law</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">This contradiction between Paul and Jesus has probably had the most important impact on doctrine. By perceiving the Pharisees through Paul's eyes, we are led to believe Jesus condemned the Pharisees as legalists -- Paul's view. However, Jesus condemned the Pharisees as<em><strong> ANTI-LEGALISTS</strong></em>. Jesus condemned them as teachers abrogating the Law by their man-made ordinances. (Matt. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2015:6,9&version=KJV">15:6</a>). And Jesus condemned them as those who taught the lesser commands of the Law while ignoring the more weightier commands of the Law of justice (right-and-wrong), mercy and faith / obedience (pistis in Greek has a dual meaning). (Matt. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2023:23&version=KJV">23:23</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Hence, a wrong deduction is achieved by using Paul's contradictory perception of the Pharisees. Paul says the Pharisees are<strong><em> legalists</em></strong>; but Jesus says they are <em><strong>anti-legalists</strong></em>. Negators of the Mosaic Law. These are <strong>radically opposite perceptions</strong>. If Paul's view were correct, then Jesus impliedly condemned obedience any longer to the Law by criticizing the Pharisees. However, if Jesus's view of the Pharisees as lax about the Law is correct (and who can deny our Lord's veracity!), then Jesus condemned any teaching that either marginalized the Law or contradicted the Law.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>CAVEAT</strong>: Please note that I have explained that the Law does not have but a relatively modest number of provisions that apply to non-Israelites/sojourners. It has provisions that specifically extend rules to sojourners/non-Israelites who join with the community. When they apply to both, the Law says they are "one" principle that applies to both. It does not say there is "one law" -- all five books -- that applies the same without any distinction between "sons of Israel" and "sojourners." For that would render null the Law's own distinction between the two. Hence, the "one law" verse is taken out of context. See this <a href="/topicindex/98-law-applicable-today.html">webpage</a> where we discuss this issue.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>16</sup>Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though <em><strong>we have known Christ after the flesh</strong></em>, yet now <strong><em>henceforth know we him no more</em></strong>. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%205:16-17&version=KJV">KJV</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">The famous and influential evangelical theologian Rudolf Bultmann said 2 Corinthians 5:16 means we no longer know Christ in the flesh, <em>i.e.</em>, we supposedly can dispense with Jesus's teachings when He was in the flesh. Paul tells us that only the messages Paul received from the resurrected Christ -- who supposedly no longer had flesh -- is the means to know Christ any longer. </span></p>
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<h1 style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus <a id="thirteenth"></a>Teaches There Are Only 12 Apostles Into Eternity, But Paul Adds Himself To The List As a Thirteenth</span></h1>
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<h1 style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Paul <a id="celibacy"></a>Exhorts and Commands Celibacy, But Jesus Clearly Says It is A Choice Not Within Everyone's Power</strong></span></h1>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, <em><strong>one shepherd/pastor</strong></em> (Grk <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>poimen</em></span></strong>) (John 10:16.)</span></p>
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<p class="p3" style="font-weight: bold; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">"But be not ye called Rabbi: for <em>one is your teacher (<span style="color: #ff0000;">didaskolos</span>)</em>, and all ye are brethren...." (Matt. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/23-8.htm">23:8</a>)(ASV)[See <a href="https://biblehub.com/text/matthew/23-8.htm">Greek tab at Biblehub</a>.]</span></p>
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<p class="p3" style="font-weight: bold; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">"Nor are you to be called '<em>teacher</em>', for you have one <em>Teacher </em>(kathegetes - synonym for didaskolos), the Christ." (Matt. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/23-10.htm">23:10</a>, NIV). [See <a href="https://biblehub.com/text/matthew/23-10.htm">Greek tab at Biblehub</a>, translating kathegetes as "instructor."] </span></p>
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<p class="p3" style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Hence, Jesus says there is "one...didaskalos" in Matt 23:8. He underscores two verses later the same point by using a synonym, insisting there is "one teacher" - kathegetes. And Jesus says in John 10:16, there is "one pastor" -- using the Greek word poimen. </span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul in contradiction of Christ says: "And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, <em><strong>some pastors</strong> </em>(shepherds, Greek <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>poimenas</em></span></strong>) and <em><strong>teachers </strong></em><strong>(<span style="color: #ff0000;">didaskolos</span>)</strong>...." (Eph. 4:11.) Paul also describes himself as a "teacher" (didaskalos) to the Gentiles. (<a href="https://biblehub.com/text/2_timothy/1-11.htm">2 Tim. 1:11</a> -Bible Hub Greek tab.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">First, they do so by changing Matt 23:8 from "didaskalos" to "kathegetes." See BlueBible's concordance at this <a href="https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/mat/23/1/t_conc_952008">link</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Second, they then solely translate "kathegetes" as "Master," not as "teacher" or "instructor" even though the latter is Biblehub's sole translation of "kathegetes." See this <a href="https://www.eternalgod.org/q-a-6062/">link</a> (article claiming no contradiction between Paul and Jesus here once we acccept "kathegetes" is supposedly in Matt 23:8, and it allegedly means "Master"). </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">First, if one goes to BibleHub's "Greek parallels" tab, it shows you the major Greek text sources word for word. In six text traditions, we have "didaskalos" while three sources have "kathegetes" in Matt 23:8. See <a href="https://biblehub.com/texts/matthew/23-8.htm">link.</a></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Rabbi....Matthew 23:7, 8 ... <strong>kathegetes</strong>....some manuscripts have it in <strong>verse 8, but the most authentitic have didaskalos</strong>; this is rendered as teacher by Christ of Himself; ... of Nicodemus in Israel [<a href="https://biblehub.com/text/john/3-10.htm">Jn] 3:10 didaskalos</a>].... </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Finally, what does kathegetes truly mean? While it can mean "master," it also means "teacher." Vine says this on page 198 as well. Hence, because a Rabbi was a teacher, not a master, and because Jesus said in verses 7 and 8 do not call yourself a Rabbi, or Didaskalos (teacher), Jesus obviously chose to underscore this by use of a synonymn -- kathegetes -- meaning teacher -- in verse 10. He did not use "kathegetes" to mean "master" -- among its various meanings. </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>Paul says that none is righteous under the law, that obedience to the law justifies no one before God, and that the law was a curse:</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Ro 3:10 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Ro 3:19 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Gal 3:10 - For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>But the Lord Jesus says there were many who were righteous under the law:</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Mt 13:17 - For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Mt 23:3 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Mt 23:29 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>In fact, some of the righteous under the law during the lifetime of both Jesus and Saul were:</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Elizabeth and Zechariah, the parents of John the Baptist: Lu 1:6 - And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Simeon, who waited to see the Messiah: Lu 2:25 - And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Joseph the husband of Mary, and Mary herself who was chosen to be Jesus’ mother: Mt 1:19 - Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example,was minded to put her away privily.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">John the Baptist: Mr 6:20 - For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new r
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Treating someone as a tax collector thus meant treating them differently but did not mean to not eat with them. This likely meant not to give them the special greeting of shalom (God's peace) or visiting them in their home. Why do I suggest that? Because John speaks in his epistle that we should not take certain heretics into our home or give them such a greeting. Jesus' instructions to treat someone as a "sinner" thus does not necessarily mean not eating with them. In light of Jesus' practice of eating with sinners who were part of "my sheep" previously, we should not construe it to prohibit eating with sinning Christians as a means of bringing back a "lost sheep" that once were obedient followers of Jesus. </span></p>
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<p class="BodyAfterHead" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: medium; color: #000000; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Another important example is that most evangelicals believe Paul teaches we are eternally secure if we simply believe one time (Romans 8:1; 10:9; Eph. 2:8-9.) Calvinists similarly say salvation can never be lost due to predestination. (Phil. 1:6; Eph. 1:5,13-14; 2 Tim. 1:12; Rom. 8:29.) </span></p>
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<p class="Body-after-header" style="text-indent: 36pt; margin: 0pt; font-size: medium; color: #000000; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span>However, Jesus is repeatedly warning Christians to feel insecure about their salvation when sinning. All the ‘weeping and gnashing’ parables fit in this category. All the non-parabolic statements about hell fire for misbehavior by “anyone” fit in the same category. “Every tree that lacks good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire.” (Mat.7:19.) “Anyone who says ‘Fool’ is in danger of hell-fire” (Matt. 5:22), etc. Indeed, Paul’s teachings above directly undermine the Lord’s most extreme hyperbole -- repeated three different times. Jesus addresses the apostles as “you”--and says “you” (including "believers in me") have a choice: you can go to hell whole or heaven maimed. Jesus then explains that entry into heaven is dependent on you bravely cutting off body-parts ensnaring you in sin. (Mark 9:42-47; Matt.5:29-30; 18:6-9.) Jesus means to cut off the temptation and lust for fleshly sins causing "you" -- the apostles in context -- to sin.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul says: "Even as I please all <em>men</em> in all <em>things</em>, not seeking mine own profit, but the <em>profit</em> of many, that they may be saved."<a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/10-33.htm"> 1 Cor. 10:33</a> (KJV)</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">'Woe to you when <em><strong>all men shall speak well of you</strong></em> -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets." (<a href="http://bible.cc/luke/6-26.htm">Luke 6:26</a> YLT)</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>10 </sup>Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or<em><strong> am I trying to please people? </strong></em><em></em><em><strong>If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ</strong></em>. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+1%3A10&version=NIV">Gal. 1:10</a> NIV)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">However, Paul says by faith in Christ we are "justified of all things <strong><em>one could not be justified under the Law of Moses</em></strong>." <strong style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;"> </strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+13%3A39&version=KJV" style="color: #517291; outline: none; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Acts 13:39</a>. Paul's words on this change in principles necessarily only can apply as a change to the consequences of blasphemy in Exodus 20:7. There is no doubt on Paul's view. Paul cites himself as an example of a blasphemer who received "mercy." (<a href="http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/1-13.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">1 Tim 1:13 NIV</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Jesus showed Thomas his nail holes. Jesus had flesh before He ascended. Jesus the Man inherited life eternal, and gave us the right by obeying him to become "sons of God" too, with the same privilege of resurrection. Jesus promised those who keep listening / following that He will resurrect our bodies on the last day -- while our spirits go immediately to heaven upon death. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul in 1 Tim. 5:18 makes a similar paraphrase of Deuteronomy that Jesus made -- a "worker is worthy of his wage." Paul then applies it opposite from how Jesus applied the passage. For in Matthew 10:10, Jesus is telling the apostles that they may not ask for money from those to whom they preach or teach. However, they could support themselves under the Law of hospitality, where you could be hosted in a worthy person’s home, and do chores of the household, and get room and board, and if you did more than your share, you could receive a wage from the host-family. Jesus then said the “worker is worthy of his wage,” intending obviously to refer to a non-preaching non-teaching compensation as a boarder which the Law sanctioned. However, Paul applied this same verse - "a worker is worthy of his wage" -- directly to prove the duty of congregants to pay Paul for preaching and teaching them. See <a href="/topicindex/670-matthew-10-10-and-the-law-of-hospitality.html">Matthew 10:10 and the Law of Hospitality.</a></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">"I will <strong><em>not justify the ungodly</em></strong>." (Exodus <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2023:7&version=KJV">23:7</a>, KJV, ASV.)</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">"He that <strong><em>justifieth the ungodly</em></strong> ...[is] <strong><em>an abomination</em></strong> to Yahweh." (Proverbs <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%2017:15&version=KJV">17:15</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on <em><strong>him that justifieth the ungodly</strong></em>, his faith is counted for righteousness." (Romans <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%204:4-5&version=KJV">4:5</a>, KJV.)</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">(Paul in context is relying upon a mistranslation of Genesis 15:6 from 257 BC in the Septuagint Greek translation. <a href="/topicindex/169-chapter-26-7jwo-genesis-156.html">Link</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">In context, all mainstream scholars concur Paul means God justified Abraham before Abraham repented of unrighteousness. Unlike Exodus and Proverbs quoted above, Paul in Romans 4:3-6 intends us to understand that by faith alone, <em>i.e.</em>, believing God, as did Abraham which was that he would have a child through Sarah in his old age [Gen. 15:5-6], while we are ungodly, we are supposedly justified. This is why all mainstream scholars say Paul taught justification <strong><em>without repentance from sin</em></strong>, but based upon faith alone.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>14</sup>Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if<em><strong> he turn from his sin</strong></em>, and <strong><em>do that which is lawful and right</em></strong>;</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>16</sup>None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. (Ezekiel <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel%2033:14-16&version=KJV">33:14-16</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">While in prison, Paul met a runaway slave, Onesimus, the property of a Christian -- presumably <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philemon+1&version=YLT">Philemon</a>. Paul sent the slave back to his owner. This action is forbidden in Deuteronomy 23:15-16:</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Paul in the same passage that he says Jesus is a created being -- "the first-born of creation" -- says Jesus is an "image of God." (Col. 2:15.) This is a violation of the first commandment which prohibits using a creature (as Paul viewed Jesus) as an image of God. See our <a href="/topicindex/322-paul-claims-jesus-is-the-image-of-god.html"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">webpage article</span></a>. This also contradicts Paul's own condemnation of those who exchange God for the "image of corruptible man" in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+1%3A23&version=KJV">Romans 1:23</a>: "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man...." </span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">As one Nigerian pastor puts it: "This is a most bizarre </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>2 </sup>Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+6%3A2&version=NIV">Gal 6:2</a> NIV)</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">A core-leader of a church in Southern California recently came to our small group meeting and used this contradiction as proof that the church is free NOT to help a poor person financially in a health emergency. </span></h3>
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<h1 style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Links to Other Websites:</span></strong></span></h1>
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<p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"<a href="http://www.voiceofjesus.org/paulvsjesus.html">Paul Contradicts Jesus</a>" (Voice of Jesus)</span></p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"<a href="http://www.jesusfamilies.org/wwbelieve/paul.htm">Are Paul's Writings Faultless</a>" (Jesus Families) [good presentation of quotes that Paul wanted believers to submit to himself, not Jesus as Lord, etc.]</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">As you know, the Psalmist prophesied not one bone of Jesus' would be broken, which the Gospel of John mentions was fulfilled when the soldiers decided not to break Jesus' legs. See <a href="http://bible.cc/john/19-36.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">John 19:36</a> ("These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "<em><strong>Not one of his bones will be broken,</strong></em>") </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">But Paul in the King James version of 1 Cor. 11:24 says to the contrary that Jesus claimed His body was to be "broken," and in doing so, Paul would appear to materially misquote Jesus' communion words from Matthew <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+26%3A26-27&version=NIV" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">26:26</a> and Luke <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+22%3A19&version=NIV">22:19</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">However, many translations do not have "broken." See Biblios <a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/11-24.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">1 Cor. 11:24</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">So the following translations only say "my body is for you" -- NIV, NLT, ESV, NASB, ISV, God's Word, Darby. There are some variants that support this, which I will discuss in a moment. But what is <em><strong>most interesting to see is how Paulinists of the past</strong> </em>who are believers in the Textus Receptus upon which the KJV is based, <em><strong>explained away the contradiction</strong></em>. They were apparently unaware that any textual variant offered an escape. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">And when he had given thanks - See the note on </span><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/26-26.htm" style="color: #0092f2; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;">Matthew 26:26</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">. Matthew reads it, "and blessed it." The words used here are, however, substantially the same as there; and this fact shows that<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"> since this was communicated to Paul "directly" by the Saviour</span>, and<em><strong> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">in a manner distinct from that by which Matthew learned the mode of the institution, the Saviour designed that the exact form of the words should be used in its observance</span></strong></em>, and should thus be constantly borne in mind by his people. (See "Barnes' Notes on the Bible at Biblios on<a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/11-24.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;"> 1 Cor. 11:24.</a>)</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">and ye may not call [any] your father on the earth, for<strong><em> one is your Fathe</em></strong><strong><em>r</em></strong>, who is in the heavens, (Matt. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2023:9&version=YLT" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">23:9</a> YLT)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have<strong><em> only one spiritual father</em></strong>. For <em><strong>I became your father</strong></em> in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you. (<a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/4-15.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">1 Cor. 4:15</a>, NLT) Cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/multi/1_corinthians/4-15.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">Weymouth, World English, God's Word, ISV, Holman, NAS, ESV, NIV</a> (all "your father").</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">But if you look at the Greek, it solely says "I have begotten thee" through the gospel. Paul in no Greek version of this text says "I became your father...." Take a look at the Greek text tab at <a href="http://biblehub.com/text/1_corinthians/4-15.htm">Bible Hub for this passage</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">A correspondent wrote me, saying the NIV "I became your father" was supposedly based upon a corrupt Westcott Hort Greek compiled text. However, my correspondent was assuming Westcott had such Greek, but Bible Hub which shows the Westcott Hort text proves this was not true. Instead the NIV and all the translations listed above improperly added something - "I became<em><strong> your father</strong></em>...." It truly was "I have begotten thee...."</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">The KJV has this right:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fdfeff;" data-mce-mark="1">For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet </span><em style="color: #001320; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fdfeff;">have ye</em><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fdfeff;" data-mce-mark="1"> not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus<em><strong> I have begotten you</strong> </em>through the gospel. <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/4-15.htm">KJV</a>.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Now perhaps a role of 'father' was implied, but since it is not expressed, and would contradict Christ if expressed, we should not translate a text by adding words not present. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">It seems that modern ethics about translation are so low that one must verify the text against the original Greek when one least suspects that is a concern. Hence, this is not a true contradiction between Jesus and Paul. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">I had this as a contradiction before my correspondent challenged the conflict. Even though he was assuming incorrectly that it was due to a competing variant in the Westcott Hort Greek compilation, it still opened up the issue which proves the "father" in 1 Cor. 4:15 was simply an excessively loose translation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Incidentally, Jesus' likely primary point about "call no man father" was He intended that people stop venerating Abraham, calling him "Father Abraham" in place of "Our Father" in heaven. Jesus makes this subtle point in a parable about one in hell who called out to "Father Abraham" in a prayer rather than to God Himself. (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/16-24.htm" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">Luke 16:24</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">.) </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">In that light, then it is significant Paul violates Jesus' words when Paul refers to "Abraham is the father of us all." (</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%204:16&version=ASV" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline;">Romans 4:16</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">.) Only "Our Father" in heaven is the "father of us all." </span></span></p>
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