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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="background: white;">Did Paul Attempt a Bribe of the Jerusalem Church?</span></strong></span></p>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A Paul defender released a non-fiction movie </span></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">entitled <strong>A</strong> <strong>Polite</strong> <strong>Bribe</strong> in 2013. This title puts </span></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">a nice face on Paul's action mentioned in 1 </span></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Corinthians 16, calling it a "polite bribe." The </span></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">But first, let's review the point of this movie <strong>A</strong> <strong>Polite</strong> <strong>Bribe</strong>. </span></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Remarkably, and without any basis in fact, the movie claims James asking Paul in Acts 21 to prove Paul has not rejected the Law by Paul taking a Nazarite vow, and paying the costs of several other individuals to do so too, was a means of accepting Paul's bribe. However, that is pure conjecture, as we will demonstrate.</span></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The movie's purpose was to smear Bishop James for supposedly accepting Paul's bribe and then allegedly using the Nazarite vow request in Acts 21 to set up Paul for a physical attack by Jews at the Temple. The Romans stepped in to protect Paul as a Roman citizen, supposedly foiling James' initial plan to have Paul killed by the mob.&nbsp;</span></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0in; width: 6.109in;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Yet, in the end, James allegedly succeeded by Nero's execution of Paul at the ensuing trial of Paul for his alleged responsibility that his companion from Ephesus -- Trophimus -- defiled the Temple at Jerusalem by means of entry in an uncircumcised state. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Now let's review the issue whether Paul was attempting a bribe in 1 Corinthians 16 as conceded in this very Paul-friendly movie.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 18pt;">Did Paul</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 18pt;"> Attem</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 18pt;">pt</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 18pt;"> a Bribe?</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p>
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<div style="color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Paul made a play to the Corinthians -- Gentiles -- to make a collection that Paul intends to include a cover letter to the church at Jerusalem. This means the collection from Gentiles would be brought to the Jerusalem church with a letter from Paul. Yet, Paul himself would not be present. This is in 1 Cor. 16:2-3.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's break this down, and analyze the import of </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul's plan of action.</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; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul in 1 Cor. 16:2 asks the people to set aside some </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of their income for him when he comes. He calls this </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a collection. It would be for the Jerusalem church.</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;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">Then in 1 Cor. 16:3 Paul asks them to wait so he can </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">arrive to include a cover letter for the Jerusalem </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">church. He writes: "Then on my arrival, I will send </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">letters with those you recommend to carry <strong>your</strong> <strong>gift</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"> to Jerusalem." (See&nbsp;</span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/16-3.htm"><span style="background: white;">link</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">.) </span></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;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This quote means (a) Paul is not accompanying the</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> gift to Jerusalem because otherwise the letter itself</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> would be unnecessary; and (b) had Paul not included</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> the letter, the Jerusalem church would not necessarily </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">have known Paul had any responsibility for the gift.</span> </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;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hence, Paul clearly wanted credit for the giving of this</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> collection by the Corinthians. In a sense, Paul wanted </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to prove he was a money-maker to the Jerusalem </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">church.</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; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, Paul is trying once more to gain favor with the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Jerusalem church but in this case by means of </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">money. The purpose is obvious.</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; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Accordingly, Paul's involvement turned a gift from the </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Corinthians into a bribe from Paul. While there is a </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">fine line between a gift and a bribe, </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Paul clearly </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">crossed it. He did not need to include any letter at all. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Corinthians intended a gift. Paul intended to </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">obtain favor with the Jerusalem church -- something </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">he complained frequently elsewhere he did not </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">receive. See&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="/recommendedreading/744-twelve-apostles-refuse-to-commend-paul.html">The 12 Apostles Refuse to Commend </a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="/recommendedreading/744-twelve-apostles-refuse-to-commend-paul.html">Paul.</a>&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/744-twelve-apostles-refuse-to-commend-paul.html"><br /></a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">The Bible talks negatively of what Paul was doing. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">The&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">Internatonal Standard Bible&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">Encyclopedia</span><span style="background: white;"></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">(1979) vol. 2 at <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_International_Standard_Bible_Encyclo/yklDk6Vv0l4C?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=corinthians+fine+line+between+bribery+and+gift&amp;pg=PA466&amp;printsec=frontcover">477 </a>explains:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">[T]he giving of gifts among people often followed a </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">lower standard, so that what is described as a 'gift' </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">in OT passages may be&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">indistinguishable</span><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;from a </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">'</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">bribe</span><span style="background: white;">' or '</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">payoff</span><span style="background: white;">.' Proverbs 18:16 indicates the&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">fine&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">line</span><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;between gift and bribe, and the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">selfish&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">abuse</span><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;of giving: 'A man's gift makes room for him </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">and brings him before great men.' The numerous </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">injunctions in the OT against the taking of bribes </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">suggests that such abuse was well-known. (Ex. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">23:8.) In Sirach, the sage suggests "a word is </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">better than a gift."</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So how did the apostles at Jerusalem view such gifts</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> being sent directly to themselves from Gentiles rather</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> than put in the poor box at the Temple anonymously?</span> </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; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the clear answer. Apostle John commended </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">preachers who refused to take money from Gentiles,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> obviously viewing such money as bribes to preach </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">doctrine the Gentiles would like:&nbsp;</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; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">Because that for his name's sake they went forth,</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #494a44; background: white;">taking nothing of the Gentiles.</span><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;(</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3%20John%207"><span style="background: white;">3 John 7</span></a><span style="color: #494a44; background: white;">.)&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously, John as a "pillar of the church," as Paul </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">said, was commending the missionaries to the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gentiles for refusing any Gentile money to avoid </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">compromise. John was implying they would be bribes </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">if accepted.</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This means if Paul came with an offering of Gentile</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> money to be given directly to the Jerusalem church,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> the church would naturally and appropriately refuse it. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The money had to be instead distributed directly to </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the poor, e.g., put in a poor box anonymously, with</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> no possible influence being gained over the church </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">itself. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hence, we have one more piece of evidence of the </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">selfish fruit of Paul -- not <strong>good</strong> fruit. Jesus told us to </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">assess those claiming to be prophets by examining </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">their fruit.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This adds to the list of Paul's misdeeds. This time it </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">represents the condemnable use of the well-meaning </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">efforts of others' charity.&nbsp; </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; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For some of the other misdeeds of Paul to weigh </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">whether his fruit disqualifies accepting him as a </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><span style="background: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">prophet, see [1]&nbsp;</span><a href="/recommendedreading/188-blasphemy-a-paul.html">Blasphemy &amp; Paul</a>, [2]&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/283-guile-in-paul.html">Guile and Paul</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">[3]&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/427-did-paul-ever-deliberately-lie.html">Did Paul ever deliberately lie?</a> And [4]&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/578-evil-immoral-commands-from-paul.html">Evil immoral </a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><a href="/recommendedreading/578-evil-immoral-commands-from-paul.html">commands of Paul.</a>&nbsp;See also [a]&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/99-paul-women-and-sex.html">Paul on Sex and Marriage</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">and [b]&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/318-pauls-command-not-to-help-young-widows.html" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18pt;">Paul's Commands not to Help Young Widows.</a></p>
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