Title: QnA: Does forgiveness get old? Does Paul agree with Jesus? How can I honor an abusive father? Source:
Bryan Wolfmueller URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur_fe-uTxjQ Published:Aug 17, 2023 Author:Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller Post Date:2023-08-17 02:40:43 by Charles_Byrd Keywords:None Views:2071 Comments:40
Pastors Bryan Wolfmueller and Andrew Packer answer your theological and Biblical questions.
Nah, I like Paul. But Paul does conflict with Jesus, James and John from time to time. Paul has good things to say, but he's not God.
See, this is the problem you Protestants have. You act as though the Bible itself is God. It isn't. God is God. Some of what God said is in the Bible, and what other people said is too. And it conflicts with itself, as any anthology covering 4000 years of history will do.
This doesn't bother me, for whom the highest authority is the most recent things God said, and Jesus is the most recent set of those things. So Jesus, not the whole Bible, is the gold standard. Where Paul conflicts with Jesus, Paul is to be ignored. Where James conflicts with Jesus, he's wrong. Where John conflicts with Jesus, ignore John. Where Yahweh conflicts with Jesus (over shellfish, for example, or death for sexual offenses), ignore Yahweh and go with Jesus.
Jesus alone is the ultimate authority. Obviously this puts Jesus above the rest of the Bible.
No Protestant can accept that. And so Protestantism is a welter of contradicting and competing sects.
The Catholic Church gets it right that the Bible isn't God, and it puts Jesus first in the Scriptures, which is better than the other positions. BUT then the Catholics (and the Orthodox) put the Church before Jesus, so if there's something they particularly like or want, they'll fetch it from Paul, or James, or themselves in the middle ages, and put that before Jesus.
Which makes the Orthodox and the Catholics wrong also, just differently wrong than the Protestants.
The Protestants place the Bible as an idol before God. The Catholics and the Orthodox place their churches as an idol before God. They're all wrong. The first authority is Jesus. Yes, he is in the Bible, but everything else in the Bible, or the Church, that conflicts with Jesus, is obviously wrong, because, simply put, Jesus was God Incarnate, and the Bible and the Church are not.
Period. Nothing more to discuss.
If you disagree, you're obviously wrong - and an idolater of the Bible or the Church. Do me a favor and go argue with the trees - I am not interested in you.
Paul is SAID, by Luther and others of his ilk, to have said "Faith alone, works are nothing." This is diametrically opposed to Jesus.
Now, of course, if one reads Paul CORRECTLY, he only APPEARS to say Faith Alone, that isn't what he means at all.
I know that.
But do many, many, many teach Faith Alone, and believe it, just like Martin Luther? Yep.
So, DOES Paul actually contradict Jesus? Not in the main aspects of faith, no, not if he is read properly. Most American Christians come from traditions that do not read Paul properly. If you read Paul like Martin Luther did, then you pit Paul directly against Jesus, and you're dead wrong.
