It is based on an actual
teaching of the apostle Paul and is part of the promise of Salvation from the Judgment that is coming to this world and upon all of you foolish unbelievers.
Then, since this gospel was already being corrupted, there was a reiteration of this gospel in
the teaching of the apostle Paul.
Not exact matches
«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation
of the
apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to
teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),
another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with
Paul, and the other
apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds
of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after
apostles
The
apostle Paul called women his «co-workers» which could imply a
teaching role and women were first to witness the resurrection
of Jesus.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part
of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence
of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence
of the
apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the
apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women
teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though
Paul uses the same line
of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry
of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy
of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws
of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading
of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse
of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
The Church has
taught, from the time
of the
Apostles to the time
of John
Paul II, that the death penalty is lawful.
While it is true that none
of the
Apostles needed a formal education for their position, we can not say they were not educated by Jesus and others; even
Paul not only was educated in the worldly and in religious sense, but he
taught «school» every day for two years in Ephesus after being rejected by the synagogue.
The
apostle Paul did not
teach that «every knee will bow and tongue confess that the Bible is the Word
of God,» but that «every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.»
Origen
of Alexandria, the first major interpreter
of the Bible in the Church's history, said that «the
apostle Paul, «teacher
of the Gentiles in faith and truth,»
taught the Church... how it ought to interpret the books
of the Law.»
In writing to Timothy, the
apostle Paul exhorts his young student in the value
of God's Word: «All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for
teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man
of God may be complete, equipped for every good work» (2 Timothy 3:16 - 17).
For this reason the narrative portrait
of Paul's relationship with the
apostles is not simply meant to show that
Paul was not
taught by them; it is also meant to model the unity that is only possible in the fear
of God and the revelation
of Christ in the gospel.
It was impossible for
Paul to simply take the practices and
teachings of the
Apostles and apply the strategy
of using Roman transportation and manuscripts.
It is true that both the gospels and the speeches
of Peter and
Paul in Acts give important testimony as to what the
apostles taught about the Christian life and proclaimed about the meaning
of Jesus» own life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by
apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need
of confirmation, if possible, from the
apostles themselves.
We flatten out the words
of God - In - Flesh --(God eating and drinking and walking and
teaching and laughing and crying among us)-- and give them equal (or often lesser) value to those
of the
apostle Paul or Old Testament law.
He believed, however, that they could be reconciled, for while the glorified body
of the risen Jesus is normally neither visible nor tangible, it «temporarily reassumes the human outline, and solid frame, and former appearance, and marks
of the wounds, for evidential and instructive purposes».13 In the resurrection narratives the Evangelists «describe the re-entrance
of the glorified Body
of Christ into terrestrial conditions, effected for the purpose
of convincing His
apostles of His Resurrection, and
of giving them instructions and commssions».14 He believed that
Paul, being the theologian, was not concerned with these occasional manifestations, but with the essential condition
of the risen Christ and that his is therefore the profounder
teaching.
The
apostle Paul taught that the sword
of Caesar is given by God to commend good and punish evil (Rom.
In a sense, they present us with a sort
of Christian remix
of Greco - Roman morality that attempts to preserve the
apostle Paul's earlier
teaching that «there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus» (Galatians 3:28).
Pastor, I'm just wondering if you yourself follow ALL the rest
of this portion
of the Law ie vs 19 or vs 27 regarding cutting the hair at the side
of your head, or vs 32 regarding «rising in the presence
of elders» or... vs 30 regarding observing the Sabbath — especially after what Our Lord Jesus did in Matt 12 and what He
taught in Matt 5 - 7?!? I would suggest that you «do not choke at gnats and swallow camels», and that you prayerfully read what the
apostle Paul wrote in 1 Cor 9: 3, 19 - 23 esp vs22 - 23.
Paul is the
apostle of the crucifixion,
teaching us that our salvation rests on the atonement, that Christ by his death on the cross made restitution for the sins
of the whole world.
That pre-eminence can be sensed in the words used by Pius XII on the occasion
of the definition
of the Assumption
of Our Lady «By the authority
of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by the authority
of the blessed
apostles Peter and
Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor
of St. Peter to the Lord who
taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matt.
1 Timothy 4:1 - 3: The
apostle Paul fortells a time after the death
of the
Apostles that some would «fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and
teachings of demons, by the hypocrisy
of men who speak lies, marked in their conscience as with a branding iron, FORBIDDING TO MARRY, commanding to abstain from foods which God created... etc..
But a body
of newer work on the
apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that
Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has
taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement
of Jesus Christ.
Like Jesus,
Paul the
apostle quotes the
teaching of Genesis that, when a man leaves his parents and cleaves to his wife, he is united with her in one flesh.
Thus Clement regarded the Didache or
Teaching of the
Apostles as scriptural; both he and Origen viewed the author
of I Clement as the Clement mentioned by
Paul in Philippians 4:3 and the author
of the Shepherd as the Hernias
of Romans 16:4.
Paul taught in Ephesians 4: «11 And he gave some,
apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting
of the saints, for the work
of the ministry, for the edifying
of the body
of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity
of the faith, and
of the knowledge
of the Son
of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure
of the stature
of the fulness
of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind
of doctrine, by the sleight
of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;» Without
apostles and prophets we can not come to a «unity
of the faith» nor be perfected in Christ.
Eusebius, the church historian, who wrote in the early part
of the fourth century, furnishes evidence that some parts
of the church accepted still other books, the Acts
of Paul, the
Teaching of the
Apostles, or the Didache, and the Preaching
of Peter.
The
apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 3:16 - 17, «All Scripture is God - breathed and is useful for
teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man
of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.»