And I do admit , where you. say Yeah. , I didn't think so did brother me , and all what Paul meant is. that he. is human. just
like the rest of all. of us , and Paul was CHOSEN. before he was. born to preach God's Gospel in. Rom 1:1. '
and whether you like it or not. Paul is the Apostle to the Gentiles whether anyone like him or NOT !!
dan p
As stated prior, no issues with Paul. My sights just take "all" of what Paul says more seriously. Places your position casts aside or ignores.
Here for example where Paul says in his mind he has, not had, every manner of concupiscent thoughts, prompted by the law, Romans 7:7-14. Paul never said this ceased to happen after salvation either. And it still happens within everyone, per Jesus, Mark 7:21-23, unless we're blind as a bat.
Here Paul said he did evil, present tense, not past tense: Romans 7:19
Here Paul said he had temptation in his flesh and a messenger of Satan in his flesh. Not hard to connect these two dots, temptation/tempter: Gal. 4:14, 2 Cor. 12:7. Again, those who claim this was near sightedness are in fact simply blind themselves to the obvious.
And the coup de grace for Paul was him claiming again present tense, to be the chief of sinners after salvation, 1 Tim. 1:15. Not was or used to be, but "I am."
Again, not hard to see that Paul was not just Paul just like none of us are just us, singular. We all engage temptation internally, and temptation is in fact of the tempter, the devil who deceives the whole world.
We all just have a real hard time being honest about the above is all. And understandably so. It hurts our pride to admit we are in fact still sinners. We like to pretend otherwise. Bad acting imho