So I"m reading the bible cover to cover, like any other book, in an attempt to get greater understanding, learning and growing in my relationship with God. (I don't belong to a church and won't)
Everything was going just fine.........till I got to romans, then I started having a problem here.
I'm having severe internal conflict now because I'm seeing contradictions in pauls letters.
Please help me out here.
Here are my issues so far, I"m in the corinthians letters so far and will continue reading further tonight.
Paul basically said that the law is no more, you can eat what you want, you can worship anyday that you want, all that law is gone.
Ok.......sounds good to me. But, then he started talking about women wearing a head covering while praying, and men not being allowed to wear one, and then women can't speak in the church, and he actually said something like "This is the Law" or something to that affect.
Huh, say what???????????????????????????? The Law? But he just got done saying there is no law, but then now there is the Law just in regards to women??????????
Having a problem with that total contradiction. Did I misunderstand something here or what?
Then he says that the governments are good, we are to obey them, and they have god's blessing, or something to that affect. Well, when the governments require us to get the mark of the beast.........what then? Are we supposed to obey them too???? How many people will go along with it because of that verse???????
He also said in one verse to follow him................follow him? A human being? I follow Jesus, not paul.
There were other things that I read, also written by paul, that just didn't set well with me, but I don't remember them all.
So, what's the deal?