The Church started in the wilderness

[Doug Brents]

No point in continuing because one can't reason with opinions vs scripture.

As I have pointed out, Scripture says that the Old Covenant has been removed and replaced with the New Covenant. And the New Covenant does NOT contain the command to continue keeping the sabbath as the Old Covenant commanded. That is what Scripture says. Your opinion is noted, but as you say, it does not stand in the face of SCRIPTURE. When you are ready to join the New Covenant and the life we have in Christ, I am ready to welcome you with open arms.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

As I have pointed out, Scripture says that the Old Covenant has been removed and replaced with the New Covenant. And the New Covenant does NOT contain the command to continue keeping the sabbath as the Old Covenant commanded. That is what Scripture says. Your opinion is noted, but as you say, it does not stand in the face of SCRIPTURE. When you are ready to join the New Covenant and the life we have in Christ, I am ready to welcome you with open arms.

Do we need a commandment repeated to be a follower of Christ. The New Covenant is not about that, its about having a changed heart- God's law (the Sabbath is God's law thus saith the Lord) being written in our hearts obeying through love and faith, not because there is a commandment. Its why the Sabbath-rest remains for God's people Heb 4:9NIV because God's people follow the Lamb wherever He goes. God said Remember- man says forget. Its all about who we obey, is who we serve Rom 6:16

 

[Doug Brents]

all you wrote is just about false, you have forgotten it it Christ who is lord not paul.

Christ is the author of all of what Paul wrote. Paul just wrote down what God told him to write.

you just repeat paul's words like a parrot, thinking it is all from GOD. why do you not follow Christ instead?

I do follow Christ, just as Paul did. Paul's words in Scripture come directly from the mouth of God. They are not Paul's ideas.

all jesus said IS from GOD because he is one with GOD. Paul was just a man, the chief of sinners to use his words; 1 Timothy 1:15, furthermore many of paul's writings are very difficult to understand, And it is obvious you do not understand.

Yes, even Peter found some of what Paul wrote difficult to understand, but the passage in Galatians 4:21-5:6 is very easy to understand.
Who is he talking to? - "You who want to be under law".
What law? - THE LAW, the Law of Moses, the Law that came down from Mt Sinai, the Law of the Old Covenant.
What happened to that Law? - The Law that came from Mt Sinai is analogous to Hagar, the slave woman who was not mother to Abraham's heir. She was cast out of Abraham's tent and out of his camp, and sent away from the true heir.
But we are not children of the slave woman, we are children of the free woman, the second covenant, a new Law of God, that comes from the Jerusalem above and not from Mt Sinai.

You fail to understand the covenants old and new, what they are, what they are about, what they contain. People do not read their bibles, please revise and get it right, this is really annoying. it is like trying to teach algebra to kindergarden level children.

What are the covenants? They were/are contracts between God and mankind. God had certain obligations and man had certain obligations, just like any other contract. Man was incapable of performing his side of the contract. So God came down as a man to fulfill the obligations of man for him. When God (the man Jesus) completely fulfilled the Old Covenant law perfectly, God the Father fulfilled all of His obligations, thus there is no longer any unfulfilled obligation on either side of the Old Covenant.

What happens to contracts that have been completely fulfilled by all parties to the contract? They become null and void, because they no longer have any power; they are fulfilled.

That is the condition of the Old Covenant. It is fulfilled, 100%, by both parties to it; God and man.

When it was fulfilled, God established a New Covenant through His Son, Jesus. And this New Covenant contains many of the same conditions, laws, mandates, etc. that the first one did. But it does not contain all of them. The Old Covenant did not leave any room for anyone to be a priest to God other than the children of Levi, and only some of them were allowed to serve in the Temple/Tabernacle. But in the New Covenant, everyone who is in Christ (regardless of tribe, nation, family, etc.) is a priest to God, with Jesus (from the tribe of Judah) as the High Priest. This could not happen if the Old Covenant were still in effect.

 

[Doug Brents]

Sorry you need a commandment repeated to be a follower of Christ. The New Covenant is not about that, its about having a changed heart- God's law (the Sabbath is God's law thus saith the Lord) being written in our hearts obeying through love and faith, not because there is a commandment. Its why the Sabbath-rest remains for God's people Heb 4:9NIV because God's people follow the Lamb wherever He goes. God said Remember- man says forget. Its all about who we obey, is who we serve Rom 6:16

SB, your heart is hard and your ears are closed. I will not continue to waste my time giving God's pearls to be trampled under your feet. Go, live as well as it is God's will that you live, and study His Word more carefully. When you are ready to accept Him as He offers Himself, I will accept you with open arms. Until then, I have nothing more for you, than to pray that you enter into God's rest. If the rest that Joshua (the seventh day sabbath) had was sufficient, then another would not have been provided (Heb 4:8), and Jesus, who entered His rest just as the Father did His, bids us enter His rest with Him (Heb 4:10-11). ps: read the full context of the verses you cite, don't just take the words at face value or you will miss the real meaning of what is being said (like you did).

 

[SabbathBlessings]

SB, your heart is hard and your ears are closed. I will not continue to waste my time giving God's pearls to be trampled under your feet. Go, live as well as it is God's will that you live, and study His Word more carefully. When you are ready to accept Him as He offers Himself, I will accept you with open arms. Until then, I have nothing more for you, than to pray that you enter into God's rest. If the rest that Joshua (the seventh day sabbath) had was sufficient, then another would not have been provided (Heb 4:8), and Jesus, who entered His rest just as the Father did His, bids us enter His rest with Him (Heb 4:10-11). ps: read the full context of the verses you cite, don't just take the words at face value or you will miss the real meaning of what is being said (like you did).

Moses repeated the Ten Commandments, including the Sabbath commandment 40 years after God spoke them before the children of Israel led by Joshua entered into the promise land for them to diligently keep and teach their children to diligently keep so obviously the rest being referred to in Heb 4:8 is not the Sabbath commandment, which is why the Greek word κατάπαυσις Meaning: (in the Old Testament of the rest attained by the settlement in Canaan), , not the Sabbath rest, which is the seventh day, thus saith the Lord Exo 20:10 and stayed that way in the NC Luke 23:56. Two rests in Hebrews 4 passage and no one enters in Christ rest by being in rebellion to His commandments, the whole point of this passage, not God's people, the author of Hebrews changing God's times and laws 30 years after the Cross and countermanding Christ Mat 5:18-30. Perhaps its not me that has my ears closed. Guess we will all find out soon enough. Once He comes all decisions will have been made Rev 22:11

 

[SabbathBlessings]

I think its important when dealing with Paul's writings or anyone's writings but especially Paul's since it came with such a stern warning 2 Peter 3:15-16 to really prayerfully study what he is saying, compare it with other scripture and make sure it doesn't contradict the teachings of Jesus such as Mat 5:17-30 Mat 15:3-14 Mark 7:7-13 Mat 19:17-19 John 14:15 and even Paul's own teachings where he says the commandments are holy, just and good (when should we not want to be like this) or breaking the commandments shows us our sins Rom 7:7 and breaking them dishonors God Rom 2:22-23 how we love our neighbor and God Rom 13:9 1 John 5:2-3 and keeping God's commandments is what matters 1 Cor 7:19

Paul is contrasting the two covenants- the old covenant verses the new and using an allegory of Sarah and Hagar.

First we need to understand what the new covenant is established on.

PROMISES- not new or better laws- we can't make something God wrote that is perfect for converting our souls more perfect Psa 19:7

Hebrews 8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

This is what the promise was of the first covenant

Exo 19: 8 Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

So the people are doing in the OC when they promised to keep God's covenant.

This is what the New Covenant is established on the better promise:

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

So in the NC it is no longer established on our strength of obeying God, its based on His strength - He is the one doing- we just need to cooperate with Him.

John 14:15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

So its a much better promise having God doing, than relying on our own strength.

How does these better promises relate to Sarah and Hagar. It relates perfectly.

Abraham was promised to make a great nation through his seed, but the problem was Sarah was in advanced age Genesis 18:11 and instead of depending on God's strength she took matters in her own hands by taking their slave Hagar, to bear a child for Abraham instead of trusting God that He would deliver on His promise in His own time.

 

[Doug Brents]

I think its important when dealing with Paul's writings

There is your problem right there: You think ....

It is not about what you think. It is about what the Scripture says. And while you believe that keeping the Old Covenant is "righteous", living by the New Covenant is what is really God's will. You have every right and responsibility to keep the laws of God that you perceive as applicable to yourself. But you should not impose the mandates of your lack of faith on those of us with a greater faith (Rom 14).

But you can have the last word here, because I will not reply again to this completely false thread of "reasoning".

 

[SabbathBlessings]

It's not what I think its what the scripture says, the warning wouldn't be there if people weren't doing this.

2 Peter 3: 15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

Following Jesus on what He taught and how He lived will never be "Old Covenant" He is the mediator of the New Covenant and lived to be our example to follow. If one can't make their case through the teachings of Jesus you are following something else instead of who we are to follow. Sadly, so focused on perceived idea of the "Old Covenant" one will miss Jesus and not realize it until its too late. Ignoring so much NC scripture because its so called "OC" therefore we can dismiss and ignore, I do not believe its going to work out so well. Mat 7:21-23 Rev 22:14-15 1 John 2:3-6 etc But we have free will.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

If you claim to follow EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD, but ignore the Words He breathed into Paul, they you lie about following EVERY WORD of His.

When Jesus said this He was quoting OT

Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

Paul was not in the OT and his writings weren’t scripture or was he even an apostle when Jesus said this.

Paul never contradicted Jesus and if you can’t reconcile Paul’s teachings with Jesus, the servant Rom 1:1 to the Master John 13:16, chances we are not understanding the scriptures much like Mat 4:4 thinking it applied to Paul when Jesus was quoting “OC”.

 

[Bro.T]

In this passage, the word used that is translated "perpetual" is "olam" and there are many places in Scripture where this term is used that does not mean "forever". Exodus 27:21 is such a case. The lighting of the tent of meeting was required of the sons of Aaron as a perpetual covenant (exactly as the words in Exo 31, but the Tent of Meeting no longer exists, nor does the Temple that replaced the Tent of Meeting. So that commandment for the sons of Aaron (no one today can prove that they even are a son of Aaron) is no longer valid even though it was a perpetual covenant. Just the same with the keeping of the sabbath, this commandment is no longer valid.

Again, this is an Old Covenant commandment and has no relevance to the New Covenant Christ follower.

You just not getting it, the wages of sin is death! (Roman 6:23) The book say in 2 John 1: 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

 

[Aaron112]

There once were two sons.
One son said yes father, I will go do what you told me to do.
That son went, but did not do what he was told. He is not a good nor faithful son.

The other son said no father, I will not do what you said to do.
He went, and changed his mind, and did do what the father said to do.
This is the good and faithful son , pleasing his father by obeying him, by being truthful.

Then in more modern times, there was /is/ a third son.

He pretending to be a son, not caring if he obeyed his father or not .

Jesus called him luke warm. Unless he repents, he is spewed out and has no part in his father's kingdom.

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

Christ is the author of all of what Paul wrote. Paul just wrote down what God told him to write.

No it is not. there are no proof to that, only paul's words no witnesses, he received everything in secret, Jesus always said everything in public never in secret, wakek up! prove me wrong on this one you cannot. all the scholars believe this like I do, Paul was just a man with flaws, said interesting things of value but not all was inspired.

I do follow Christ, just as Paul did. Paul's words in Scripture come directly from the mouth of God. They are not Paul's ideas.

Why not just follow Christ instead, Ill tell you why you do not, Paul's way is much simpler, requires only to believe... you throw everything Jesus said out the window? Please follow the master not the servant, these are what Jesus asks you to do , if you knew scripture you would know this, He said to follow no one else but you do not know.

Yes, even Peter found some of what Paul wrote difficult to understand, but the passage in Galatians 4:21-5:6 is very easy to understand.

Why do you think he said that just for fun? it is a warning to get your act together, brother I urge to follow Christ.

Who is he talking to? - "You who want to be under law".
What law? - THE LAW, the Law of Moses, the Law that came down from Mt Sinai, the Law of the Old Covenant.

What is the new covenant, can you tell me what it contains? you do not know but I am willing to help if you ask, will yout prode let you do so?

What happened to that Law? - The Law that came from Mt Sinai is analogous to Hagar, the slave woman who was not mother to Abraham's heir. She was cast out of Abraham's tent and out of his camp, and sent away from the true heir.
But we are not children of the slave woman, we are children of the free woman, the second covenant, a new Law of God, that comes from the Jerusalem above and not from Mt Sinai.

Ridiculous.

What are the covenants? They were/are contracts between God and mankind. God had certain obligations and man had certain obligations, just like any other contract. Man was incapable of performing his side of the contract. So God came down as a man to fulfill the obligations of man for him. When God (the man Jesus) completely fulfilled the Old Covenant law perfectly, God the Father fulfilled all of His obligations, thus there is no longer any unfulfilled obligation on either side of the Old Covenant.

What happens to contracts that have been completely fulfilled by all parties to the contract? They become null and void, because they no longer have any power; they are fulfilled.

Nul and void? tell that to Jesus who will judge us all and see that he will say which it this;
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name?'
And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'" (Matthew 7:21-23)

That is the condition of the Old Covenant. It is fulfilled, 100%, by both parties to it; God and man.

NO wrong again, what did Jesus say about the law, that it shall not pass away did you forget this also ?

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew 5:17)

fulfillment the law and the prophecies about Jesus does not mean the law is abolished or this saying of jesus would mean nothing.

When it was fulfilled, God established a New Covenant through His Son, Jesus. And this New Covenant contains many of the same conditions, laws, mandates, etc. that the first one did. But it does not contain all of them. The Old Covenant did not leave any room for anyone to be a priest to God other than the children of Levi, and only some of them were allowed to serve in the Temple/Tabernacle. But in the New Covenant, everyone who is in Christ (regardless of tribe, nation, family, etc.) is a priest to God, with Jesus (from the tribe of Judah) as the High Priest. This could not happen if the Old Covenant were still in effect.

the core of the law was never nullified, only the sacrificial part of the law of Moses since Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.

If you were under the new covenant you would never have said the law was abolished.

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

SB, your heart is hard and your ears are closed. I will not continue to waste my time giving God's pearls to be trampled under your feet. Go, live as well as it is God's will that you live, and study His Word more carefully. When you are ready to accept Him as He offers Himself, I will accept you with open arms. Until then, I have nothing more for you, than to pray that you enter into God's rest. If the rest that Joshua (the seventh day sabbath) had was sufficient, then another would not have been provided (Heb 4:8), and Jesus, who entered His rest just as the Father did His, bids us enter His rest with Him (Heb 4:10-11). ps: read the full context of the verses you cite, don't just take the words at face value or you will miss the real meaning of what is being said (like you did).

you have it complety in reverse yet again

 

[Aaron112]

God is DELIGHTED TO HIDE SALVATION from scholars! YES!



And to Reveal Salvation and everything related to salvation to babies/infants/little ones FREELY!



For thus HE SAYS is HIS GOOD PLEASURE SO TO DO!...... and HE always keeps His Word!

all the scholars

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

God is DELIGHTED TO HIDE SALVATION from scholars! YES!



And to Reveal Salvation and everything related to salvation to babies/infants/little ones FREELY!



For thus HE SAYS is HIS GOOD PLEASURE SO TO DO!...... and HE always keeps His Word!

i agree that some scholars contradict themselves and the word of GOD yes, just like many people here on this forum and other forums.

There is only truth, the word of GOD.

 

[Doug Brents]

When Jesus said this He was quoting OT

Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

Paul was not in the OT and his writings weren’t scripture or was he even an apostle when Jesus said this.

It’s important to turn from our errors, not keep in that same direction. Paul never contradicted Jesus and if you can’t reconcile Paul’s teachings with Jesus, the servant Rom 1:1 to the Master John 13:16, chances we are not understanding the scriptures much like Mat 4:4 thinking it applied to Paul when Jesus was quoting “OC”.

To this I will reply.

It does not matter one bit whether Paul was an Apostle when Jesus said this or not. Paul's writings were Scripture, and acknowledged as such by Peter while both of them were still alive. That means that Peter was acknowledging that Paul's writings were directly inspired (God breathed, meaning they were authored by God) and so are 100% as reliable and authoritative as if Jesus had said them personally (because He did).

 

[Doug Brents]

You just not getting it, the wages of sin is death! (Roman 6:23) The book say in 2 John 1: 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Was the lady and her children to whom this letter is addressed a Jew? It is unlikely at this point in history (there being by the end of the first century (when this letter was written) many more Gentile Christ followers than Jewish ones). So when was the beginning that she heard the commands of God? When she heard the Gospel of Jesus. John is not talking about her knowing the OT Scriptures, but the NT commands of Jesus that the Apostles and other disciples taught. Yes, she needs to continue to walk in the commands of God, "in the truth", and not in any false doctrines like the Judaizers tried to spread even in the first century.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

To this I will reply.

It does not matter one bit whether Paul was an Apostle when Jesus said this or not. Paul's writings were Scripture, and acknowledged as such by Peter while both of them were still alive. That means that Peter was acknowledging that Paul's writings were directly inspired (God breathed, meaning they were authored by God) and so are 100% as reliable and authoritative as if Jesus had said them personally (because He did).

You don't seem to understand.

Jesus was quoting Old Testament ,Deuteronomy 8:3 that why He said "It is written" when He said this. I do not think its wise to apply what we want to the teachings of Jesus and ignore what He said. At least that's not what we are supposed to do.

People teach to ignore the Words God spoke Exo 20:1, God's commandments that God claimed as His Exo 20:6- Jesus tells us to live by them. And if you read Deut 8 the context of Deut 8:3 God over and over again said not to forget My commandments. Why Jesus taught and lived them, to show us the way, by example. Paul never taught anything different- he says what matters is keeping the commandments of God 1 Cor 7:19 same God, same commandments Mat 19:17-19 Mat 15:3-14 Mark 7:7-13 Mat 5:19-30 Rom 13:9 Rev 22:14-15- God changes not, we change not He. What is God's righteousness Isa 56:1-6 Psa 119:172 stays righteous Psa 119:142 Rom 7:12 Rev 22:11 we are to conform to His righteousness, He does not conform to ours as they are fifthly rags.

So just like Jesus used scripture when He was tempted to go away from God's Word, I am going to have to stick with what Jesus said. He is the only way. John 14:6

 

[Doug Brents]

No it is not. there are no proof to that, only paul's words no witnesses, he received everything in secret, Jesus always said everything in public never in secret, wakek up! prove me wrong on this one you cannot. all the scholars believe this like I do, Paul was just a man with flaws, said interesting things of value but not all was inspired.

2 Pet 3:15-16 - "just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."
Peter here acknowledges all of Paul's letters as being equal to the OT Scriptures, and Paul in 2 Tim 3:16-17 says that ALL Scripture is inspired (meaning authored) by God. Paul was not just some good but flawed man that wrote interesting things. He spent three years learning directly from Jesus (Gal 1:17), and the letters we have of his are all directly inspired by God, thus being God's Word to us.

Why not just follow Christ instead, Ill tell you why you do not, Paul's way is much simpler, requires only to believe... you throw everything Jesus said out the window? Please follow the master not the servant, these are what Jesus asks you to do , if you knew scripture you would know this, He said to follow no one else but you do not know.

It is following Jesus to follow His faithful servants, because they walked the same path as He did. Yes, they were flawed. Paul found sin in Peter and called him out on it (Gal 2:11ff). But the words they wrote were given to them by God to pass on to us as God's own words to us.

What is the new covenant, can you tell me what it contains? you do not know but I am willing to help if you ask, will yout prode let you do so?

I have no pride except in the knowledge that Jesus is my savior and all my hope rests on Him.

The New Covenant is the promise of God to take our sins away through Christ, to give us His righteousness in exchange for our sin, and to adopt us as sons and daughters; those are His responsibilities under the New Covenant. Our responsibility in the New Covenant is to accept Jesus as God, to trust in Him to give us His righteousness, and to obey Him in the commands He gave us in the New Covenant.

Ridiculous.

Only because you don't believe the Scriptures. When you believe the Scriptures it makes perfect sense.

Nul and void? tell that to Jesus who will judge us all and see that he will say which it this;
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name?'
And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'" (Matthew 7:21-23)

That is a very poignant verse, and it applies to everyone who thinks they know Jesus, but do not follow His New Covenant commands. God says in Gal 4 and 5 that the Old Covenant is no longer valid for us, and anyone who continues to follow it does not know Jesus.

NO wrong again, what did Jesus say about the law, that it shall not pass away did you forget this also ?

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew 5:17)

fulfillment the law and the prophecies about Jesus does not mean the law is abolished or this saying of jesus would mean nothing.

the core of the law was never nullified, only the sacrificial part of the law of Moses since Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.

ALL of the Old Covenant was removed, not just parts of it. Jesus said that He came to fulfill the Law and Prophets, and they would not pass away until they were completely fulfilled. He did fulfill them when He was on the Cross (that is why He said, "It is finished."), and so the Old Covenant (the Law, Prophets, and Writings) were all fulfilled, completed, removed, and abolished at the cross.

If you were under the new covenant you would never have said the law was abolished.

Believe as yo will, my poor deluded friend.

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

2 Pet 3:15-16 - "just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."

""Paul, according to the wisdom given him"" it could mean also paul had no wisdom or partial wisdom, it does not say paul's wisdom was from god.

also truly you do not know that 2 peter is probably forgery? there are numerous serious papers on this please go have a look, they say 1 peter and 2 peter is not from the same author and there are proofs.

Peter here acknowledges all of Paul's letters as being equal to the OT Scriptures, and Paul in 2 Tim 3:16-17 says that ALL Scripture is inspired (meaning authored) by God. Paul was not just some good but flawed man that wrote interesting things. He spent three years learning directly from Jesus (Gal 1:17), and the letters we have of his are all directly inspired by God, thus being God's Word to us.

It is following Jesus to follow His faithful servants, because they walked the same path as He did. Yes, they were flawed. Paul found sin in Peter and called him out on it (Gal 2:11ff). But the words they wrote were given to them by God to pass on to us as God's own words to us.

I have no pride except in the knowledge that Jesus is my savior and all my hope rests on Him.

The New Covenant is the promise of God to take our sins away through Christ, to give us His righteousness in exchange for our sin, and to adopt us as sons and daughters; those are His responsibilities under the New Covenant. Our responsibility in the New Covenant is to accept Jesus as God, to trust in Him to give us His righteousness, and to obey Him in the commands He gave us in the New Covenant.

Only because you don't believe the Scriptures. When you believe the Scriptures it makes perfect sense.

That is a very poignant verse, and it applies to everyone who thinks they know Jesus, but do not follow His New Covenant commands. God says in Gal 4 and 5 that the Old Covenant is no longer valid for us, and anyone who continues to follow it does not know Jesus.

ALL of the Old Covenant was removed, not just parts of it. Jesus said that He came to fulfill the Law and Prophets, and they would not pass away until they were completely fulfilled. He did fulfill them when He was on the Cross (that is why He said, "It is finished."), and so the Old Covenant (the Law, Prophets, and Writings) were all fulfilled, completed, removed, and abolished at the cross.

Believe as yo will, my poor deluded friend.

I have warned you to follow Jesus before paul, but that is on your head. you are completely wrong about the covenant being finished, the new covenant is just an internalization of GOD's laws in our hearts, yes the same laws minus the sacrificial system and a few others but never the 10 commandments, this is where you err.

see Jeremiah 31:31-34 that paul quotes from;
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

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sin is breaking the Law of GOD, the covenant, the 10 commandments.

Deuteronomy 4:13
"So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone."

Believing in Jesus is more that just believe it is also to do what he asks of us.