mikefromwichita said:
So you say, but according to the Word Paul taught that those who refused to Repent of Sin should be expelled from the Church and Jesus used whips to drive the wicked from the Temple not to mention referring to those who mishandled Scripture as Vipers. The Bible teachs a Faith that is rather intolerant in the eyes of modern PC Liberals. Well the Romans disliked Christianity also for very similar reasons.
A lot of the Roman's disliked Christian's because they argued amongst themselves to much.
II Peter 3:16-18 Warning
"Paul wrote things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort, as they do the rest of scripture, to their own destruction! You, therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled people, you fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, both now and to the day of eternity Amen."
As 2 Peter 3:16-18 pointed out, we have to be on guard against using Paul's writings in unhealthy and destructive ways.
Paul's writings have been taken out of context and twisted to punish and oppress every identifiable minority in the world: Jews, children, women, blacks, slaves, politicians, divorced people, convicts, pro choice people, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, religious reformers, the mentally ill, and the list could go on and on. Paul is often difficult and confusing to understand. A lot of Paul's writing is very difficult to translate. Since most of his letters were written in response to news from other people, reading Paul can be like listening to one side of a telephone conversation. We know, or think we know, what Paul is saying, but we have to guess what the other side has said.
