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Paul fought the circumcision, Messianic Judaism.

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Not only that but 15 is part of the same sentence as 14. Just doesn't fit his game.

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I must have had two threads open at once and saved to the wrong thread.

I can understand that you would not want Acts 17 here.

excuse me, but you know just what I mean, you keep pasting these verses below, over and over again, it is spamming, if it continues I will have to report it.




"Acts 21
24 take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law

Acts 24:
14But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets


Acts 25
8 while he answered for himself, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all.”


Acts 26
22 Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come— 23 that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

Acts 28
17 And it came to pass after three days that Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. So when they had come together, he said to them: “Men and brethren, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,... I have called for you, to see you and speak with you, because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
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23 So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening
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Maybe he doesn't like the resurrection either.

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Not only that but 15 is part of the same sentence as 14. Just doesn't fit his game.

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yes, just like quoting 1/2 of 1 cor 7:19, and here he leaves out what Paul was talking about, the resurrection, in the OT, and it was not the law. It is not right for him to quote half a verse, or to leave out the next verse which clearly defines the context, the context which proves him wrong.
 
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It appears to me you favor the false accusation against Paul. You badly need to get rid of him.

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you asked about Acts 17 - not about Acts 21 - 28.




If your complaint is that you do not want Acts 21-28 on this thread about Paul's own practice and his own statements to Messianic Jews in Acts 21 -- then the argument you make is "with the text".

I was wondering why no one was answering the point raised by these texts -- apparently all view them as "irrefutable".

And the only option left "apparently" is to try and have them removed.

How "Instructive" for the unbiased objective reader.

in Christ,

Bob
 
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You have my best wish of good fortune on that. Please don't hold your breath.

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there were about 5 unanswered questions/points, all i got was the same paste, that I rebutted over and over again.
 
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No sir, your sole purpose is to intimidate other into believing the Christian is obligated to keep the law and specifically the Sabbath for salvation. Paul does not teach this when he says we are delivered from the law and encourages us to be led by the Spirit and not the law. If 1 is saved by faith, how can 1 maintain salvation by that which can not provide salvation?
 
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Remove what? The Ten Commandments? Who is doing this? Why would they need to do it? This has all been addressed to you in this section of the forum.
 
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but they have been refuted by me over and over, i don't want spamming, debate is great, but to just keep on posting the same verses ignoring the context, as you highlight to make it seem like something they are not, that, that is what I want removed from my thread.
 
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Continual repetition (by quoting the same post again and again) may be a technique for effectively closing down a debate ... I have wondered why it is employed so tenaciously.
 
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Continual repetition (by quoting the same post again and again) may be a technique for effectively closing down a debate ... I have wondered why it is employed so tenaciously.

exactly, yo are wise...

it ruins the forum too, it downgrades the threads.
 
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To say that Paul was against circumcision is as inaccurate as to say he was for it. The truth is that it depended on whether the person in question was a gentile or a jew. The council of Jerusalem clearly decided that gentile believers did not need to become circumcised and take on the covenant, and so Paul writes proudly that he did not circumcise Titus, a gentile. Timothy, however, was not a gentile. He was the son of a gentile father and a Jewish mother. So, since Timothy was a Jew, Paul circumcised him.
 
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Well, saint Paul did write these words: Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. (Galatians 5:2) So I reckon he was against circumcision as a religious observance. I doubt he'd object to it for medical reasons or even for cultural reasons but once it becomes a religious requirement he is against it.
 
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