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Isn't it odd they focus so much on Paul's teachings which were more rule based?

roddma wrote:Isn't it odd they focus so much on Paul's teachings which were more rule based?

Without Paul's teachings they don't exist.

zeek wrote:

roddma wrote:Isn't it odd they focus so much on Paul's teachings which were more rule based?

Without Paul's teachings they don't exist.

It's really the Church of Paul.

I've known people who "swung the other way" in terms of their beliefs. They are totally different people now. I was pretty conservative and religious until I graduated from college, then I started realizing it was a b.s. lifestyle that I wanted no part of.

roddma wrote:Isn't it odd they focus so much on Paul's teachings which were more rule based?

Paul was spirit based. In 1st Corinthians he describes the spiritual gift lead Church. He had the Gift of Healing which he used on Eutychus .

Acts 20 kjv
9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

The CoC twists his writings into rules while he was forgiveness based. He called himself the Apostile to the Gentiles. He claimed to be the Jew's Jew. He was honored by God as being very straight with humans and given the mantle of evangelist. He was beheaded in Rome under Nero around 65 CE. Nero died in 68 CE. He used Christians dipped in oil and burnt alive to light his parties. The fire in Rome Started in 64 CE. Nero blamed Christians and Christians blamed Nero.

roddma wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:52 am Isn't it odd they focus so much on Paul's teachings which were more rule based?

The cOC should change it's name to church of Saint Paul or some such. They sure do worship that man

Right. Not taking any responsibility for what might be wrong; always blaming the one leaving.