IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Hey New Paradigm! So nice to meet you! We are going to be interesting companions in this forum, because we share as much as we differ about. There will be those occasions where I argue with you. But in THIS post, I can only say KUDOS!!!! Well written.Paul abused Scripture by taking passages out of context and giving them meanings that were never intended!
To proof-text his doctrine, Paul lifted numerous Scripture passages out of their context and gave them meanings that were never intended. Some of these passages he gave a meaning that the context absolutely nullifies. The following is one classic example:
One of Paul’s unique and fundamental doctrines states that absolutely no one is righteous. To proof-text his doctrine Paul cuts and pastes together no less than 7 snippets of Scripture and presents them as one:
“There is none righteous, no, not one. There is none who seeks after God. They have all gone out of the way. They have together become unprofitable. There is none who does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Romans 3:10-18
Each of every one of these snippets Paul took out of context and gave a meaning that its author never intended. The first snippet is our example of how Paul gave a meaning to a passage that only a verse or two later the author says something that completely destroys what Paul said about it. It was taken from Psalm 14. David here begins by speaking specifically of “fools”, who say in their heart “there is no God”.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one. Psalm 14:1-3
David is in no way referring to every human being with the term “the children of men”. He is speaking of the fools who say there is no God and is referring specifically to them as the children of men. It is among these that he says there is none righteous. We know this because he goes on to contrast these children of men with those he calls the generation of the righteous!
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up MY people as they eat bread, and do not call on the Lord? There they are in great fear, for God is
with the generation of the righteous. Psalm 14:4-5
Imagine that, ... “the generation of THE RIGHTEOUS”!! Paul didn’t tell us about this part of the Psalm! So much for his doctrine that no one is righteous.
I don't think Christians have any idea just how bad things are, just how much their scriptures take out of context, misquote, add clauses, and even invent a verse. (Obviously I'm speaking of the entire collection of Christian scriptures, not just the Pauline ones.
One of the butcheries of the Tanakh that get my goat is Hebrews 10:5 "Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me." It is supposed to be quoting Psalm 40:6 (Psalm 40:7 in Jewish texts). BUT Psalm 40:6 says nothing about a body!!!! Nothing!!!! It says,
Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required." IOW the Christian author of Hebrew makes up the so called "body" quote out of whole cloth!
And then after butchering our beloved Tanakh, they want us to become Chrisitans? I don't think so. Run away! Run away!