One thing I've wondered about Church Christianity is when the words or Paul contridict with the teachings of Jesus, they seem to reject Jesus and take the words of Paul?
Jesus taught to sinners. I would argue that Judas wasn't a great example of someone who was free of sin.
It's too easy just to be like "Oh, Paul wrote the word of God" when he wrote his letters so Paul is equivalent to Jesus, and I think it is a logical error. We might as well be building altars and worshipping Paul if we are just going to reject Jesus.
My personal opinion is that Paul corrupted Christianity and led the religion astray.
Is Paul equivalent to Jesus? If not then how do you explain the many many contradictions between their writing and teachings? Either the word of Jesus was the word or God or the word of Paul was? They can't both be true.
This is why I reject Paul's writings almost entirely in my path, and I definately don't do what the Church does and prioritize above the teachings of Jesus when they do contridict.
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Yeah, you hear this a lot from bussyblasters.
John 16:13 explicitly states
that Jesus 
said further revelations would 
follow 
after his passing. In Corinthians, Paul strategically employs the phrases “not I, but the Lord” and “I, not the Lord” to frame the fuller nature 
of this revelation but not to place 
the two in contradiction to each other. Paul's is an interpretation of Christ's Word, not something which contradicts it and if you insist on separating the two it's possibly because there's something Paul said was a no-no that you want to get into.
The Council of Rome were, apparently, divinely inspired and if they say it's The Word then it's The Word. Go off and be a Delta-Christian Scientist
or something if you're going 
to reject 
Paul because he's the cornerstone of the faith.
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I reject the fact that you can't question something because a historical political and economic power merely claimed to be divinely inspired.
I know how Gods speak and talk to people, if they appointed someone to speak on their behalf, they wouldn't have allowed the Church to commit a lot of their atrocities such as censoring the Bible and committing genocide of Christians.
If I speak on behalf of God, then I'll tell you straight up, question me and follow your own heart and intuition.
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cute twink alert
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You are entitled
to reject 
that but even the Greek 
Patriarchs use the Septuagint so you're in David 
Koresh territory 
here.
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Why mention that you reject the teachings of the church when you don't believe in the teachings of God himself? The first should be inherent in the second.
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I do believe in the teachings of God, I just received a sign from them.
I view the Church as the church of man. Because I believe in the teachings of God, I believe that the Church corrupted them.
https://rdrama.net/h/biofoids/post/261402/i-received-a-weird-sign
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why link to something unrelated? Also what do you mean by the church of man?
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Because I didn't post that.
I went on reddit on an inactive account, it was banned for suspicious activity, what it posted was luke 19:47-48.
I didn't post it. I didn't even look up that verse recently or accidentally copy and paste it or anything.
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Luke 19:47-48
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honestly it looks like something you would post are you sure you didnt just forget
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No. I'm pretty sure I didn't. It was on an inactive account.
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what do you think it means if you didnt
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John 16:13
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