You know Paul is an apostle ...
Most Christians want to believe they know everything about Paul, what he taught and what they think about what they learn in church, after all ... or is it?
I have heard claims of pastors of Christian churches that Paul anti-Jewish. He taught the abolition of the law and the rejection of Jewish customs and holidays. In this article we will consider all these things and more. First, let's look at what isis taught in most Christian churches. This gives us a good basis to go by.
Dispensationalism is the dominant Christian faith of most churches taught. It claims that Jews "under the law of Moses," cried the "dispensation of law," but that the law was "abolished by Christ." They say it was "nailed to the cross" and not for Christians and conditions (except maybe some "moral aspects" of it). They teach thatToday, Christians are living "under grace" or are "Time," "dispensation of grace." This is nothing but a slap in the face of not only Paul, but Stephen and all the others who lost their lives trying to fight this term.
I think we have the fact that the dedication of Luke 7 of 28 chapters seem (part and full loads chapters: 6-7, 21-26 and 28) acts in the defense of the false accusations against the early believers and Paul. These charges were ... thatweaken and undermine the validity of the Torah (which most modern translations call "the Act"). This is one fourth of the Acts, which is dedicated to debunking the lie that. It 's very clear, suddenly, how serious was the subject of the first century believers. Stephen lost his life over and Paul spent many years in court and in prison on the same charge of promoting antinomianism and Dispensationalism.
Let's take a closer look at this problem: the sameProblem that Stephen came in hot water with the Jewish authorities, and then stoned to death, is the question that Paul was in trouble, in Acts 21
Acts 6
13 Thou false witnesses, who said: "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law, 14 for we have heard that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and customs of that change hands Moses' on us. "
false witnesses brought these false accusations against Stephen ... and Paulwas directly responsible for the death of Stephen.
Acts 7
58 Then they dragged him out of the city and stoned him, and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
What were these false accusations? Stephen was the doctrine of dispensationalism, that the / Torah law is done away, for Christians under grace. Stephen lost his life defending himself against these false accusations! The Jewish authorities accused of Paulthe same thing.
Acts 21
28 shouted: "Fellow Israelites, help This is the man, education is everywhere against our people, our law, and that place, more than that, in reality, the Greeks brought to the temple and desecrated the place saint. "
To prove his false accuser, who has not changed the law of Moses, Paul took a Nazarite vow. A vote that is to inaugurate a state of holiness and ritual purity, in the light of the Torah (see Num 6:2-6, 13 to 18More information about the Nazarite vow). He also takes upon himself to offer the high cost of paying for four other men were also under the Nazarite vow to the victims of the case. They had to do this to get out of their Nazarite vows. Paul did this to show that he is against the Torah.
Acts 21
17 When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us warmly. 18 The next day we went to visit with Paul James, and all the elders were present. 19 After greeting them,said one by one the things God has done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 20 When they heard this, they praised God then told him: "See, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among Jews, and all are zealous for the Law of 21 you've said about you that you teach all the Jews of the Gentiles to Moses. leave, and that is said, not to circumcise their children or observe the customs. 22 What to do now is please becertainly feel that you came. 23 So do what you say. We have four men who are under the voting. Join the 24 men, go through the rite of purification with them, and pay for the shaving of heads. So, everyone recognizes that there is nothing said about you, but you observe and guard the law. But 25 have become like the Gentiles, believers, we have a letter with our verdict that abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and leftfrom blood and from things strangled and from fornication. "26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, after cleaning, he entered the temple with them, the publication of the final day of cleaning, if the victim would be made for each of them.
Upon his arrival in Rome, Paul testifies before the Jewish leaders there over his Torah obedience.
Acts 28
17 Three days later, he called local leaders of the Jews. When they met, she toldthem. "Brothers, if I have done nothing against our people and customs of our ancestors, but I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans 18 was when I looked, the Romans wanted to release me, because there was no no reason for the death penalty in my case.
Yet most of the traditional Christian theology today is bought in the same man who made the false accuser-up against Stefano and Paul. The same lies, against which they defended themselves andfor which they finally lost their lives.
Most of the Christian church has a traditional antinomian (anti-Torah) and dispensational view of Scripture. And believe what Paul had falsely declared his teachings on the accuser. The much-he defends himself vigorously against that was in any way repeal, annul, abolish or amend the law of the Torah of the Lord. Most Christian leaders have missed the whole point of Acts!
L 'The point is that the Acts of the apostles and evangelists soon took the good news (gospel) of the redemptive work of Jesus the Messiah and disability of Jewish and non-Jewish population. A message of salvation by grace through faith. But these servants of God Almighty in any way affect or repeal of the Torah (instructions in righteousness) is the same God's message of salvation by grace is free and does not contradict the message of obedience.Obedience to the commandments of Adonai, as revealed by him on Mount Sinai. Jesus said that if we love him we keep his commandments (John 14:15). Not to mention the direct guidance is given to us on this point, that the Messiah has felt compelled to throw overboard.
Matthew 5
15 No one lights a lamp after making it under a bushel, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 Similarly, let your light shine before men, so they can seeyour good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. 17 "Think not that I have come to abolish the Law or the prophets: I came not to abolish but to fulfill 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth, not a letter, not a shot will point A. Law until everything is done 19 Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least commandments and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. who does it but she andteaching them to be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
So with all this confusion, which the Apostle Paul? What he believes and what he has to teach? Well, come on, what the Scripture tells us.
• He was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin was born.
2. Corinthians 11
22 Are they Hebrews? So I Israelites? So it is they are descendants of Abraham? So I'm
Romans 11
1 I wonder, God rejected his people? No way! I am an Israelite, aDescendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
Philippians 3
4 If someone has a reason for confidence in the flesh, I more: 5 on the eighth day, a member of the People of Israel, cut off from the tribe of Benjamin, jew by Jews, was born when the law, a Pharisee;
• He was educated as a Jew.
Acts 22
3 "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to our ancestral rightzealous for God, as all of you today.
• He was a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.
Acts 23
6 When Paul that some were Sadducees and others were noted Pharisees, he cried to the Council, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. I am on trial for the hope of the resurrection of the dead."
• He kept the Sabbath.
Acts 17
1 After Paul and Silas had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there iswas a Jewish synagogue. 2 And Paul went, as usual, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them the Scriptures,
• He attended the synagogue.
Acts 13
5 When they arrived at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to help them.
14, but went on from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on Saturday, went into the synagogue and sat down.
43 When the meeting broke synagogueMany devout Jews and proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke with them and asked them to God in grace. 44 The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
Acts 14
1 The same thing happened in Iconium, where Paul and Barnabas in the Jewish synagogue, walked and talked in a way that a large number of Jews and Greeks believed.
Acts 17
After 1 was Paul and Silas passed through Amphipolis andApollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where a Jewish synagogue. 2 And Paul went, as usual, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them the Scriptures,
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout people, and also on the market every day with those who were there.
Acts 18
4 Every Saturday he would support the synagogue and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
19 When they came to Ephesus, he left her there, butFirst, he entered the synagogue and a conversation with the Jews.
Acts 19
8 He entered the synagogue and for three months and frankly argued persuasively about the kingdom of God
• He was the Lord's Holy Day festival
At 20 - The Festival of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost
6 But we sailed from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and we took them to Troas in five days, where we stayed for seven days.
16 For Paul had decidedIn the past Ephesus, who spend more time in Asia, could not wait to be in Jerusalem, where possible, on the day of Pentecost.
1 Corinthians 5 - Easter
7 Clean the old leaven to be a new game, you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb has been sacrificed, even Christ. 8 Therefore, we celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• He saidHebrew.
Acts 21
40 If you had permission, Paul stood on the stairs and greeted the people at rest, and if there was a great silence, he spoke in Hebrew, namely:
Acts 22
2 When they heard, they are in Hebrew, were still quiet. Then he said:
Acts 26
14 If we all fell to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? " It hurts, you compete againstthe sting. "
• He has taught at the Hebrew Bible.
Acts 13
15 After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent them a message that says, and ". Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people who give him" 16 So Paul stood up and began to speak with a gesture: "You Israelites, and others who fear God, 17 to listen to the God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay in Egypt, and with.arm as he led her out of it. 18 For forty years he sat with them in the wild. 19 According to him, destroyed seven nations in Canaan and gave them their land as an inheritance 20 for about 450 years. Then he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel. 21 Then they asked for a king and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years he reigned. 22 When he removed, he made David their king. Inhis testimony about him, said: "I have found David son of Jesse, was a man after my own heart, which is all my wishes."
33 And he has for us, their children, met Jesus, was written in the second Psalm: "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten you." 34 As he rose from the dead never return to corruption, he spoke in this way, "I give you the holy promises made to David." 35 Accordingly, he also said in another Psalm: "Thou shaltLet your experience of corruption Santo. "
Romans 2
24 As it is written: "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
Romans 3
1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. To the Jews first entrusted with the Word of God 3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness aside the faithfulness of God? 4 Of course not! Although everyone is a liar, may God be proved true,As it is written: "To be justified with the words, and prevail in your assessment."
• His companions, friends and guests were Jewish.
Acts 4
36 E 'was a Levite, a native of Cyprus, Joseph, the apostles gave the name Barnabas (which means "son of consolation").
Acts 15
22 And the apostles and elders, with the consent of the whole Church, decided to men among themselves and send them to choose Paul and Barnabas to Antioch.They sent Judas called bar Abbas, and Silas, leaders of the brothers,
Acts 16
1 Paul also went to Derbe and Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was greek.
Acts 18
1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived in Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all Jews to leave Rome. Paul wentto them, 3 and see why it was of the same trade, stayed with them, and have worked together with the trade were tent-makers.
24 And it was a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, Ephesus. He was a cultured man, well versed in the scriptures.
Acts 19
34 But when they realized it was a Jew cried for about two hours, all in unison, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Acts 22
12 "A certain Ananias, who was a devout man according to the lawand that of all the Jews living there said
• He practiced circumcision.
Acts 16
3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took it and had him circumcised, because the Jews who lived in those areas, because everyone knew that his father was greek.
• He went to Jerusalem to worship.
Acts 24
11 to find out how you can, it is not more than 12 days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.
Most important, Paul is an imitator of the master andSavior.
1. Corinthians 11
1. Let me take for example, as I am of Christ. 2 I beg you, because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I delivered to you. 3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is the head of the woman and God the head of Christ.
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