Faith writes:
And Gill is one of the best of the best commentators on the Bible. Why should we trust your sour made-up hatred of everything truly Christian over these worthies? Sad if anybody takes your comments seriously.
But I have never asked anyone to trust anything I post, I am not a carny conman; instead I ask folk to actually actually read what is written in context, to stop using quote mining and proof texts or simply believing the apologists.
Faith writes:
If you are influencing anyone with your slander that's a crying shame. You attack Paul's character even where the scripture goes out of its way to describe him as sacrificing himself for the gospel, as someone who is the least likely of all people to be concerned about his own status, who suffered whippings and beatings and imprisonments in his mission to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Yes, the gospel of Jesus Christ, not something of his own invention. Go read the right hand margin of that site I linked:
I actually can read Acts 18 and do not need Gill to tell me what it says. In fact I even quoted it in context so that folk can see where verse three fits into the whole.
quote:
Acts: 18 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome: ) and came unto them.
3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
But Christianity is NOT the Gospel of Jesus but the creation of others. Jesus was never a Christian, he was born, raised and died a Jew.
The Gospel of Jesus is what Jesus did and preached and taught. All the rest, the Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament, Apocalyptic texts, dogma and particularly all the work of the thousands of apologists out there are their work.
Jesus mission was with and for the living; it revolves around doing, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, educating the children, comforting the sorrowful.
As Christians, that is what we are supposed to be doing.
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