Different isn't necessarily better but I'd have to agree that it is, in fact, better because the law, which was in our way, has been taken out of the way. The Law, which had a ministry of death, has ended in so far as righteousness is concerned. How is that not better?
Jesus taught the new law, it is his Last Will and Testament, the Everlasting Covenant.
Jesus taught the new law, the law that requires faith.
Paul taught that exact same law as Jesus taught.
Romans 3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of
the law that requires faith.
Matthew 24:10 At that time many will turn away
from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
Mark 2:5 When
Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son,
your sins are forgiven.”
Luke 5:20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
John 12:42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their
faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;
Jesus is still the One who accomplished that but that's beside the point. That point being that Jesus didn't preach it and neither did anyone else until Paul.
You claim Paul came along and changed a man's Last Will and Testament, and a Covenant that God made! Paul SAYS that NO MAN can change a WILL or a Covenant.
Galatians 3:15 Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.
Look, you can pound the pulpit all you want but it won't change the fact that there is no one in the bible other than Paul that says anything similar to "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." Jesus didn't teach it, Peter, James and John didn't teach it and neither did anyone else other than the Apostle Paul who was given that gospel not by men but by direct divine revelation and was sent, again by revelation, to the Twelve in order to explain his gospel to them!
Jesus taught his apostle while he walked the earth that people HAD TO HAVE FAITH in him.
Jesus taught the same thing to Paul.
Now those are the biblical facts (part of them, anyway). You can choose to believe them and formulate your doctrine around them or you can choose to be emotionally motivated away from those fact because they for some reason make you think they somehow demean Jesus Christ, Who was the One who told Paul what to peach, where to preach it and who to preach it to in the first place.
What Jesus said (taught) while on Earth was said to Israel.
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Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
What Jesus taught was TO THE WHOLE WORLD, to WHOMEVER, to ALL, and to EVERYONE.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's only begotten Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.
John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that
all men through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9That was the true Light, which lighteth
every man that cometh into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12But
as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. 13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
If it is embarassing to you then you really do need to stop claiming to have formed your doctrine based on what the bible says because Paul is the one who repeatedly calls it "my gospel" an inf fact states explicitly that men will be judged by his gospel...
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Romans 2:12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
13 (for not the hearers of the law
are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves
their thoughts accusing or else excusing
them)
16 in the day when
God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ,
according to my gospel.
Romans 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to
my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began
2 Timothy 2:8Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to
my gospel,
9 for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer,
even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
He referes to it in several ways but that doesn't change the fact that he repeatedly referred to it as "my gospel", as I have just proven.
Saying it doesn't make it so. It's as if you don't understand what the point even is.
No, you didn't. What you did was change the subject and then proved the new topic.
Amen! This passage says nothing that contradicts a word I've said nor a syllable withwhich I disagree.
I am not responsible for your misunderstanding nor am I responsible to read your mind. The entire discussion is still right here for you or anyone else to read. If you need to read it to follow the discussion then I invite you to do so but just repeating your claims don't count as rebuttal arguments and proving points that were never in dispute doesn't either.
This is mindlessness.
If this were the case, then there would have never been an Apostle Paul to begin with. Jesus already has twelve apostles. If Paul wasn't doing anything different then there would have been no need for a thirteenth apostle.
You're a liar. You aught to be ashamed of yourself.
I just directly quoted the passage that proves this stupidity false!
In fact, I'm not going any further. We're done.
It turns out that what I said earlier does seem to apply to you after all. You aren't interested in anything the bible says unless it lines up with your doctrine. You're just as big a waste of time as anyone else on this website.
I repent of having spent all this time with you. I wish I hadn't done it. I won't be making the same mistake again.
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It was God’s Law given to Moses but it was called the Law of Moses.
Luke 2:22 [ Jesus Presented in the Temple ] When the time came for the purification rites required by the
Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
Luke 24:44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the
Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
John 7:23 Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the
law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?
Acts 13:39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the
law of Moses.
Acts 15:5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the
law of Moses.”
Acts 15:21 For the
law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
Acts 28:23 They arranged to meet Paul on a certain day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying. He witnessed to them from morning till evening, explaining about the kingdom of God, and from the
Law of Moses and from the Prophets he tried to persuade them about Jesus.
1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the
Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
Hebrews 10:28 Anyone who rejected the
law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Paul calls it the GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
Romans 15:19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed
the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder
the gospel of Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:12[ Ministers of the New Covenant ] Now when I went to Troas to preach
the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me,
2 Corinthians 9:13 Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of
the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.
2 Corinthians 10:14 We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with
the gospel ofChrist.
Galatians 1:7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert
the gospel of Christ.
Philippians 1:27 [ Life Worthy of the Gospel ] Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of
the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel
1 Thessalonians 3:2 We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading
the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
Paul also calls it OUR GOSPEL:
2 Corinthians 4:3 And even if
our gospelis veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 because
our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.
2 Thessalonians 2:14 He called you to this through
our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul AND PETER call it the Gospel of God.
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for
the gospel of God—
Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming
the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:7 Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching
the gospel of God to you free of charge?
1 Thessalonians 2:8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only
the gospel of God but our lives as well.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached
the gospel of God to you.
1 Peter 4:17 For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey
the gospel of God?
1 Thessalonians 2:2 We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you
his gospel in the face of strong opposition.
There is only one Gospel, and it is God's Gospel, the Gospel of Christ, Paul's Gospel, and OUR GOSPEL.
Romans 15:16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
The gospel of God, the Gospel of Christ, Paul’s gospel, and our gospel.
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