musterion
Well-known member
I don't understand why we cannot.
1. Because He wasn't speaking to or about you or me.
2. Because He spoke AGAIN from Heaven, via Paul, with a whole new body of doctrine, the revelation of the mystery, which superseded and deactivated, for now, everything He'd taught before, all of which focused on God's purpose for redeemed Israel (which is also not you or me).
3. Because It is by THAT body of doctrine the believer today is established, and in no other way.
4. Because to reject that body of doctrine is to reject Him because one cannot know Him according to the flesh; i.e. as Messiah of Israel.
5. The saving Good News today is that He died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day for our justification. If you believe anything other than that, or seek to add even one particle of Law to it, which you're doing when you go "back to the Gospels" for your way of life, you're lost.