| Modern Gainsayers Against Paul's
Gospel Part II |
Holding fast the
faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by
sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers.
Titus 1:9
Paul's Gospel is...
Deeper
Dispensational Dividing, it is not "different!"
The Way of God More Perfectly!
A More Excellent Way!
Biblical Increase God’s Way
— the Book!
True Liberty in Christ!
Being a Christian is more than just leading
others TO Christ,
and more than just living FOR Christ...
...it is learning to live WITH Christ after you have been
led to and are living for Christ!
Having an understanding of the Scriptures is
how a persons grows to live WITH Christ.
See
Revelation 3:20
But these Baptists who claim to
be Bible Believers are gainsayers
who don’t see it that way... ....in
fact, they don’t see it at all!
Getting a solid understanding of rightly dividing the word of truth and Paul's gospel will:
This is just a basic outline and an attempt at writing down a few of the comments made on the audio. To get a better understanding of what the gainsayers say and how the truth should convince them about Paul, you should listen to the audio portion.
Recent email arguments...
Salvation is always by grace - from Genesis to Revelation!
That is true - but that grace always had to
come with or through something. Ask Adam - Noah - Abraham -
Moses - etc.
I am a dispensationalist - and have
read a number of authors on this subject and have read my bible
more than 20 times, and the NT more than 40 times.
Here comes the scholarly and impress folks
approach! Unfortunately, this often works because mose
folks don't take the time to do their own reading and studying -
even as they hear about Paul's gospel. They will heed his
arguments instead of reading and seeing for themselve.
The Bible's teaching about salvation,
eternal security and prayer have been the same throughout the
history of the world.
Really? That is so obviously wrong!
There are so many variations in that conclusion that only rightly
dividing would solve the confusion made by this teaching!
Read your bible and recognize the truth
when you see it.
He did read and did recognize the truth -
so why such an argument from a pastor who said to read the Bible?
Click here for the introduction and first (1) gainsayer argument.
The gainsayers say that we teach that ...
(2) The book of Acts is also largely Jewish.
Hardly - it starts out Jewish and ends with
the Gentiles!
Hyper dispensationalists commonly believe that after Christ
was rejected by Israel in the Gospels, that they were given a
second chance to receive the kingdom in the first part of the
book of Acts.
You can't argue against that and if you
notice the last sentense in this paragraph, they believe that
statement as well.
Thus, they teach that there are two different churches viewed
in the book of Acts, and the
true Pauline church only started after Acts
9, 13, or 28. Thus, the church mentioned in
the first part of Acts allegedly refers to a different church
than that of Paul’s prison epistles.
Baloney - we don't teach two DIFFERENT
churches. Listen to the audio to hear it explained better
than I can type it. There ARE two different churchs in the
local assembly and the universal and invisible church, but there
are not two different churches in Acts, etc. The church in Acts 2, etc.
is the early beginnings of the local church - complete with signs
and all - but later with Paul, the church grows OUT of that stuff.
Same church, just growing up!
The earlier “church” in Acts
is simply an aspect of the kingdom preached in the Gospels. Most
of the book of Acts is
therefore discounted as a guideline for the churches today.
If we can teach that Acts is how the church
gets started, then we ought to be preaching about miracles, signs,
wonders and tongues! That is what the early church preached!
Yet, at the very end of the book of Acts
we still find Paul preaching about the kingdom (Acts 28:23). In fact, he was still
preaching about it in his epistles! (2
Thess. 1:5; 2 Tim. 4:1).
Yes - the Kingdom of GOD only - and Christ
preached kingdom of God and kingdom of heaven!
While we can see an obvious transition in the book of Acts, this does not mean that there
are different gospels and different churches in various parts of
Acts.
We don't say it did!
(3) The mysteries given to Paul contained a different
revelation from that given to Peter and the other Apostles, and
only Paul’s writings are for the church today. The other
epistles, such as Hebrew, James, 1 and 2
Peter, and the epistles of John are not for us today.
yes, they are FOR us but just not TO us.
Do you think they will ever figure out that 'to' and 'for' thing?
Yet, Paul himself said that the church is built upon the
“apostles” plural and not merely upon himself (Eph. 2:20).
Of course - but why stay around the
foundation - Paul is all about building on that foundation!
And Peter also referred to the writings of Paul and made no
distinction between Paul’s teaching and the teaching of the
other apostles (2 Pet. 3:1-2, 15-16). Peter said Paul wrote to the same
people and preached the same message.
Ha - there is a big difference between 'early'
Peter and later 'Peter!' Peter gets changed around - gets a
fast education in Acts 10 and Galatians as he
learns what the gospel is that is to be preached now.
The last comment on the tape is about a letter I received from a man who believes that Paul is the gainsayer. He says that the best way to divide the truth rightly is to divide out the conflicting teachings of Paul and toss them in the trash. You will have to hear the audio to hear the details on those thoughts.
Unreal, but yet oh so real these days!