What do you thing this “right division” is?
Are you a “worker of lawlessness?”
By deliberately misinterpreting Paul’s instruction to Timothy to divide the word of truth from the words of falsehood, one becomes a worker of lawlessness.
Confused you are!
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Oh my. No, I am not lawless. By “right division” I meant that this writer is going back into a time when Israel was UNDER THE LAW, being spoken to by one who was BORN UNDER LAW to redeem those UNDER THE LAW...and then trying to apply that directly to post-Cross believers. Distinctions need to be made as to who is being spoken to, and when and why.
Jesus did not stop speaking after His death, burial and resurrection. Who was the person He appeared to and taught personally and made apostle to the Gentiles? That man who penned most of the New Testament letters? Perhaps Jesus intends for us to listen to him today?
Try finding a Syrophoenician woman asking for crumbs from Israel in the letter to the Ephesians. NOT. THERE. Through the cross Jesus put to death the enmity between Israel and the nations. No more dividing wall. One new man out of the two.
Shocking!
True.
The verse does not say to divide truth from lawlessness or untruth...It says to divide truth from truth...What may be truth in one place may not be the truth in another...