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To: kosta50
At least Paul admits that he doesn't have a commandment, but only permission (1 Cor 7:6,25). How many others have added their own judgment believing they had permission? How many others have been misquoted, misunderstood or just made things up? If human nature, being imperfect and thoroughly fallen is any guide, I would say even the best of them have done it. Paul admits it.

Yeah, he admits to this, too. (Wonder if he had permission.):

If through my lies God’s truth abounds to His glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? (Rom. 3.7)

"I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, that I might gain them that are without law. ... I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake" (1 Cor. 9.19-23)

In every way, whether in PRETENSE or truth, Jesus is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. (Phil 1:18)

I ROBBED other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you (2 Corinthians, 11:8)

208 posted on 01/16/2005 3:24:54 PM PST by 1 spark ("Rob Peter to pay Paul")
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To: 1 spark
Your quotes are out of context (of course). In Rom 3:7 he establishes the simple fact that we are all sinners even if we do good, whether for honest or dishonest reasons. Nothing we do diminishes our sinfulness or God's glory.

You use the same out-of-context approach in Philippians. In context

No comment needed to show your deliberate distortions in #178. The only one you are deceiving is yourself.

214 posted on 01/16/2005 6:16:58 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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