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To: Carry_Okie
What you say might be true, but only if you don't believe that the Holy Spirit lived in Paul's heart.

Seems that IF the Holy Spirit were in Pauls' heart then Paul would have executed the instructions given to him at the Jerusalem Council. The 4 necessary things that were deemed necessary by the Holy Ghost. You remember those, right?

Do you have the verses where Paul states and instructs the Gentile converts about those four necessary things?

388 posted on 09/28/2006 2:05:05 PM PDT by ET(end tyranny) (John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a MAN that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God:)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Seems that IF the Holy Spirit were in Pauls' heart then Paul would have executed the instructions given to him at the Jerusalem Council. The 4 necessary things that were deemed necessary by the Holy Ghost.

Those instructions weren't specifically directed to Paul and weren't the sentence of a council, but a pronouncement by Peter:

Acts 15:19 Wherefore my (Peter's) sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

These are standards characteristic of Jewish expectations of "G-d Fearers" or "Righteous Gentiles" such that they not defile the synagogue.

Realize that Paul had the specific goal of both saving Gentiles and bringing them into the synagogue, in part, to save Jews (the "strong" and the "weak" in Romans respectively, the discriminant being faith). That meant that Gentiles knowing next to nothing of Torah were entering the synagogue claiming co-participation in the blessings of G-d.

There is necessary, and then there is whatever else the love of G-d inspires one to learn and emulate from the word. Think you that learning anything from the Torah has no benefit? Paul made it absolutely clear that it was faith which constituted the principal determinant and not legalism. He also taught that the Gentiles were to be 'law respectful' in a manner similar to the Noahide law for righteous Gentiles and the four criteria you cited. Neither of us will ever know all of what he taught.

390 posted on 09/28/2006 3:13:03 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Angelides v. Schwarzenegger is like deciding between ebola and cancer.)
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