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To: pgyanke

<<<”He did not command the Apostles to go out and build their churches for Him.”>>>>

Your statement has just blown St. Paul out of the Scriptures

Now tell me? What do we do with St. Paul’s Epistles to the Churches?


180 posted on 07/11/2007 8:21:03 AM PDT by franky1
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To: franky1
Your statement has just blown St. Paul out of the Scriptures

You must mean this verse...

1 Cor 1:2 To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.

... or these...

1 Cor 10:32 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God: 33 As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

... or this one...

1Co 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

... maybe you meant a different epistle...

Ga 1:13 For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews? religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and wasted it.

Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Php 3:6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

1 Ti 3:5 But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

Heb 12:23 And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect...

I will admit, I am not an English major... but I am hard pressed to find where Paul claimed he went about setting up his own churches. As I said before, Christ said He will build His Church. There is no contradiction in the Pauline Epistles with this view.

Now tell me? What do we do with St. Paul’s Epistles to the Churches?

Read them... and learn from them.

183 posted on 07/11/2007 8:49:23 AM PDT by pgyanke (Duncan Hunter 08--You want to elect a conservative? Then support a conservative!)
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