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I believe that if God had not given us the Epistles, we would really not know how to apply the Gospels (Matthew through John) correctly in this age.

Thank you for the kind words, and I agree with your above completely. The Epistles amplified the Gospels and showed us how to look at them. Not a single wasted word.

ALL of the Gospel records (Matthew through John) are true, but they are not ALL the truth. There is subsequent revelation -— the pinnacle got even higher.

Well said. And there is prior revelation too in the OT that the Gospels don't repeat in toto. It doesn't make it any less true. We should treat the OT as Jesus did.

I've just gone back and read many of the posts from the last 24 hours or so.

Many of them implying that much in the Old Testament was a misinterpretation of the nature of God, or misrepresented God's will — because they couldn't see God manifest in the flesh, or hear Him speak with a mouth of clay. Some (it looks like) implying, for example, that “an eye for an eye” were somehow Moses’ misrepresentations of God.

This is a naturalistic view, and much influenced by a modernistic sense of how man wants God to act toward man, or in his affairs.

But, it seems to me, what is ignored is that God can change His instructions to man justly from one age to another. It is not a violation of His nature.

From the very beginning of the Bible -— God's instructions to Adam while in a state of innocence in the Garden were not the instructions God continued to give to Adam after the fall, once Adam was ejected from Paradise.

So God manifest in flesh, Jesus Christ, justly modified His instructions to the nation of Israel for a new Day, a new Age, a new Dealing with the nation (Matthew through John), and it does not say in the least that the instructions given from Sinai to Moses were not correct, or were somehow “misinterpretations” by the Old Testament writers.

Further, God the Holy Spirit gave subsequent Revelation — advanced Revelation, if you will, directly through post- Resurrection Apostles and prophets, that supersede even instruction given in Matthew chapters 5 through 7, Matthew 10, Luke chapters 9 and 10, and other areas of the Gospel records.

When my children were seven years old, the instructions and restrictions applicable to their daily lives and activities would not match very well the instructions given to my sixteen and seventeen year old children. I have children from age 30 all the way down to age seven. The eldest yet living in my house is sixteen. My seven year old knows quite well that she can't venture out as my sixteen year old son does. The instructions justly change from year-to-year.

I find no indication anywhere in Jesus’ words in the Gospel records that He believed that anything in the Mosaic Law is to be taken as anything except proper instruction for that period of God's dealings with Israel.

Jesus Christ never brought doubt upon the verity of any words in the Old Testament. He called the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms SCRIPTURE (Luke 24:25-46). If they are Scripture, then they are “given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16, 17).