[Alex Murphy]

I recall being shocked one time at church when someone said something like “Oh, Paul. I don’t believe any of his books.” I thought they were joking and quipped something about Luke I think. “Oh - Luke is okay - just Paul and all of that stuff about women being silent, wearing hats, etc.”

We had a prominent FReeper come out and say the same thing, right here in the Religion Forum, several years ago.

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We had a prominent FReeper come out and say the same thing, right here in the Religion Forum, several years ago.

I was thinking the same thing! Do the initials J.A. ring a bell?

What people who think this way forget it that the Holy Spirit is who inspired/breathed/carried along the writers of sacred Scripture and it was not any one person's own imaginings that got written down. Paul's epistles are every bit Scripture as the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as Moses, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Daniel, etc. God's word is God's word.