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Date Posted: 20:21:26 01/08/03 Wed
Author: walt
Subject: Re: a chosen one, a sent one
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Re: a chosen one, a sent one" on 12:51:14 01/08/03 Wed

>ALL members of the "Kingdom of God" were chosen
>carefully before they were admitted to membership.
>They lived a loving communal lifestyle as explained in
>Acts 2:44-47 and Acts 4:32-37.----- I agree in general with this comment.-----
>.....Quite likely Paul was one these members and he
>was sent by that community to bring as many
>non-Jews as possible into Judaism. But, unauthorized,
>after the crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans (he, too,
>was a Roman citizen) he went beyond that, trying to
>produce a "unversal" (=catholic) religion consisting
>of bits and pieces of many then current religions and
>mythologies that were sufficiently attractive enough
>to bring in a large quantity of "believers" at the
>expense of their quality that Jesus had insisted on.----This means saul of tarsus was already a follower of Jesus the Christ/messiah before his encounter on the road to damascus. So you would deny that what is said in the letters written by paul is true? do you obey the law of moses as Christ said in matthew 23:1-3? do you practice water baptism for the forgiveness of sins as acts 2:38 says? do you believe only those who are circumcised in the flesh are part of the covenant people of God?----

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