Subject: Who wrote the most Books In the Bible |
Bible Note: Greetings Jaknik! So then, your previous statement: "There is nothing "God-breathed" about Paul's letters" was simply a statement of opinion, not fact! However, the early church clearly felt otherwise. Clement writes in his first Epistle to the Corinthians (Chap. 47): "Take up the epistle of the blessed Apostle Paul. What did he write to you at the time when the Gospel first began to be preached?(2) Truly, under the inspiration(3) of the Spirit, he wrote to you concerning himself, and Cephas, and Apollos,(4) because even then parties(5) had been formed among you." Ignatius wrote in his Epistle to the Ephesians: "Ye are initiated into the mysteries of the Gospel with Paul, the holy, the martyred, inasmuch as he was "a chosen vessel;"(3) at whose feet may I be found, and at the feet of the rest of the saints, when I shall attain to Jesus Christ, who is always mindful of you in His prayers." and "Let Christ speak in us, even as He did in Paul." You are correct that one must chose to accept or reject what Paul said about himself, what Scripure said about him, and what the early church said about him. But, you would have an impossible task to prove from Scripture or history that Paul was considered a loose cannon by anyone in the early church. Peter never said that Paul was a loose cannon. He simply said that some of Paul's statements were difficult to understand and that some people distorte his statements. But, he called them Scripture! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |