Subject: And what about those who will die before |
Bible Note: Who are you agian... Hank... yes Hank... I do not have time to touch on everything you have proposed, which are great questions... But on my referance on James and Paul, the difficulty in reading the Bible is we are almost 2,000 years past from when these books were written... and many of the books were letters written to a certain people who lacked in certain aspects of the Gospel Paul and James never contradict each other... They compliment each other... The problem with the Bible is the Bible was not written as the Bible, thus the writtings in it are their own Books, each dirrected to a certain audience... who each had their own short comings in keeping the commandments... and is lacking of many of the writtings of the Apostles... If anyone has problem with this state, research the Nicean Council, under the direction of Constantine, a standardized set of scripture was compiled and the introduction of Christianity was brought into the Roman Empire to keep the peace... the standardized scripture is the not the Bible as we know it today, it had more books which were taken out, some are familiar with the Cathlic Bible having more scripture, the Apocrypha is another notable set of books which the Nicean Council said to not have enough "Cannan" to be included in their set of scripture... Now back to where I was going... To say Paul taught a gospel of grace would undermine his intent, the same goes for James... but since they both were Apostles of God, they were holy men and were both correct... Paul was correcting Christians who practiced a Works only gospel, and James was correcting a Faith only gospel... And if the teachings of the Apostles are taught with the history of who and why they taught what they did, to who they did... the fullness of the gospel can be brought together and more easily understood Peter also commanded, not suggested, in Acts 10:48, to be baptized in the name of the Lord... Was I nicer? I tried to be :) |