| theprof00 said: The problem is that it isn't Christ's teachings. That is Paul's teachings. |
That's contrary to Christian doctrine. Paul is inspired by the Spirit of God, as Peter (the disciple of Christ) testifies: (2 Peter 3:15-16)
"15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."
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You'd make a better Catholic than a Christian. Those |
Both Christians and Catholics (a form of Christian) follow the teachings of men divinely propagated by God. So did Christ. "This fulfills the law and the prophets". Law = Moses, prophets = prophets, all divinely inspired men. Jesus used Old Testament scripture (written by men) to fend Satan's ruses.
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Being a Christian is to be Christ-like. |
True but not complete. Being Christian certainly is to be Christ-like, but it is also to cherish the word of God, as inspired by the holy spirit, which was sent by God the father in the name of Christ:
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15“If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will bec in you. 18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”
22Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25“All this I have spoken while still with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, 31but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me."
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Being Jewish is to obey God's laws and teachings. Being Catholic is following the entirety of the Bible, and holding sacred the words of men as divine words. |
Being Catholic requires that you hold to the words of men who were not appointed by God and teach things contrary to his will, such as worshipping the mother of Jesus, who was not to be worshipped, as no man is to be worshipped except the God-man Christ Jesus "you shall worship no other god before me". Since Jesus is God, he's the only man that can be worshipped.
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The Paul you refer to is Saint Paul. By living according to the words of a saint, you are actually a Catholic. I'd suggest you talk to your pastor about what religion he actually is.
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Christians follow the words of saints, be they Catholic or protestant. The only difference is that Catholics also follow the words of saints that were not appointed by God and are not inspired by the holy spirit of God, and as such teach things contrary to his will. (See above) To clarify, biblically speaking, saints is just another term for believer:
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<< Ephesians 1 >>
New International Version 1984
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
To the saints in Ephesus,a the faithfulb in Christ Jesus:
2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5hec predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9And hed made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
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About asking my pastor, I don't have a pastor as I don't go to church. :P
