Originally posted by Badwater
Paul is Paul and Jesus is Jesus. You may dream mightily and convince yourself of your 'faith' but it lessens the fact not one whit that the epistles that follow the Gospels do not always follow the same spirit, or word, as the message and ministry of Jesus, and often contradict it. I've never understood the human willingness to doggedly suspend all reason a ...[text shortened]... onstrates through his words and actions. It's so much easier to spout platitudes, is it not?
it is a very simple matter, either Paul was inspired of God, or he was not! if he was inspired of God, then your statement his fully erroneous, and quite reminiscent of those who, in their ardour to dissect the bible and subject it to merely human reasoning, entirely miss this fact, and thus are unable to reconcile any,'supposed incongruity', for you have denied the divine element.
I shall state it again for clarity, either Paul was inspired of God or he was not, if he was, then your statement is fully erroneous! for bitter and sweet water cannot issue forth from the same source! thus it is not we who have suspended lines of logic nor reasoning, for this statement, that Paul was inspired is one without ambiguity, but you people who have 'suspended and denied', the divine element, and thus your reasoning's are also distorted! it is as when one looks at a cracked mirror, ones gets a distorted reflection.
what the love of Christ has to do with this i do not know, perhaps you are guilty of elevating one teaching above another, as a result of your inability to form a reconciliation of the two, who can tell?