29 Sep '08 01:16>
Originally posted by Hand of HecateI doubt you could even begin to understand why he did it. I think your opinion is just a way to dismiss from you mind the truth you don't want to face.
Directly.
His letters caused significant change in policy throughout the budding Christian world.
I feel strongly that he was among the first Christians to use the Bible for personal and political gain. Sadly, while reflecting upon the upcoming US presidential elections, I realize that nothing has changed.
He wasn't doing this for the personal gain you think he was.
2 Corinthians 4:15-18
(15) For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
(16) For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
(17) For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
(18) While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.