The Apostle Paul was no idiot!
Paul the Apostle
Neither was he a man of straw!
In fact, Paul was separated from his mother’s womb to be a Prophet to the nations.
He was an intellectual giant among men.
He was highly educated and morally superior, capable of being advisor to the Caesar’s.
Paul took his calling very seriously, and courageously stood his ground and spoke out boldly and fearlessly against Prophets and Priests and Kings.
His unique combination of uncompromising intestinal fortitude, combined with his brilliant mind, must have been why the Glorified Christ personally arrested and commissioned him, of all men, to bethe greatest revelator of spiritual truth of all time.
Paul on the Road to Damascus
Paul’s unique ability to conceptualize and articulate abstract truth, must have been why the Lord Jesus Christ later personally appeared to him in the Arabian Desert, andfirst revealed to him the divine mysteries hidden from all ages and previous generations.
As ordained spokesman for God, Paul could claim on five occasions in Scripture, that that the mysteries of God were delivered uniquely to him. Not channelled through the agency of man, but received directly and personally from the Risen Lord Himself!
Paul could boldly assert that every man would be judged according to the Gospel that he preached.
He was ordained as a divine mouthpiece to explain God’s redemptive dealings with mankind, and to expose the inner workings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
He was given the understanding and subsequently revealed the significance of the Incarnation, the vicarious Death, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Glorification of Jesus Christ!
Paul was indeed the first man able to reveal the mystic secret of Who Jesus Christ is within the Trinity, and how Christ was in fact the very Source, the Agent, and Fulfilment of all of Creation!
He explained the meaning of the Grace and Reality that came through Jesus Christ, The meaning of the First and the Last Adam, also the Second Man, revealing therein fallen mankind’s reconciliation with God through Christ Jesus, and the bringing about of a New Creation Mankind!
Paul personally wrote fourteen Epistles, comprising two thirds of the New Testament!
In these Epistles he laid down doctrine and addressed, confronted and corrected numerous errors, abuses, failures, heresies and deviations from sound doctrine and church practises.
Not only was Paul proficient in the entire body of Old Testament truth, including the Law of Moses and the Prophets, but of all men, he received the most accurate and extensive New Testament revelation. He was even caught up into the heavenlies and there received revelations to profound to utter!
Not only was the divine intentions and the decisions made, from before the foundation of the earth, within the eternal council of the Godhead, revealed to him, but Paul was also privileged with an understanding of the reconciliation and final restitution of all things, when God becomes All and in All.
In presenting the Gospel, Paul came face to face, and confronted a wide spectrum of individuals and groups.
These included people with blood on their hands, cruel Roman despots and merciless and cold hearted soldiers.
There were gross and guilty sinners, outright heathens, some were demon possessed others were ignorant idol worshippers and appeasers of false mythological God’s.
Then there were those who blasphemed Jehovah God, many apostate Jews, backslidden Christians and and also obstinate, mean and outspoken rebellious unbelievers!
Much of Paul’s ministry, his motives, his messages, his methods and his movements were recorded in his own handwriting and also captured by the hand of Luke in the Acts of the Apostles!
Paul could with a clear conscience declare that as an able minister of the New Covenant he ‘had held back nothing’, and had declared the ‘complete council of God!’
He could affirm that he had not run the race in vain!
On the contrary, he had poured out his very life as a living sacrifice in service of the gospel and was expecting his heavenly reward, a crown of recognition for a job well done!
Yet, have you ever read what Paul had to say about ‘Hell’?
Not one single word!
".....turn or burn!"
Absolutely nothing!
He never even hinted about, taught about , preached about , warned about or even threatened a saint, a sinner or an unbeliever with the idea of a so called ‘hell’!
Do you think that perhaps the greatest teacher of the Church, the Apostle Paul, missed it?
Or was Paul perhaps a ‘false prophet’ or better still, a ‘heretic’, for not ‘pushing the doctrine of hell’?
After all, Paul’s neglect could be dooming and damning millions of people to eternal hell fire! ? If there in fact was a ‘hell’?
Or, do the nerds who often pose as preachers today, with their favourite cliché….‘hell is real’…. perhaps know something that poor Paul didn’t know?
What do you think?
This totally changes the way we look at eternity. So what will it be like for people who didn't reconcile to God on the basis of what Jesus did for them? What does the Word say? (Need more answers)
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