"If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain" (21).
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law" (Rom. iii, 28).
James declares this doctrine to be false and pernicious.
"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead"
(James ii, 20).
"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works
is dead also" (26).
"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith
only" (24).
9
The two great miracles of the Gospels are the immaculate conception
and the bodily resurrection of Jesus. The Evangelists teach the
doctrine of the immaculate conception. Paul and Peter declare Jesus
to be simply a man.
Paul: "The man Christ Jesus" (1 Tim. ii, 5).
Peter: "A man approved of God" (Acts ii, 22).
10.
The Evangelists teach the resurrection of the natural body--a body
of flesh and blood. Paul teaches a spiritual resurrection only.
"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body" (1 Cor. xv,
44).
"Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (50).
11.
Paul both affirms and denies the immortality of man: "Glory and honor
and immortality" (Rom. ii, 7). "This mortal must put on immortality"
(1 Cor. xv, 53).
"The King of kings, and Lord of lords [Christ]; who only hath
immortality" (1 Tim. vi, 15, 16).
12.
Paul: "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come we
are no longer under a schoolmaster" (Gal. iii, 24, 25).
"But now we are delivered from the law" (Rom. vii, 6).
Jesus: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law.... I am not come
to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law"
(Matt. v, 17, 18).
13.
"We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven, ... and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds"
(1 Thes., iv, 15-17).
Paul believed that Christ had appeared to him. It was a delusion. He
expected Christ to come again. He was mistaken.
14.
The following is an example of Paul's reasoning:
"Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to
them that believe not; but prophesying serveth not for them that
believe not, but for them which believe. If, therefore, the whole
church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues,
and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will
they not say ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and there cometh in
one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all"
(1 Cor. xiv, 22-24).
Speaking with tongues is for the unbeliever. Therefore if you speak
with tongues the unbeliever is not convinced.
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