tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post4141914411107615292..comments2024-03-28T22:29:52.666+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Why I am a Paulinist and believe I shall remain soPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-59179136392539118392012-05-08T00:40:27.519+12:002012-05-08T00:40:27.519+12:0012 One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I ...12 One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas[a]”; still another, “I follow Christ.”<br /><br />13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? <br /><br />I am quite a fan of St. Paul actually, and of course his insights and teachings are central to the way the christian faith has developed. However, I think to understand Christianity we have to go back again and again to the accounts of what Christ did and said in the four gospels.<br />I am a Christian - I may be "Anglican" but that is incidental and ultimately irrelevant. I may be drawn to a Pauline understanding, but Paul's insights are not at the heart of my faith, Christ's teachings and parables and life are.Suemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128736092253293640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-57454729474285101932012-05-07T10:46:19.432+12:002012-05-07T10:46:19.432+12:00Excellent post. I think you have hit the proverbia...Excellent post. I think you have hit the proverbial nail on the head.<br /><br />"and which sometimes pairs the Treaty of Waitangi with the gospel in such a manner that questions arise about the uniqueness of the gospel of Christ."<br /><br />Without naming names, I have come across a few well known Anglicans who write about the Treaty as though it in fact WAS the Gospel in a NZ context, and if we just get the Treaty right, the Kingdom will have come! You can find this attitude being expressed in pretty much any edition of Anglican Taonga.<br /><br />The Biblical term for this is idolatry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-82114904237643896862012-05-07T10:27:36.718+12:002012-05-07T10:27:36.718+12:00A very interesting comment, Peter, wherein you cha...A very interesting comment, Peter, wherein you champion the importance of Paul's message, without which, you imply, the testimony of the gospels would have been useless in the transmission of the Message of Jesus, (which predated the Pauline epistles).<br /><br />As a simple, non-academic, follower of Jesus; I could not claim such a preference, believing that, without the Gospels, there would have been no verification of the message of Paul, which was consequent upon his conversion from his legalistic Phariseeism, into the liberating Light of Christ which he later encountered on the Damascus Road.<br /><br />In other words, the two sets of New Testament Scripture are equally important. Paul's testimony cannot be said to be MORE important than that of the Messiah Himself.Father Ron Smithhttp://kiwianglo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com