When people say we should “only listen to Jesus,” what they’re really saying is they don’t want to listen to all of what God has to say. Because, let’s be clear—Paul’s words are God’s words. They were inspired by the Holy Spirit. And it’s not just Paul making that claim either, it’s the apostolic testimony. Peter himself refers to Paul’s letters as Scripture in 2 Peter 3:15-16, mentioning how some people twist Paul’s words just as they do “the other Scriptures.”
(The Dissenter) I remember a conversation I had many years ago—it was during a small group Bible study at a church I attended during my college years. Someone tossed out a statement that caught me off guard—something to the effect of “We should prioritize Jesus’s words over Paul’s because Paul just had his own opinions, not the authority of Jesus.”
I sat there, trying to process the sheer misunderstanding embedded in that statement. Being raised in church, but not truly converted at the time, I was a little dumbfounded that there were “church people” who believed this.
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