True. For all the Apostles vouched for him in the scriptures. Some people accuse Paul of being fake, and teaching a different Gospel, but In Acts, we see Paul is not the first to preach the teachings he did, but it was in fact first James and Peter, who told the Gentile Christians that they did not have to follow all the Mosaic customs, and Paul simply agreed with them and then went and told the Gentiles as instructed from the Council of Jerusalem. This agreement was not so different to the Noachide Law in Judaism as we see even to this day, where the Jews believed based on the Tanakh, that Gentiles only had to follow the Law of Noah. Peter, in 2 Peter, also calls Paul a beloved brother, and that people simply misunderstand his teachings. Some people thought he was against the Law and rejected him, and some people thought he was for it, and rejected him. But in reality, it appears it was both, because he interacted with both Jew and Gentile. We see also, that Paul himself didn't want power and told people that they didn't have to follow him or believe in, but only in the Christian Gospel of Jesus. We see he could validate his gifts of the holy spirit, as he's very plain and open in his letters he sends to his audience, that they have seen the miracles he performed, and that they themselves had the same holy spirit in them doing the same things (2 Cor 13). If he was a liar, then it would be silly of him to send people a letter insisting that 'they' had seen the holy spirit in him that they also had (which enabled him to raise the dead, speak in tongues, and do the other gifts the Apostles did), for they'd be able to point out and say he was insane. The only people who rejected Paul outright in the late 1st-2nd century, were the sect of the Ebonites, because they believed the full Mosaic Law was still required by all to be saved, they also were vegetarians and denied the virgin birth. And it's my personal opinion, that they were the ones Paul hinted at when he said some people "only eat vegetables, and practice certain days".
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Do you believe Paul is a true or false disciple?
True. For all the Apostles vouched for him in the scriptures.
Some people accuse Paul of being fake, and teaching a different Gospel, but In Acts, we see Paul is not the first to preach the teachings he did, but it was in fact first James and Peter, who told the Gentile Christians that they did not have to follow all the Mosaic customs, and Paul simply agreed with them and then went and told the Gentiles as instructed from the Council of Jerusalem. This agreement was not so different to the Noachide Law in Judaism as we see even to this day, where the Jews believed based on the Tanakh, that Gentiles only had to follow the Law of Noah.
Peter, in 2 Peter, also calls Paul a beloved brother, and that people simply misunderstand his teachings. Some people thought he was against the Law and rejected him, and some people thought he was for it, and rejected him. But in reality, it appears it was both, because he interacted with both Jew and Gentile.
We see also, that Paul himself didn't want power and told people that they didn't have to follow him or believe in, but only in the Christian Gospel of Jesus. We see he could validate his gifts of the holy spirit, as he's very plain and open in his letters he sends to his audience, that they have seen the miracles he performed, and that they themselves had the same holy spirit in them doing the same things (2 Cor 13). If he was a liar, then it would be silly of him to send people a letter insisting that 'they' had seen the holy spirit in him that they also had (which enabled him to raise the dead, speak in tongues, and do the other gifts the Apostles did), for they'd be able to point out and say he was insane.
The only people who rejected Paul outright in the late 1st-2nd century, were the sect of the Ebonites, because they believed the full Mosaic Law was still required by all to be saved, they also were vegetarians and denied the virgin birth. And it's my personal opinion, that they were the ones Paul hinted at when he said some people "only eat vegetables, and practice certain days".