Disputes
and difference of opinion are always going to happen in any Church.
When this occurs it means God is calling your attention to the
Scriptures. So what if someone disagrees with you... what does God's
word say? Your relationship to your Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, is yours and yours alone. Churchanity demands conformity, God simply asks for harmony.
The
Apostle Paul's perspective on Jesus Christ and the gospel of the
kingdom was different from that of the original twelve. The disciples
Jesus called before his crucifixion knew Him as a man. Paul knew the
risen Jesus and was taught by Him:
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter (aka
Cephas), and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. ~ Galatians 1:17-19
The Apostle Peter admitted that some of Paul's letters were... hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. ~ 2 Peter 3:16
The conflict that Peter and Paul had revolved
around a letter Paul wrote to the Galatians whether or not people needed
to convert to Judaism before they could become Christians.
Becoming Jews first would mean that the men would have to be
circumcised and they would have to follow the Jewish ritual law. Read
the account in Galatians 2.
Notice in verse 9 how they resolved this dispute over doctrine without
falling out with one another as so many Christians do today.
Don't let difference of doctrine, or opinion, discourage you from searching for hidden treasure. As it is written: The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. ~ Matthew 13:44
No
individual, or Church, has a franchise on God or a monopoly on the
Truth. Let the Holy Spirit guide you, don't allow someone to keep you
from what God has for you.
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