[Judith Anne]

I also find it difficult to believe that any presbyterians read the gospels. They sure do concentrate on those freaky Pauline epistles. St. Paul got a few things right, but he was likely just as loony as his protegee, Calvin.

[will of the people]

“freaky Pauline epistles. St. Paul got a few things right, but he was likely just as loony . . .”

I understand giving Protestants grief over removing the Apocrypha (even if I don’t agree with the Catholic position); but I wasn’t aware that picking and choosing which books of the Bible were ‘non-freaky’ and which were ‘freaky’ was practiced.

Removing those freaky Pauline epistles written by that loon should increase that percentage of the Bible that is read at mass during the lectionary cycle significantly.

Now, Calvin...I’ve never been presdestined to like his stuff much. But that’s for other threads.

Will Wallace

[Alex Murphy]

I also find it difficult to believe that any presbyterians read the gospels. They sure do concentrate on those freaky Pauline epistles. St. Paul got a few things right, but he was likely just as loony as his protegee, Calvin.

Oh my, but that statement's a keeper. Ping for later reference.

[Natural Law]

I won't go so far as to sat Paul was looney, but those who misinterpret and misrepresent his words are. Taken in the context of a completely new, revised or reformed Word they can be pretty bizarre. Taken only in the context of spreading the Gospel they are often both incomplete and wordy, superfluous and redundant.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

freaky Pauline epistles. St. Paul got a few things right, but he was likely just as loony as his protegee, Calvin.

I almost can't believe a Christian wrote that line. Astounding.

And I'm pinging MarySecretary one last time, for old times sake.

This last one, Mary, is a doozie.

But Calvin is no doubt honored to be referenced as a "protegee of Paul."

We should all be so blessed. Paul knew whom he believed.

[Quix]

GOODNESS!

Paul did scribe Scripture! Quite a percentage of the New Testament!

Or was that satire that I’m not ‘getting,’ somehow?

[Iscool]

I also find it difficult to believe that any presbyterians read the gospels. They sure do concentrate on those freaky Pauline epistles. St. Paul got a few things right, but he was likely just as loony as his protegee, Calvin.

Peter called Paul's epistles Scripture...

And here's a newsflash for you...Paul got 'everything' right, not just a few things...

But to you, Paul's epistles are foolishness, eh??? Here's some more of Paul's foolishness for you...

1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

[Gamecock]

***St. Paul got a few things right, but he was likely just as loony....***

Is that official Roman Catholic teaching or just your opinion?