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LOL! ... Why do you not believe the Gospels since they are first hand accounts of people who traveled with Jesus?

LOL indeed. for me, it is more like ROFLMAO.

I believe in all of Holy Scripture, not JUST the Gospels. I believe that every word in the Bible is spoken to our hearts and minds by God. Therefore, I don't try to parse which is superior. All of those generations in the Old Testament, line by line, build the record that God loves us enough to send his son to die on the cross for the forgiveness and expiation of our sins and to bring us back into harmony is his sons and daughters through faith.

Do even read anything beyond the first line? It does not appear so, by your responses. As for your organization trying to play down Paul's teachings, as you appear to do in your previous postings, I don't need to read some heretical teachings from a Roman poseur. I would rather go to the source, my Bible.

Galatians 3: 3 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? 4 Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.