THE MIND OF PAUL
A JOURNEY BY MIND PAUL
I think I gave everybody notice that I do not agree with Friedrich Nietzsche when accuses Paul of being the founder of "Christianity." The Basilica of St. Peter is not in São Paulo!
Paul lost the "stop" in the construction of "Christianity" simply because what Paul discerned, believed, taught and practiced, never would create a "Christianity", but only churches who loved each other, corresponded, communicated, and felt part the Universal Body of Christ.
These churches not ceased to be what they were and not the people who were in the circumstances of their lives and cultures, as they never would be no human power, central or regional, to do no dominion over anyone dictating teachings of men and revelations of ego, because Christ is the Head of the body and in Him we have the Amen of God, as Paul!
In addition, there would be a theological profession to be pursued and not a prophetic status holder of new revelations to be achieved because, in Christ, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge had been revealed.
The apostle also creates the mystery that believe and know would generate a feeling of souls united in the love of Christ. And so the world would see the presence of God's kingdom.
He also believed that this witness had to be given within the context in which the word was being announced. So, to the Jews he was scandal among the Gentiles!
To the Gentiles he was not a scandal among the Jews when shaved his head, taking vote. After all, when someone is part of a culture where the revelation originated, you can go to think that their culture and history are holy too. And those who knew them after the Gentiles, in the case-feel privileged to have some contact with the "unique culture", as do Catholics and evangelicals when kiss the ground of Israel!
Today the exemplification also comes from new evengélicos converts who receive Jesus and have to "swallow" the package as if it were the gospel, to the way you talk or dress!
The fooling is to think that those who came before have discerned more. Paul nape believed it. Therefore put under Peter Grace and faced everyone and everything for the truth of the Gospel.
In this he also gloried.
Two thousand years later ...
As for us in certain things, issues and circumstances of life, Paul seems a little less for the Liberals and a little too much for the Conservatives and nothing for neopentecostal!
For us Paul is so too even if the "others" of Paul, few people have enxergado.
And Paul despite knowing it was too, was himself so little, he never thought that his person was going to be anything other than what it was seen and it could be heard!
But mediocrity clings to circunstancialidades the "application" of the word principle in Paul and does not grow in the Principle of Word in order to make your "application" in the historic moment we are living.
Thus, the Universal in Paul is reduced to slogans and "situational application" turns is "universal principle".
Some examples.
First the slogans left over:
By grace you are saved! -For The Reformed.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel! -For The missionaries.
No longer I who live, but Christ lives in me! -For The Sanctified.
I Thank God I speak in tongues more than all of you! -For The Charismatics.
All are yours! -For Liberals.
All things are clean to clean! -For Those who like what most say no power or like.
It is not good for man to eat with scandal! -For who goes crazy to do something and try to control.
The bishop must be the husband of one wife! -For One who has a horrible fear so fond of preaching as like women.
The bishop rules his own house! -For The leader who thinks he can keep the children hiding and their own hearts.
There are many other slogans!
Another day I come back to them.
Now applications.
Now the applications are so many that I will leave them for another time expansion. Here I will just give a few examples.
Let's see:
The bishop must be the husband of one wife! -because The beginning God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and their wives. However, Adam fell and the world of Paul was not the garden of Eden.
Therefore, in order that the Gospel was good news for everyone, including those who had more than one wife or woman when they perceived the Word-, Paul recommends that the bishop is the framework of this new model.
After all, there is neither male nor female (Gal 3:28).
And the man who does not want his wife thinking like him who think like her.
And so, there will be equality.
But the world is fallen!
Each generation has to understand and learn again without negotiating with the principle of the Word.
The application loads the principle, but can not be imposed as a form.
A few more charges made to his brother Paul.
He is accused of having invented the "bishop" (who was bishop of fraternity houses, the other name is the church, not this stereotypical picture of today), the "hierarchy" (which was organic and non-functional), the "silence women "(which was cultural), the aggressive tone (it was the least he could do considering the pain of the circumstances), the logic in the argument (because he was very intelligent), excessive independence (because it creates no doubt and I was not afraid), etc ...
For me, honestly, he's the man who discerned and explained the reason for the hope better than anyone. That no one can deny!
But if Paul had been understood in the Core Principles of revelation conveyed, the story would have been possibly another on the grounds that the essence of what Paul taught not create what "Christianity" became, in any of its variables.
Perfect would never be-are fallen and Paul considered himself the foremost among the sinners-, but it would be much more revolutionary!
And there would be no Basilica that represented the Jerusalem Temple being erected in the name of faith in Jesus!
But there would be Protestantism.
Paul was not a Protestant, he was a nonconformist.
He never would propose a reform. He believed in subversion, in permanent revolution, never to conform to this world and its productions, even theological.
Paul's faith was in a permanent state of growth: both in the knowledge of God, as in self-perception and discernment of human nature - and nature!
What we do not understand when you read the word of Paul is that there's eternal revelation, and that it is being sent ignorantly -as befits mercy in the form of letters to people who gathered in homes, and they had similar names Fernando, Mara, Suzana, Antonio and Suzane, Maria Helena, Alfredo, Sergio and Debora, Raimundo and Murilo.
That is:
Paul knew what he was saying was the truth of the Gospel of Christ. He has no doubt about the revelation received.
When dictating something or writing to send to the Ephesians, Romans, Philippians, Corinthians or any other city, it could also be Rio de Janeiro, São Pedro, Curitiba, Teresina and Sobral Ceará.
He was responsible forever for what he taught about the Gospel and at the same time, completely supportive and participate in the moment and the circumstances of the lives of his listeners.
He knew what it said was the Gospel and the Gospel was nothing more nor less than that.
He just did not know was that his "correspondence" would be read for two thousand years, every day especially to domingos- by millions, billions of human beings, and that these people would think that all the immediate solutions that he, Paul , sought to achieve the "application" of the Universal Principle of the gospel, would turn into "fixed content" of the gospel, and that would be taught as "command to all cultures of the earth Gentiles."
Soon he? who fought this all the time? having made more enemies for it than for any other reason among the Jews or among the Judaizing Christians !?
No!
Paul never would like the Rio was like the Greeks and Pernambuco as the Dutch, and the Paulistas as Italian!
Paul established the Omega points and made circunstancializada application of the Principles, as the relevant application context.
Those things were important at the time, but I could not compare well the Gospel.
And to his likeness, Paul believed that each generation would have to recognize also, as he asked Timothy to do so in their actions, attitudes, love, patience, faith, purity, knowledge, and also with weapons of righteousness, either offensive or defensive; good report and dishonor; as dying, and behold we live is - the meaning of believing in the Gospel of Jesus!
"In Christ there is neither male nor female; neither slave nor free; neither Jew nor Greek "-was what he said.
This is Universal.
IT IS! in Christ!
We went back two thousand years ...
There were a lot of people living in Corinth.
The city was the port and the verb corintianizar was synonymous with all that the locals are the universal imagination: the people of the good life, pleasure and moment of happiness.
In Corinth the cult prostitutes down the Acrocorinto bare face and clothes just in sufficiency to increase seduction.
A woman who had a husband and be faithful to it should differentiate this paradigm with "authority" -and the symbolic expression of the woman who does not like that they are shouting back "your hot" at that time was to put the veil on the face .
In Brazil this signal was observed, many women would wear veil, the cultural perception of people were identical.
At that time the veil was a red light to any claim.
Today I put the veil to "jig" starts and if you do not hear an audible "leave me alone" does not always give up.
The problem is that in Corinth if that worked was the "leave me alone," Paul would say:
"Sisters, differentiate themselves in a circumstance that, saying" leave me alone ".
But it was the veil respected.
And they respected him because the woman had "owner".
It was the perception "out".
To the side of "inside" Paul says that the "owner" of that woman should not make her his property to
abuse it.
After all, the woman came out of the man, but man is born of woman.
And just as man is the glory of God, so the woman is the glory of man!
And look at that for Paul the word meant glory glory!
(We'll talk about that another time).
Summing up:
Things day to day became law of conduct among Christians.
And the inspired letters sent to friends and community of brothers, even the names of people mentioned are seen as especially elected as saints and part of the revelation.
These little things is that obscure the Universal!
Do you know what this is?
I never understood the Word.
Paul himself said the letter kills - even in Paul's letters!
Anyone who has met the brother Paul is no longer with this problem.
You know that Paul was absolutely right to have believed and processed the Word of Grace Truth of God revealed in His Son Jesus Christ.
You know that this is God's decision.
It is mystery.
Christ is the revelation.
The Gospel is the Good News, but does not end in a single cultural explanation. Do not let hold nor Jews nor Greeks, nor American, British, Brazilian or even Argentina (the "even" reveals my diving in the Brazilian emotional historical moment to joke with Argentine).
Right?
What to do then?
Well, I'll stop here.
I'm kind of tired.
I have written too much for today.
Tomorrow I continue.
Caio
A JOURNEY BY MIND PAUL
I think I gave everybody notice that I do not agree with Friedrich Nietzsche when accuses Paul of being the founder of "Christianity." The Basilica of St. Peter is not in São Paulo!
Paul lost the "stop" in the construction of "Christianity" simply because what Paul discerned, believed, taught and practiced, never would create a "Christianity", but only churches who loved each other, corresponded, communicated, and felt part the Universal Body of Christ.
These churches not ceased to be what they were and not the people who were in the circumstances of their lives and cultures, as they never would be no human power, central or regional, to do no dominion over anyone dictating teachings of men and revelations of ego, because Christ is the Head of the body and in Him we have the Amen of God, as Paul!
In addition, there would be a theological profession to be pursued and not a prophetic status holder of new revelations to be achieved because, in Christ, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge had been revealed.
The apostle also creates the mystery that believe and know would generate a feeling of souls united in the love of Christ. And so the world would see the presence of God's kingdom.
He also believed that this witness had to be given within the context in which the word was being announced. So, to the Jews he was scandal among the Gentiles!
To the Gentiles he was not a scandal among the Jews when shaved his head, taking vote. After all, when someone is part of a culture where the revelation originated, you can go to think that their culture and history are holy too. And those who knew them after the Gentiles, in the case-feel privileged to have some contact with the "unique culture", as do Catholics and evangelicals when kiss the ground of Israel!
Today the exemplification also comes from new evengélicos converts who receive Jesus and have to "swallow" the package as if it were the gospel, to the way you talk or dress!
The fooling is to think that those who came before have discerned more. Paul nape believed it. Therefore put under Peter Grace and faced everyone and everything for the truth of the Gospel.
In this he also gloried.
Two thousand years later ...
As for us in certain things, issues and circumstances of life, Paul seems a little less for the Liberals and a little too much for the Conservatives and nothing for neopentecostal!
For us Paul is so too even if the "others" of Paul, few people have enxergado.
And Paul despite knowing it was too, was himself so little, he never thought that his person was going to be anything other than what it was seen and it could be heard!
But mediocrity clings to circunstancialidades the "application" of the word principle in Paul and does not grow in the Principle of Word in order to make your "application" in the historic moment we are living.
Thus, the Universal in Paul is reduced to slogans and "situational application" turns is "universal principle".
Some examples.
First the slogans left over:
By grace you are saved! -For The Reformed.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel! -For The missionaries.
No longer I who live, but Christ lives in me! -For The Sanctified.
I Thank God I speak in tongues more than all of you! -For The Charismatics.
All are yours! -For Liberals.
All things are clean to clean! -For Those who like what most say no power or like.
It is not good for man to eat with scandal! -For who goes crazy to do something and try to control.
The bishop must be the husband of one wife! -For One who has a horrible fear so fond of preaching as like women.
The bishop rules his own house! -For The leader who thinks he can keep the children hiding and their own hearts.
There are many other slogans!
Another day I come back to them.
Now applications.
Now the applications are so many that I will leave them for another time expansion. Here I will just give a few examples.
Let's see:
The bishop must be the husband of one wife! -because The beginning God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and their wives. However, Adam fell and the world of Paul was not the garden of Eden.
Therefore, in order that the Gospel was good news for everyone, including those who had more than one wife or woman when they perceived the Word-, Paul recommends that the bishop is the framework of this new model.
After all, there is neither male nor female (Gal 3:28).
And the man who does not want his wife thinking like him who think like her.
And so, there will be equality.
But the world is fallen!
Each generation has to understand and learn again without negotiating with the principle of the Word.
The application loads the principle, but can not be imposed as a form.
A few more charges made to his brother Paul.
He is accused of having invented the "bishop" (who was bishop of fraternity houses, the other name is the church, not this stereotypical picture of today), the "hierarchy" (which was organic and non-functional), the "silence women "(which was cultural), the aggressive tone (it was the least he could do considering the pain of the circumstances), the logic in the argument (because he was very intelligent), excessive independence (because it creates no doubt and I was not afraid), etc ...
For me, honestly, he's the man who discerned and explained the reason for the hope better than anyone. That no one can deny!
But if Paul had been understood in the Core Principles of revelation conveyed, the story would have been possibly another on the grounds that the essence of what Paul taught not create what "Christianity" became, in any of its variables.
Perfect would never be-are fallen and Paul considered himself the foremost among the sinners-, but it would be much more revolutionary!
And there would be no Basilica that represented the Jerusalem Temple being erected in the name of faith in Jesus!
But there would be Protestantism.
Paul was not a Protestant, he was a nonconformist.
He never would propose a reform. He believed in subversion, in permanent revolution, never to conform to this world and its productions, even theological.
Paul's faith was in a permanent state of growth: both in the knowledge of God, as in self-perception and discernment of human nature - and nature!
What we do not understand when you read the word of Paul is that there's eternal revelation, and that it is being sent ignorantly -as befits mercy in the form of letters to people who gathered in homes, and they had similar names Fernando, Mara, Suzana, Antonio and Suzane, Maria Helena, Alfredo, Sergio and Debora, Raimundo and Murilo.
That is:
Paul knew what he was saying was the truth of the Gospel of Christ. He has no doubt about the revelation received.
When dictating something or writing to send to the Ephesians, Romans, Philippians, Corinthians or any other city, it could also be Rio de Janeiro, São Pedro, Curitiba, Teresina and Sobral Ceará.
He was responsible forever for what he taught about the Gospel and at the same time, completely supportive and participate in the moment and the circumstances of the lives of his listeners.
He knew what it said was the Gospel and the Gospel was nothing more nor less than that.
He just did not know was that his "correspondence" would be read for two thousand years, every day especially to domingos- by millions, billions of human beings, and that these people would think that all the immediate solutions that he, Paul , sought to achieve the "application" of the Universal Principle of the gospel, would turn into "fixed content" of the gospel, and that would be taught as "command to all cultures of the earth Gentiles."
Soon he? who fought this all the time? having made more enemies for it than for any other reason among the Jews or among the Judaizing Christians !?
No!
Paul never would like the Rio was like the Greeks and Pernambuco as the Dutch, and the Paulistas as Italian!
Paul established the Omega points and made circunstancializada application of the Principles, as the relevant application context.
Those things were important at the time, but I could not compare well the Gospel.
And to his likeness, Paul believed that each generation would have to recognize also, as he asked Timothy to do so in their actions, attitudes, love, patience, faith, purity, knowledge, and also with weapons of righteousness, either offensive or defensive; good report and dishonor; as dying, and behold we live is - the meaning of believing in the Gospel of Jesus!
"In Christ there is neither male nor female; neither slave nor free; neither Jew nor Greek "-was what he said.
This is Universal.
IT IS! in Christ!
We went back two thousand years ...
There were a lot of people living in Corinth.
The city was the port and the verb corintianizar was synonymous with all that the locals are the universal imagination: the people of the good life, pleasure and moment of happiness.
In Corinth the cult prostitutes down the Acrocorinto bare face and clothes just in sufficiency to increase seduction.
A woman who had a husband and be faithful to it should differentiate this paradigm with "authority" -and the symbolic expression of the woman who does not like that they are shouting back "your hot" at that time was to put the veil on the face .
In Brazil this signal was observed, many women would wear veil, the cultural perception of people were identical.
At that time the veil was a red light to any claim.
Today I put the veil to "jig" starts and if you do not hear an audible "leave me alone" does not always give up.
The problem is that in Corinth if that worked was the "leave me alone," Paul would say:
"Sisters, differentiate themselves in a circumstance that, saying" leave me alone ".
But it was the veil respected.
And they respected him because the woman had "owner".
It was the perception "out".
To the side of "inside" Paul says that the "owner" of that woman should not make her his property to
abuse it.
After all, the woman came out of the man, but man is born of woman.
And just as man is the glory of God, so the woman is the glory of man!
And look at that for Paul the word meant glory glory!
(We'll talk about that another time).
Summing up:
Things day to day became law of conduct among Christians.
And the inspired letters sent to friends and community of brothers, even the names of people mentioned are seen as especially elected as saints and part of the revelation.
These little things is that obscure the Universal!
Do you know what this is?
I never understood the Word.
Paul himself said the letter kills - even in Paul's letters!
Anyone who has met the brother Paul is no longer with this problem.
You know that Paul was absolutely right to have believed and processed the Word of Grace Truth of God revealed in His Son Jesus Christ.
You know that this is God's decision.
It is mystery.
Christ is the revelation.
The Gospel is the Good News, but does not end in a single cultural explanation. Do not let hold nor Jews nor Greeks, nor American, British, Brazilian or even Argentina (the "even" reveals my diving in the Brazilian emotional historical moment to joke with Argentine).
Right?
What to do then?
Well, I'll stop here.
I'm kind of tired.
I have written too much for today.
Tomorrow I continue.
Caio
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