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  • From: Don Garlington <dongarlington AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Questions for Paul
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:56:35 -0800 (PST)

Hum. These questions appear to me to be more revealing
of yourself than Paul.

Don
Toronto



--- Loren Rosson <rossoiii AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Paul --
>
> I got five questions for you that won't wait:
>
> 1. You wrote this letter to the Romans about 7-9
> years
> ago. Do you still maintain that Israel will
> eventually
> be saved on account of jealousy of the success of
> your
> missionary activity among the pagans? For that
> matter,
> do you still believe that Israel will be saved?
>
> 2. Please clarify what you meant when you said to
> the
> Corinthians that "flesh and blood would not inherit
> the kingdom of God".
>
> 3. Now as I examine two of your letters closely, I
> notice something peculiar. You called the Roman Jews
> "weak in faith", while emphasizing that they were
> not
> weak in practice or conscience -- that they should
> be
> fully convinced in their own minds what constitutes
> a
> proper diet, "abstain from meat in honor of God",
> etc.
> But in I Cor 8:1-13 you imply the opposite -- that
> people "who think of food they eat as food offered
> to
> an idol" have "weak" and "defiled" consciences.
> Please
> explain why one group is weak in faith (but not
> conscience) while the other is weak in conscience
> (but
> not faith?). For that matter, clarify the audiences
> of
> the two letters.
>
> 4. Do you believe that homosexuality is as bad as
> temple prostitution and pederastry?
>
> 5. Fess up -- the collection which you so
> altruistically maintain that you were "eager" to
> take
> up actually galled and chafed you at first, didn't
> it?
> The pillars were stongarming you, no?
>
> Thanks for your time, dude.
>
> Loren Rosson III
> Nashua NH
> rossoiii AT yahoo.com
>
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