{"id":14413,"date":"2024-03-17T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/did-paul-believe-in-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T04:24:06","slug":"did-paul-believe-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/did-paul-believe-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Paul Believe in the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sbl.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-673\" title=\"sbl\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sbl.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a>I am here in San Francisco at the Society of Biblical Literature annual Sea of Tweed and Bowtie Geekfest. This is where biblical scholars from all over the world gather once a year to impress each other\u00a0and buy books at half price.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I am cynical. I am wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and my Birkenstocks with socks in protest<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ben-and-Jerrys.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-672\" title=\"Ben and Jerrys\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ben-and-Jerrys.jpg?resize=210%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"162\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a> to \u201cstick it to the man.\u201d I\u2019m sure if Jesus were here he\u2019d be doing the same thing\u2013although, maybe he\u2019d be getting Ben and Jerry\u2019s at the corner of Haight and Ashbury (not kidding, see picture to the right).<\/p>\n<p>I will finish up in a few days my current series on Adam. In the meantime, let me throw out there a question that spun out of a conference I took part in yesterday\u2013a conversation with N.T. Wright on the Missional Church. This specific issue was not discussed, but we circled around it a bit.<\/p>\n<p>In the Old Testament:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Circumcision\u00a0was an eternal stipulation for Israel, and\u00a0Gentiles could only take part in the covenant with Yahweh by being circumcised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the New Testament<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul rendered the eternal stipulation of circumcision null and void\u00a0for both Jews and\u00a0Gentiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discuss: Did Paul believe in the authority of the Bible?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thebiblefornormalpeople.com\/did-paul-believe-in-the-bible\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=did-paul-believe-in-the-bible\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am here in San Francisco at the Society of Biblical Literature annual Sea of Tweed and Bowtie Geekfest. This is where biblical scholars from all over the world gather once a year to impress each other\u00a0and buy books at half price. Yes I am cynical. I am wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and my Birkenstocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}