Coming out of stores, evangelists will come and tell me the "Roman Road to Salvation", and quote Romans 3:10, where it says there are none righteous, and that the wages of sin is death. Why do evangelists put more emphasis on the words of Paul than on the words of Jesus, the man they claim to believe in?
2006-08-25 05:41:08 · 13 answers · asked by Nowhere Man 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because the epistles are an exhaustive footnote to the gospels. I believe that not enough emphasis is put on those all-important words in red. What Jesus said and did should take priority over the teaching of the apostles. After all, it is the life of Christ that we are to follow. The epistles do tell us how to do this, however. I feel that too much emphasis is given to end times prophesy this day, rather than to living in Christ. Most TV evangelist are heavily involved in politics and getting rich, which is why I ignore them---they have sold out to the devil and are giving Christianity a bad name.
2006-08-25 05:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because tho Jesus lived the gospel, his teachings were mostly meant for Jews. Paul was the one who gave the gospel a philosophical basis, and that was necessary for the Greco-Roman world beyond Judea's borders.
Paul is said to have received his ideas from Jesus Himself when he retired to the Arabian desert shortly after his conversion.
2006-08-25 12:57:15 · answer #2 · answered by freelancenut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul was the key man God chose to reveal how we are to live in this church age, the age of living by grace through faith rather than under law as in Old Testament days. If you really want to know how to live by grace through faith, read and study Paul's 13 epistles-Romans through Philemon, Jame's, Peter's two and John's three epistles.
It is my prayer that you will do that.
2006-08-25 12:58:34 · answer #3 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evangelists use the Roman road because that is the way to salvation. Jesus did not need to teach salvation when He was here because He was salvation. Paul teaches salvation!
2006-08-25 12:51:38 · answer #4 · answered by Cre8ed2worship 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No idea, I no longer consider Paul a Christian since it was he who started the whole men only church thing in Christianity, and it was he who started calling Magdalene a whore. But what really irks me is the plethora of preachers who focus solely on revelations like it is the only thing actually of worth in the babble that has become the bible.
2006-08-25 12:49:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point. Many Christian sects see the gospel as a sort of buffet table. They pick and choose and often base their entire belief system on just a handful of scriptures while ignoring the rest.
2006-08-25 12:46:25 · answer #6 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Want you to see that you are a sinful being that needs to be saved, thus needing a Saviour. Also some will use it to get some donations from you so it can also be monetary based.
2006-08-25 12:45:37 · answer #7 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There most be another version of "evangelists" than you are talking about. Just read their bible and don't let anybody fool you.
2006-08-25 12:49:48 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their followers of Paul more than Jesus I guess.
2006-08-25 12:43:09 · answer #9 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because, Paul INVENTED the CHURCH!!! Jesus (Yoshua bar Yosef) was (born, lived & died) a JEW.
The early "church" was of course as jewish as Jesus, but it seems that later they split up. Maybe these guys were ther first antisemites, who knows?
2006-08-25 12:54:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋