Dear Benjamin, thank you for your patience.
But for the record very few intelligent evangelicals scholars other than
some fools at Dallas Theological Seminary who are dispensationalist will
support your view that based on 1 Corinthians 13:8 Charity never faileth:
but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues,
they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away when the
perfect is come. The perfect doesn't mean the bible but rather the second
return of Jesus Christ when tongues and knowledge will no longer be
required.
You will admit that one of the rules of thelogy is that scriptures must be
used to validate scriptures and you cannot make a doctrine out of one
instance of scripture in the bible like the Mormons have done concerning
baptizing for the dead or you are doing using twisting Peter's words, by
inspiration, equated Paul's epistles with OTHER SCRIPTURES, in 2 Peter
3:15-16. DEUT 19:15 "One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any
iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses
the matter shall be established.
The problem is quite simple you hae not established what Scriptures is?
Jesus never said He would go away and send back the Greek Version of the New
Testament and Apostle Paul, and Pastors or preachers who would lead and
guide us into all truth? Rather He stated John 16:12 "I still have many
things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 16:13 "However, when He,
the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will
not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He
will tell you things to come. 16:14 "He will glorify Me, for He will take of
what is Mine and declare it to you. 16:15 "All things that the Father has
are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
THE HOLY SPIRIT ALONE NOT MAN NOR APOSTLE PAUL IS QUALIFIED TO INTERPRET
SCRIPTURES. Those who think and say that Apostle Paul is special and so are
his words are carnal and unscriptural based even on Apostle Paul's words:
1 Corinthians 1:12 Now I say this, that each of you says, "I am of Paul," or
"I am of Apollos," or "I am of Cephas," or "I am of Christ."
1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in
the name of Paul?
3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to
carnal, as to babes in Christ. 3:2 I fed you with milk and not with solid
food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are
still not able; 3:3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy,
strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere
men? 3:4 For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos,"
are you not carnal? 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers
through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 3:6 I planted,
Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 3:7 So then neither he who
plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He
catches the wise in their own craftiness";
3:20 and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are
futile." 3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:
3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or
things present or things to come-all are yours. 3:23 And you are Christ's,
and Christ is God's.
To twist Paul's word and ideas and to say it's scripture is a lie from the
pits of hell because it's a Logos word, not a Rhema word and we are to live
only by the Rhema word, .every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.' "
The Logos word is yesterday's manna and cannot be applicable for a specific
need or situation while the Rhema word can because it's given and made real
by the Holy Spirit who is the other Christ, the Helper, the Guide, the
Spirit of Truth, and all that Christ was to His disciples. Men are saved not
based on Paul's words but on the word of Jesus who told all:
Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the
kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
7:22 "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your
name?'
7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me,
you who practice lawlessness!'
7:24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will
liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
7:25 "and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
7:26 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them,
will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
7:27 "and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."