I have such a hard
time with Paul. So much of what he says
seems to be in contradiction to what God and Jesus Himself said. Here is an example
Hebrews 8:7-13(NKJV)
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
no place would have been sought for a second.
Because finding
fault with them, He says: “Behold, the
days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,
says the Lord.
For this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says
the Lord: I will put My laws in
their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his
brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
In that He
says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first
obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish
away.
As I recall one of
the tenants of the Christian faith is that of an infallible God. Yet Paul's first question calls that belief
into question does it not? Isn't Paul in
essence saying that the first covenant from God was faulty? If so then doesn't that call into question
whether God is infallible or not?
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