Re: When to read Paul "within context" and when not ?



<sarban@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My immediate response would be that the principles Paul
> is expounding are intended to be valid for all Christians
> at all times.

Correct, but this must be tempered by rooting the teaching in the four
gospels.
If you take Paul on his own all the time then you will get a very distorted
idea of Christianity.
Paul's writings need to be taken in the context of the whole of the new
testament and not in isolation.
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