This appears to be the FBI saying that Vlad isn't ONLY helping Trump, to which they've already admitted.

I feel his angst.

I mean, he had Rudy G running around Ukraine paying good money for counterfeit dirt on the Bidens since last year, and now that he's sat on it so long his minions won't risk what's left of their ragged reputations on a fake indictment!

Yav

A lot of people, not you, but others, don't understand that Paul was an important Jewish scholar, having studied "at the feet" of the finest Jewish scholar of his time, Gamaliel.

He wasn't one of the plain people, the fishermen disciples of Christ, he was a leading Pharisee.

And his "infirmity" that he speaks of in his letters was probably not physical, it was probably a near-disabling guilt at having been basically an accessory to the murder of Stephen, and his persecution of the early Church in general.

These stories followed him around to churches he established, often by Judaizers trying to disrupt the church.

Good point, Yav.

I would only add a couple of things about context. One, that Paul was writing corrective letters to churches with specific problems and addressing those problems. Corinth, for example, was a notorious pagan seaport serving the "scum of the earth". To be called a Corinthian in those days was a widely used insult.

The Temple of Aphrodite there, and others, promoted such rituals as mother/son sex... and these church members were former-ish pagans who continued to sometimes practice such rituals.

The thingy we still have in some churches today about women not speaking in church comes from a corrective letter to a young pastor named Timothy who was letting some strong-willed wealthy women in the church push him around. Paul was a bit exasperated and said he would just as soon they didn't speak at all.

Hence we get doctrine made out from out of context correction.

My pastor, a woman, put it this way; Paul was telling Timothy to grow a pair. Which translation may or may not be because she is a grammarian of ancient Greek, lol.

Paul also said that sometimes he didn't know if it was him speaking or the spirit in him. Which is why a good scholarly attitude is that no single scripture is a tenant of the faith. We always find multiple references to things that are.

Elwood: There are 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

I say "Gracie", just to be sure.

- Tell me I'm wrong....

You are wrong.

The OT Law was to show the people that they could never live up to God's standard of spiritual perfection while they were in the flesh in a fallen from grace state.

In the OT, they sacrificed animals to cover their sins (because God had to shed animal blood in the Garden to cover them).... continuously they sacrificed because they had sinned, were sinning, and would sin in the future. There was no stopping of sacrifice because they ever stopped sinning!
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Jesus said that, You have heard it said, meaning the Law, that you shall not murder or commit adulatory or commit any other sin, like anger, envy, jealousy, sloth, greed ect.... but I tell you that if you even THINK such a thing you have sinned.

Again, saying that we cannot live up to God's standard of spiritual perfection, making his one time for all sacrifice necessary.

Paul addressed what you speak of saying that returning to sins is, "like a dog returning to his vomit", but that happens and so does our imperfect thoughts and behavior.

Picking out one's pet peeves like homosexuality or anything else, really, while at the same time being a greedy bastard or even thinking of being one, for example, is a sin in and of itself.