Something that causes such confusion with the Paul’s letters today is, we are reading them through two thousand years of tradition and man made doctrine while trying to defend those same traditions and doctrines that have no defense. We can’t say on one had Paul writes the law was done away with while on the other hand he writes 1 Thessalonians 4:7— 8, “For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness. Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.” Paul is explaining how to apply Leviticus and Ezekiel to shelves of the people who would have first read his letter.
Rhy Bezuidenhout
Many Christians fall into this same trap with Paul as he is seen as learned; at his time. He therefore must have had a "new revelation" according to modern-Christianity. But he mixes in his own opinion along with Scripture interpretations which makes it difficult to argue that everything he says is 100% inspired. (Just look at what he says about men with long hair; which goes against the laws when under a Nazirite vow.)
I would therefore advise a new believer to first ignore Paul's writings and get an understanding of what the rest of the Bible says before piling into his work as it will give them a firmer foundational understanding of the law and then they can interpret Paul better.
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