"The Spirit of the Apostles is not a guide equal or greater than the Lord, thus Paul within his letters does not have as much authority as has Christ" (Carlstadt, Canonicis Scripturis (1520)
"The Spirit of the Apostles is not a guide equal or greater than the Lord, thus Paul within his letters does not have as much authority as has Christ" (Carlstadt, Canonicis Scripturis (1520)
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Jun 26, 2022
Isaiah 28:14-18:
This is a more in depth study on Isaiah 28:14-18, and the two prophecies it contains, one about Jesus as the cornerstone, and the other about Saul or Sheol – either name is possibly intended in Hebrew because either is written the same with no vowels. The Saul / Sheol prophecies talk about a covenant with SH’L which is a refuge of lies, and hence Sh’l is a deceiver and liar but those who followed his rule will be destroyed, as opposed to those who made a covenant with the cornerstone and thus will not suffer the fate of the followers of SH’L.
You can find an in depth article in PDF at this link, formerly on our JWO website, but now recovered, and I host for your use: https://airtable.com/shrq5wJLKkGARejwy
The entire passage of Isaiah 28:14-18 reads with SAUL placed besides SHEOL as a legitimate alternative translation:
14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with SAUL / Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
16 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am the one who has laid[c] as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’
17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”
18 Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with SAUL / Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.
Why does this fit Paul? Mostly because Paul is notorious for creating a refuge of lies for his behavior, defending using deceit and even lying for the gospel.
First example: 2 Cor. 12:16 -- we would be revulsed if Jesus had said it, but we just accept it from Paul:
"But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile." (2 Cor. 12:16, ASV.)
Second example of a similar end-justifies the means attitude by Paul toward lying for the gospel is found here: "For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?” Romans 3:7 KJV.
Third example: Paul elsewhere speaks of lies being a means of spreading the gospel: “What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.” Philippians 1:18.
Fourth example:, we can see that Paul himself circumcised Timothy [Acts 16:3], even though Paul said the consequence of doing so means Christ would profit Timothy nothing. [Gal 5:2]
Fifth example, Paul shamelessly defends people-pleasing to gain adherents, by feigning behavior as if it reflected his true values when it did not, such as showing respect for the law given Moses, while also willing to lower his morality to match the low morality others may have:
"For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without the law as without law... that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." 1Corinthians 9:19-22
"Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God, just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved. Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ." 1Corinthians 10:31-33
As Gasparin wrote in 1854 in The Concessions of Apostle Paul:
"If the apostles habitually gave themselves the license of appearing different from what they really were, and if they taught the distinction between those truths which it was necessary to maintain and those which may be sacrificed or disguised, it follows that God Himself sanctions two principles, against which His whole revelation protests, namely, that the claims of truth are not absolute, and that we may do evil that good may come!" Id. at 60.
The message then of Isaiah 28:14-18 would be those relying upon a covenant with Paul / Saul, not the one renewed by the chief cornerstone Yahshua for Yahweh, have a false hope. God describes it as a covenant with Saul and death. The followers of Saul trust / take refuge in lies. God warns that Paulinists' agreement with Saul-Paul's lies will not protect them when the whip of the judgment of God passes through.
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