re: Amazon Prime new cartoon retells the creation story

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I like the lord of the rings analogy but have you read Romans 9:18? In light of Romans 9:18, WHO exactly has hijacked, tortured, and put to unholy purposes by heartening my heart and blinding me to the Truth with a capital T?

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I’m just quick enough to appreciate Truth with a capital T.
Seriously however, let’s pray and hope for the best you’re not in Pharaoh’s or Esau’s class and destined to be made an example of. Sauron beguiled and seduced with lies and half truths appealing to the peculiar weaknesses and lusts of Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Your enemy operates similarly. “Yeah, hath God really said…?”

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Christians who denied the gospels but accepted Paul’s gospel and denied Jesus was ever a human on earth.

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Yeah, Christians who denied the gospels are like Grapenuts cereal, neither grapes nor nuts.

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who denied the gospels but accepted Paul’s gospel and denied Jesus was ever a human on earth.

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When you refer to Paul’s gospel I’m assuming you’re referring to his epistles.
Without reasonable doubt, 1st Corinthians is written by Paul from Ephesus to Corinth between 54 AD and 57 AD, probably late 55 AD/early 56 AD. In it he not only stated specifically his gospel, but is restating it, reminding the Corinthians of what he’d taught them two to three years before.

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Now I would remind you, brothers,of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared
to Cephas,
then to the twelve.
Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
Then he appeared to James,
then to all the apostles.
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. (These are physical, bodily appearances of Jesus, to flesh and blood men, on earth. We can’t ascribe Jesus’s appearance to Paul as some sort of ethereal manifestation or trance or vision because he is comparing his to the previously mentioned bodily appearances of Jesus. No different nor any better than others but also a validation of his office of an Apostle.
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed
(Who is he comparing himself to and claiming his gospel and theirs are the same? He’s met with Disciples and Apostles, some of whom wrote gospels ie Luke. It’s not supportable that he is preaching something different from the Apostles that is different from the gospels in any meaningful sense).

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That Paul’s gospel is different from the preaching and teaching of the other Apostles and differing in idea and substance from the gospels is very difficult to imagine much less find convincing support for the idea.