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Modern historians and theologians generally regard the apostle Paul as the founder of a distinct branch of Christianity that eventually converted most of the Roman world. They present Paul as having the courage to cut Christianity loose from its Jewish roots by depicting the New Covenant as a replacement for biblical law.
Is that view of Christian doctrine accurate? Did Paul's teachings really differ from the teachings of Jesus and His original 12 apostles?
These are crucial questions! Answered one way, they challenge the validity of nearly all of today's Christian denominations. Answered in the opposite way, they challenge the validity of Paul as a true apostle of Christ.
For anyone desiring his sins to be covered by the blood of Christ, nothing could be more important than finding the correct answers to these questions.
The key to understanding the teachings of both Jesus and Paul is to rightly understand the New Covenant that Jesus instituted by His death when He became mankind's sacrifice for sin. Even a slight misunderstanding of that covenant's intent and purpose is sufficient to confuse and bewilder most individuals.
So let's get it right!
The promised New Covenant
Notice the promise of this New Covenant given by God through the prophet Jeremiah more than 500 years before Jesus was born:
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
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