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Following the Apostle Paul: Valuing Our Roots in Faith

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If there weren't so much trouble in life—in this age of COVID-19; empty church buildings; Vanessa Guillen; "Me Too"; Manson-styled murder sentencing in the city of Shreveport; repeated, senseless murder-suicides in states like Arkansas; and too many years of personal suffering in many a Christian's life—I'd be appalled and in disbelief about a book that forwards an elder's idea that, because many a slave master misused writings by the apostle Paul, those writings are not of the Holy Spirit. My Lord. And I would be shocked that, apart from that book, at least one author believes that, because there was a man named Titus in the ministry of the man who wrote Antiquities of the Jews , at least 30 years after the apostle Paul, that parts of the New Testament were not actually written by Paul. I would have been shocked, because, in my witness, in Christ, Paul is like mortar on the Cornerstone! And I'm here to tell you that history has an odd way of repeating its