Was Paul Like Us?
Since discovering G42 on July 2, 2011 , and subsequently considering the topic of "being dead to self" , I have been reading Paul's letters to the churches in Rome, Corinth, and Galatia. It's quite shocking to read about what he said the believers were doing in those cities . Pretty bad things. Then Paul talks about himself, not doing what he wants to do, but doing what he does not want to. That makes me ask, "What was he doing that he should not have been doing?" Maybe it's good that we don't know, because if we did, we might compare ourselves to him and say, "Well, I'm not that bad. I should be okay" or "I am worse than that. How can I expect to make it." Paul gave a lot of instructions to the churches in those letters. Some instructions related to the sins some had been committing. It's not a pretty picture. Those letters, where Paul addresses what the believers were doing that was sinful, make we wonder , ...