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This looks like a misinterpretation of John 6:27
... We are kept and sealed by HIS Holy Spirit...until the day of redemption....
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by SeekerLou
This looks like a misinterpretation of John 6:27
... We are kept and sealed by HIS Holy Spirit...until the day of redemption....
Paul was not a forger or apostate in any way. He was a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. He did not twist God's Words. He worshipped the Lord God.
which is the word here translated, safely delivered.
Paul also uses the same word form as in the Romans quote, in
2 Corinthians 1:22
who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
It looks like he is talking about himself, Timothy, and Silvanus, being sealed, by God.
As for Redemption, you find the word in
Romans 8:23
Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
Here again the forger of the "letter" to the Ephesians is taking real theology from actual writings of Paul and turning it into a kind of mush, a kind of defuse telling which leaves it open to misinterpretation.
Paul was not, obviously.
Paul was not a forger or apostate in any way.
Paul was not, obviously.
That does not mean others, after Paul's death, could not have made forgeries, meaning other supposed letters that were falsely attributed as being written by Paul.
That has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Then you don't believe God was big enough to preserve His words so we could have them today? You think God is so weak that He couldn't keep His words perfectly preserved and inspired through different translations for His followers in this age?