The Bible Without Paul – Part 2 of 10

This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called The Bible Without Paul.

Let's Now REMOVE PAUL'S Thirteen Epistles from the Bible.

We will remove the rest of the book of Acts from Acts 7:58 (Stephen's stoning) onward. The rest of Acts primarily is the account of Paul's life and travels. This includes Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus, the appearance of Christ to Paul, Paul's many sufferings, Paul's conflict with the law-keeping religion of the Messianic believing Jews in Jerusalem, and his powerful ministry toward the Gentiles. As he journeyed throughout the known world he preached his unique gospel of the pure grace of God, which was apart from the law and racial distinction. He received this gospel from the ascended Christ (Gal 1:12). Then also we will remove his thirteen grace epistles, Romans–Philemon.

First though, briefly now, let’s notice a few of the many scriptures, which do not appear in Paul’s grace epistles for “the body of Christ,” in order to get a glimpse of see what is required for one to be saved under “the Law” In the so-called four Gospels are for the Hebrew as well as all the epistles All those that that follow Paul’s writing (Romans to Philemon) in your Bible are Hebrew epistles In these we see what is required of Kingdom believers for their salvation.

A great example of this is James’ Epistle where we see in the very first verse to whome his epistle is directed. James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes (of Israel) which are scattered abroad, greeting. In this epistle James writes “faith without works is dead.” By contrast Paul writes in Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

These verses listed below are all non-Pauline and taken from the ‘Hebrew epistles.’  Look for such conditional words such as these as they relate to ones salvation under “the Law.”; “if”, “must”, “after ye,” “hold fast,” “keeps my words” “until to the end,”

Jesus spoke this to the lost sheep of the house of Israel to whom He came exclusively (see Matt 15:24).

“But he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13).

“Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation… ?” (Hebrews 2:1-3).

“But Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end” (Hebrews 3:6).

“For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end(Hebrews 3:14).

“For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:36).

“Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward” (2 John 1:8).

“And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations” (Revelation 2:26).

“Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown” (Revelation 3:11).

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame” (Hebrews 6:4-6).

“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries” (Hebrews 10:26-27).

Clearly, all these verses above contradict Pauline grace gospel truth.

So, after we remove Paul from the Bible, let's then see what we have NO remaining of the Scriptures that would possibly give us hope for the Gentiles to have a secure eternal saving relationship with God.

As we review Bible history we will note that after about 2,000 years from Adam's creation, man had become so wicked that God set all mankind aside, except for one man and his family, Abraham. God told that man, Abraham, that his seed or lineage would become a great nation through whom God would bless the whole world of mankind.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee (Abraham) a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations (heathen, Gentiles) of the earth shall be blessed in him.

God was to bless mankind with the call of Abraham and through his seed, Israel. From the time of God calling of Abraham the rest of mankind was set aside from relationship with God. Mankind, other than Abraham's seed, was to be called Gentiles, as distinct from Abraham’s seed (lineage). Later, Abraham's seed was to be called Israel, named for Abraham's grandson Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel. Israel's twelve sons are named among the 12 tribes of Israel.  Israel as a nation was intended to ultimately become God's channel of blessing to the entire world, including the Gentiles.

From the call of Abraham onward, until salvation came to the Gentiles through Paul's gospel, Gentiles were the "Gentiles in the flesh (racially)…having no hope, and without God in the world (Eph 2:11-12)".

In the history of the Bible we have a 400-year period of silence from God. God, the prophets and writer of Scripture were silent from the time between late in the Old Testament, when God's presence left the Jewish Temple, and the coming of Jesus of Nazareth – the Son of God.

Then the Messiah, Jesus, came to Israel, the children of Abraham. Jesus came in conjunction with the fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham and his seed, concerning a kingdom on earth. We must realize the coming of Jesus of Nazareth was first to and for Israel. Matthew 15:24I (Jesus) am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Jesus was on a mission from the Father to die for the sins of the world – all men. Yet, in His earthly ministry, Jesus of Nazareth made it clear as to whom He came to with this good news that He is the Messiah and King of the Kingdom that was to come again to earth for Abraham's seed – Israel, He said the kingdom was then “at hand.” So, in the so-called four Gospels, we have the account of Jesus of Nazareth who came to Israel only (not to the Gentiles). Jesus proclaimed "the kingdom," that had been long promised to Israel as Abraham's seed, was now "at hand." Matthew 4:17 Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Even after His death and resurrection, as we see in Acts 1, He spoke only concerning the log promised kingdom to come on earth

We see no hope yet for the Gentiles toward gaining an eternal saving relationship with God during the Gospels or in the early Acts period.