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Paul's Hypocrisy Revealed

We read in Acts that

And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are." And Barnabas was desirous of taking John, called Mark, along with them also. But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. And there arose such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

(Acts 15:36-40)

It is clear that Paul and Barnabas had had a sharp disagreement and later parted company because of that disagreement. So Paul was not following what he had preached, namely to "...be at peace with all men" (Romans 12).

We also observe that Paul had not forgiven John (called Mark) for having abandoned him and Barnabas at Pamphylia (Acts 15:38) and opposed Barnabas' plan to take John with him. Apparently Paul had amnesia with regard to his teaching, "forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you" (Col. 3:13). So why did not Paul forgive John for abandoning him earlier?

Further, regarding revenge this snake taught that "Never take your own revenge, beloved!" (Romans 12) but yet Paul himself took his revenge against John (called Mark) by refusing to take him in the journey. So again we ask, why did Paul seek his revenge against John when he had clearly forbidden this? He is truly no doubt a clear-cut hypocrite, through and through!

RESPONSE:

It is as sad as it is obvious that TTA has no interest in examining the situation honestly and coming to a fair conclusion. His chosen language of insult ("snake") and sarcastic mockery ("apparently Paul had amnesia") leaves little doubt about his motivation.

Apparently TTA thinks that striving to be at peace with all men means that it is forbidden to be in disagreement with anybody or about anything. He seems to have a very low and superficial understanding of peace, if he thinks that peace is the same as not disagreeing and not being allowed to argue passionately about convictions.

In a moment we will actually use the very same letter to the Colossians refered to by TTA to prove that Paul DID IN FACT FORGIVE MARK, exposing the author's distortion of the facts for the sake of cheap polemics. But before we answer, let us continue quoting some more of TTA's venom to have his complete argumentation in front of us.

TTA:

On a related side note, this snake also has used Jesus'(P) name in his teaching when in reality it is not originally from Jesus(P), but from his own concoction. For example, in 1 Corinthians 15:6, Paul taught that the resurrected Christ had appeared to over five hundred breathren at one time whereas this episode is not available in the Gospels. Another proof is in Acts 20:35, whereby Paul cites, "remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive". This citation is certainly not from Jesus(P) because nowhere in Gospels is this quote to be found and attributed to Jesus(P). This same snake has also urged all the Jews among the Gentiles to forsake Moses(P), he told them not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs (Acts 21:21), this goes against what Jesus(P) himself taught. But sadly, the Christian missionaries and Christians in general have taken this hypocrite as their "apostle" and they generally behave like him as well.
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