Around the mid 90's there was a group that was Jesus only that Paul was the anti-Christ to defend against the Calvinist. So with this Calvinist started trying to use a little more of Jesus words to prove Calvinism to combat back.
I myself thought they were both misunderstanding Paul. I myself was reading all other scripture except for Paul Epistle, not because I thought Paul was the anti-Christ. I thought I wasn't mature enough I didn't want to misunderstand him to my own destruction. I would listen to preacher preach and Sunday school teachers teach on Paul who was more mature than me. I have no problem reading Paul on my own, but there was a time I wouldn't read him on my own. My time not reading Paul on my own didn't last long but those people who where claiming Paul as an anti-Christ really showed me that people can misunderstand Paul to their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:
14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
We are not to love the world, but can we love them as God does? To see them like sheep without a shepherd who needs Jesus, even knowing that maybe only 10% will listen to you?
The reason I ask this, because I don't see why anyone would be a hyper-Calvinist by reading Paul?
