Featured Can you still be christian if you reject Paul's teachings?

Any of Paul's teachers or all of them?

1 Corinthians 15:3-4, For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: . . .

Galatians 2:21, I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

 

But what did Paul write about in his letters? The same things that he preached about:

“For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (1Co 2:2 NKJV)

If someone doesn't believe Paul's letters from the bible, why should they believe anything else in the bible?

I have occasionally come across people who when faced with something taught in one of Paul's letters, say something like "That was just what Paul wrote."

 

You would actually need to point out what Paul taught differently than Christ.

After all these years I haven't found anything that he taught differently.

I Cor. 3:11
"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."

Paul built his entire foundation on Christ.

 

No.

 

The question was once asked if one could be a Christian without believing in the Trinitarian nature of God.
I believe that the answer to that question and the question you asked are quite similar;

One who professes the know Jesus can do so without knowing about the Trinity or believing the teachings of Paul, …

…however anyone who might deny the Trinity or who denies following the teachings of Paul after they are taught about them, that person I would suspect didn’t really make a true confession of faith.

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There’s a cult church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, not too far from where I used to live.
Followers of the New Church, Swedeborgian’s had a very limited New Testament canon including only the Gospels and Revelation.

Rob

 

I had a homosexual tell me that Paul corrupted the teachings of Jesus by adding so much to it (like a Pharisee might).
He stated, "What did Jesus say about homosexuality? Absolutely nothing!"
In other words, Jesus didn't condemn it. That was Paul adding to the Gospel. *Sigh*

 

A real Christians accepts all of the bible, not just pick and choose edition

 

You can not be.

 

Where do you find any coherent plan of salvation outside the Pauline Epistles?

 

The gospel according to John.

 

Where is a complete plan of salvation in John?

 

Are you saying John's account omits the death burial and resurrection?
John 20:31, But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

 

If that's all you have to do, the Demons are saved.

 

1 John 3:8, He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

 

The complete gospel is not presented in John.
You do not get the complete gospel without the Pauline Epistles.

 

Luke, John, and Paul's letters lack Psalms 22:1 which only Matthew and Mark include. Only John's account has Jesus' word saying it is finished.