03/27/2026
Why do I teach that Paul is the sole doctrinal authority for the Gentile Believers?
The Bible has over 30,000 verses. Here is one that is very clear for a person who teaches that Believing Gentiles are under Torah:
"And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates." (Deut 6:6-9)
To be a "Keeper of Torah" requires you must obey everything in Torah and not modify it in any way whatsoever:
"Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."
Paul taught the Gentiles to stay Gentiles and to not get circumcised and place themselves under Torah. The Pharisees which believed taught the opposite:
"And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question...But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter." (Acts 15:1-6)
We are told: "...that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." (I Corinthians 1:10)
Do we make the Pharisees our doctrinal authority and follow them into being circumcised and Torah compliance, or follow Paul?
I cannot find a single reason to make those Pharisees my sole doctrinal authority and place myself under Torah.
Let's look for "proof-texts" that prove the YHVH ordained Paul to be the sole doctrinal authority for the Gentiles, and Torah to be the sole doctrinal authority for "The Children of Israel" in the Old Covenant era.
Place your findings in the comments below.