JPC said:
After I posted that I thought it might have been Peter who said it and not Paul but it was still close as both were apostles and both names start with "P". So Peter said to submit to all authority but Peter also said to a Court Judge that they must "obey God rather then men" and Peter left the Court and proceeded to brake the Court Judge's orders. The Judge could have been a King but it too is close enough, the message is the same, that we must not follow crooked laws or obey a Judge that is wrong.
Again, you interpret wrongly. It is only right for Christians to disobey the laws of man that violate the laws or commandments of God. If man has a law that a person must honor some king as god, a Christian is to disobey that law. If man has a law that you must pay child support, Christians must obey that law.
JPC said:
The truth of the Bible is that God wants people to think and to reason for ourselves based on the principles and commandments. So it looks like I am making up my own stuff but my own stuff is based on the scripture so it works.
God wants us to seek His wisdom by reading His word and following it. He does not want us to pick and choose what we agree with and don't agree with in His word and do our own thing. So your way is false as you express it in your posts.
JPC said:
Try to be tolerant of others and see that there are more ways to God then orthodoxy.
I am tolerant of others. I may not agree with them and I will state what the Bible has to say on a subject. I believe the Bible is the word of God; inerrant and authoritative. I don't care if people are Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, some other denomination, or non denominational. They can even be agnostic or atheist.
What I do care about are all who seek to know or have a closer relationship with God and those that are open to learn what the Bible says even if they don't believe. Because I care, I will not tolerate your babel of falsehoods that could possibly lead someone into some false belief modeled after your delusional perception of the Bible.
JPC said:
If we compare the "tax collectors" of old times then they are equivolent to the modern day police. When some one broke the Roman laws then they were given a fine or tax and the law was inforced by tax collectors that had the power of police. FYI.
Again, you are wrong. The "police" of the time came from two sources; the Roman guard and the temple guard of the Jews. Of the two, the Roman guard had the greater authority during the Roman occupation of Israel.
The passage I was quoting refers to the way Jesus' Jewish followers, to whom He was preaching, should treat those that claimed to follow Him but preached something or practiced something that was contrary to His teaching. Jesus told them to tell them what they were doing was wrong in private. In your case, that has been done. If the person did not change, warn him with the testimony of two or three. In your case, that has been done. If the person did not change, tell it to the church and all the church is to treat the person as a Gentile or tax collector. In your case, that is coming, but in the meantime, I have chosen to treat you as a Gentile or tax collector on an individual level.
Gentiles and tax collectors were the lowest form of life to Jews during the time Jesus was walking this earth. So when the church or a Christian chooses to regard you as a Gentile or a tax collector, you have become the lowest of the low to them and are not to be regarded as a Christian brother or sister.
If you change and admit what you have taught is false, then you will be accepted as a Christian brother again.