My Answers to some Muslim objections to Paul Part 2

I continued my discussion and answers by saying:

Thank you for continuing our discussion. I am happy to answer your questions.

You ask, in your first question, “Who is that false and satanic apostle in 2 John 1:10, 11 ?

My answer: To learn who it is that John is referring to, it helps to read the verses that come right before the verses you are asking about:

2Jn 1:3  Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

2Jn 1:4  I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2Jn 1:5  And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6  And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

The Apostle John carefully explained just which commandments he is talking about when he wrote on this subject in his first letter:

1Jn 3:23  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

The Apostle John, therefore, is not focusing on the Ten Commandments, but on Two Commandments:

(1) Believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and
(2) love one another, as he [Jesus Christ] gave us commandment.

Next, the Apostle John writes:

2Jn 1:7  For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Who are the deceivers John is talking about? He is talking about those who are teaching that when Jesus comes back He is not returning in His original physical body: in the underlying Greek text of the New Testament the present participle is used, which in modern English would be translated “Jesus Christ coming in the flesh.” These “deceivers” are the false teachers who believed that the flesh or body is evil. They are the early instances or examples of a group later called the Gnostics.

Paul never taught such a false doctrine. He taught against this doctrine in his letter to the Colossians.

I already gave you the evidence that Peter (Cephas), James, and John gave Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, as mentioned in Galatians 2:9.

Gal 2:9  And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

This action by Peter, James, and John means they, as the leaders of the Christian church, fully accepted Paul and Barnabas and approved of the doctrine they taught.

Therefore, it is IMPOSSIBLE that the Apostle John in his second letter makes any reference at all to the Apostle Paul. Such an idea is totally mistaken.

 

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