The Lost Message of Paul: Has the Church misunderstood the Apostle Paul? Author Michael F. Bird It is so easy to

It is so easy to rush through life

When the Jews were carried off into exile in Babylon

both of whom are struggling to find their place in the world

people today are morally confused and biblically illiterate

The Lost Message of Paul: Has the Church misunderstood the Apostle Paul? Author Michael F. Bird It is so easy toWe have misunderstood Paul, badly. We have read his words through our own set of assumptions. We need to begin with Paul's world view, to see things the way he saw them. What if 'original sin' was never part of Paul's thinking? What if the idea that we are saved by faith in Christ, as Luther argued, was based on a mistranslation of Paul's words and a misunderstanding of Paul's thinking?'Over the centuries,' writes Steve Chalke, 'the Church has