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Originally Posted by cityonahill

Great observations...it makes you wonder.

I'm trying to end up at something more certain than wonderment, if possible.

I'm saying that I believe it is possible that "all in Asia" left Paul because of Paul.

Following that, I'm saying that I believe that the cause may have been Paul's Judaistic practices, although minimal in comparison to that of the leading ones of the assembly in Jerusalem.

And followingly, I'm saying that I am concerned that Paul's Judaistic practices as embodied in his epistles may have been given weight not unlike the word of our dear brother Lee with regard to the "new way" and such.

Those who utterly abandoned Paul clearly erred. They threw out the baby with the bathwater.

The question of whether there is scriptural Pauline bathwater is obviously extremely disturbing.

But I am no longer content to accept a blind "NO!" in answer to such a question.

I said it very succinctly on another site recently:

Any teacher who says that God's will comes from their lips and requires you to deny the Spirit's witness and your own conscience is not presenting a healthy teaching.

I don't say that Paul himself required this but if we take Paul as requiring it, I'm not sure there's a practical difference...