In an era of theological fluidity, where ancient texts are often reinterpreted through modern lenses, a stark warning emerges from the pages of the Bible: to deny the writings and apostolic authority of Paul is to court apostasy — a falling away from the faith once delivered to the saints.

This is not a fringe interpretation but a literal reading of Scripture, which positions Paul’s 13 epistles (Romans through Philemon) as the divinely inspired blueprint for the church in the present age. To excise Paul is to dismantle the very gospel of grace, opening the door to a cascade of heresies that the Bible itself condemns as damnable.

The Bible, taken as the unerring standard of truth, leaves no ambiguity. Paul declares in Galatians 1:1, “Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead).” His commission is not ecclesiastical but supernatural, sealed by Christ’s personal appearance on the Damascus road (Acts 9:3-6, 15-16). There, the risen Lord designates Paul as “a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.” This is no secondary appointment; it is the direct voice of Christ establishing Paul’s authority over the Gentile church.

Paul’s own testimony is unequivocal. In Galatians 1:11-12 he writes, “But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” His doctrine is not derivative; it is revelation. To question its inspiration is to question the Lord who gave it.

The Apostle Peter, far from disputing Paul, affirms his writings as Scripture. In 2 Peter 3:15-16, he states: “And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”

Peter’s equation is absolute: Paul’s letters are “the other scriptures.” To “wrest” them — to twist or reject them — is to invite destruction. This is the biblical definition of apostasy: a deliberate departure from inspired truth.

Paul himself anticipates resistance. In 1 Corinthians 14:37 he asserts, “If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.” His epistles are not suggestions; they are binding ordinances from Christ. The churches are directly addressed — “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth” (1 Corinthians 1:2) — making rejection a corporate act of rebellion.

Yet rejection is precisely what occurs when certain modern teachings take root. These doctrines do not arise in a vacuum; they require the systematic removal of Paul’s authority. Consider the cascade:

Women in Pastoral Leadership

Paul’s directive is unambiguous: “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence” (1 Timothy 2:12). He grounds this not in culture but in creation order: “For Adam was first formed, then Eve” (1 Timothy 2:13). To permit women pastors, one must first declare Paul culturally bound or uninspired — a move that severs the command from its divine origin.

The result? Confusion in the assembly, which Paul says God is not the author of (1 Corinthians 14:33).

Sodomy and Sexual Morality

In Romans 1:26-27, Paul describes same-sex acts as “vile affections” and “against nature,” with practitioners “receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, he lists “abusers of themselves with mankind” among those who “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Verse 11 is crucial: “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified.” The gospel transforms; it does not affirm. To claim sodomy is not sin, one must mute Paul — and with him, the hope of deliverance.

LGBTQ Identity and Christian Practice

The modern assertion that one can live in unrepentant LGBTQ practice while remaining a Christian directly contradicts 1 Corinthians 6:11. Paul does not say “such are some of you” but “such were some of you.” Identity in Christ supersedes all prior identities. To preserve LGBTQ affirmation, Paul’s transformation theology must be discarded, replaced by a grace that licenses rather than liberates — the very “turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness” condemned in Jude 1:4.

Extra-Biblical “Scriptures

”Paul warns in Galatians 1:8, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” Yet movements elevate apocryphal texts, the Book of Mormon, or modern prophetic claims above or beside Paul. This violates the closed canon implied by Revelation 22:18-19 and explicitly affirmed by Peter’s inclusion of Paul in “the other scriptures.” To accept uninspired canon is to embrace “another Jesus… another spirit… another gospel” (2 Corinthians 11:4).

A Counterfeit Christ

Jesus warned in Matthew 24:24, “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders.” Paul defines the true Christ: the one who “died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). A Christ who winks at sin, redefines marriage, or saves by works is not the Pauline Christ. To follow such a figure, one must first silence the apostle who received the mystery of the church by revelation (Ephesians 3:3-5).

Doubting the Word Itself

Finally, to question the Bible as the Word of God, one begins with Paul — the most systematic theologian of the New Testament. In 1 Thessalonians 2:13, the church “received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God.” To call Paul fallible is to unravel the thread that holds the tapestry together. As he writes in Romans 3:4, “Let God be true, but every man a liar.

”The Common Thread: Reprobation

Romans 1:28 describes the end of those who “did not like to retain God in their knowledge”: “God gave them over to a reprobate mind.” Paul alone reveals the full scope of the church’s doctrine — the gospel of grace (Ephesians 2:8-9), the unity of Jew and Gentile in one body (Ephesians 3:6), the order of the local assembly (1 Timothy, Titus), and the believer’s position in Christ (Colossians 2). To reject him is not to trim excess; it is to gut the structure.

The Bible’s own verdict is severe. In 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Paul prophesies: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

That time, Scripture suggests, is now. Denying Paul is not a scholarly disagreement; it is apostasy — the “falling away” foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. It is the rejection of Christ’s chosen vessel, the corruption of the gospel of grace, and the embrace of another Jesus. As Paul warns in Galatians 1:9, “If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

The Bible stands as the final arbiter. Its pages do not bend to culture, consensus, or compassion divorced from truth. To remove Paul is to remove the cornerstone of New Testament faith. And a house built without its cornerstone cannot stand.

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