are you serious?
If you are honest, you would admit that current christianity teachings owe much to Paul's writings which contradict what Jesus pbuh said/did.
Are you saying I'm not honest, or are you simply saying that you see things differently than me?
Read what I wrote. I have indeed said that Christianity owes much to Paul and his writings. But I disagree that Paul contradicted what Jesus said.
okay, so anyone who claim to are led by holy spirit should be obeyed?
what are the requirements to be led by holy spirit?
First, we have to be careful about the connotations behind our terms. I spoke of people being under the "guidance" of the Holy Spirit and you spoke of people being "led" by the Holy Spirit. They look like they could mean the same thing, but I'm not sure that we are in fact using them in the same way.
So, as to what I was talking about (because I can't read your mind):
I find that the Holy Spirit provides us with much guidance and direction, much like a parent does his/her children. But not all children are obedient to their parent's and not all Christians are obedient to the Holy Spirit. Secondly, in the fallen world in which we live, many people make special claims regarding their experience, some of them are even true. So, before everyone begins following the next person who claims they have a word from God for the world we would have to discern two things:
(1) have they really heard from God or perhaps it is something else ranging from indigestion and bad dreams to hearing from the devil disguised as an angel of light? (I've seen more than one person on this forum suggest this is what happened to Paul, on other forums the same has been suggested for Muhammad or the Pope.)
(2) assuming that they have really been receiving input from the Holy Spirit, have they properly received it, understood it, interpreted its meaning, and correctly divined how to apply it. Just because someone gets God's message, it doesn't follow that they know what to do with it. In the Hebrew accounts of the Exodus, Moses did indeed received God's message while leading the people through the wilderness that he could get water from a rock by means of his staffl but he also misapplied that lesson and God had to call him on it.
So, I would not say that anyone who claimed to be led by the Holy Spirit should automatically be obeyed just because he made such claims. How then do we know who to obey and who not to obey? That is indeed the $64,000 question. It is really tough. It comes through discernment. I believe it is usually a process in which we find confirmation for that message from other voices in the Church, and it does not contradict God's word as previously disclosed in scripture.
Jesus pbuh never abrogated the ruling of not eating pork, Jesus pbuh never touched pork in his life. What would Jesus pbuh say to todays christians who eat pork (thanks to paul) and worship him?
I agree that Jesus is unlikely to have ever eaten pork. But scripture does record him doing other things that the keepers of the law regarded as making him a lawbreaker. For instance Jesus and his disciples were chastised for picking grains of wheet and eating them on the Sabbath as they walked through a field. On another instance he healed a person on the Sabbath. But were understood as violations of the commandment to honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.
The commandment to not eat pork was a part of the covenant that God made with the nation of Israel. It was not binding on non-Jews, and still is not understood by Jews to be binding on Gentiles. One of the questions before the early Christian community was whether or not Gentiles who were becoming followers of Jesus had to also become converts to Judaism in order to belong to the nascent Christian community. It is very true that Paul and Barnabas thought the answer to that question was NO. But they were challenged by unnamed individuals the book of Acts labels as Judaizers who thought the answer to that question was an unequivocal YES. The resulting tensions within the followers of Jesus resulted in the holding of the first Church council, a meeting of the apostles and elders in Jerusalem (the story of this council is recorded in Acts 15), and at the conclusion of this council a decision was made. That decision was that Gentiles converts to the faith did not have to conform to the Jewish laws of the old covenant to be a part of the new covenant which defined the Christian community's understanding of itself.
Paul argued for that, but it was NOT Paul who rendered that verdict. The judgment was actually made by James and agreed to by the whole of the Apostles. One of the primary speakers in favor of that decision was none other than Peter.
What do I think that Jesus would say to today's Christians that eat pork and worship him? I seriously think he would be fine with it. It was his Spirit that led Peter to do exactly these things prior to and completely independent of Paul's influence. That same Spirit led Paul to ministry amongst the Gentiles where Paul saw how the Gentiles were blessed by this same Spirit of God that had blessed the Apostles at Pentecost. And then that Spirit led the Apostles and elders of the Church to make the determination that such rules were not necessary to enjoin on any of the Gentile converts to Christianity. So, as only a very few Christians today are of Jewish heritage, I don't think Jesus would have a problem with Christians doing today exactly what his Spirit led the first generation of Christians to do as well.
