Jesus said ... Mark 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
In this passage Jesus compares the Law to old bottles that have lost their flexibility and have become rigid. The New Testament is compared to new wine which will have some fermentation and life in it and will expand safely in a new flexible leather bottle. Paul was a tent maker. He probably made tents out of skins of animals sewn together similar to the Native American Indian tepees. As the Apostle to the Gentiles he was the instrument that God used to give the Church much of the New Testament doctrine. Skins are flexible and free form. The individual animals skins each having their own characteristics is what made the tent's finished look. No two of them were alike.
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What we must remain inflexible about is the integrity of our Bible (the King James Bible from the received text) and the Person and Work of The Lord Jesus Christ.
Judges 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
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