“Holy and reverend is HIS name.”

Gee, I thought that his saints were called his holy ones? And, the proper appreciation according to Scripture of one who is in authority is reverence, i.e. to fear. The word of title would be the one to be feared, reverend. We are to pay honor to whom honor is due and fear to whom fear is due. Perhaps part of the problem with the church today is a lack of proper fear of authority. The elders (reverends) are to be feared as those who can prosecute the legal authority in the church. The proper title, and one that should be revered among us is Reverend. That is a title, somewhat like what Sarah was commended for in calling her husband lord, adon, master, a dimunitive for of the word Adonai. I am sure that Michael Horton’s students are just a little fearful of him. As either Dr. or Reverend the intent is a good one, tradition or not. It is surely not a name that is reserved just for God any more than elohim, seeing that he has also called us governors.

Supersitition and legalism will kill ya, Mark.

Well, except for that part where you use an appellation that belongs to God alone for a mere (though good) man, Mr. Horton. Hmmm. Just guessing here, but it’s probably Doctor Horton?

“Holy and reverend is HIS name.” Psalm 111:9.

Centuries of tradition don’t justify this common practice.

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you…The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law…This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him…

and so forth. I have never found anything contradictory to the OT in what Paul taught.

Those Scriptures Jesus reissues as :

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Paul says the same thing:

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

And, as I pointed out, Peter himself says that what Paul says is Scripture:

which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

What I sense then is that you are one of them. You have inserted Paul’s name into a Scripture where it does not exist for the purpose of twisting what you do not understand about Paul’s teaching.

Some how I would imaging you would deny:

And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

because you aligned this book with being a false testimony, one in which Peter has been deluded by Paul, right? How convenient. In this very book Peter says that what Paul says has been given to Paul as wisdom. There is a consistency between, God breathed, carried along, and wisdom given and the fact is that lines up perfectly with the OT revelation of how God speaks. Obviously Peter is considering those who deny the truth of Scripture, but includes what he says and what Paul says and concludes that their own very words are the words of the OT YHWH spoken through he and Paul. So then, you must decide if Peter was a false prophet. Since there is never once any indication that Peter was anything but Christ’s own servant, that is going to be difficult, indeed.

So your task, if you can do so, is to prove that Paul is the one Jesus speaks of, but I do not think you will be able to. In fact, at most what can be said is that it is either a reference to those who would put him to death, or the Holy Spirit. My money is on the second. For when we are old, when we are mature, we come to know that it is not we, or any other man who carries us along, but the Lord.

Jhn 21:18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry [thee] whither thou wouldest not.

By the way, what’s up with all these people quoting Saul of Tarsus more than our Lord Jesus Christ and YHVH

Because to quote Paul is to quote YWVH and our Lord:

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness

or if you like the OT:

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

For Peters confirmation of God’s words in Paul’s mouth:

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.