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1 | its a ckass excercise due sunday | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 213597 | ||
Dear 4191: The church at Antioch sent Paul and Silas on their first missionary journey. This church was believed to have more gentile christians. The home church at Jerusalem was mostly made up of jewish converts to chrisitanity. It was lead by James, Jesus brother. It was harder for them to accept this "new thing" of the gospel being available to gentiles because before they had always been told to stay away from gentiles. Jesus spoke to Peter in a vision and told him to preach to Cornelius, the first gentile convert. And so Peter explained it to the people that he was not to call anything unclean that God had made clean and that the gospel was to be proclaimed to them. Another point was that later Peter would when he was in Jerusalem would not eat with gentile believers perhaps because he wanted the people's approval. Paul called him out on this and said it wasn't right so to speak. Some of the jewish converts wanted the gentile converts to add their jewish traditions to their christianity; the leaders met for a church council and the results of that were that the gentiles would not have to do that but they were to abstain from immorality, things sacrificed to idols and one more I don't remember right now. The other Jew-Gentile controversy was that there were Jews who were not really converts and they hated the fact that Paul was offering salvation to the gentiles; they would follow him around the cities and cause him trouble, stirring people up and the like; they were called jewdaisers, that is the wrong spelling. If you have any reference books on the life of Paul, skim through them quickly before Sunday. They will give you a lot of information. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
2 | its a ckass excercise due sunday | Bible general Archive 4 | skccab | 213600 | ||
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