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1 | first gentile to christianity | Acts 4:16 | bertjon2000 | 224202 | ||
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2 | first gentile to christianity | Acts 4:16 | Searcher56 | 224203 | ||
God's day to you, bertjon2000, and welcome to the SBF, Can we presume all those converted in Jerusalem were pure blood Jews? We may presume so. But we don't know. Out side of that we have the three sons of Noah: The Samaritans son of Shem (Acts 8:4-25). They also had at least one of the other sons. They were not pure Jews. The Ethiopian eunuch son of Ham (Acts 8:26-40). He could have been a Jew. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship (v 27) ... but that doesn't make him a Jew. Yes, I know the Jews were from Shem, too ... I wanted to show how the Gospel reached his sons outside of Jerusalem. Cornelius son of Ham Japheth (Acts 10:1-11:18) is the one many/most say was the first Gentile was convert. What do you think? Searcher |
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3 | first gentile to christianity | Acts 4:16 | DocTrinsograce | 224210 | ||
Dear Searcher, Just an aside: I uncomfortable with the phrase "pure blood Jew." In the time of Christ one could go to the Temple and trace one's lineage to Abraham, or to that of Jewish convert of record. After the destruction of the Temple, one is considered a Jew whose mother was a Jew -- obviating the need to examine the validity of one's paternal origins. Assuming we are talking about an identifiable group called Christians, the narrative regarding Cornelius precedes the use of the term (Acts 11:26). If we are speaking salvifically, then, of course, we should have to go back much, much farther! (1 Peter 1:20-21) By the way, doesn't the Centurion of Matthew 8 and Luke 7 deserve some consideration? After all, he was the only one whose faith caused our Savior to marvel (Matthew 8:10 and Luke 7:9), as it exceeded the faith found in any of the descendants of Jacob. In Him, Doc |
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