Notwithstanding these clear Scriptural and Divine injunctions to take the Gospel to non-Jews, notwithstanding Paul’s own repeated admissions that his mandate was to the non-Jews, he nevertheless persisted in taking it “to the Jew first” and in so doing, stirring confusion and aggression with his Gospel Message amongst Jewish congregations wherever he went. The following […]
In Galatians 2:7 Paul once more recognizes his mandate to preach to ‘non-Jews’: “I had been commissioned to preach the Good News to the uncircumcised…” and then he makes an astonishing statement in total contradiction of what the NT states about the mission of the apostle Peter. Paul claims “… just as Peter had been […]
Paul repeatedly admitted to his Divine Mandate to preach to the ‘the pagans’ rather than to the Jews. Yet he persisted in proselytizing “the Jews first” wherever he traveled. In his defense before a Jewish crowd who had seized him and beaten him in the Temple complex in Jerusalem, Paul testified: Acts 22:17 “Once, when […]
Why are Christians so insistent on evangelizing Jews?If the New Testament is so clear and emphatic that ‘God blinded the Jews’ to the recognition of the Messiah, is their proselytizing zeal then not tantamount to a challenge against the Decree of God? Was the apostle Paul instructed to “go to the Jew first” – or […]