From Peter to Paul - Just a few noteworthy differences worth considering

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Noblemen

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I only wish to point out things that differ, but there are group who take it too far. I do not wish to make unnecessary divisions, but at the same time I feel like the church as a whole today seems to miss the significance of Paul's unique apostleship.
What was unique about Paul, his style of preaching, how he wrote, or what he had to say? What was unique about Paul.
 

JaumeJ

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So Abraham preached the resurrected Christ? I'm at a loss how you can compare the two, and justify it.
Read in the Epistles how Abraham was the first to receive the Gospel. What you believe is having heard the Gospel is what you believe.
 

mailmandan

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Read in the Epistles how Abraham was the first to receive the Gospel. What you believe is having heard the Gospel is what you believe.
What was the "Good News" that Abraham received? Galatians 3:8 - And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”

Do you believe that the "full content" of the Gospel "Good News" which Paul preached (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 1:13) that came to him through a revelation of Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:11-12) which in other ages was unknown and was still a "mystery" (Ephesians 3:1-9; 6:19; Colossians 1:26-27; 4:3) was really "no mystery at all" and had already been "fully revealed" as far back as Abraham and was preached throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament in the 4 Gospel accounts: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John?
 

JaumeJ

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Gal 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

He was also given the word that his descendants would possess the Gate of their enemies…..Jesus Christ is the Gate and we, when saved enter into the original flock making the two flocks one… It is in the Book
 
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But from those who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
 

mailmandan

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Gal 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

He was also given the word that his descendants would possess the Gate of their enemies…..Jesus Christ is the Gate and we, when saved enter into the original flock making the two flocks one… It is in the Book
Amen to Galatians 3:8! Yet do you believe that the "full content" of the Gospel "Good News" which Paul preached was really "no mystery at all" and had already been "fully revealed" as far back as Abraham and was preached throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament in the 4 Gospel accounts: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John?
 
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pottersclay

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But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
 

Noblemen

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What was the "Good News" that Abraham received? Galatians 3:8 - And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”

Do you believe that the "full content" of the Gospel "Good News" which Paul preached (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 1:13) that came to him through a revelation of Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:11-12) which in other ages was unknown and was still a "mystery" (Ephesians 3:1-9; 6:19; Colossians 1:26-27; 4:3) was really "no mystery at all" and had already been "fully revealed" as far back as Abraham and was preached throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament in the 4 Gospel accounts: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John?
Nailed it
 

Noblemen

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Read in the Epistles how Abraham was the first to receive the Gospel. What you believe is having heard the Gospel is what you believe.
They knew nothing about a cross, a resurrection, an ascension. They didn't even know about a coming Messiah for a Jewish nation, fact of the matter, there were no Jewish chosen people at the time. Your grasping at straws my friend, mountain out of a mole hill, whatever you want to call it, major tweak on the scriptures
 

JaumeJ

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They knew nothing about a cross, a resurrection, an ascension. They didn't even know about a coming Messiah for a Jewish nation, fact of the matter, there were no Jewish chosen people at the time. Your grasping at straws my friend, mountain out of a mole hill, whatever you want to call it, major tweak on the scriptures

They possessed the GAte of their enemy. Read Genesis.
 

JaumeJ

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Gal 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

and

Gen 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
 

mailmandan

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Gal 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

and

Gen 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Is that a YES or NO answer to my question in post #46? :unsure: