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To: 2banana
"Paul (Luke writing for Paul actually) on his first missionary trips to Europe preached and converted Jews and Non-Jews."

As Peter and all the other Apostles did, and as documented IN THE BIBLE (Peter with the VERY FIRST GENTILES, and Philip with the Ethiopian eunuch). The old hoo-ha about "only Paul ministered to the Gentiles" gets old after a while.

45 posted on 05/15/2008 11:53:15 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Wonder Warthog; Manfred the Wonder Dawg
As Peter and all the other Apostles did, and as documented IN THE BIBLE (Peter with the VERY FIRST GENTILES, and Philip with the Ethiopian eunuch). The old hoo-ha about "only Paul ministered to the Gentiles" gets old after a while.

How then do you justify [Matthew 10:5-6] or [Galatians 2:11]????

Peter was not sent to evangelize Cornelius....he was sent by the Holy Spirit to show that Gentiles were also included in God's plan of salvation. Cornelius was already a man of God [Acts 10:2]. Paul....at the time....was sorting things out in Arabia [Galatians 1:17] or the task would have fallen to him. This is about 6 years after the resurrection and this concept (salvation for all) was not greeted warmly by some [Acts 11:1-2].

The Philip who did the evangelizing of the eunuch [Acts 8:26-29] was not the Apostle Philip.....who along with Peter had been directed to the circumcised [Matthew 10:5-6]....but the evangelist Philip [Acts 6:1-6]. Notice that this Philip goes to Samaria [Acts 8:5], cannot call up the Holy Spirit [Acts 8:16], and Peter and John have go to Samaria at the direction of the Jerusalem Church. This was in direct violation of Our Lord's command in [Matthew 10:5-6]. This caused the heresy and false doctrines of Simon Magus to enter the stage of history.

70 posted on 05/15/2008 7:13:37 PM PDT by Diego1618
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