I'm fairly well vesed on Biblical History. I love the fact that conversions accelerated after circumcision ceased to be required of grown men. Imagine the sales pitch before that. "God is a kind and loving God. He forgives all sinners who come to him through Jesus his son. All you have to do is accept him into your heart to be born again, and, oh yeah, let us cut off part of your penis."
Maybe they forgot to tell them they had to deny themselves and “take up their cross daily.”
Kind of like today.
However, I don’t think so, as many of the early Christians were martyred, and the church always grew rapidly when believers embraced and lived a faith worth dying for.
——I’m fairly well vesed on Biblical History. I love the fact that conversions accelerated after circumcision ceased to be required of grown men. Imagine the sales pitch before that. “God is a kind and loving God. He forgives all sinners who come to him through Jesus his son. All you have to do is accept him into your heart to be born again, and, oh yeah, let us cut off part of your penis.”——
Ha, can you imagine the conversations between the apostles on that point? Maybe that explains Peters vision.