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To: RnMomof7

I forgot to ask...Where was Peter when this Epistle to the Romans was written?


9 posted on 02/08/2006 2:07:52 PM PST by Clay+Iron_Times (The feet of the statue and the latter days of the church age)
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To: Clay+Iron_Times
I forgot to ask...Where was Peter when this Epistle to the Romans was written?

He was the apostle" to the circumcision", scripture indicates he was in Babylon, which at that time was a hub of Jewish intellectuals and had a large Jewish population.

One thing we know for sure is he was not in Rome as he is not addressed in the letter .

11 posted on 02/08/2006 2:20:54 PM PST by RnMomof7 ("Sola Scriptura,Sola Christus,Sola Gratia,Sola Fide,Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: Clay+Iron_Times

Probably establishing the Church in Rome.

Paul was the forever traveling Evangelical, going even from Athens to Malta and beyond.

Peter was more centrally located, unless of course I have read the history wrong.

Paul's work is bar-none, the most amazing ever known.

It is to him that we owe our gratitude for the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

This was due to Paul's genuine wish that Gentiles know Christ, in addition to Jews. Peter's argument was that only Jews know Christ.

Thank goodness Paul convinced him otherwise.


139 posted on 02/10/2006 10:07:18 PM PST by Emmet Fitzhume ("Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." President Reagan)
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