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To: CommerceComet

Hardly. The entire gathering was in turmoil UNTIL Peter stood up and gave the official reasoning... at which time James as the local Bishop gave his ruling.


65 posted on 02/03/2012 5:18:05 PM PST by papertyger
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To: papertyger
Hardly. The entire gathering was in turmoil UNTIL Peter stood up and gave the official reasoning... at which time James as the local Bishop gave his ruling.

Even if I agreed with this (and I don't), you still have a lot of other Biblical examples which indicate that neither Peter nor the other early Church leaders recognized Peter's supposed preeminence.

181 posted on 02/04/2012 4:12:26 PM PST by CommerceComet (If Mitt can leave the GOP to protest Reagan, why can't I do the same in protest of Romney?)
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