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To: kosta50
In the meantime, you may wish to use the God-given faculty of reason and ask yourself What did Jesus tell them to do with the sword? Execute people?

No. Apparently Christ advised them to get a sword as a nifty decoration for the wall.

If you consult the logic department in your God-given computer situated in your head, you will soon recognize that the "execution" in this case was done by God and not by Peter, because, as the scriputres remind us, vengeance belongs to God, not man, and not the Church.

Then why did God wait for Peter to give the sign? Hint: it might have something to do with Christ giving the authority to Peter on earth.

203 posted on 05/10/2009 11:04:47 AM PDT by TradicalRC (Conservatism is primarily a Christian movement.)
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To: TradicalRC
No. Apparently Christ advised them to get a sword as a nifty decoration for the wall.

What did he tell them to do with the sword? Execute people?

Then why did God wait for Peter to give the sign? Hint: it might have something to do with Christ giving the authority to Peter on earth.

He gave the authority to all the Apostles (Mat 18:18). In Mat 16 he promised he would give it to him. In Acts 5:12 it says the signs were happening among all the Apostles, not just Peter. Anyway,  there is no evidence that Peter was killing people for lying with this new authority .

Anyway, Acts 5:1-11 is an anecdote used for teaching and not necessarily that really happened any more than the talking donkeys in the Old Testament.

211 posted on 05/10/2009 10:17:35 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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