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The position of the typical antiCatholic rests in part upon the repudiation of Peter as the leader of Christianity after Pentecost, and in the embracing of a distorted Paulian version of Christianity in contrast to Petrine Christianity.

In spite of the Protestant position of Paul - Gentile and Peter - Jew, let us look at the facts. Paul spent most of his ministry with the Jews (Acts and his Epistles bear that out). Peter spent most of his time with the Gentiles (Scripture and various Christian writings of the era bear that out). Peter converted the first Gentile. He raised the first person from the dead (after Christ). His shadow was enough to heal people.

He also led Christianity in Rome. His crucifixion was upside down so that he would not equal Christ in any way. Peter is portrayed by Protestants as a bumbling, stumbling fool, no match for the articulate and educated Paul. Yet Paul himself had an inferiority complex a mile wide and complained his whole life about not being accepted as much as the Apostles that Jesus spent three years with.

Now do you see that philosophy mirrored in the juxtaposition of your two paragraphs?

..which is why I asked you to read Acts 8,9 and 10. It would be fascinating study, if you read it prayerfully. And would answer your questions about Peter and Cornelius and the Messianic Church of the Kingdom as compared to the Church the Body of Christ that Paul was commissioned to preach. BTW: that Church the Body of Christ IS the reason the "last days" that Peter spoke of on the day of Pentecost were put "on hold". Acts 8 would give you another clue. Then Acts 9 would open your eyes, as Acts 10 explains WHY, after Paul is saved and given his commission by the risen Christ, Peter and the 11 give to him the right hand of fellowship. While Paul preaches the gospel of the uncircumcision, Peter and the 11 REMAIN in Jerusalem and preach the gospel of the circumcision. Which is what Galatians Chapter 2 refers to.

Other than that, we are sympatico with Scripture...:)lol!