The Jewish Christians that were forced to flee from the persecution of Acts 8:1,2 went into Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch establishing Christian Churches to all, including Gentiles...uh, no, that's not right...they established JEWISH churches.
The Jewish Christians that were forced to flee from the persecution of Acts 8:1,2 went into Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch establishing Christian Churches to all, including Gentiles...uh, no, that's not right...they established JEWISH churches.
Let's take a look at that entire passage, if you don't mind.
Acts 11: 19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. 20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. 21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
Why would you have truncated this passage? Would it possibly have been to try to support a purported division between Gentile and Jew, when the whole effort of early Christianity was to establish Christianity irrespective of origin? My point is that Paul, championed by many as the evangelizer to the Gentiles, spent more time with the Jews. Peter and many of the other Apostles, also believed by those same individuals to be evangelizers to the Jews, were in fact the opposite. Since there were no Jewish populations in India, Thomas, for instance was the most evangelizer of the Gentiles. You should look up the history of the Thomite Christians of Eastern India. It's a fascinating history.