[cva66snipe]

Ok so your a legalistic person on wording. Peter upon seeing Jews when he was among gentile believers shunned the Gentile believers. Paul publicly corrected him for this. I stand by what I said earlier. Had the persecution not happened The Gospel may well have not let Jerusalem. It resulted in the believers being scattered throughout Europe and Asia quickly.

As believers fled the persecution they took the message of The Gospel with them. This was not that immediate as in a matter of days, weeks, etc, but rather between Stephens death and the fall of Rome. Tradition has it before the chosen 12 had died it may have reached as far as Spain.

[MHGinTN]

Paul was well into missionary travels when he corrected Peter, and the Gospel was well into INdia by the time the eleven were killed. John on the Island of Patmos was the last, many years after the Gospel had reached Spain and even what became the British Isles.

[Godzilla]

Ok so your a legalistic person on wording.

No, words mean things and there is a significant difference between a DOCTRINAL difference and a personal failing.

Had the persecution not happened The Gospel may well have not let Jerusalem.

Poor study of early church history. It was already outside of Jerusalem well before the persecution, starting at the very birth of the church. If something other is what you are "standing" on, it is very poor scriptural knowledge.

As believers fled the persecution they took the message of The Gospel with them.

Believers took the message across the roman empire after Pentecost snipe. Forget to read Acts 2?

Tradition has it before the chosen 12 had died it may have reached as far as Spain.

Most certainly by 90AD it had spread across the empire. So

[Elsie]

Ok so your a legalistic person on wording.

I am, too!

Words mean things.