[Invincibly Ignorant]

because of the baggage that phrase carries as well as its irrelevance to this discussion.

What baggage? That Peter possible didn't make it to rome? Ya, that would be some pretty big baggage to swallow.

[OLD REGGIE]

What baggage? That Peter possible didn't make it to rome? Ya, that would be some pretty big baggage to swallow.

I think the baggage is the denial by ventana that Jesus commissioned the Apostles to minister to the "lost tribes" no matter that the "lost sheep" are synonomous with "lost tribe".

[ventana]

LOL. No, the phrase crops up in all sorts of weird psuedo scriptural fringe Christian groups (you know, Sabbath keeper types and the like :-)) Garner Ted Armstrong's father claimed the English were one of the Lost Tribes, others have given the title to Japanese, Icelandians (sp?) The Ute Indians in Utah and others.

Sadly, my sense is that the whole "Lost Tribes" concept is almost purely a cultish corruption of scripture that has crept back into mainstream Christianity because people just didn't know any better. That it crept back into Churches that "knew their Scripture" (NCs) rather than into the folks who "didn't" (Catholics) is pure poetic justice in my view.

If the phrase occured a single time in scripture, I would feel much different.

v.