{"id":6247,"date":"2009-11-10T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/10\/acts-and-mission-58\/"},"modified":"2009-11-10T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:23:32","slug":"acts-and-mission-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/10\/acts-and-mission-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts and Mission 58"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"JerusTem.jpg\"<\/span>Paul is at odds with Pharisaic believers over Gentiles: how are they saved? Do they need to embrace the whole Torah and get circumcised?<\/p>\n

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15:6<\/span>\u00a0Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.\u00a015:7<\/span>\u00a0After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, \u201cBrothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.\u00a015:8<\/span>\u00a0And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,\u00a015:9<\/span>\u00a0and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.\u00a015:10<\/span>\u00a0So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?\u00a015:11<\/span>\u00a0On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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First report is from Peter, and it is very interesting and it is God-focused (see Gaventa,\u00a0The Acts of the Apostles (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)<\/a>\"\"
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Peter\u2019s essential points:<\/div>\n
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1. Peter\u2019s experience of preaching the gospel \u2014 and he did this because of a dream vision from God \u2014 is that God has granted the Spirit to the Gentiles by faith, and not by way of circumcision. God makes no distinctions. Who are we to remake distinctions \u2014 this sounds like Galatians 2:15-21.<\/div>\n
2. His next line is so important: \u201cSo now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?\u201d That is: Peter is saying that we Jews could not be saved the Torah either. It was a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors could bear. He blames Jewish disobedience, not the limitation of the Torah.<\/span><\/div>\n
3. Question: Do you think Peter is saying that he, Peter, is no longer following Torah? Or is he saying that they are no longer trying to be saved by keeping the Torah?<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
4. Peter says that he \u2014 a Jew \u2014 is saved by the same means as the Gentiles: \u201cthrough the grace of the Lord Jesus.\u201d<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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