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This is something God would require from His chosen people. As many times as the Jews failed, it makes perfect sense that more would be required of the Jews than would be required of the gentiles. Enduring to the end. Indeed. We see that requirement of the Jews throughout the gospels...

Maybe Paul was in such a state of shock that he wrote to the Jews right away....feeling the need to prove to the Jews that Jesus was indeed the Christ. Thus no salutation. I should just shut up until I read it with fresh eyes.

I have a thought about that P.S. Notice the "Jew first", and remember the love and loyalty Paul had for his fellow Jews. Early on after his Road to Damascus experience, Paul was just preaching Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God. It was only after the Lord sent Paul off to Asia that he...

It's a covenant. The covenants were with Israel.

Amen. One has to realize that had the "obedience of faith" been revealed to the Jews before Paul preached it, they would have given up the law long ago. They had this. Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Some...

Ah, I still have so much to learn. :unsure:

I'm confusing nothing. Peter didn't expect to be saved until Jesus returned in His glory. Acts 3 Paul preaches a present salvation when we believe. Eph. 2

If you can't show where Peter preaches the sufficiency of the cross it must not be there for you put forth.

They are distinct gospels. When Jesus returns and sits on David's throne, the people will be under the law, but it will not be bondage because they will love the law, and seek it's precepts in the very presence of the Lord. Psalm 119:44-46 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and...

Peter's good news was not the same as Paul's. Peter's good news was for the Jews......that Jesus would sit on the throne of David when He returned in Glory. In fact, they all expected that to happen soon.

Ah, so when Jesus was preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, you think it was something besides the "Kingdom of Israel" on earth where He would sit upon the throne of David?

You're assuming a lot, once again. Do you have any scripture that supports Peter teaching the sufficiency of the cross without the law? I'd love to see it.

Who did know the Hebrew scriptures? Not the fishermen. The Scribes and Pharisees, maybe, and they had added so much it was impossible to keep the over 600 rules alone....just the rules were keeping those learned men busy.

I'd like to address this specifically first. You can replace the word circumcision with any other portion of the law and it would be the same. Peter preached keeping the law from the beginning. He was a Jew...not even eating anything "unclean" until the Lord sent down the sheet and made Peter...

Of course, there is this... so, I'm not convinced it's speaking of the freedom from the bondage of the law as Paul meant it. Jeremiah 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the...

Oh dear. I used a term that hadn't been used in that exact fashion, and I confused you. Let's look at the Kingdom that was being preached while Jesus walked the earth.....and the Gospel of the Kingdom which required a King to sit on David's throne. The Messiah. All the Jews knew that was...

Yes, and what you're reading into the text. We know what Jesus told Peter, and He didn't say anything about the sufficiency of the cross, that I can recall. Actually, there was quite a crowd of Jews there with Peter doing exactly what Peter was doing....compelling the gentiles to get...

Well, Paul says body, soul, and spirit. I believe scripture shows that. The soul is who we are as a person (mind, personality, etc), and the spirit is that innermost part where we commune with the Spirit of God. Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the...

Repeating it doesn't make it say what you want it to, Tam. It only makes you look desperate. So you didn't read how Paul just explained his gospel of grace ....communicating it to them, which would have to have included justification by faith? The primary part of Paul's gospel is...

Nope. The spirit is not the church. 1 Cor. 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and...