Additional Information on Peter with Cornelius
Jeff Epler jepler@inetnebr.com
Mon, 3 Nov 1997 15:20:41 -0600 (00878613641, 19971103152041.21135@falcon.inetnebr.com)
On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 08:12:33PM -0000, Matt Bell wrote:
> MATT
> In the discussion between Farrell and myself on the conversion of Cornelius
> the focus has been on Acts 10 and Acts 11. There is however, another passage
> in Acts which relates, in summary, the same account. It is to found in Acts
> 15 in the context of a dispute about whether or not one had to be
> circumcised in order to be saved. The relevant verses are from 7-12:
>
> '7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto
> them, Men [and] brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice
> among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel,
> and believe.
> 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the
> Holy Ghost, even as [he did] unto us;
> 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by
> faith.
> 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the
> disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
> 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall
> be saved, even as they.'
>
> I am sure that Farrell will find some means to squeeze this into his
> semantic games with Acts 11, but for me it is decisive in what happened:
I guess I'm having trouble figuring out where this has anything to do
with baptism. The passage is about that yoke "which our fathers were
not able to bear", but Jews did not bear the yoke of baptism.
Jeff
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