It deeply offends me that someone would make a caricature of my God ordained physical features, particularly, one who serves in a high profile position. I respect your right and reasoning not to be offended. But, I’m as offended as Paul was observing Peter’s racial hypocrisy.https://twitter.com/D_B_Harrison/status/1056193461009948678 …
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But now that Christ has come was it necessary for Gentile believers to be circumcised and come under Mosaic law in order to be saved. IT WAS A GOSPEL ISSUE.
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And racial reconciliation is a gospel issue: Ephesians 2:11-22
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Biblical reconciliation is a gospel issue: the modern definition of that term that includes with it all the political baggage of Western culture is a completely different concept. Biblical reconciliation is a completed reality. One body, one Savior. Period.
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Great, now let's work toward this completed reality with real action. Let's look out for the interests of others, especially in regards to the deep racial divisions that exist in the church. There are a lot of "completed realities" we still need to strive for.
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As I have emphasized for a while now: it makes all the difference in the world if we START with the reality that there is no barbarian, no Scythian, or if we pretend we are still supposed to be working TOWARD that. Very different methodologies will result.
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The early church couldn't even get passed Greek Jewish Christians and Hebrew Jewish Christians. They acknowledged prejudices and worked thru. That doesn't address my original issue, the Judaizers and Paul were in a dispute over whether Gentiles needed to become Jews to be saved.
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U confused. No 1 is saying blacks have to Bcome whites 2B saved. Yet that is your argument per your example. Thus Galatians was not about skin color in anyway. 'Jews' are not a race but a culture. "Gentiles" were anyone who wasn't a Jew. Had nothing 2 do w/the color of their skin
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No I'm not confused. The original thread stated that Peter and Paul's issue was not racial. It was, it was about the idea of Gentiles needing to become Jews. I never said anything about blacks and whites. Race or ethnicity in Scripture had little to do with skin color.
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Circumcision as the sign of the Abrahamic/ Mosaic covenant marked them out as the "covanant people of God". A Gentile prosylite could, by believing in Yahweh and being circumcised could become a member of That covenant. Issue WAS NOT ABOUT RACE!
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Sure it was. The gentile who became circumcised and followed the law was accepted into the people of God. He was no longer a Gentile.
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