therefore did Paul disobey the command of Jesus? also because Peter is the first Pope of christandom did he disobey the command of Jesus also?
2006-08-04 10:42:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
in the latter part of matthew, Jesus told His disciples to go to ALL NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
2006-08-04 10:46:23 · answer #1 · answered by Lana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter was not the first "Pope". Anything relating to the Pope is relating to the Catholic church, which is FAR REMOVED from Christianity.
Jesus told his disciples to go to the Jews first, then the Gentiles after the stoning of Stephen, about 3 years after Jesus' crucifixion.
According to a time prophecy in Daniel, after 34ad the Jews were no longer God's people, having rejected the Messiah, and therefore the Gospel started going out to the Gentiles, with Paul as the first messenger to the non-Jews.
2006-08-04 10:51:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luke 2:31-32 31which you have prepared in the sight of all people,
32a light for revelation to the Gentiles
and for glory to your people Israel."
Jesus didnt want the disciples preaching to the Gentiles at that time. He wanted to first reach the Jews. Later Jesus tells them to preach the Gospel to ALL people not only Jews.
2006-08-04 10:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul was also not one of Jesus' 12 disciples. When Jesus told the disciples this it was before the "great commission" to go into all the world preaching the good news. Jesus knew that his followers would spread the gospel throughout the world after he ascended back to heaven.
2006-08-04 10:46:55 · answer #4 · answered by mywifeisbetterthanyours 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Going to the Jews first,then later to the Gentiles was a growth choice by man. The Jews (man) did not accept his teachings during the initial stages. Jesus then expanded the calling to the world to include the gentiles (i.e. the Great Commission in Matt. 28)
2006-08-04 10:54:32 · answer #5 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seem to recall that He told His disciples to preach to every nation and to baptize them. Therefore Peter and Paul did not disobey His command.
2006-08-04 11:01:28 · answer #6 · answered by mle_trogdor2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The verse you referenced is Matthew 10:6. This was instructions given well before Christ died on the Cross.
After Christ died and rose from the dead, he instructed the apostles "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations..." (Matthew 28:19)
The instructions given in Luke 24: 45-47 say, "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."
We see in Acts 2, the apostles, beginning in Jerusalem, preached to men gathered together from every nation and they told them "Repent and be baptized... for the remission of your sins..." Just like Jesus had instructed.
The Gospel message was to begin in Jerusalem and from there go into all the world.
The passage you referred to was before Christ gave the commission to begin spreading the message to the world. At this point, the gospel message was not complete. The gospel is the good news that Christ died, was burried, and rose from the dead. (1 Cor 15:1-4) This good news was to be taught to the whole world (Mark 16:15-16, Matt. 28:18-20), but it was to begin with the Jews.
2006-08-04 15:49:46 · answer #7 · answered by JoeBama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...
Jesus was to go to the Jews first... and the gospel would later go to the gentiles.
this is in fullfillment of the promise to Abraham to blessevery family on earth in his seed and also of the prophets "in Him (the seed of Jesse) shall the nations hope"
Jesus in fact made exceptions, the Samartians in John 4 ... Jesus went to Jewish homes and perosnally healed, but healed gentiles from a distance geneally
savation is from the Jews through the messiah to the world
2006-08-04 10:48:50 · answer #8 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He said that because the Jews had not yet rejected Him and hung Him on a cross. He appeared to Paul, specifically, telling them to bring the Good news to the Gentiles. I don't believe in pope. I believe that God wants us all to have a close relationship with Him. we need no mediator, for Christ died for us all.
2006-08-04 10:50:37 · answer #9 · answered by lucky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point. The fact is, Paul is really the inventor of Christianity as a religion separate from Judaism, not Jesus.
2006-08-04 10:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by grammartroll 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋