Jewish and always wondered about this. Do we get more of Christ's riches ?
2006-12-12 06:48:21 · 12 answers · asked by Kendra H 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Paul tells us that, historically, the gospel was to go to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. And that is the program which is followed in the book of Acts. Soon it will turn to the Gentile world, for in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile; they all come on the same ground. But Peter's argument is, "Look, you are Jews. You know the prophets, you have been reading them. And your own Scriptures urge you to believe in Jesus." Peter brings it home with a personal emphasis: "God has sent him to you to turn you from your wickedness."
I wonder if Peter did not learn all this knowledge of the Old Testament application to the Christian life from what Jesus taught him during those forty days after his resurrection, when he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures and, "beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself..." (Luke 24:27 RSV). Peter is really recounting those words here. And he is saying, "The final issue is this, and each of you must settle it for himself: Will you allow God to turn you from your wickedness?" Will you begin at the place where God begins -- not out at the periphery of life, clearing up a few surface problems, but right at the heart, with your problem of guilt,with your lack of acceptance of yourself before God, with your sense of inadequacy and inferiority -- and deal with that before Jesus Christ and, in the name of Jesus, believe that God loves you and receives you and makes you his own, and you are privileged to live as his child, his son, in the midst of this present life? That is where Peter leaves the issue. Perhaps you would like to answer this question Peter leaves with us: What are you doing with Jesus? Will you allow God to turn you from your wickedness -- in the name of Jesus?
2006-12-12 06:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by Bruce 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is talking about the time frame. Christianity was offered to the Jews first, and then, after Peter baptized the household of Cornelius, it was offered to the Gentiles as well. As far as Christians go, there is neither Jew nor Gentile - all are one in Christ. The Jews were simply the first to hear the message.
2006-12-12 14:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prophecy in Daniel stated that the covenant would remain 3 1/2 years after the death of Jesus.
After that 3 1/2 years the promise of being a royal nation of kings and priests would be opened to the Gentiles.
2006-12-12 14:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Gospel of Jesus Christ was first preached to the Jews and, according to prophecy, in the latter days it would be taken to the Gentiles. We are in the latter days now and the Gentiles have been receiving the Word.
The Bible and other scripture (the Book of Mormon) also tells us that the Gospel will once again be delivered to the Jews in these end of times. That, too, has begun.
2006-12-12 14:52:52 · answer #4 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't be serious about that? When a person accepts Jesus as their personal Savior, they are adopted into God's family. This does not make them Jewish, but part of His family who gets riches according to how they obeyed God, and did what He instructs us to do while we were on earth before we died.
Every time you witness to someone, you are building up what is stored for you in the Kingdom of God. You are not the one who saves a lost soul, because the Holy Ghost is the only one who can do that. But you must be the light in the darkness of a lost soul's life, and show them the way into the arms of Jesus.
How we live for the Lord now is how our riches are being stored in heaven when we get there. Being Jewish does not have anything to do with that. Jewish people are God's chosen people who are very dear to Him. That is why He chose His son Jesus to be born of the Jewish faith.
2006-12-12 14:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christian message was originally first exclusive to Jews. Then Paul came along and started telling everybody. The fact that he prioritized the message in this way reflects that it was a period of transition between being an exclusively Jewish thing and spreading to others.
2006-12-12 14:53:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That was a matter of "timing". Jesus came "unto His own...and His own received Him not' (Prologue to St. John's Gospel) - that's what "first to the Jew" means. St. Paul was the Apostle to the Gentiles, and he caught all sorts of heck from the Judiazers for it!!
2006-12-12 14:52:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gentiles were everyone else,, the Romans the Arabs, everyone That is why Christianity was able to become the worlds largest religion.
2006-12-12 14:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salvation was first offered to the Jews, but they rejected it. Then it was offered to the gentile.
2006-12-12 14:51:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you be one-sixteenth Jewish. Religion isn't genetic, it's a choice.
2006-12-12 14:52:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋