2006-12-26 03:50:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not Peter. We need to refer to the Gospel of Matthew. In that, Jesus allegedly gives "The Great Commission", telling the Apostles to go into all ther world, and make disciples of all nations. Yet earlier in the Gospel of Matthew, he tells them, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel". And he instructs his Apostles "Go not by the Gentiles, but go only unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel". It is impossible for both instructions to come from the same man. I conclude that the latter one, "The Great Commission", was put in Jesus's mouth by a later, Gentile church trying to justify its existence.
2006-12-26 03:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No it was Paul who fabricated Peter telling him that. Most of the Christians are followers of Paul's Cult of the Christ that he made up to bilk money out of the superstitious people that lived around the Mediterranean Sea. If you really study his writings closely you can see how his theology developed and changed over time. All that stuff in Acts was written after Paul's death to make it look like he had the approval of the apostles when they actually thought he was a heretic.
2006-12-26 03:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Peter stayed in Jerusalem and preached to the Jews. It was Saul who was chosen by Jesus to preach to the Gentiles and continue Christianity. The rest of the apostles died in Jerusalem or Rome before 70 A.D.
2006-12-26 04:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got news for you: *nobody* knows anything that jesus ever said.
You have to remember that the gospels were all written 40-70 years after jesus died, and by people who never met him in person or ever heard a single word he said. All of those "quotes" of jesus in the gospels? They could be made up, they could be third or fourth-hand quotes (as in, "my father told me that his father told him that jesus said..."), they could be completely fabricated. What they are NOT are "quotes" -- the authors of the gospels never heard a single one of those lines spoken.
It's also clear that given the discrepancies between "quotes" from jesus in the gospels, that what was written in a particular gospel was tailored for a specific audience, intended to show, for example, to the Jews that jesus was the messiah (Matthew's gospel, written for a Jewish audience). The "quotes" from jesus were written to enhance the myth of his divinity for specific people, there's no way to tell what he ever really said.
2006-12-26 03:58:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 28:19 & 20
2006-12-26 03:52:53 · answer #5 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Peter was a fisherman, he was not a fabricator.
2006-12-26 03:52:23 · answer #6 · answered by jinenglish68 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Jews obviously were not buying so they had to peddle their "good news" elsewhere.
2006-12-26 03:52:41 · answer #7 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said go tell all nations
2006-12-26 03:54:26 · answer #8 · answered by djm749 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
what word?
2006-12-26 03:53:17 · answer #9 · answered by Michael Kane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He sure did!
2006-12-26 03:54:08 · answer #10 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋