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Originally Posted by good samaritan
Peters motivation for snubbing the Gentiles wasn't that he didn't know the truth of the gospel and needed a little more teaching. It was for fear of what others might think about him. Peter was wrong.
Paul rebuked Peter in front of them all because it was something they all needed to hear. Those snobby Jews acted the way they did much out of ignorance. Peter on the other hand, had already been spoken to by God on the subject. Peter was afraid of what the Jews would think of him. Paul by calling out Peter actually teaches the whole bunch. Peter was actually following the crowd to do wrong.
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Peter understood what Paul understood. Paul and Peter understood that they were continuing in the law just like the Apostolic Judeans in Jerusalem. They both understood that the weren't under the bondage of the Law. They did it because they were to be all things to all men. The law while the temple was still standing. The law was still the schoolmaster to lead the Judaic Judeans to Christ. Paul knew this, Peter knew this. Peter separated himself keeping his thoughts secret hence the reason why the KJV translators chose to interpret the Greek ὑποκρίσει with the English "dissimulation. The KJV translators were attempting to show that Peter was doing all this covertly. Yet, Paul notices because Peter was influencing other ministers. As far as Peter denying the Romans like He denied Christ? we just don't have all that information. We know that every jot and tittle was still within the law practices until the temple comes down. We understand that after James hears Paul's testimony of what he had accomplished in the Gospel among the Romans. James witnesses to Paul concerning thousands of Judeans who were converted and were all zealous of the law
Acts 21:20-22
There was a rumor that Paul didn't keep Torah, and was preaching to Diaspora Judeans that they should also not keep Torah. Yet, the Jerusalem church advised Paul to go to the temple for ritual washings concerning a Nazarite vow which Paul was keeping at the time. Paul kept a vow when he was with Aquila and Priscilla. In
Acts 20:1-6 Paul kept Passover, in
Acts 20:16 Paul hastened to go to Jerusalem for the festival of Pentecost. He did these things to be all things to all men that he might save some. When he meets Peter in Galatia, Peter was trying to do the same thing, but acted out of secrecy, and fear. People get off track, and Paul helped Peter get back on track through stern explanation. Peter remembers his brother in his own epistle
2 Peter 3:16. Peter goes on to say, "consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved Brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. Paul writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."
As far as Peter already getting told by God about the issue. Barak was told by God before he went to Deborah. She tells him this, and he tells her that he wouldn't go unless she went along for the ride. She then tells him because he needed to drag a woman into battle. He wouldn't get the honor, but a woman would God use to win the war. Embarrassing for Barak but not sinful. Because in
Hebrews 11 Barak is a hero of faith, not Deborah, or Jael.
So, let me ask you about this, why is this section with Peter important to our current discussion?
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