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You'll have to explain that one to me, as I don't see it in Matt 28.

If these people are not saved, but believed in Christ, were baptized and received the Holy Spirit, how could any of us trust that our...

Unlikely does not mean impossible. Rare does not mean non-existent. God is not a magician and is not capable of forcing someone to want...

We've been over that in this thread already, and have determined that the wording could work with either interpretation without doing...

It could be that such a person is non-existent because of the way God works in each person toward his sanctification--that the result at...

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed, but would it have remained a mystery had the first plan worked? If it was planned that Gentiles would...

You do realize this is more of a debate forum, right? If you don't agree, then maybe this topic is one you should meditate on a bit.

We don't know how the original plan might have worked. My thought is that the original plan involved much larger numbers of Jews...

Agreed, but it only lasted for less than 40 years, since Peter ended up being killed in Rome, according to tradition.

12 people to one nation and a smattering of people in various places, vs one person to the entire rest of the known world? Rather...

What's different? Paul talked to Jews and Gentiles. Peter talked to Jews and Gentiles. But they divided up the territory, which would...

Those are the super-multitaskers.

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