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True, but relating Paul and Barnabas' thoughts it'd seem to me. Again, without Paul there, the issue would be Judaized gentiles. It...

A matter of timing. A matter of ongoing revelation with an indwelling Spirit, which, after my noting ‘Christ in you’ was a mystery...

Paul's use of the word 'grace' in his thirteen epistles: 90+ Times that Jesus is quoted using the word 'grace' during His earthly...

Romans 10 may have been about Israel but it was not speaking to Israel. The book of Romans was written to Romans, which is to say that...

Not a bad rendering of the gospel. There are quite a lot of statements that are somewhat loaded with meaning that an uninitiated person...

True that most denominations do wrong things, and it’s getting worse all the time. Just as the Bible tells us it will. However, most...

What was different? The indwelling Spirit. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And, of course, opening the door to the gentiles...

Again: 'same.' Rather, because Paul emphasizes it, what was the difference? Acts does a good job of spelling out differences...

Some on TOL claim that salvation has always been the way that Paul preached it, but nobody knew it until Paul "made it clear". That is a...

Scripture is clear that salvation is OF the Jews, meaning all the promises, and Christ Himself was a Jew, and Christ Himself is...

Needs more discussion. Works was always in tangent with grace and disobedience punished with the ground opening up, serpents, swords...

Rom 11:6 (AKJV/PCE) (11:6) And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works...

Yes. It was never by works, and that’s the whole point. The other apostles were wrong to demand circumcision, and Paul put a stop to...

The prophets didn’t belong to the Jews, but God used them to speak to all of mankind. Acts 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness...

It wasn't verbalized in the same way, but that doesn't mean grace was absent in the other forms of the gospel. That makes us look at...