That's fine Clete. But what you can't show because there's no proof of it, is that there were no believers in Corinth before Paul got there, what?
Just as you cannot prove there there were, is that what you mean?
No, of course, that isn't what you meant but perhaps you're a step closer to understanding why people ought never be asked to prove a negative.
...meanwhile we can show that there were people present at that Petrine sermon from all over the known World at that time.
This point is neither relevant nor in dispute.
Who are you to say that none of those people, and then none of the people that those people might have converted, were living in Corinth already by the time Paul shlepped the Gospel up there in, what?
It doesn't matter if they were. I wouldn't have any problem with it if fully half the crowd was from Corinth. It wouldn't do my doctrine any harm at all.
c. A.D. 46? I mean, Galatians is supposed to have been written in c. A.D. 50, so it's definitely conceivable that this was about when he first got there.
I don't understand the reference. I said nothing about A.D. 46. What are we talking about here?
But he was the first Apostle to visit Corinth, that was the big thing, and the Apostles, were church-planters. They actually went around establishing the Church. Paul made bishops. Like Titus and Timothy. From among the Gentiles (non-Palestinians) sometimes.
Again, not in dispute. There was, however, a time when Peter, James and John agreed to remain in Israel, ministering to "the circumcision" while Paul went to the Gentiles. (Gal. 2)
That's the foundation Paul's talking about.
No, it isn't. He explicitly states what foundation he was talking about. It was Christ and Him crucified.
Of course he laid that foundation, he was the only Apostle who ever showed up! The rest of the Apostles didn't wander bravely out of Palestine for years or even decades after Paul led the way, trailblazer. (I mean, there was Antioch. I don't think you can think of that as Palestine, is it the Levant? idk, but I'm less certain that it's considered Palestine. I think it was another country.)
It isn't like they were cowards. They stayed in Israel on purpose.
Galatians 2: 2And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
That doesn't sound like Paul was building on Peter's foundation! That sounds like God told Paul to explain "his gospel" (
Romans 2:16,
Romans 16:25,
2 Timothy 2:8) to Peter!
Galatians 2:6 But from those who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. 7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter 8 (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), 9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.