The Gospel of Peter (by 150) is a gospel of Jesus Christ whose author claims to be Peter, writing in the first person.
It did not make it into the Bible, but in the 100s and 200s it seems to have been more widely read in Egypt than the Gospel of Mark, which did make it in. It was known to early Christian writers like Origen in Egypt the 200s, Eusebius in Palestine in the 300s and Theodoret in Syria in the 400s. It was still being read as late as the 700s.
So far we only have nine pages of it (Akhmim manuscript, pages 2-10) and what seem to be parts of two other pages (P.Oxy 4009 and P.Oxy. 2949), found in Egypt in the 1800s and 1900s.
Unlike the gospels in the Bible, it gives an account of Jesus rising from the dead:
“But during the night before the Lord’s day dawned, while the soldiers were on guard, in pairs during each watch, a loud noise came from the sky, and they saw the skies open up and two men come down from there in a burst of light and approach the tomb. The stone that had been pushed against the entrance began to roll by itself and moved away to one side; then the tomb opened up and both young men went inside.
“… they see three men leaving the tomb, two supporting the third. And a cross was following them.
“The heads of the two men reached up to the sky, while the head of the third, whom they led by the hand, reached beyond the skies. And they heard a voice from the skies that said, ‘Have you preached to those who sleep?’
“And an answer was heard from the cross: ‘Yes!'”
The rest of it is standard stuff – Herod, Pilate, Joseph of Arimathea, the crown of thorns, Mary Magdalene and so on – but with odd differences. It names the guard in charge of Jesus’s tomb: Petronius.
Jesus’s last words on the cross are a bit different:
“My power, [my] power, you have abandoned me.”
Which some, it seems, took to mean that God did not suffer and die on the cross as a man, but left Jesus behind to do it on his own. That idea of Jesus as a puppet, docetism, was condemned as heresy by Serapion, bishop of Antioch in the early 200s. He therefore concluded that the Gospel of Peter must be a fake.
So did Peter write the Gospel of Peter? Probably not. He died about the year 64. Most scholars believe the gospel was written in the early 100s. A big reason is that it is very anti-Jewish – which would have been unlike Peter and most early Christians (many of whom were Jewish themselves), but very much like Christians in the 100s.
John Dominic Crossan, a New Testament scholar, believes an earlier version of it, which he calls the Cross Gospel, was written in the 40s, making it the earliest story of the passion and resurrection.
– Abagond, 2017.
Sources: mainly “The Complete Gospels” (2010) edited by Robert J. Miller; “The Resurrection of the Son of God” (2003) by N.T. Wright; “Lost Christianities” (2003) by Bart D. Ehrman.
See also:
- Jesus Christ
- gospels:
- Bible
- New Testament canon – how the New Testament came to be
- Origen
- Roman Egypt
- papyrus
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“So did Peter write the Gospel of Peter? Probably not. He died about the year 64. Most scholars believe the gospel was written in the early 100s. A big reason is that it is very anti-Jewish – which would have been unlike Peter and most early Christians (many of whom were Jewish themselves), but very much like Christians in the 100s.” – Abagond
To be honest with you, I’ve never heard of the Gospel of Peter. Therefore, I’ll conduct some more research on my own. Also, I agree with you that this document is probably fake.
Additionally, you’re correct also in stating that for document to lean or be skewed towards being anti-Jew, would lead one to believe that Peter must have hated not only himself, but his brethren and Jesus Christ was as well. Because he wasn’t jueISH, he was in fact a Black, Hebrew speaking Jew just as all of them were. This is really a weird document and it brings into question once again the validity of this document and the never ending attempt to pervert the word of the Messiah/HaMashiach!
Thanks for this posting!
Galatians 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
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Crossan is a great writer, ‘god and empire’ is a must-read.
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And… Givin me OTO flashbacks!
http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Gnosticism
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Crossan is a good writer but his treatment of the sources is widely questioned by Christian scholars across traditions. Lots of purported apostolic books were written in the post-apostolic era and none of them were ever taken seriously by the Christian community because they were associated with gnosticism, and Christians knew the difference. It’s contemporary writers that don’t, or who want to blur the distinction because they want to discredit the canon. There are four gospels rooted in the apostolic traditions, including early church tradition that the Gospel of Mark was actually dependent upon Peter’s testimony. As you point out, this “Gospel of Peter” is a late born concoction. It tells far more about the gnostics and pseudo-Christian movements of the 2nd century.
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@An Scrib, you are truly more pathetic than I originally thought. Here you are, attempting to discredit the Bible, something I’m quite certain you have no knowledge of because you fail to provide one scripture, instead, you post a wiki page link to supposedly prove something. (smh)
In any event, allow me to disabuse you in hopes of soothing your current dilapidated state of mind with four scriptures and two links, then, I’ll be done with you.
Isaiah 29:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. (In other words, the children of Israel will never be white).
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Don’t we have fake ass Jues living in the State of Israel today, claiming to be the real Jews?)
Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. (Weren’t so-called African Americans forcibly brought to Amerika on slave ships against their will?)
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are BLACK unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
http://glithehiddentruth.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/7/9/12796443/5376926.jpg?418
Assyrian soldier marching kinky or nappy hair Hebrew Israelites into slavery. British Museum in London. Circa 740BC
Braided hair Hebrew Israelites as well.
Again, kinky hair Israelites being lead into captivity.
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It’s a bit insulting for Scrib to just dash in like that and do the whole “lol Black Hebrew” thing.
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It should be clear by now that rationalwiki is mainstream propaganda. in this case characterizing an evidence based hypothesis as ‘myth’.
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this is rich. no sign of comment I just posted.
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I saed ratonalwiki is mainstream propaganda, characterizing evidence based hypothesis as myth.
(https://youtu.be/XsqvWKTrsLg)
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“I think I know the the Bible and the tenets of Christianity pretty well.” – An Scrib
LOL, I see, … I believe you meant to say that you know OF the Bible just well enough to be incapable of quoting one scripture or discern its contents; what group of people it was specifically written for and what singular group of people God made a covenant with, through Moses, at the foot of Mt. Sinai after escaping from the clutches of Pharaoh, with his army giving full chase?
“I still identify as a Catholic for various reasons but I’m not afraid to say that Biblical literalism is crazy.” – An Scrib
Personally, I believe that Catholicism is the whore of all religions. Besides, the word religion comes from the Latin verb religare: “means to tie, hold back or to keep you from moving forward in faith. A system of control based in unchallenged, dogmatic belief which holds back the progress of consciousness.”
In other words, Catholicism’s perversions and practices are just the opposite of what the Bible teaches. Moreover, anything that is practiced or taught, other than what’s written in the Bible, must be that of the devil.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgVRfH-NVo)
“For instance, mainstream historians, RationalWiki, and sane people in general all agree that the Exodus never happened.” – An Scrib
Exodus 14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Oh really, … check out the link below.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzb4ekyX1kc)
By the way, it takes a minimum of 2,000 to 10,000 years for coral to grow and even that depends upon whether the texture of the coral is either hard or soft.
“Off to church now…” – An Scrib
Off to church eh, it’s just the place for the casting of more demonic spells, I have no doubt that you’ll fit in perfectly with other men of your ilk, have fun!
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@nomad, thanks for the link. It was prophesied in the book of Lamentations that these jueISH people would eventually expose themselves regarding this global cover-up as it pertains to who the People of the Book truly are. You so-called African Americans, you better wake up!
Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt MAKE THYSELF NAKED.
Micah 2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, EVEN A MAN AND HIS HERITAGE.
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Where’s ol’ Beelzebub when you need him? Oh, I forgot he is posting as Scrib.
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The Greatest “Story” Ever Told 😏
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“That’s nice, dear.” – An Scrib
LOL, … your empty response through literary pantomime is quite telling. To me, it reveals that you don’t even believe what you wrote up thread because you are no longer defending your earlier disposition. I’ll accept this as throwing in the subliminal white flag!
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@blakksage
It’s always funny to watch Catholics and other Christians react to scriptures they were never taught. Not only does it show their ignorance, but their utter disdain for the book their own religions supposedly follow.
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resw said: “It’s always funny to watch Catholics and other Christians react to scriptures they were never taught.”
Very true and I have a scripture for that as well!
Psalm 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Metaphorically stuttering; posting things that aren’t true and attempting to condemn the Bible with a wiki page, when actually, it condemns people like An Scrib from the first Book of Genesis, up to the last Book of Revelation. Perhaps this is why they secretly hate the Bible because if they did in fact teach the true words of the Bible, they will literally expose themselves as the people spoken of in a negative manner.
Trust me, most white people know who we are as a people, but they will never admit it, in order to hold on to their collective, fairytale musings as being a superior people due to their lack of skin color. That BS in regards to lack of skin color is superior, in reality, is oxymoronic!
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“The Bible condemns the Celts to hell? Oh, well, I guess I’m damned for all eternity. ” – An Scrib
Are you a descendant of Vercingetorix or a close proximity thereof??
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@ ASGM @ nomad
Apparently my spam filter sees RationalWiki as spam.
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@Abagond, at least you can rest assured that your spam filter is configured and working properly because RationalWiki is just that, … Garbage!
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@blakksage
“Metaphorically stuttering; posting things that aren’t true and attempting to condemn the Bible with a wiki page, when actually, it condemns people like An Scrib from the first Book of Genesis”
+1000.
His initial response to you, which was not just a classic white supremacist deflection but a personal attack, shows his true nature and the pure evil that lies within.
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“His initial response to you, which was not just a classic white supremacist deflection but a personal attack, shows his true nature and the pure evil that lies within.” – resw
I know, it’s a hallmark trait of people like Scrib
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“Anyway, I don’t think it’s possible for you to grasp the scale of my disappointment that you don’t want to have a discussion about genocide in the Old Testament.” – An Scrib
I’m so impressed with your humor. I highly encourage to join a comedy circuit. In any event, I have no control in terms of what the Most High did within the Old Testament. Therefore a discussion with you would be not only fruitless but meaningless as well. However, perhaps the following scriptures may be of assistance.
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
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“I’d love to be, and maybe I should do a DNA test to find out, but what exactly do the Gallic Wars have to do with what we’re talking about? The Bible condemns the Celts to hell? Oh, well, I guess I’m damned for all eternity.” – An Scrib
Scrib, STOP LIEING! Do you really believe that you, your family and all of the people who claim to be irISH, britISH and French are actually descendants of the Celts? You are becoming more comical after each and every post and more evident that you’re a liar!
I’m sorry to have to be the one to break the bad news, but the Celts were Black people that occupied, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Britain, the British Isles, France, southern Germany, Austria and pretty much all of western Europe.
However, sword swinging Julius Caesar and his band of Roman mercenaries decimated them in a series of wars that took over 30 years to defeat the Celts because they were such fierce warriors, but eventually, they were overtaken.
Greek Historian Ephorus (405 BCE) stated that the Celts appeared to be Ethiopians with curly hair. Damn near 500 years later, another well known Roman historian, Tacitus (80 AD), also stated that the Celts looked very much like Ethiopians.
Take a look at the coin the Romans struck of Vercingetorix in (48 BC) to commemorate their defeat of the leader of the Celts, he unquestionably has Negroid type features.
Scrib, you are not a descendant of the Celts, therefore, do not conduct a DNA test, just save your money and refrain from referring to yourself as being Celtic or irISH for that matter.
http://www.sebadamani.com/blog/-why-is-st-patrick-so-important-to-the-irish
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_2a.htm
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@ASGM
Blakksage is about division. He thinks the Bible is just to the Jews but ignores Jesus’s final command from Matthew 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
or God’s message to Peter in Acts 10
Acts 10:28 28He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.”
Acts 10:44-47 44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. 45The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. 46For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, 47″Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”
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@Scrib,
Perhaps you’ll have better luck at searching for your DNA to be more in sync with those murdering Greeks and Romans who both enslaved the Israelites. Sorry ’bout that, you’re certainly not a Celt.
However, good luck in your future searches in finding out who your forefathers were.
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@Brian
The right words at the right time. Well said.
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LOL @Brian, An Scrib and Afrofem(again), I’m a little tied up right now boys and girl. Therefore, I’ll respond more in substance later, until then, relax, because each and everyone of you will be proven wrong.
You guys truly lack understanding relative to the Bible, its purpose, to whom it was written for and the consequences of being disobedient to the Most High of Black Israel!
Especially you Afrofem, you ought to be ashamed of yourself because the Bible was written for people like me and you ONLY! This is a good example of how people inadvertently join the ranks of the enemy when they are ignorant of who they are themselves.
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I can’t wait either. It will be interesting to hear how you twist Jesus’s final command to his disciples to spread the Word to all nations. Or how Peter was mistaken when he said that God had told him not to call anyone unclean or impure.
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@ blakksage
“Especially you Afrofem, you ought to be ashamed of yourself because the Bible was written for people like me and you ONLY! “
I respect the fact that those are your beliefs and you are entitled to them. I share some of your African ancestry, but not those beliefs.
I have a pretty nuanced view of the Christian Bible. I have great admiration for the historical figure of Christ (the Anointed One).
Too many of his followers over the centuries have proven themselves bloodthirsty, violent and intolerant. That is too bad, because he had such a simple and beautiful message: love everyone as you love yourself.
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Romans 11:11-12 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the GENTILES, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans 11:25-26 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the GENTILES be come in. AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Here, the fullness is referring to the Northern Kingdom of Israel being grafted back into the congregation by refraining from worshipping idols and returning to the Ancient One of Israel.
Jeremiah 31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Romans 10:19-20 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are NO PEOPLE, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are NOT A PEOPLE; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
1 Peter 2:9-10 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were NOT A PEOPLE, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall EPHRAIM be broken, that it be NOT A PEOPLE.
Here, the Bible is referring to the Southern Kingdom of Israel/Judah when He speaks of provoking them to anger. The mentioning of “NOT A PEOPLE” as Gentiles within the scriptures above is in fact Ephraim, the head of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. They were referred to as Gentiles because they foolishly began to worship idols, as opposed to the Holy One of Israel.
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Matthew 10:5-6 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
Matthew 15:24-26 He (Jesus) answered, “I WAS SENT ONLY TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.” Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Here, Jesus only healed this Canaanite woman’s daughter because she understood her social status as that of a dog when juxtapose to the children of Israel.
Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me ABOVE ALL PEOPLE: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, ABOVE ALL NATIONS that are upon the earth.
Psalm 147:19-20 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. HE HATH NOT DEALT SO WITH ANY NATION: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Joel 3:1-2 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, AND WILL PLEAD with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land (jueISHpeople and the Palestinians).
How will He plead with the nations?
Isaiah 66:16 FOR BY FIRE AND BY SWORD will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
How will he plead with the nation that he has the most hatred for (Daughter Babylon/Amerika).
Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of MY PEOPLE ISRAEL: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD (race war).
@Brian, Sorry ‘bout that, but uhhhmmm, … the Most High of Black Israel appears to love only Israel, … not China, Russia, Amerika, Britain and certainly not Ireland.
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Israel was and still is Black:
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets.
Song of Solomon 1:5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
And many, many more scriptures referring to Black Israel!
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Here is one last link for An Scrib. How are thing going in the search for thy father??
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@ blakksage
“the Most High of Black Israel appears to love only Israel”
Then why did God even bother to create the other peoples of the Earth?
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Solitaire asked a legitimate question: “Then why did God even bother to create the other peoples of the Earth?”
Romans 9:20-22 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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@blakksage, mostly old testament scripture to prove your point, some new testament.
Nothing you listed counters Jesus’s Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20, Mark 16:15-16, Luke 24:47, Acts 1:8).
Nothing you listed counters God’s command to Peter in Acts 10 to
Don’t forget Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”
uhhhmmm, sorry but as Peter said in Acts 10:34-35 “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”
#micdrop
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What a hypocrite. When blakksage quoted the Bible, his response was literally “but for facts and world history I think RationalWiki is a far more reputable source.”
But when someone else quotes something from the Bible he wants to hear, he “applauds with vigor and volume”.
Smells like a white supremacist hypocrite to me.
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resw said the following when responding to An Scrib: “Smells like a white supremacist hypocrite to me.”
Exactly, he (wannabe Celt) is not fooling anyone! Thanks for your input as well.
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Mack Lyons said: “It’s a bit insulting for Scrib to just dash in like that and do the whole “lol Black Hebrew” thing.”
Damn, you are much more ignorant than I first thought!
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@ blakksage
If God hates most of the peoples he created, why should they return that hate with worship, devotion, and love?
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