(March 1, 2017 at 6:25 pm)SteveII Wrote:(March 1, 2017 at 6:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It doesn't help your case, as Acts contradicts Paul's own account of his conversion (Galatians). But that's as may be. You can't get round the fact that the disciples were to preach only to the 'lost sheep of Israel'. Your point is further weakened by 2 Corinthians, in which the followers of Christ are instructed to not have interactions with unbelievers ('be ye separate and touch no unclean thing'); by this time, an 'unbeliever' (from the POV of that well-known lunatic Paul, at least) was anyone who wasn't a Christian.
You're sinking, lad. Paddle faster.
Boru
Taking verses out of context will prove nothing. There are NO contradictions on this subject. No one has ever believed the way you are suggesting the instructions are given.
The Great Commission
Matthew 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 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.”
'All nations' in the above passage doesn't refer to 'all nations of the world' in the modern sense, but to the tribes of the Israelites. Again, Jesus - a rabbi - had no intent but to preach to the Israelites.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
