04-21-2006, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Eowyn
Is there evidence that there were competing factions in early Christianity, that one of them was pro-Peter?
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Galatians 2:11-14, NKVJ:
11 Now when Peter[Cephas] had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; 12 for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?"
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Galatians occupies itself to a significant degree in berating the Galatians for backsliding (or maybe just changing) to the Jewish interpretation (Mosaic law important) as opposed to the Pauline interpretation (just believe in the Christ and you're OK). Clearly Peter was part of the Jewish-Christian faction.
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