In post 632, you said this:***
You said "So you don't believe they were treating Jesus as God at this point?So you don't believe they were treating Jesus as God at this point?""
Why did you say that???> I never said that so I won't waste my time trying to refute it.
"The Jews who believed were those that accepted Jesus as their Messiah and King."
The Messiah did not necessarily have to be God. The Messiah was one who was SENT by God to be His representative. So it seemed to me that you were saying that they were treating Jesus as the Messiah and not God. I did ask a question which you could have answered...No matter.
The Son of the Living God and the Messiah are two different concepts, I'm sure you know this.What is supported by scriptures is that the believing Jews believed that Jesus was their Messiah and King. They never heard the gospel of grace until Paul taught it.
Matt 16:15-17
15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
16 Simon Peter answered and said,"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
17 Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
NKJV
But it seems Peter forgot this when he denied Jesus 3 times.
I never said they aren't.Near the end of Peters life he said this about Paul's message of God's grace.
2 Peter 3:14-16 ----- Be Steadfast
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation — as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,
16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
Peter has indicated that Paul's writings are scripture.
Some would like to remove James from the bible.
Every book in the bible belongs there.
I do believe that Paul created a bit of a problem by trying to explain about being under the law. But it's not the layman's fault if the churches today no longer teach what they used to.
Much of scripture is twisted...