God never changes, but His Plan of Salvation does....He even kept secrets that were kept hidden from the Disciples—— including Peter! Secrets that Jesus Never revealed in His Earthly Ministry....once the “ Mysteries Of God” were revealed to Paul and him only, things changed.....In a Nutshell, The Message changed from “ WHO” Jesus was to “ WHAT” Jesus accomplished at the Cross....Peter’s Commands to Recognize that Jesus was the Messiah and then to Repent and be water baptized to get Saved by Receiving the Holy Spirit were most certainly valid for him and his audience —- if you were present as he spoke, you had to do as he said to get Saved....
When Paul entered the scene , after being taught personally by Jesus during his three years in the Desert with Him , he came out with a New Plan....the Gospel That He spread that was given to him by Jesus was not emphasizing “ Who” Jesus was , But it was stressing what Jesus “ DID!”......No longer did one have to be baptized in water to receive the Holy Spirit......The Plan for Salvation and Receiving That Holy Spirit That Saves, was obtained Now by simply BELIEVING that Jesus died for your sins and rose from the dead......anything taught before Paul’s “ Good News” had to take a “ back seat” now because it is THIS Gospel — the one that Paul referred to at least three times as “ his” Gospel —- is the One that God will Judge you by on Judgement Day ( Rom 2:6 )
A wise person will get with the New Plan .....the Transition from Peters Teaching at the start of Acts which was valid when he taught it, is chronicled in that Book as the Message is essentially “ handed off” to Paul who got his New Plan Of Salvation straight from Jesus....
The Plan got changed —- changed by Jesus Himself and using Paul as His Spokesman, —- and even Peter Himself and the other Apostles agreed with Paul after some very serious arguments , and agreed that Paul’s Message was True....They even extended the “ right hand of fellowship” ( a solemn act of partnership in that day) and agreed that the Gospel Of BELIEF ONLY for Salvation that Paul had been preaching to the Gentiles was valid now.....Peter confessed later that even though he found Paul “ hard to understand” at times, anything that Paul wrote was “ the EQUAL “ to anything else in Scripture .... why would one need any more convincing? The Plan changed and Even Peter endorsed it...
Some in here are stuck in Acts 2:38 because they are “ Poor Students Of The Word” .....what a shame....They don’t think “ Transitions” in the Ways Of
God are allowed....They are ignorant about the “Total” Word Of God because they defy God when they fail to learn how to “properly Divide” that Word.....If there were no such things as “ transitions” in the Bible, ( the-ones talked about in Acts) we would still be sacrificing Bulls today .....using the Confused “ logic” And the poor, Confused “ teaching” of Truther and his ilk, we would be spending this Holiday Week End out looking for Yard Sales when we might catch a Bargain on sheep, Bulls and goats...He had better set his sights on “ Pauls Gospel” because As I pointed out....it is THAT Plan that he is gonna be Judged by...Remember, Truther— you heard it here first....
