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My participation in my thread will continue, I only asked that you no longer burden me on that topic.

I'm saying that being led by the Spirit apparently doesn't mean having every doctrine perfect right away--even though Christ had already told them "Go make disciples of all nations", Peter still didn't understand Gentiles could be saved, and he wasn't corrected until years later.

OK I'm asking not what you think about what others think about it, but what you think about the Scriptural doctrine of "predestination" (it's in Scripture) and how it affects your life.

@marks I'm not going to keep repeating myself and being misrepresented--I've been correcting you for pages of responses now--so, going forward, I'd prefer you not communicate with me on this. You probably don't want to be involved anyway. Maybe that's why you're not understanding--you're not...

Unless you're saying there was a years-long process after the death and resurrection of Christ only after which Gentiles could be saved, and that it wasn't the case that Gentiles could be saved immediately following Christ's death and resurrection, then, yes, Peter lacked understanding of the...

It took the Holy Spirit a minimum of three years to correct Peter. Just because we have the Spirit doesn't mean our understanding or doctrine is automatically perfect.

That is a neutral fact--that is not a denunciation of Peter.

I have to KEEP ON repeating myself. I said that I was probing possible/plausible arguments related to the issue. Unless you are under the weather at the moment, or going through something else that is clouding your understanding, I am really seeing that I cannot discuss these things with you...

What if God is perfectly content with them believing in Jesus, and chooses not to reveal those things to them?

I'm, in part, trying to look at how the Spirit led Peter, and make sense of my life and how I've experienced God's "leading", and better understand what that actually means, and what I should expect, and should not expect. Also, I see Scriptural backing for my belief that there are Christians...

I don't know how you've been doing it so well, then.

No, actually, I'm not denouncing Peter at all, and "I can't believe" that that is somehow your takeaway. You seem intent on misunderstanding me--you've been doing that for some time now.

@marks I'm glad we talked about this, because I believe there are many in the Catholic and Orthodox and Protestant versions of Christianity who belong to Christ, yet I've heard many from these groups, based on doctrinal differences, deny the salvation of members of the other groups. With Peter...

I'm asking whether it is the case that God letting Peter lead the Church, with preaching and teaching that he himself conformed to (which would mean he was teaching the Jewish believers (the only people anyone knew could be saved at the time) that they were to keep the dietary law, as he himself...

I'm just asking them why timelines of Acts always have Cornelius's salvation taking place years after Christ's death and resurrection--what Scriptural and/or other historical evidence they are basing that on.

I'm still waiting to hear back from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the meantime, the timelines of the Book of Acts I've seen have ranged, on Cornelius's salvation, from 36AD to 42AD. If these timelines are correct, it would mean that Peter didn't fully understand the Gospel, and God...

"Sit at my feet, Grasshopper" is putting it mildly--it's more like, "Worship at my feet!"

I took one look at his avatar (some "secret knowledge" for sure), started reading his off-topic boasting attempting to commandeer the thread, and placed him on ignore.

Painfully obvious.

Gotta get back to you in a bit on this.