Did Jesus really say do not preach to the gentiles?

RDKirk said:

It appears that you don't understand the argument Paul was making at all.

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notreligus said:

Gal 3:16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.

Gal 3:24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,
Gal 3:26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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RDKirk said:

"Offsprings" is not a word in English. The plural of "offspring" is "offspring."

And inasmuch as God had already promised Abraham that his "offspring" would be more numerous than the sand of the beach, we cannot say here that by "offspring" God was referring to only one person.

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RDKirk said:

As noted in post #5, salvation was always by faith. That was the proven and explicit point when Jesus provided it to the Syro-Phoenician woman.

I suspect that Paul spent time reconciling that particular incident (and perhaps other incidents like the calling of Cornelius--which was the fulfillment of Isaiah 56) with the OT to determine how the mechanics of salvation works. What he concluded from that is what we read in Romans.

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