Guojing
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What's the confusion?
He also says both Jews and Gentiles were always saved by grace. The purpose of the law was to point to Christ, help the world identify Him when He was sent, so they could follow Him. It never made alive. Only by being loyal to God does a person become alive. The difference is subtle:
Your Matthew 19 quote already contradicted your first statement. The Jews had to keep the law to be saved, until Peter realized in Acts 10 that something has changed in God's eyes. That is why he was able to speak up for Paul in Acts 15.
Peter is a Jew and all that you have claimed he knew were a mystery that was only revealed to the Apostle Paul, and he stated it for the first time in writing in Galatians 3.
If you want to claim that Peter knew all those even before Paul, I will disagree.
The reason why I disagree is based on the account in Acts 10. If he knew everything that was revealed only to Paul by the ascended Christ, he would not have been astonished by anything at Cornelius place, nor would he have stated to Cornelius that it was against the Law for a Jew to associate with the Gentile if, as you said, he knew that "both Jews and Gentiles were always saved by grace".
Don't read Paul into everything you read about in the Old Testament, as well as the 4 Gospels and early Acts. In short, don't "anticipate revelation".
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