Monsignor Bux: We Are in a Full Crisis of Faith "If the Pope does not safeguard doctrine, he cannot impose discipline"

[10gr8kids]

No
Paul said, “You Peter, and you Jewish Christians with him are wrong”

Paul did not say, “Gentiles, look, your Pope and his band of close knit Jewish Christians are saying you must become Jews to be Christians. Rise up and be counted and voice your opposition.”

Paul rebuked those in error to their faces as the group that they were. He did not publicize this.

In Galatians, Paul is relating an historical event, not seeking to create dissention, but to correct the dissention already happening there. You are fully aware that the first two chapters of Galatians are a recounting of how faith is the means of Justification. And the verse quoted was one building block of that argument - it was not a statement to arouse distrust of Peter. Paul hits it squarely on his audience in the first verse of Chpt 3: “O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you!!!” Paul is rebuking the Galatians in the verses that were here quoted; not trying to win a following against Peter nor against the Jews who were with Peter.

11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.[a] 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

The version I’m reading says Paul spoke to Peter before them all. Do you have a text that says Paul was only speaking to Peter and the Jewish Christians? I would assume the Gentiles there heard this and could conclude that Paul felt it was wrong what Peter was doing.