IN THE WORDS OF DR. HUGH J. SCHONFIELD, IN HIS VERY SCHOLARLY WORK ON THEEVOLUTION OF CHRISTIANITY, "Christianity has robbed Peter to pay Paul".
THE NAME OF PETER IS STILL GIVEN LIP SERVICE AS THE ONE CHOSEN TO BEARTHE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, YET IT IS PAUL WHO UNDESERVEDLY IS THEREAL CHIEF APOSTLE OF GENTILE CHRISTIANITY.
THESE PETER STORIES WERE WRITTEN TO HONOR THE MAN WHO, HAD HE REALLYTRIUMPHED, WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE WORLD A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF JESUSRELIGION, - ONE WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY JEWISH IN NATURE. DUE TO NOTHINGMORE THAN SAD HISTORICAL ACCIDENT, HE WAS DEPRIVED OF THIS TRIUMPH, ANDOVER THE FOUNDATION THAT HE LAID, A FALSE AND HATEFULL TEACHER BUILT AFALSE AND ANTISEMITIC PHILOSOPHY WHICH HAS DONE GREAT DAMAGE TO THE JEWISHPEOPLE OVER THE PAST 2000 YEARS. NOT ONLY DID THIS MAN LIE ABOUT THE JEWISHPEOPLE AND THEIR RELIGION IN CONTEMPTUOUS TERMS, BUT HE ALSO DEPRIVED THEGENTILES OF THEIR RIGHT TO KNOW AND CHOOSE THE RELIGION THAT PETER MIGHTHAVE PASSED ON TO THEM, A RELIGION THAT MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT A HEALINGRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE.
THESE STORIES ARE A TRIBUTE TO THAT SIMPLE AND PROUD GALILEAN FISHERMANWHO GOT LOST IN HISTORY AND WAS LOST TO HIS PEOPLE. THERE IS A LEGEND AMONGCERTAIN JEWS THAT AROSE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES TO THE EFFECT THAT PETER,IN HIS LATER YEARS, REALIZED HIS ERROR IN BELIEVING THE NAZARENE TO BE THEPROMISED ONE. THAT HE REPENTED, RETURNED TO THE JEWISH FOLD, AND COMPOSEDTHE ALEYNU PRAYER WHICH CONCLUDES ALL JEWISH PRAYER SERVICES.
FOR A FULL DISCUSSION ON THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND PAULTHE APOSTATE, AND THE JEWISH JUDGMENT UPON THAT MESHUMAD, SEE MY JN SERIESTO BE PRESENTED ON THIS WEB SITE AT A LATER DATE.
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