DID PETER AND PAUL AGREE OR DISAGREE? Pastor Art Watkins of Coden Bible Church (Coden, Alabama) October 6, 2016 Many overzealous dispensationalists would have us to believe that Peter and Paul preached two different and opposing gospels at the same time. Is this true? Did they really disagree with each other? Lets ask them. -------------------- ****The Gospel According to Paul. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Romans 5:8: But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ****The Gospel According To Peter. 1 Peter 3:18: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 1 Peter 2:24: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. -------------------- ****Redemption According To Paul. Ephesians 1:7: In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. ****Redemption According To Peter. 1 Peter 1:18-19: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. -------------------- ****Salvation By Grace According To Paul. Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. ****Salvation By Grace According To Peter. Act 15:10-11: Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. -------------------- Dispensationalists tell us that the Bible means what it says and says what it means. If that is so, then Peter and Paul preached the same gospel, the same redemption and the same grace. They both preached the sacrificial death and resurrection of Christ as the gospel. They both preached redemption through the blood of Christ. They both preached salvation by grace and not by the works of the law. I have little kids in my Sunday School and VBS who have no problem understanding and believing these verses, but I know of many dispensationalists who can’t. Why? Because they bought into the false doctrines of dispensationalism that says, Peter and Paul preached two different and opposing gospels. Their false theories of dispensationalism have blinded their eyes from seeing these simple facts of scripture that a little child can see.