Peter informed the Gentile Christians that circumcision was unnecessary for those who believe in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. But Peter changed his tune and Paul opposed Peter and the Judaizing Christians to their faces when the Judaizing Christians came to instruct the Gentiles Christians that they did need to be circumcised.

Paul kept in touch with the Corinthians through the emissaries that he sent there, and had this back and forth, culminating in this second letter to the Corinthians that the Holy Spirit decided should become part of the canonical record.

Peter knew, for a fact, that the fear of death that had caused him to deny Jesus was baseless. The resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ taught Peter that people actually do not die; rather, they simply go somewhere else to live.

A woman appealing to a man is the design of male/female relationships. Didn’t you have to appeal to your husband to get him interested in you in the first place? Then, when you became girlfriend and boyfriend, didn’t you have to be appealing to him to convince him to give you that ring?

God does not command us to feel an emotion. God commands us to act; to give ourselves to one another sacrificially, even as He gave His Son to us sacrificially. The emotion that we colloquially call love is our reward for giving ourselves.

Jesus Christ has paid our penalty, so we don’t have to continue to find someone to blame for our circumstances and we don’t have to continue to justify that which we do by making it someone else’s fault.

Our salvation is based upon our being mature enough to acknowledge that we are wrong when we are, because it is only by acknowledging our sins that we can turn from sin and repent.

We ought not worry about the way that our obedience to God makes us look to others, nor ought we feel embarrassed when exercising our with faith in God, because our obedience, not our pride, matters to God.