What is the difference between Peter's message in Acts 2 and Paul's message about Christ's death?
Peter's Acts 2 message charges his hearers with killing the Messiah, whereas Paul's message declares Christ died for you. That is a graphic difference: Peter points to human guilt in crucifying the Messiah, while Paul emphasizes Christ's sacrificial death on behalf of sinners.
Les explains that Peter's Acts 2 message was, "You killed the Messiah," while Paul's message is, "He died for you." Les calls this a graphic difference that we have to understand. In the same passage, Paul teaches that when Christ died, we died; we still live physically, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. The life we now live in the flesh is lived by the faithfulness of the One who bought us; He is faithful and will never let us down. It is by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. This is what we have to constantly remember.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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What is the difference between Peter's preaching in Acts 2 and Paul's statement in Galatians 2:20?
There is a graphic difference between Peter's claim that you killed the Messiah and Paul's statement that He died for you.