Why would it be of no consequence who Peter wrote to. Is the consequences of taking what was written about Moses and apply that to the Church today? How do you reconcile that Jesus is our Sabbath and the Sabbath of Moses' time? The law was of works but salvation today is by grace through faith.
It is of no consequence if Peter wrote to Gentile believers or Jewish believers because all NT writings are for all believers. This is the outcome of what Peter writes and what you keep avoiding to address.
I never said the ways of the forefathers was futile
I never said you did. It is a question based on the text of 1 Pet. 1:18. Are you denying that the ways of the forefathers was futile?
1 Peter 2:10 is speaking about the time that God took a Hebrew( Abram) as his chosen people. Deuteronomy 7:7 " The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you more in number than any other people; for ye were the fewest of all people." All Jews are Hebrews, but not all Hebrews are Jews. Abraham was a Hebrew but he was not a "Jew". Only those of the tribe of Judah are Jews. Later the tribe of Benjamin was added.
1 Pet. 2:10 referes to something that happened many hundreds of years earlier? What does "now" mean?
Did Paul preach "baptism for the remission of sin" as did Peter, or did he preach that Christ paid our debt of sin, the death burial and resurrection of Christ?
Let's look at what else Peter preached:
1 Pet. 1:3,
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (ESV)
1 Pet. 2:24,
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. (ESV)
1 Pet. 3:18,
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, (ESV)
Acts 3:17-19:
17 "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
19 Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, (ESV)
Acts 10:38-43:
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
39 And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,
40 but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear,
41 not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
43 To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name." (ESV)
And Paul:
Rom. 6:2-4:
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (ESV)
Does it not look like Paul and Peter preached the same thing?
And I can't help but notice that you failed to address the fact that Paul and Peter wrote to the same group of people, and about similar matters. As I said previously, that alone does your argument in.
