Back to your challenge:
"Since you say they are preached the same, perhaps you could show me the 12 preaching Christ crucified as GOOD News."
Acts 2. In particular verse 3:38-39. Forgiveness of sins seems like pretty good news to me. If not, what is Romans 6:15 and 2 Corinthians 5:21 about.
Jesus' death
and resurrection seem to form an important part of Peter's message in 4:10-12. Incidentally, Jesus' death and resurrection forms an important part of Paul's message- 1 Cor 15 (all of it).
Acts 10:39-43 would again seem to indicate that the crucifixion is good news in the mind of Peter.
I stopped scanning here, and decided to jump to a different apostle.
1 John 2:1-2 speaks of Christ as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. This sacrifice, without a question, was the crucifixion, and John obviously thinks the forgiveness that resulted
is very good news.I think you need to clarify what you meant by this:
Oh my, this late in the game and Jews Paul went to were still under the law. Do you think Paul had it all wrong and that those Jews he went to were Not under the law? And did you notice, he went to those not under the law as well?
He didn't say they just thought they were under the law either.
Hmmm, what would you like to do now, find some early Historic Christian teachings to use against the scriptures?
You clearly think you've won a real zinger but I see nothing here resembling an argument I need to deal with. I have the feeling that this is some sort of proof-text from within the dispensationalist mindset that makes perfect sense to people who already think that way, but not having that mindset myself, I find the argument being made here unfathomable, especially in light of the full context of the passage, which you did not provide, but I recommend to any lurker, in particular 9:22-23, which says:
"I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings."
So, for the sake of the gospel, Paul 'becomes as a Jew.' But he also becomes weak (see Romans 15:1-2 for the likely principle at work). He does all these things for the sake of a single gospel. Even for the Jew, he is acting for the sake of the gospel, but by your telling the Jew receives a different message altogether, so the 'gospel' would not be relevant to them.
I'm really at a loss about what you think you're demonstrating out of this passage. I certainly see no reason why the historic Christian church needs to lift a finger to adjust its theology. The passage isn't even talking about this issue. The passage is talking about the lengths that Paul will go to save the lost.
Even if the Jew remains under the law, the Jew in question, like every one else Paul is talking about in this passage, are currently NOT CHRISTIANS. That's why he's becoming everything to all people, in order that he may save some- for the sake of the gospel. So, the passage still wouldn't help you, as what we need to know is whether or not a Jewish Christian would be under a different message or not. This passage does not help, as in the first place he indicates he is serving the gospel in his dealings with all- even the Jew- but in the second place, he doesn't otherwise indicate the message he brings to any of them, only that 'them' in all cases are currently unsaved.
We'd have to believe, by you reasoning (which I admit, I'm straining here to try to imagine, because I simply don't know what you're aiming at), that Paul also has a different message for the slave, for the Jew, for the weak, for those 'under the law', and for those who aren't. That's a lot of gospels!
