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Originally Posted by awareness
Oh, you're right. I forgot to speak highfalutin hoity-toity. I should have said, literary devices. 
Me neither. But enter stage left : Paul ... and Barnabas.
Isn't the central theme ACTS? |
That's a bit too vague don't you think? My reading supports the theory attributed to Burkett in the Wikipedia entry, i. e., that Luke-Acts is an attempt to explain why the Messiah that was promised to the Jews came to have an overwhelmingly Gentile Church. And the answer is that the Jews predominantly rejected Christ and the gospel. So the book of Acts legitimates the turn to the Gentiles in the name of the Holy Spirit.