The Myth That St. Peter (r.a.) & Paul were Friends
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ In the New Testament, and in Christian mythos, the impression given is that St. Peter ( r.a. ) and Paul of Tarsus were some sort of evangelical superhero team-up, spreading the Good News to the Jews and the Gentiles respectively throughout the hostile, pagan Roman Empire. This fallacy was promoted by Paul of Tarsus to give the illusion that he was somehow of the same level of credibility of the actual disciples of Jesus ( a.s. ), a man he had never met. And understandably, he met opposition. So he allegedly wrote this: Galatians 2:7-8 6 But as for what I owe to those who were of some repute — it matters little to me who or what they were, God makes no distinction between man and man—these men of repute, I say, had nothing to communicate to me. 7 On the contrary, those who were reputed to be the main support of the Church, James and Cephas and John, saw plainly that I was commissioned to preach to the...