Objection · Case 10 · Islam
“There is no record that they opposed him” is an argument from silence, and the record we have is Paul’s own account. Of course Paul says the apostles endorsed him.
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Response
The record is Paul’s, and that should be said. Two things make it more than self-serving. Paul is writing to Galatians who had contact with Jerusalem-based opponents and could check his account, and he freely reports the Antioch conflict with Peter, which he would have omitted if he were sanitizing the story. Acts, written independently of Paul’s letters, confirms the Jerusalem council’s endorsement of his Gentile mission. Silence is not the only evidence here.
About this exhibit
This objection is to Paul, Letter to the Galatians, chapters 1 and 2.
Paul writes that he met with Peter and James in Jerusalem and set his gospel before the leaders there, who affirmed his ministry. His letters date to roughly twenty to thirty years after the…