Then you believe you are saved just as Peter told those men of Israel, you must repent, and you must be baptized for the remission of your Sins, We cannot have it both ways, for we either believe what was preached to Israel, or we believe what Paul preached to the Gentile, of believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. For enlightenment he tells how this now possible. For it is by grace you saved, through faith, without any works by the hand of man, it is a gift from God.
Those men of Israel were saved at that time, just as was Peter. The "circumcised" are justified by faith, and the "uncircumcised" are justified through faith. I will take the Word of God from heaven, and not what He preached while on this earth only to His people.
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Before the NT writers ever came along, hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Habakkuk proclaimed the NT message:
"The just shall live by faith."
This NT message gospel message was quoted twice in by NT writers, once by Paul, and once by the unknown writer of the book of Hebrews. How does a just person come to live by faith? He must be justified first. Paul elaborates on that. In Romans he declares:
"A man is justified by faith."
He also declares that because a man is justified by faith, "he has peace with God."
Jesus gives a different aspect of this when he speaks of the New Birth in John 3, elaborating it to Nicodemus. Essentially it is the same message. Peter also gives the message of the New Birth in 1Peter 1:23. The message has not changed. One must still be saved, justified. It is not a Peter message or a Paul message. It is the message of the gospel, which Peter said:
2 Peter 3:2 That ye may
be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and
of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Remember or take heed to the words not just of Paul, but to all the apostles.