Saturday, 18 October 2014

A Tale of Two Peters: The Story of Betrayal

 
There is an Igbo saying, that a person's name influences him. Little wonder, though Judas is a name available in Christianity, no one takes it as a baptismal name, apparently because of the lot of Judas Iscariot in the bible, who betrayed his Master and Saviour of mankind, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Peter is a name that presents a paradox of both strong and weak in the bible.