So according to what you wrote above,, there are two paths to eternal life, one for Jews and another different path for gentiles.Therefore; there is NOT ONE WAY to eternal life, but two. would this not be correct?
What I wrote above is that when Christ came there was no New Covenant yet established, therefore there was no path yet for eternal life for the Gentiles or the Jews. The old covenant. law of Moses, didn’t promise eternal life. Christ first had to fulfill the law of Moses, which He did by keeping it and teaching it properly to the Jews, to qualify as a sacrifice to establish a New Covenant with a the promise of eternal life for both Jews and Gentiles.
The second major problem is with repentance, Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles taught all must repent… If every thing Christ taught was only for the Jews and no one else, then repentance of transgressing the Law is only possible with the Jews, If the gentiles are not required to obey the Torah and the 10 Commandments, then the gentiles would have nothing to repent of transgressing. Why be baptized for their sins if there was no law pointing out what is sin 1 John3:4
You are limiting God to one old contract (the old covenant/the Torah) that He made with an old party, the Jews, that didn’t promise eternal life. And I already showed in earlier comments that Moses, Jesus, the Jews, the Apostles…. all those who were given the law and administered the law NEVER separated the ten commandments from the law of Moses. That’s only done by the SDA, (which someone explained to me that the SDA got the idea from early Catholics), so they can say the Sabbath is a requirement while the rest of the law of Moses is not.
The Gentiles in Asia didn’t need the Torah to know how to be righteous… they had the New Covenant, the Holy Spirit and Paul and Barnabas.
The book of Acts shows that the Gentile churches in Asia were being taught differently from the Jewish church at Jerusalem. This is what the spies from Jerusalem were sent to find out. And what they found out was that the churches in Asia, that were overseen by Paul and Barnabas, were not taught to be circumcised nor were they taught to observe the law of Moses. Which shows they didn’t need the Torah to know how to behave properly up until that time.
The truth, that no one requires Sabbath observance to be saved, can be proven by a small section of just one verse,
“...unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law’—to whom
we gave no such commandment.” Acts 15: 24
That’s right… the truth is right in everybody’s face: “
WE GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT” to be circumcised and keep the law, the law of Moses which includes the Sabbath.
The lie on the other hand, that the Sabbath must be observed to be saved, requires the text flooding of hundreds of scriptures taken from Genesis to Revelation and a small army of online Sabbatarians.
And everyone on both sides of the debate just keep ignoring this plain, simple and direct little scripture so they can keep the debate going as an SDA advertisement.
My previous comment was simply to show that the Gentile churches in Asia were not following the same teachings as the Jewish church in Jerusalem. Now you would think that this fact would be quite interesting because I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere.
This was evident several years after the decree was issued, when Paul went up to Jerusalem for the last time and James said to him,
“You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law” Acts 21: 20
So here we see the Jewish converts, “Christians” who are “zealous for the law”. And what law are we talking about? The one that you’re trying to keep and sell to everyone else, the law of Moses.
Then James goes on to say,
“but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.” Acts 21: 21
So because Paul spent all his time in Asia with these unclean Gentiles that they wouldn’t sit at the same table with for dinner, and the Jews knew that Paul was teaching the Gentiles differently, according to that decree they received years prior, that decree that foiled the plans of the Pharisee sect to get them all circumcised and keeping the law of Moses, they were concerned that Paul was teaching the Jews of Asia the same things he was teaching the Gentiles, which was not to get circumcised and “walk according to the customs”. And what customs was James referring to? The law of Moses.
So James went on to exhort Paul to take four men,”...and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law.”
Again, what law? The law of Moses.
Then James goes on to say,
“But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe
no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.” Acts 21: 25
And what is the “
no such thing” that the Gentiles did not need to observe? To “
be circumcised and keep the law”—
to whom we gave no such commandment”. Act 15: 24
So we see, the Gentiles in Asia were not to observe the law of Moses or to be circumcised but the Jews were required to do so... and Paul had to prove to the Jews that he wasn’t teaching to the Jewish believers in Asia what he was teaching the Gentile believers and prove that he also wasn’t observing what he was teaching the Gentile believers.
All of this I already dealt with in detail. Through the Blood and Sacrifice of Christ, God created a New Contract (Covenant) made with a New Party, the Children of God. Unlike the old contract, in the New Contract there is no written code pointing out what is sin, it’s pointed out by the Holy Spirit dwelling within the Child of God. It’s not communicated through a thunderous voice to millions of people from a mountain top, written on stone and in a book, it’s communicated by God through the Holy Spirit on an individual basis, one Child at a time. God is Spirit, and His Children can only fully relate with Him and He fully relate with His Children through Spirit not through written code.
The Jews also could not understand this because they ensnared themselves in written code. But by the Spirit of God (Acts 15:28), the Apostles at the church in Jerusalem were given the sense not to ensnare the Gentile churches in Asia to the written code (law of Moses/Torah), which they themselves couldn’t bear.
