It's blunt I suppose to say it but we were saved by the blood of the Cross by the Lord almost two thousand years ago. Now some see that and believe in it and others don't see it at all so thy speak of the time in their life where they believe they were saved.
I think the sect called Nazarene did not see the apostles writings as Scripture,especially Paul's but did believe in Jesus being the Messiah. The difference was in that they believed that the gentiles were to be circumsized and follow the Law(google).
Hi thanks for the reply.
I would agree. But that disagreement seemed have come from not understanding the fundamentals of faith A exclusive faith coming from another source as
it is written, or all things written in the law and prophets . The two witnesses that prove God has spoken.
Circumcision was a old testament
ceremonial law as a shadow fulfilled in Christ . . . it represented our bloody husband Christ, (Exodus4) the first born of God.... demonstrated at Calvary .
Jesus as the Son of man, his blood as a metaphor was used in that one time demonstration of the lamb of God. . slain from before the foundation of the world. Joel the prophet calls it the pouring out of His unseen Spirit on all of mankind elected from every nation, men and woman as part of the restored government . Marking the beginning of the last days... ending on last day.
It would appear Paul previously of the Pharisees sect under a law of the fathers as oral traditions of men. They are pictured as having no faith that could come by hearing God. They proved that they had no faith from God by killing the misperceived (no faith ) competition .And like Cain showed their religious believe by what they performed .Out of sight out of mind. . . . plowed under the field. . His blood to represent the gospel cries out even today .
"law of the fathers" is a false zealously for hearing God being directed towards the things of men as oral traditions. . The counterfeiter, upside downer's goal is to lead us away from the unseen.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the
law of the fathers, and was
zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. And I persecuted this way
unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women Acts 22:3-4
Those identified in Isaiah 28 are like Paul's previously sect the Pharisees they rejected sola scriptura the reforming authority in any generation making all things written in the law and the prophets without effect.
To Paul as Saul previously it as
it is written (sola scriptura) was blah blah blah ,precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little. . . . . . a bunch of Bible thumpers that have nothing better to do on their Sabbath day off.
Off with their bible thumping heads. . .out of sigh out of mind. That would seem to be the mind set.
But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and
fall backward, and
be broken, and snared, and taken.Isaiah 28
Paul suited up in the armor as his defense (sola Scriptura) it drove the law of the fathers a way They worshipped the fathers, seen as if God our father in heaven. And not as Paul the God who rules over the fathers. The father of lies as the designated driver drove the get away turn things upside down vehicle. Paul with the gospel (sola scriptura) turned it right side up, heaven above . . . not hell inspired below.
Neither
can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which
they call heresy, so worship I the "God of my fathers",
believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:Acts24:13-14