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Hi Mem, your understanding is light years beyond most Christians & prompted me to place a blog on the subject.

John called Israel to return from covenant unfaithfulness & the gospel calls unbelievers to turn from one sin > UNBELIEF. Acts 20:21 says, repentance TOWARD God & faith TOWARD our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything in the verse turns on that small word TOWARD. Repentance is not a catalog of personal...

In saying A new covenant, God made the 1st old, & what is old obsolete (Heb 8:13). The context is the entire Sinai covenant, not merely sacrifices. Paul reinforces this by calling the law written on stone-the 10 Commandments - the ministry of death & the ministry of condemnation (2 Cor 3:7–9)...

Fundamentally, God's law is just, BUT, it cannot justify anyone. God's law is flawlessly holy, BUT, can't make anyone holy. His law is righteous, but, cannot make anyone righteous. If the law cannot make us holy, righteous or justified & instead condemns the sinner without mercy to death. And...

Salvation Is Accessed By Faith Alone Rom 3:24 Being ""justified freely"" ""by his grace"" ""through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"" Rom 3:25 God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past...

Pentecost Acts 2:38 formula: repent & be baptized isn't a universal formula. If a salvation pattern is truly universal, it must work for all people, in all places, under all conditions. Acts 2 does not! Acts 10:45 proves NO gentiles are saved among the 3,000 souls. Every saved person at...

Pentecost Acts 2:38 formula: repent & be baptized isn't a universal formula. If a salvation pattern is truly universal, it must work for all people, in all places, under all conditions. Acts 2 does not! Acts 10:45 proves NO gentiles are saved among the 3,000 souls. Every saved person at...

Pentecost Acts 2:38 formula: repent & be baptized isn't a universal formula. If a salvation pattern is truly universal, it must work for all people, in all places, under all conditions. Acts 2 does not! Acts 10:45 proves NO gentiles are saved among the 3,000 souls. Every saved person at...

Gen 2 records God's rest, not a Sabbath command for mankind. No one -Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob-kept the Sabbath for 2,500 years because no Sabbath law existed until God gave it to Israel in Ex 16–20. Mark 2:27 does not universalize the Sabbath. Jesus is correcting Pharisees about how...

Sabbath Day Ordinances: Who Were They Given To? The Audience Is Explicit: ""The Children of Israel."" Num 15:17–18, Every Sabbath ordinance in this chapter is addressed exclusively to Israel, not to Gentiles, not to the nations, not to the church. The text repeats this identity marker so no one...

Acts 2:38 Isn't Universal - Jesus Proves It A Acts 2:38 can't be a universal salvation formula because the entire event is Jewish‑only—Jewish feast, Jewish city, Jewish prophecy, Jewish covenant law & a Jewish audience. ""Men of Judea-Men of Israel"") with zero Gentiles among the 3,000 saved...

When Christ preforms the New Testament Holy Spirit baptism it's a spiritual/circumcision & it's done without hands Matt 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy...

A circumcised heart under Moses meant covenant obedience within the Law, but Paul is not using Moses' law category. Paul contrasts Spirit vs. letter, not ""good Law‑keepers vs. bad Law‑keepers."" In Deut 10, Jer 9 & Acts 7, ""uncircumcised heart"" describes disobedient Israelites resisting...

The issue is what Scripture says the events meant & how God Himself changed the Holy Spirit' dispensational stewardship (Acts 2 salvation given after & Acts 10 before water) Under the Old Covenant & during early Acts, Israel's remission framework was tied to covenant repentance & national guilt...

Water baptism isn't a cause of salvation Jn 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (NOTE: It's Jesus Holy Spirit that gives born again spiritual life. Not any physical act one does) 1 Cor 12:13...

"Nothing external removes sin." Faith in the NAME saves, Faith in the BLOOD removes sin & the Jesus HOLY SPIRIT Baptism Forever seals the believers salvation. Water is a obedience response. Scripture is clear: For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar...

Gentile Status Before Acts 10 Gentiles were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants, having no hope & living without God in the world (Eph 2:11–12). The Temple's middle wall of partition barred Gentiles from Israel's sacred courts, with DEATH WARNINGS for any...

OT Abrahamic Covenant Of Circumcision Initiation Was Physical Gen 17:11 The Lord tells Abraham you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin & it shall be a token of the covenant between me &you. (Abram-Gen 17:1–14). A foreshadow of the Spiritual circumcision to come. NT Circumcision...

The AMP translators tells you exactly what ""completed"" means > ""reaching its maturity"" (2:22), not becoming saving faith & when James says ""not by faith alone,"" the AMP translators explain that this means ITS THRU ACTS OF OBEDIENCE AN ALREADY BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER REVEALS THEIR FAITH (2:24)...

The centurion story is a healing event reward for display of great faith , not a salvation event. Likewise: Matthew 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. (MY NOTE: Jesus refers to the gentile woman from Canaan as a dog yet rewards...