"Boast"--the favorite charge of Judaizers against those who disagree with them.Fred, where do I even start on your interpretation.
Those God foreknew he predestined, Fred. That's all that matters. God knows me, period. I know that
being found in Christ is what Paul wanted for every one of his listeners all along. That's all that matters,
every thing else is counted as a loss.
One flock, one shepherd. What you are saying contradicts
what Jesus said Fred.
You are saying two peoples, one shepherd still, when Jesus clearly said one flock...I dont know why
it's so hard for you to accept what Jesus said. Or
what Paul said for that matter.
And if I'm wrong, ok. But I can say, I know God foreknew me sir.
As for all this humility you preach for others to display, where is yours? You tell people to 'shut up' in your posts.....ok. Practice what you preach!
As for your interpretation of Sarah and Hagar, wow. Hagar's children are born of woman naturally, (not born again), Sarah's children are born by the spirit, (born again).
The children born in the ordinary way is the world, including the Jews who have not accepted Christ. Remeber, Paul said
Hagar stands for the PRESENT CITY OF JERUSALEM, whose children are in slavery. You assume
only Gentiles are in slavery....wrong, the whole world is a prisoner of Sin.....thats what Paul said. A man must be
born again, its what Jesus came even unto his own proclaiming, because those
are the children of promise, whose mother is Sarah. Those prisoners of sin are who Jesus came to free by becoming a curse himself!
Get rid of the slave womans son, because they arent born again, from imperishable seed, and we all know that the perishable can't INHERIT the imperishable-1st Cor. 15:50.
And that wording should be a sign to you, INHERIT THE KINDOM, because he's referencing the promise given to the seed after being born again and found in Christ.
You don't HAVE TO answer my question, because I know what the answer is already.
There is only one chosen, holy nation God has chosen out of the world for himself, and that's why PETER was telling
those washed by the blood of Christ who they really were.
And as for the blind leading the blind, he was speaking of the pharisees, and how they themselves nor their hearers, were allowing people to enter the Kingdom, because their message and understanding were lacking. They had forgotten about Faith and the rebirth and the cross.
In Christ it is one big happy family, because he himself declared that we will be so full of joy and there will be no more death, nor any more tears, and that sounds pretty happy to me! Scripture declares
IN CHRIST there is no Jew, no greek, no slave no free, not even a male or female, we are all one in Christ, and I'm completely missing how you deny that in
your 'understanding' and 'testimony' that directly contradicts everything Jesus and Paul and Peter wrote us. How can you say that once even the Jews are grafted into Christ, there is still a separation, that is a Lie! You deny the holy spirit, working through Paul who testifies to that very thing, because in your understanding
you say the Jews are the mature and we still get the crumbs...like you have the whole table....no, to him faithfully waits for Him even unto the end: "It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth,
he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them." So
in Christ I tell you the truth, that there are no more crumbs, Jesus, my Savior, said himself
God will prepare our table and feed us himself!
And yes Christ is coming down to save Israel in the end, and we who are grafted in, will be coming with him.
You also deny the teaching of the NT when you say this present city of Jerusalem is to whom the promises were given, these are the very ones who corresponded to Hagar, and THE PRESENT CITY OF JERUSALEM!
It is the children of promise who are regarded as Abraham's seed, as Paul said to us, you, brothers, LIKE ISAAC are children of promise, and WE are regarded as the seed, that was to come by being IN CHRIST. Why can you not see what that makes us of we are the seed of Abraham?
If you think the promise comes a to ANY ONE ELSE, apart from Christ, you are the one in denial, for Paul himself said:
"But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin,*so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe."
When I started this thread, it was for the understanding of how the prophets were talking about the salvation that comes through Faith, and how we as the body could understand how the prophets who predicted Christ's coming, were also talking about our salvation. .
It was not a boast sir, nor is it a boast to say what scripture declares.
Well said, sir, well said.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to sltaylor again.
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