chad kincham
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Because James addressed his letter to all of the twelve tribes who were his "brethren" in the "faith" in James 1:1-3, there seems to now be no distinction based on genealogy.
Paul confirms this fact in Titus 3:9.
The most important genealogy in the Bible is found in Matthew 1:1, as confirmed by Paul in Galatians 3:16.
Most of the people now alive on the planet are direct descendants of Abraham, and many are also direct descendants of Judah.
Therefore, it is very difficult to now determine who is really a "Gentile".
Most of us are of mixed heritage, just like the Samaritans.
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The house of Israel is who the new covenant is with, which is national Israel, the physical and genetic Israelis.
Paul makes clear in Romans 11 that God is not done with national Israel, and the bit about being spiritually Israel as a believer doesn’t apply, because we non Jew gentiles are grafted into the new covenant that Jesus brought to the house of Israel.
If being a spiritual Jew applied to salvation, we wouldn’t need grafted in as a wild olive tree branch, onto the Jewish olive tree of the house of Israel.
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