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Speaking of shutting up the Kingdom against men. . .

In Paul's gospel, people with bad works have their works burnt up... and that's it. 1 Corinthians 3:15

Matthew 25:1 Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 25:14 For as a man travelling into a far country, called His own servants, and delivered unto them His goods. ... 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

You might like to dismiss Galatians 2:7-9, but that's the only lynch-pin on this 2-wheel-cart.
 
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The Kingdom of God is here and now (Luke 11:20).
The Gospel of the Kingdom . . .is the Gospel of Jesus. . .is the Gospel of grace. . .is the Gospel of Christ. . .is the "Gospel of Paul". . .is the Gospel of the New Covenant. . .

The NT presents only one Gospel, "Repent and believe for the forgivenss of your sin."

The good news of the Kingdom of God is now, for the people who keep the Commandments of Jesus.

The rest of the world doesn't keep Jesus Commandments... so they must be following another gospel.
 
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"When people in the Church use the word "Gentile", then they wish to make a racial distinction."
THE USE OF THE WORD "GENTILE" IN THE BIBLE - franknelte.net

I guess that's not really the origin of the name Gentiles.
So... what makes one Semitic-language speaker a "Gentile", but another Semitic-language speaker a "nation"?
Do you know your Bible?

The answer. . .wait for it. . .is Abraham.
"The thesis was presented not only to demonstrate that the Pan-Babylonists' claims must be abandoned, but also to show that the elements from which the Semitic Babylonian religion had largely evolved had their origin in the West land, or in the land of Amurru; and that, instead of the Hebrew culture being imported from Babylonia, it had grown up and developed naturally from older and indigenous civilizations which had come down from generations reaching far back into the ages. To make this appear reasonable, it became necessary to show that there was an antiquity for the civilization of this Semitic land which had been hitherto unrecognized."
The empire of the Amorites : Clay, Albert Tobias

"The Amorite language belongs to the western branch of the Semitic language family, and it is the oldest known West-Semitic language."--wiley.com
 
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John 14:15 If ye love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; 17 the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

14:24 He that loveth Me not keepeth not My words: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Me.
"And" is not "Then."
 
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In Paul's gospel, people with bad works have their works burnt up... and that's it. 1 Corinthians 3:15
This is about the profitable or worthless works of the saved.
Pure Christian doctrine and living vs. teaching and life that were weak and insipid.
Matthew 25:1 Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 25:14 For as a man travelling into a far country, called His own servants, and delivered unto them His goods. ... 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The two parables are about the counterfeit faith of the unsaved.
The first has no Holy Spirit, and the second has no fruit.
You might like to dismiss Galatians 2:7-9, but that's the only lynch-pin on this 2-wheel-cart.
You might learn grammatical construction so you can understand Galatians 2:7-9 and stop misrepresenting it.

Seariously? Well then, apart from Galatians 2:7-9, how do you account for these differences?

Paul's gospel of Christ crucified:
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom:
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. 45 And he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His Commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward [is] with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
The first is addressed in my reply to your post above, and in the second Jesus' is speaking of the unbelieving unsaved.
 
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The good news of the Kingdom of God is now, for the people who keep the Commandments of Jesus.
And that is all the born again, the church, the body of Christ, the eternal kingdom of God on earth now.
The rest of the world doesn't keep Jesus Commandments... so they must be following another gospel.
The rest of the world does not follow the gospel at all, and are condemned.
 
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So... what makes one Semitic-language speaker a "Gentile", but another Semitic-language speaker a "nation"?

"The thesis was presented not only to demonstrate that the Pan-Babylonists' claims must be abandoned, but also to show that the elements from which the Semitic Babylonian religion had largely evolved had their origin in the West land, or in the land of Amurru; and that, instead of the Hebrew culture being imported from Babylonia, it had grown up and developed naturally from older and indigenous civilizations which had come down from generations reaching far back into the ages. To make this appear reasonable, it became necessary to show that there was an antiquity for the civilization of this Semitic land which had been hitherto unrecognized."
The empire of the Amorites : Clay, Albert Tobias

"The Amorite language belongs to the western branch of the Semitic language family, and it is the oldest known West-Semitic language."--wiley.com

Do you know your Bible?

The answer. . .wait for it. . .is Abraham.

Which Abram, where?

"But what is more important than all else in showing that the name is West Semitic, is the fact that the element ram has not been found to exist in the thousands of known Babylonian names, whereas it is a common West Semitic element. The first element of the name Abram is found in all the Semitic dialects, but the second element is Western Semitic."
Amurru, the home of the Northern Semites, a study showing that the religion and culture of Israel are not of Babylonian origin : Clay, Albert Tobias
 
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And that is all the born again, the church, the body of Christ, the eternal kingdom of God on earth now.
The rest of the world does not follow the gospel at all, and are condemned.

Do you keep the Commandments of Jesus?
If so, I'll be expecting an apology from you... regarding the "Gentiles" thing.
 
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(returns added... I'm quoting the parts I'm addressing)

1. That's not even what John 3:12 means, in context.
John 3:10-12 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things?

2. I'm aware of those human testament verses... they never made sense to me. The word for Testament is also translated as Covenant. Jeremiah 31:31-33 says Israel broke the Covenant... not God. The Father gave them the Law at Sinai... not Jesus. In fact, Jesus says His Kingdom Law is also from the Father, John 12:50.

3. Jesus says He raised Himself, John 10:18.
The death of the body of Jesus was necessary because the Passover Lamb of God is defence against the destroyer/accuser, and for the Resurrection Jesus brings to cancel Death and crush the head of the serpent.
Heavenly Jerusalem doesn't come to Earth until after the Millennium, Revelation 21:2. The Kingdom of God comes down in Revelation 14.

4. Grace is the forgiveness of debt. And since y'all believe Romans 10:9, therefore you have no debt, and you don't need any more grace.
So, the only people who will always need grace on this Earth are those who follow the Gospel of the Kingdom; for us, repentence and forgiveness is essential Kingdom Law.

1. I used to believe we should read and quote according to the context of the writings, but I later realized it is not about the context but the foundation/logic of its context. If I remember correctly, almost all OT quotes in NT are out of context. For example, Matthew 2:15 quotes Hosea 11:1-2, and this is out of context. Likewise, Jesus quoted Psalm 22 on the cross. They didn't quote by the context but by the foundation which forms its context. The foundation here is, man can hardly understand spiritual things without earthly things.

2. Israeli can break the covenant, but they can never release themselves from the covenant unless the husband dies (this part of the law, Romans 7:2 & 1 Corinthians 7:39). Jesus said He is one with the Father, John 17:22, John 10:30. And Gospel of John introduces Jesus as the Word, in which through the Word, everything was created and fill all things (does 'all things' includes the law? If yes, Jesus is the one who gave the Law with the authority from the Father) [Colossians 1:15-17]

3. I agree with the Passover portion. According to Paul, Heavenly Jerusalem is the covenant [Galatians 4:24-26, These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother ] Jesus also claimed KOG is in our midst, Luke 17:20-21. In Matthew 12:28, Jesus declared, "But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you," in which Jesus drove the demon by the Spirit of God, so the kingdom is already here (spiritually) but not with observable signs.

4. Repentance means acknowledging our imperfection plus striving to improve ourselves through the understanding of the perfect law that helps us to be perfect. Repentance without later improvement is not repentance at all. Jesus is the One who instructed us to be perfect, Matthew 5:48. Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" and John 15:8 "This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples." Our debts are not achieving perfection as instructed, and God's grace forgives our debts.

I agreed the way Jesus died fulfilled the Passover text, but there is more to it. Let me try to summarize the points from the video:

We know God is the Lawgiver (both OT & NT) and He can just do away with the law of needing blood to forgive sin before creation as He wishes, or He can just forgive everyone without needing Jesus to die for us since He is omnipotent. But God is a faithful and wise God, there must be good reasons for Him to take this course.
  • You see, God is a spirit and we worship Him in spirit and truth [John 4:24] and the law is also spiritual [Rom 7:14]. We know the NT Law is better than OT Law and it should make more sense for God to beginning the world using NT law.
  • But Jesus said we cannot understand heavenly things unless earthly things are shown to us [John 3:12]. During His missionary, He used many earthly parables to explain heavenly/spiritual things.
  • This way, all spiritual law must be inscribed into natural law so that a natural man can understand spiritual things. However, the law is spiritual and it cannot remain a natural law forever, therefore the law must be fulfilled (as in revert to spiritual law).
  • When God gave man OT law, He formed the covenant with man, and God became the Husband [Jeremiah 31:32] and Israel is the wife. But to break the covenant, the Husband must die [Romans 7:2-3]. Therefore, God came into flesh to die. But that is not the end. He was resurrected again by the Spirit [Romans 8:11] to become a spiritual Husband to be united with us again, the spiritual Church, heavenly Jerusalem. [Ephasians 5:31-32]. This way, the new covenant that is spiritual was established, a.k.a NT law and we are all under the grace of this new covenant.
  • God loves us by first showing the spiritual law through earthly law, and He again loves us by ending the earthly law [Romans 10:4] for us so that we can be truly matured spiritually.
There are many spiritual teachings in OT law. Eg: burn offering with authorized fire, in which fire symbolized the words of God (Jeremiah 23:29), means worship according to His will/words.

These reasons can explain why must Jesus come, as well as justifying God never changes. Otherwise, we cannot defend why God introduced the Old covenant first, then change it to the New covenant. That is "change". God never change because the original covenant is spiritual, but it was made earthly for the sake of earthly man, and it must revert to spiritual because God never change.
 
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In Paul's gospel, people with bad works have their works burnt up... and that's it. 1 Corinthians 3:15
This is about the profitable or worthless works of the saved.
Pure Christian doctrine and living vs. teaching and life that were weak and insipid.
In other words, you don't believe Paul.

Matthew 25:1 Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 25:14 For as a man travelling into a far country, called His own servants, and delivered unto them His goods. ... 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The two parables are about the counterfeit faith of the unsaved.
The first has no Holy Spirit, and the second has no fruit.
Counterfeit faith is an oxymoron. But my point (which you virtually destroyed by cutting it up into one-liners) is that Paul's notion of what costs your life is non-existent, in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15. While on the other side of the fence, having no understanding of Kingdom Gospel doctrine is what will send you into outer darkness.

You might like to dismiss Galatians 2:7-9, but that's the only lynch-pin on this 2-wheeled-cart.
You might learn grammatical construction so you can understand Galatians 2:7-9 and stop misrepresenting it.
I hope you're not offering yet another lesson on what you think is grammar... but really isn't.

Seariously? Well then, apart from Galatians 2:7-9, how do you account for these differences?

Paul's gospel of Christ crucified:
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom:
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. 45 And he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His Commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward [is] with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
The first is addressed in my reply to your post above, and in the second Jesus' is speaking of the unbelieving unsaved.

Did Paul keep Jesus' Commandments?
Do you keep Jesus' Commandments?
 
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Do you keep the Commandments of Jesus?
If so, I'll be expecting an apology from you... regarding the "Gentiles" thing.
I have no idea what you are talking about, nor how I have offended you that I should apologize.
 
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In other words, you don't believe Paul.
Or. . .you don't understand Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:12-15, you don't understand the grammar in Galatians 2:7-9, and I have no idea what you are talking about "regarding 'Gentiles'."
 
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1. That's not even what John 3:12 means, in context.
John 3:10-12 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things?

2. I'm aware of those human testament verses... they never made sense to me. The word for Testament is also translated as Covenant. Jeremiah 31:31-33 says Israel broke the Covenant... not God. The Father gave them the Law at Sinai... not Jesus. In fact, Jesus says His Kingdom Law is also from the Father, John 12:50.

3. Jesus says He raised Himself, John 10:18.
The death of the body of Jesus was necessary because the Passover Lamb of God is defence against the destroyer/accuser, and for the Resurrection Jesus brings to cancel Death and crush the head of the serpent.
Heavenly Jerusalem doesn't come to Earth until after the Millennium, Revelation 21:2. The Kingdom of God comes down in Revelation 14.

4. Grace is the forgiveness of debt. And since y'all believe Romans 10:9, therefore you have no debt, and you don't need any more grace.
So, the only people who will always need grace on this Earth are those who follow the Gospel of the Kingdom; for us, repentence and forgiveness is essential Kingdom Law.
1. I used to believe we should read and quote according to the context of the writings, but I later realized it is not about the context but the foundation/logic of its context. If I remember correctly, almost all OT quotes in NT are out of context. For example, Matthew 2:15 quotes Hosea 11:1-2, and this is out of context. Likewise, Jesus quoted Psalm 22 on the cross. They didn't quote by the context but by the foundation which forms its context. The foundation here is, man can hardly understand spiritual things without earthly things.

2. Israeli can break the covenant, but they can never release themselves from the covenant unless the husband dies (this part of the law, Romans 7:2 & 1 Corinthians 7:39). Jesus said He is one with the Father, John 17:22, John 10:30. And Gospel of John introduces Jesus as the Word, in which through the Word, everything was created and fill all things (does 'all things' includes the law? If yes, Jesus is the one who gave the Law with the authority from the Father) [Colossians 1:15-17]

3. I agree with the Passover portion. According to Paul, Heavenly Jerusalem is the covenant [Galatians 4:24-26, These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother ] Jesus also claimed KOG is in our midst, Luke 17:20-21. In Matthew 12:28, Jesus declared, "But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you," in which Jesus drove the demon by the Spirit of God, so the kingdom is already here (spiritually) but not with observable signs.

4. Repentance means acknowledging our imperfection plus striving to improve ourselves through the understanding of the perfect law that helps us to be perfect. Repentance without later improvement is not repentance at all. Jesus is the One who instructed us to be perfect, Matthew 5:48. Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" and John 15:8 "This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples." Our debts are not achieving perfection as instructed, and God's grace forgives our debts.

1. I think that the verses quoted are to draw us to their context. What do you think happened to Joseph and Mary and Jesus in Egypt? When did Jacob find God in the house of On, chapter 12? Context is everything, and so is audience in the New Testament. John 3:10-12 points out that a teacher of Juda didn't believe even what they saw, because they weren't born from above... and didn't even know what it meant. And they'd had David as a witness, along with the prophets they'd murdered.

Psalms 22:1 O God, my God, attend to me: why hast thou forsaken me? ... 12 Many bullocks have compassed Me: fat bulls have beset Me round. 13 They have opened their mouth against Me, as a ravening and roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all My bones are loosened: My heart in the midst of My belly is become like melting wax. 15 My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and My tongue is glued to My throat; and Thou hast brought Me down to the dust of death. 16 For many dogs have compassed Me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset Me round: they pierced My hands and My feet. 17 They counted all My bones; and they observed and looked upon Me. 18 They parted My garments among themselves, and cast lots upon My raiment. 19 But Thou, O Lord, remove not My help afar off: be ready for Mine aid. 20 Deliver My soul from the sword; My only-begotten one from the power of the dog. 21 Save Me from the lion's mouth; and regard My lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

Jesus tell what His dying felt like... this must literally be what happens to your body when you're crucified. And He wanted His audience to know, so He sent them to look at the context. He also tells them that Judah is like a lion, a bull and a dog... Pilate judged Him righteous, remember, so he is not the dog.

The same can't be said of the out of context verses Paul uses. For instance, Psalms 14:1-3 is about atheists, and this is true of all of his OT verses that I've ever checked.

2. Jeremiah 31:31-33 says Israel broke the Covenant. Break means this:
parar = a primitive root; to break up (usually figuratively, i.e. to violate, frustrate:--X any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, X clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, X utterly, make void.
Therefore, God disregarded them, says the LXX.

God didn't make a last will and testament and name Israel the beneficiary, He made a contract with them. In contracts, which Paul is talking about (with the whole human understanding thing), if one party breaks the contract, the whole contract is void. They didn't hold up their side of the covenant, they dissolved it. This is when God sent them into captivity via Assyria and Babylon. Why does Jesus use the language He uses in Matthew 23 and John 8 against them? Even John recognizes the Pharisees as fleeing from Babylon as vipers to be baptized by him.

3. Sarah was under the Law, Hagar was just a slave. And where was Sinai in Arabia? Ancient Greeks called Arabia East-Ethiopia. Acording to Jesus Heavenly Jerusalem is coming down after the Millennium. Luke wasn't there, so his book is hearsay. The Gospels of John and Matthew are first-hand witnesses, approved by Jesus (John 15:26-27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with Me from the beginning). The Gospel of the Kingdom is still being preached all over the world by those who keep His Commandments. The Kingdom is announced with the death and resurrection of the two witnesses. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven... finally happens when the dragon is cast to Earth... then shall the end come. This Kingdom comes to Earth when Jesus comes to cast the dragon and his people from the Earth, as well. Without the King in house, the Kingdom is not visible, by their fruits ye shall know them...(not Paul's fruits)...these fruits are of the Kingdom that the two Gospels witness.

4. The context... 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Do you know where, in the law and the prophets, these "without the law" verses might be?

In context, "My words remain in you"... fruit always begins with thinking. The invisible church becomes clean from the inside out, it's not a whitewashed tomb. Remember that Jesus says some of those laws were allowed by Moses, because of their hard hearts.

They asked for Moses, instead of God. They asked for Kings, instead of God. They asked for a temple sacrifice, instead of the sure mercies of David. The OT law was a test they failed over and over again... finally failing to keep even their own hardhearted laws. God said He was testing them, straight up. Did that make them cautious or caring? No. They apparently forgot. So the Old Testament became a cautionary tale. The message: Learn the character/authority/name of God.

Last of all, He sent His Son, saying they will reverence My Son. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
 
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In Paul's gospel, people with bad works have their works burnt up... and that's it. 1 Corinthians 3:15
This is about the profitable or worthless works of the saved.
Pure Christian doctrine and living vs. teaching and life that were weak and insipid.
In other words, you don't believe Paul.

Matthew 25:1 Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 25:14 For as a man travelling into a far country, called His own servants, and delivered unto them His goods. ... 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The two parables are about the counterfeit faith of the unsaved.
The first has no Holy Spirit, and the second has no fruit.
Counterfeit faith is an oxymoron. But my point (which you virtually destroyed by cutting it up into one-liners) is that Paul's notion of what costs your life is non-existent, in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15. While on the other side of the fence, having no understanding of Kingdom Gospel doctrine is what will send you into outer darkness.

You might like to dismiss Galatians 2:7-9, but that's the only lynch-pin on this 2-wheeled-cart.
You might learn grammatical construction so you can understand Galatians 2:7-9 and stop misrepresenting it.
I hope you're not offering yet another lesson on what you think is grammar... but really isn't.

Seariously? Well then, apart from Galatians 2:7-9, how do you account for these differences?

Paul's gospel of Christ crucified:
1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom:
John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. 45 And he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His Commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward [is] with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
The first is addressed in my reply to your post above, and in the second Jesus' is speaking of the unbelieving unsaved.

Did Paul keep Jesus' Commandments?
Do you keep Jesus' Commandments?

Try not to cut my post into atom-sized chunks... or act like it's a coloring book, without mentioning the fact. I can't tell you how hard it was to keep from making five-word-chunks out of everything you replied back to me.

I've decided to stop doing any 'chunking' at all, so, thanks for that example.
If I don't like it done to me, then I shouldn't do it to anyone else.
It makes it very time-consuming to reply, without the given context.
 
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In other words, you don't believe Paul.
Or. . .
1) you don't understand Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:12-15,
2) you don't understand the grammar in Galatians 2:7-9, and
3) you don't know that Jesus and Paul are talking about two different things,
Paul about the meritless works of the saved, and Jesus about the counterfeit faith of the unsaved.
Counterfeit faith is an oxymoron.
Only when counterfeit money is an oxymoron.
But my point (which you virtually dstroyed by cutting it up into one-liners) is that Paul's notion of what costs your life is non-existent, in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15.
You don't understand Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:12-15.
While on the other side of the fence, having no understanding of Kingdom Gospel doctrine is what will send you into outer darkness.
Jesus and Paul are talking about two different things with two different outcomes.
Review my previous response, post #185.
I hope you're not offering yet another lesson on what you think is grammar... but really isn't.
You don't know the Bible well enough to discuss it.
Did Paul keep Jesus' Commandments?
Do you keep Jesus' Commandments?

Try not to cut my post into atom-sized chunks... or act like it's a coloring book, without mentioning the fact. I can't tell you how hard it was to keep from making five-word-chunks out of everything you replied back to me.

I've decided to stop doing any 'chunking' at all, so, thanks for that example.
If I don't like it done to me, then I shouldn't do it to anyone else.
It makes it very time-consuming to reply, without the given context.
 
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Do you keep the Commandments of Jesus?
If so, I'll be expecting an apology from you... regarding the "Gentiles" thing.

I have no idea what you are talking about, nor how I have offended you that I should apologize.

Galilee was occupied by Gentiles, and was called Galilee of the Gentiles before Israel occupied it.
It kept its name after Israel finally occupied it. That is the origin of the name.

Some say Galilee got its name from invaders, not the indigenes.

Τοῦτο πρῶτον πίε· ταχὺ ποίει χώρα Ζαβυλὼν, ἡ γη Νεφθαλεὶν, καὶ οἱ
λοιποὶ οἱ τὴν παραλίαν, καὶ πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν.(ethnos)

"The word gentiles is derived from Latin (gentilis) and is used to translate the original Hebrew or Greek words as found in the Bible in specific contexts. The original Hebrew word goy and its Greek equivalent ethnos (in the singular) can refer to any group of "people" or "nation," including the "nation" of Israel."--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile

"The word "Gentile" does not come from either the Hebrew language or from the Greek language. The word "gentile" has come into the English language from the Latin language.

The Latin word "gens, gentis" means: a family, a clan, a stock of people, a race, a tribe, a people, a nation. This is the root from which our English word "Gentile" has been formed. Now it should be immediately apparent that "gens" has a considerable scope of meaning and of application. And the plural "gentes" refers to multiple races, tribes and nations. The plural Latin word "gentes" is most assuredly not restricted to any particular ethnic or racial group of people. It applies to people of all ethnic and all racial backgrounds.

However, that is not how the English word "Gentile" is used in the Church of God today, or in our English language translations, is it? When people in the Church use the word "Gentile", then they wish to make a racial distinction."
THE USE OF THE WORD "GENTILE" IN THE BIBLE - franknelte.net

Why did translators use a Latin loan-word in a Greek to English Bible?
And why did Strong's aid this deception?

You replied to the last two questions... skipping the proof altogether.

It matters not, Bilbical meaning is determined by Biblical usage.

All "nations" were Gentiles, except for the "nation" Israel.
Bible 101

Is it offensive to you when someone says you're wrong when you're not?
 
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Which Abram, where?

"But what is more important than all else in showing that the name is West Semitic, is the fact that the element ram has not been found to exist in the thousands of known Babylonian names, whereas it is a common West Semitic element. The first element of the name Abram is found in all the Semitic dialects, but the second element is Western Semitic."
Amurru, the home of the Northern Semites, a study showing that the religion and culture of Israel are not of Babylonian origin : Clay, Albert Tobias

You don't know the Bible well enough to dicuss it.

Within the context I've given you, which Abram, where? If you want to pretend you didn't even see the link or read the paragraph given you... then you can also pretend that the Bible tells you where those places and people are. But we both know that the Bible doesn't tell you about which longitude and latitude the Bible was written... or even to whom the Bible first came, explicitly. Because the Code of Hammurabi and the Epic of Gilgamesh are older than the Bible's bits and pieces. And those two things are from Amorites... semitic speakers.

A Hebrew Deluge Story in Cuneiform, and Other Epic Fragments in the Pierpont Morgan Library : Albert Tobias Clay

Man has placed those names in the area they were told to look. And archaeology went looking for the bones of whom they expected to find. The example of what happened to the name of the Hittites should've been a cautionary tale. They thought they found the Hittites and actually gave the invaders their name. They found their mistake when they dug up different layers from different people... and named the aboriginals Hatti. Nor did they bother to correct the history books spun from that myth. So that, now, when we read about the Hittites... is it the indigenes we're reading about... or is it the invaders who've been handed the histories of the lands they stole? This has happened everywhere, by the way. Which must have coined the phrase: History is a set of lies agreed upon.

So let me ask you again, which Abram, where? Because the name Abram isn't a stand-alone item, not even back in the day.
 
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1) you don't understand Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:12-15,
2) you don't understand the grammar in Galatians 2:7-9, and
3) you don't know that Jesus and Paul are talking about two different things

1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8
That good news

Galatians 2:7 the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me,
as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter;

This Gospel of the Kingdom
John 12:44-47 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on Him that sent Me. John 44:48-50 And I know that His Commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak.

The two parables are about the counterfeit faith of the unsaved.
(bold added)

It's not counterfeit faith, it's faith in another god.

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Daniel 11:38-39 And he shall honour the god of forces on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things. 39 And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.LXX
 
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