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Which is to say you side with the translators who took Paul’s words for “wife” & “husband” within passages where the context is a marriage relationship and used “man” & “woman” instead?I side with Paul in what he teaches.
Paul prohibits women having authority over men in the assembly, as the pastor teaches in the assembly.
He does not prohibit women teaching outside the assembly, as Priscilla taught Apollos outside the assembly.
There were female teacher, preachers, & prophets in the Bible as well as judges.
I’ve never said we are not also adopted by God. In fact I’ve repeatedly stated (with scriptural references for support) that it is both.This is unbelievable. . .
What part of the following do you not understand?
In neither the "scripture after scripture, after scripture" you posted, nor in the whole Bible (including Gal, Gen and Ro above, post #192), is there the word "adoption" in regard to Abraham. Scripture does not present our "adoption" by Abraham.
Previously and fully addressed with Biblical support. . .in posts #141, #146, #160, #186.
To repeat:
The importance of our adoption by God is that it gives us full rights as sons of God (Jn 1:12, Gal 4:5).
You are removing those rights when you remove our adoption by God (Gal 4:5-6).
WHAT rights? . . .for starters, the right to share in Christ's own personal inheritance! (Ro 8:17).
And therein is the magnitude of your contra-Biblical doctrine, which is why I call it "grievous" (post #165).
John 8:31-44 (NASB95) 31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?” 34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. 35 “The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. 36 “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. 38 “I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.” 39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. 40 “But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. 41 “You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. 43 “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”
In fact Jesus says here there are 3 qualifications of descendants: physical descendants of Abraham, Spiritual descendants of Abraham, and spiritual descendants of God. Jesus Himself indicates they can be both descendants of God & of Abraham simultaneously.
I don’t care if you use the term “adopted” or not. The concept is identical whether you say you qualify as a descendant of your father Abraham or you say you were adopted by Abraham, or you say you are a son or daughter of Abraham - either way you inherit the promises made to Abraham & to his descendants.
Genesis 15:4-5 (NASB95) 4 Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.” 5 And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants (zera, seed) be.”
The context here is who stands to inherit this promise by being the heir. The seed is Jesus, but it was also Isaac, and the seed is also those with the same faith as Abraham, and also the physical descendants.
Genesis 15:13 (NASB95) God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants (zer, seed) will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.
Jesus wasnt that seed, nor were Christians. So you have multiple overlapping intended meanings. The word “seed” in Genesis 15 covers all 3 meanings: Jesus, Christians, Israelites. We’ll have to let God tell us where he means each of them.
Genesis 17:7 (NASB95) “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your seed after you.
The first time seed is used here it means any descendants (Jews & Christians) the second time it means Jesus & probably Jews & Christians. Though one could argue Jesus was a generation, and he is the eternal one to whom an eternal covenant was made.
But the idea is clear:
Galatians 3:7 (NASB95) Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.
Romans 4:11 (NASB95) and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,
Galatians 3:26 (NASB95) For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 3:18 (NASB95) For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.
Qualifying as a descendant of Abraham (whatever word you use) has the purpose of qualifying for his promised righteousness.
The fact that Abraham had faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ without being spiritually born again or regenerated (uncircumcised in heart or flesh) means man can indeed believe the gospel without the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven to make us hear it & obey it.
Deuteronomy 30:11-12 (NASB95) 11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. 12 “It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 14 “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. 19 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
6 “Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
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