Thomas Dickerson is not a fictional character.
No matter how long you attempt to ignore him, he reveals the truth about what you are promoting.
When will you deal with his testimony?
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Neither was Brigham Young or Mary Baker Eddy, but that was no good reason to accept their testimony over and above that of scripture itself. I still notice you have not replied with any scripturally based refutation of Deut.30:6.
Deut.30:6. This promise,
you will I hope notice, does not refer to
Jesus Christ as THE seed, because
if it did that would imply that Jesus Christ, (THE seed, the Messiah, God has promised to His People, in fulfillment of The Covenant, was in need of
'spiritual heart surgery' by God. Whereas we all presumably admit He, Christ, The Messiah of God, was without sin, previous to and from conception to ascension and beyond into eternity.
"15 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Deut.18.
"And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart,
and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." Deut.30:6. See
Matt.22:37.
This was Christ
THE SEED of Abraham,
who came to the seed of Abraham, to
'circumcise their hearts' but
"they were stiff necked" (most of them), but not all,
John.1:12 because God had promised
THE SEED to them, because
they were
the seed of Abraham, to whom the
promise was made. (Is this too complicated to understand?)
Christ Himself is
THE SEED that the sower, (God), scatters broadcast, He is also
the Word that is sown. We are the soil in which
THE SEED either is taken away,
Mark 4:15 withers
Mark 4:16-18 or prospers
Mark 4:20. If it prospers then that is evidence that we were
circumcised of heart, if the Word does not prosper in us, then the opposite is true.
John.17:23.
There must be something wrong with your interpretation of
Gal.3:19, where you assume that the promise was made
exclusively to Christ Himself and
not to the seed of Abraham. Your whole theology is hung on the
misinterpretation and
misunderstanding, of just that
one verse.
If then you still believe that according to
Deuteronomy 30:6,
Christ alone received
the promise that
"He would be circumcised of heart, by God", in what way was The
sinless Son of God in need of (such a
promise of
'circumcision of the heart'). Surely the
promise is to the
seed of Abraham, (that
require it, they being in need of it), and therefore the promise must be to
them, and
we in 'the household of faith', otherwise the promise makes no sense.
Only the way I have explained it, is God entirely attributed with
everything to do with
our Salvation, with nothing contribted by
us whatever. It is a gift of God which we either accept or reject.
Just as
Gal.3:19 states when it is properly understood.
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Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator."
i.e Until
the promised SEED had finally
come to the people to whom
He had been
promised.
Nothing could happen salvationwise, until He came.
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