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Church=body of Christ
Christ=seed of Abraham, seed that was by promise
The seed began to bear fruit with Isaac
Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say,
“And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.
Romans 9:
7 nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but,
In Isaac your seed shall be called.
8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God;
but the children of the promise are counted as the seed....
and;
11 that the purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works but of Him who calls),
12 it was said to her, The older shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.
Jacob came out of servitude with his sons and was given the name Israel.
From these sons there continued to be an elect for God's purpose.
Joseph, Judah, Levi, Ephraim, Moses and Aaron, Joshua, Samuel...etc
There has always been a Grace remnant
Romans 11:5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
Isaiah 1:9 Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Galatians 3:29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
Yes - I agree with this...
I guess that in the OP I should have defined church...
Folks have different beliefs on when the church started depending on their definition of church.
I intended a discussion on New Covenant Church and when this was born.
Most folks say Pentecost.
If that is correct, then we can't dismiss the fact that 'community' recorded in Acts 4 was a fundamental element of church.
But we seem to have developed a different structure and called it church that has little evidence of sharing in many cases and certainly does not reach the goal of 'having no needy among them'.
These verses remain ignored and they are an embarrassment because our focus is not what it was when the church was born.
Personally I think that this was the 'first love' referred to in Rev 2 that the church needs to return to.
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