If we are not under the law we are not sinning

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Gen_17:24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.Gentiles are not required to circumcise in the N,T.

Why 99? Was Abraham not of faith before 99?

(CLV) Ro 4:11
And he obtained the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, for him to be the father of all those who are believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned to them,

I've covered Acts 15 before, here: Circumcision

Paul circumcised Timothy shortly thereafter.

(CLV) Ac 16:3
This one Paul wants to come out with him, and, taking him, circumcised him because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all were aware that his father belonged to the Greeks.

(CLV) Ro 2:25
For circumcision, indeed, is benefiting if you should be putting law into practice, yet if you should be a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

However, you didn't address the fact that even those who are new to the faith are to circumcise their children, as demonstrated in Acts 21.
 
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Context says different.

Circumcision, bondage, under the curse. For those whom are of the works of the Law are under the curse. Cursed is everyone who continue not in all things contained in the Book of the Law and do them. Christ has made us free Be ye not entangled in the yoke of bondage, the book of the law. For if ye be circumcised you are a debtor to do the whole law. Christ has become no affect to you. For if we are led by the Spirit we are not under the tutorage of the law. For we are dead nevertheless we live. Yet not us but Christ liveth in us. And the life we now live in the flesh we live by the faith OF the Son Of God. For he that has been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. It is now of faith through His word, the law in our hearts and minds through His Spirit through Christ. Now we do the things of God, His Word , the Law because we want to through faith rather than because we have to.

The reason that God saved the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt was not in order to put them under bondage to His law, but rather it is for freedom that God sets us free (Galatians 5:1) and God's law is a law of freedom (Psalms 119:45). In Psalms 119:142, God's law is truth, and in John 8:31-36, it is sin in transgression of God's law that puts us in bondage, while it is the truth that sets us free. Viewing God's law as bondage is expressing an extremely negative view of God. David said repeatedly throughout the Psalms that he loved God's law and delighted in obeying it, so if we view the Psalms as being Scripture and therefore expressing a correct view of God's law, then we will share it, as Paul did (Romans 7:22), while viewing God's law as being bondage is incompatible with the view that the Psalms are Scripture. For example, in Psalms 1:1-2, blessed are those who...delight in the law of the Lord and who meditate on it day and night, so we can't believe in the truth of these words while not allowing them to shape our view of God's law. Furthermore, the NT authors viewed the Psalms as Scripture, so we should not impose on them a view of God's law that is incompatible with the view that the Psalms are Scripture.

In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with the law of faith, so works of the law are a law of works, while he said in 3:31 that our faith upholds God's law, so it is the law of faith, so he directly contrasted works of the law with God's law. Likewise, in Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of God's law, so again it is of faith. In Galatians 3:10-13, Paul again contrasted works of the law with the Book of the Law, and those who rely on works of the law instead of the Book of the Law are under a curse for not relying on the Book of the Law. Paul associated a quote from Leviticus 18:5 with a quote from Habakkuk 2:4, so the righteous who are living by faith are the same as those who are living in obedience to God's law, while no one is justified before God by works of the law because they are not of faith in God, unlike God's law. Likewise, in Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is God's law, so the righteous living by faith does not refer to a manner of living that is not in obedience to God's law. God us trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), and a law that isn't trustworthy can't come from a God who is trustworthy, so to rely on God's law is to rely on God and to refuse to rely on God's law is to refuse to rely on God.

The Son is the exact expression of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3), which he expressed through living in sinless obedience to God's law, so he is the living embodiment of God's law, or in other words, he is the word of God made flesh, and the way that he lived is the way that we live when he is living in us. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the law, so obedience to it is the way to have faith in him. The New Covenant involves God putting His law in our minds and writing it on our hearts so that we will obey it


Galatians 2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

In Acts 15:1, they were wanting to require all Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved, however, that was never the purpose for which God commanded circumcision, so the problem was that circumcision was being used for a man-made purpose that went above and beyond the purpose for which God commanded it. So the Jerusalem Council upheld God's law by correctly ruling against that requirement, and verses that speak against something that God never required should not be mistaken as speaking against obeying what God has commanded, as if Paul or the Jerusalem Council had the authority to countermand God.

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

If Paul had been speaking against circumcision for any reason instead of just circumcision for the wrong reason, then according to Acts 16:3, Paul caused Christ to be of no value when he had him circumcised, and Christ is of no value to roughly 80% of the men in the US, however, he was only speaking against requiring it for the man-made purpose of earning our justification.

All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and return to obedience to His law, and even Christ began his ministry with that message, so it would be absurd to interpret Galatians 5:1-4 as Paul warning us not to do that and saying that we will be cut off from Christ if we follow Christ. In Psalms 119:29, David wanted God to be gracious him by teaching him how to obey His law, so that is what it means to be under grace, not the way to fall from grace. Paul's problem in Galatians was not with those who were teaching Gentiles how to follow Christ, but with those who were wanting to require Gentiles to obey their works of the law in order to become justified.

Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
I spoke discussed how I think Galatian 5:16-24 should be interpreted in my last post, so please interact with what I said about that passage instead of just repeating those verses.
 
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But it has nothing to do with eating pork, since food and drink are and mean nothing. It's not what enters the body, but what comes out that renders a person unclean.

Do you think that Jesus was expressing disagreement with what the Father commanded and is therefore not one with the Father?

Focusing on pig meat and moving fast misses the whole point of God's Law. The Law is transgressed when we fail to obey God's commandment, not when we add our own rules to God's commandment. The dietary laws don't apply to anyone but Jews under the Old Covenant; and there is no commandment that says you can't drive over 100mph.

In Matthew 7:23, Christ said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them so the who goal of the law is to teach us how to experientially know Christ (Romans 10:4). Likewise, in 1 John 2:4, those who say that they know Christ, but don't obey his commands are liars, and in 1 John 3:4-6, sin is the transgression of God's law, and those who continue to practice sin have neither seen nor known him. The Son is the exact expression of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3), which he expressed through his actions by living in sinless obedience to God's law, so he is the living embodiment of God's law, or in other words, the word of God made flesh. So when we express aspects of God's nature through our obedience to it, we are gaining experiential knowledge of who Christ is, or in other words, we are growing in a relationship with him.

For example, in 1 Peter 1:16, we are told to have a holy conduct for God is holy, which is a quote from Leviticus where God was giving instructions for how to have a holy conduct, which includes refraining from eating unclean animals (Leviticus 11:44-45), so by following those eternal instructions, we are gaining experiential knowledge of God's eternal holiness. Likewise, in 1 Peter 2:9-10, Gentiles are included as part of God's chosen people, a holy nation, a royal priesthood, and a treasure of God's own possession, which are terms used to describe Israel (Deuteronomy 7:6), so Gentiles also have the delight of getting to obey God's instructions for how to fulfill those roles. It would be contradictory for a Gentile to want to become part of a holy nation while wanting nothing to do with following God's laws for how to live as part of a holy nation. Rejecting any part of God's law is rejecting what that law teaches us about God's eternal nature, and is therefore not following the fullness of the nature of who God had revealed himself to be through His law. The way that we live testifies about what we believe to be true about God's nature, which is why our good works brings glory to God (Matthew 5:13-16), so for someone to refuse to follow God's laws for how to have a holy conduct would be to misrepresent the nature of God as not including holiness.

But God's Commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" stands firm. The Apostle having written that we fulfill the whole law in that one commandment (Galatians 5:14).

-CryptoLutheran

So by expressing God's holiness through our obedience to His law, we are expressing our love that God is holy, and the same goes for other aspects of God's nature, which is why there are many verses in both the OT and the NT that associate our love for God with our obedience to Him. So it is not that obedience to anything that God could have conceivably commanded would be a way to express our love for Him, but that all of the commands that God specifically chose to give were given for the purpose of teaching us how to love who He is. If we love God and our neighbor, then we won't commit idolatry, adultery, murder, theft, kidnapping, rape, and so forth for the other laws that God has given, so if the greatest two commandments stand firm, then so do all of God's other laws because they all hang on the greatest two commandments, which is why all of the law is fulfilled by the command to love. In other words, the command to love is inclusive of all of the other commands, so if for example, someone's obedience to the command to love was not inclusive of obedience to the command to help the poor, then they would have an incomplete understanding of what it means to obey the command to love.
 
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If we are walking, being led by the spirit and are of Christ we have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.


Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

God always has law.

Israel was under the law of Moses.

Christians are under the law of Christ, aka, the law of law of love, aka the royal law.

The law of Moses was given to, and intended for, a carnal nation who did not have Gods indwelling spirit, and per Paul, that law is still in effect for all those who are ungodly sinners, who also lack Gods indwelling spirit.

Christians do have Gods indwelling spirit and thus have died to the law (of Moses), but are under the law of love, stated in the two love commands, aka the law of Christ.
 
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The reason that God saved the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt was not in order to put them under bondage to His law,

in Galatians ch 4, Paul contrasts two covenants, calling the one from Mount SINAI bondage.


Gal 4:21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?


Gal 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.


Gal 4:23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.


Gal 4:24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount SINAI, bearing children for SLAVERY; she is Hagar.


Gal 4:25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the PRESENT JERUSALEM for she is in slavery with her children.


Gal 4:26 But the Jerusalem ABOVE is free, and SHE is our mother.


Gal 4:27 For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”


Gal 4:28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.


Gal 4:29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.


Gal 4:30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”


Gal 4:31 So, brothers, we are not children of the SLAVE but of the free woman.


The old covenant from Mount Sinai represents bondage, but we are under the new covenant, wrote Paul.


In Acts 15:5 there were those claiming gentile believers must be circumcised AND KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES.


Peter responding to that, calls the law of Moses a yoke of bondage.


Act 15:7 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.


Act 15:8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,


Act 15:9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.


Act 15:10 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?


Their conclusion after meeting together over the claim gentiles must keep the law of Moses, was:


Act 15:19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,


Act 15:20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

The law of Moses was deliberately bondage and a yoke of burden, to contrast trying to earn righteousness by works of the law, with righteousness by faith and grace in the new covenant.

The old covenant was also deliberately faulty, Hebrews 8,7.
 
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So if ceremonial laws are pertaining to honoring God, they are not requires, and they are not moral laws, then are you saying that we don't need to honor God and that it is moral to disobey laws that honor Him? So for example, the command against idolatry pertains to honoring God, so do you think that it is moral to commit idolatry? If doing God's will means that we should obey moral laws and not laws that pertain to honoring Him, then why would God command laws that were not according to His will and why would it not be in accordance with His will for us to honor Him?



If you think that Gentiles were included, then saying that you are not an Israelite is not a good excuse to not obey the Torah. Jesus spent his ministry teaching his followers how to obey the Torah by word and by example and following Jesus is not just for Jews, but for Gentiles too. In John 12:46-50, it does not give us any room to disregard anything that Jesus taught during his ministry, and Jesus did not establish the New Covenant for the purpose of undermining anything that he taught during his ministry, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Jeremiah 31:33).
Who said that there were not moral laws in the ceremonial law.

Below is a powerful moral law. Do you interpret that law below as a ceremonial law?

Exodus 22:22
You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.
 
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Why were they exempted from the circumcision command?
They were exempted because the Gentile nations were never under the law. There is no other explanation. Given that Christ and the apostles were all circumcised.

If a Jew refuses to be circumcised, according to the law they are banished from Israel.

Even before the law was given at Mt Sinai, Abraham and his offspring were circumcised.
 
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Where does the text state that the Gentiles were grafted into Israel?

(CLV) Ro 11:17
Now if some of the boughs are broken out, yet you, being a wild olive, are grafted among them, and became joint participant of the root and fatness of the olive,

What is this olive tree?

(CLV) Jer 11:16
A flourishing olive tree, lovely with shapely fruit, Yahweh had called your name; But with the sound of a great din, He will ravage its leaves with fire, And its branches will be smashed.

(CLV) Jer 11:17
Yahweh of hosts Who planted you has decreed evil against you owing to the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have done for themselves to provoke Me to vexation by fuming incense to Baal.

(CLV) Ezk 37:15
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:

(CLV) Ezk 37:16
As for you, son of humanity, take for yourself one stick, and write on it: For Judah and for the sons of Israel joined with him; then take another stick, and write on it: For Joseph (Ephraim's stick) and all the house of Israel joined with him.

(CLV) Ezk 37:17
Bring them near, one to the other, into one stick for yourself that they may become one in your hand.

  1. tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows
    1. tree, trees

    2. wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

    3. H6086 - `ets - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (KJV)

    These two trees are joined again as one in Yahshua.
The House of Judah (The natural tree) is Joined to Israel (The wild tree) to become again, one tree (The House of Israel)

When YHWH called his people out of Egypt, many Egyptians followed followed Moses to enter covenant at Sinai. Those who entered covenant became every bit members of Israel, as the blood descendants of Abraham

Nothing has changed.

YHWH made this statement right after he gave the commandment to keep Passover.

(CLV) Ex 12:48
In case a sojourner (Gentile) is sojourning with you, and he makes a passover to Yahweh, every male of his is to be circumcised, and then he may draw near to make it, and he will become as a native of the land. Yet anyone uncircumcised, he shall not eat of it.

(CLV) Ex 12:49
One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner (Gentile) sojourning in your midst.


(CLV) Ex 12:38
Moreover a mixed multitude ascended with them, and flocks, herds and cattle, exceedingly heavy.

These folks entered covenant at Sinai, just like the others.

(CLV) Hb 8:10
"For this is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with the house of Israel after those days," the Lord is saying: "Imparting My laws to their comprehension, On their hearts, also, shall I be inscribing them, And I shall be to them for a God, And they shall be to Me for a people.

One house.

(CLV) Num 15:15
As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner sojourning with you. It shall be an eonian statute (This means forever) throughout your generations. Like you so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh.
 
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(CLV) Ro 11:17
Now if some of the boughs are broken out, yet you, being a wild olive, are grafted among them, and became joint participant of the root and fatness of the olive,

What is this olive tree?

(CLV) Jer 11:16
A flourishing olive tree, lovely with shapely fruit, Yahweh had called your name; But with the sound of a great din, He will ravage its leaves with fire, And its branches will be smashed.

(CLV) Jer 11:17
Yahweh of hosts Who planted you has decreed evil against you owing to the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have done for themselves to provoke Me to vexation by fuming incense to Baal.

(CLV) Ezk 37:15
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:

(CLV) Ezk 37:16
As for you, son of humanity, take for yourself one stick, and write on it: For Judah and for the sons of Israel joined with him; then take another stick, and write on it: For Joseph (Ephraim's stick) and all the house of Israel joined with him.

(CLV) Ezk 37:17
Bring them near, one to the other, into one stick for yourself that they may become one in your hand.

  1. tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows
    1. tree, trees

    2. wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

    3. H6086 - `ets - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (KJV)

    These two trees are joined again as one in Yahshua.
The House of Judah (The natural tree) is Joined to Israel (The wild tree) to become again, one tree (The House of Israel)

When YHWH called his people out of Egypt, many Egyptians followed followed Moses to enter covenant at Sinai. Those who entered covenant became every bit members of Israel, as the blood descendants of Abraham

Nothing has changed.

YHWH made this statement right after he gave the commandment to keep Passover.

(CLV) Ex 12:48
In case a sojourner (Gentile) is sojourning with you, and he makes a passover to Yahweh, every male of his is to be circumcised, and then he may draw near to make it, and he will become as a native of the land. Yet anyone uncircumcised, he shall not eat of it.

(CLV) Ex 12:49
One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner (Gentile) sojourning in your midst.


(CLV) Ex 12:38
Moreover a mixed multitude ascended with them, and flocks, herds and cattle, exceedingly heavy.

These folks entered covenant at Sinai, just like the others.

(CLV) Hb 8:10
"For this is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with the house of Israel after those days," the Lord is saying: "Imparting My laws to their comprehension, On their hearts, also, shall I be inscribing them, And I shall be to them for a God, And they shall be to Me for a people.

One house.

(CLV) Num 15:15
As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the sojourner sojourning with you. It shall be an eonian statute (This means forever) throughout your generations. Like you so shall the sojourner be before Yahweh.
Is a sojourner a resident in Israel or a foreigner?
 
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If we are walking, being led by the spirit and are of Christ we have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.


Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gentiles, not under the law, still sinned.
To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.” Rom 5:13

And yet:
“All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.” Rom 2:12
 
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If there is no law that says you cannot drive faster than 100 miles per hour, if you drive faster than that, can you be breaking the law?
God’s law still exists whether we hear it and are under it or not. To be under the law simply means that we’re enjoined to keep it, as a matter of being justified in Gods eyes, by our own efforts. The New Covenant changes all that, however. The law is still to be kept, but by being under grace, by the Spirit, the only true and right way: in union with God. That union is the basis of justice/righteousness for man.

Apart from Me you can do nothing”. John 15:5

“For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.” Rom 2:13
 
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God’s law still exists whether we hear it and are under it or not. To be under the law simply means that we’re enjoined to keep it, as a matter of being justified in Gods eyes, by our own efforts. The New Covenant changes all that, however. The law is still to be kept, but by being under grace, by the Spirit, the only true and right way: in union with God. That union is the basis of justice/righteousness for man.

Apart from Me you can do nothing”. John 15:5

“For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.” Rom 2:13

I was applying Romans 5:13
 
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God always has law.
Yes and we are either of it through Christ and His Spirit or under it.
Israel was under the law of Moses.

Christians are under the law of Christ, aka, the law of law of love, aka the royal law.
No Christians are not under anything we are of it through His spirit. For God has said I will put my laws in your hearts and into your minds will I write them. For the word is nigh thee, in our hearts and in our minds, that is the faith in which we preach.

Love? God is love and as he is so are we in this world. For it is He that works in us both to will and do his good pleasure. And on this Love depend All the Law and prophets.
 
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The old covenant was also deliberately faulty, Hebrews 8,7.
Deliberately faulty? On Israel’s part NOT God’s. For He found fault with them. The Context is better promises. It is no longer a thus saith us, all that the Lord saith we will do. But a thus saith the Lord , I will put my laws in their hearts and minds. I will be to them God and they shall be to me a people.

Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
 
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I am perfectly righteous.
Little children be not deceived. He that does righteousness is righteous even as He is righteous.

The He above is Jesus and the righteous are righteous just as he was by doing righteousness through God’s spirit. As Jesus said, there are none righteous but God, He doeth the work.
 
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Is a sojourner a resident in Israel or a foreigner?

Ger (גר) means foreigner.

Now that we are armed with that piece of knowledge; let's rewrite your sentence.

Q.) "Is a foreigner a resident of Israel; or is he a foreigner?

A.) A foreigner is a foreigner; but a foreigner might reside in the land of Israel.
 
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I don’t see anything to support this idea in the scriptures brother.

Like the Prego commercial states, "It's in there."


John 7:1
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

(That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

"The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.") Matthew 4:14-16



He also instructed the disciples to do this as well.

Matthew 10:6
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
 
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