thomas_t
Blessings Collector
Hi Gal,You repeatedly ignore the fact that the commonality was not biological DNA. That was diluted very early on. The commonality was allegiance to the one True God. Your post seems to completely ignore this part of my post: [highlighting tension between Ezra 9 and other passages allowing foreigners to enter the assembly]
didn't I adress this part of yours? You acknowledge the fact hat there is a passage in Ezra that says Israelites shouldn't have foreign wives. Then you go on to say that it repeatedly happened that there were foreign wives, or foreign people in general, who were included. You see some tension there.
For the Christian church, in contrast, there is no Ezra 9 telling anybody that you shouldn't have wives from other races. For people inside the church there in no tension at all between passages that say you could and other passages saying you should not have wives from other races, as the latter simply don't exist for the church. And there's the difference between church and Israel, two different entities.
Thank you for being brief in replying, you're really concise now, I appreciate that.
Thomas
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