IisJustMe said:
All have sinned. Not just unbelievers, but believers as well. God is not a liar. He does not renege on His promises. In the Abrahamic Covenant, Israel and what would become the Church are mentioned separately. How do you rectify that with your erroneous contention that God has reneged on His promises?
All have sinned but blessed are those whom God does not impute sin.
Rom 4
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1] What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
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2] For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
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3] For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
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4] Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
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5] But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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6] Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
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7] Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
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8] Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
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9] Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
How do you rectify what you say? God disapproved of Israel and left it for punishment. It is the statement you make that implies God has lied and reneged? That is very strange. How can what you say stand up to scripture? Once you understand the seed of Abraham is faith then you will understand how God has never reneged or lied but had punished unbelieving Isreal as a wicked generation.
Jeremiah 18
15] Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
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16] To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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17] I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Isaiah 3
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16] Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
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17] Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
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18] In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
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19] The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
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20] The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
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21] The rings, and nose jewels,
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22] The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
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23] The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
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24] And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
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25] Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
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26] And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Read the entire book Lamentations
Chapter 1
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5] Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
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6] And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.