I said that because of Phoebe Ann's total reliability on the bible, I felt that she would have problems in the time of Christ to convert to Christianity, knowing that the name of Jesus was not in her bible, and he was teaching to love your enemy and teaching that gentiles would be let into his gospel, teaching that he was the Son of God and was divine, meaning that he was a god too, and his radical preaching and his uneducated disciple rabble, etc., etc,. etc, all contrary to what her bible said.
I was not talking about everyone in Israel at the time of Christ, I was talking about Phoebe Ann.
Then, again, Phoebe Ann may very well have looked past all of that and joined, but I don't know.
Her bible had very little of what Jesus was preaching, she may have not been able to get over it.
God was merciful to sinners then just as He is merciful today. People don't convert themselves or others.
Who converted Paul or Peter?
Matthew 16
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed
it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Luke 10
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and
he to whom the Son will reveal
him.
1 Corinthians 3
5 Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Thank you for recognizing my faith in God's word. But I don't only have faith in His word. God gave me faith in Himself!