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A good point.!James WAS specific. As was Paul when he SPCIFICALLY stated that he was writing to the church in Rome, in Galatia, in Ephesus, and in Corinth ( the 2nd time). Do you believe yourself to be a resident or member of any of those churches? No, neither do I.
In actual fact, Paul preached the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles. He did not make any distinction between them. His attitude was that there is no Jew or Gentile, male or female when it came to who needed the Gospel preached to them. Even though he said that he was going to turn to the Gentiles in one city, it didn't mean that he was going to ignore the Jews anywhere else he went. In fact, he continued to preach the Gospel in the synagogue as well as the market place wherever he went until he was imprisoned. When he was in his own rented home in Rome and had an open door for anyone who wanted to come and hear what Paul had to say about the Gospel, he never asked anyone whether they were Jew or Gentile so that he could turn away Jews and welcome Gentiles to hear the Gospel. Peter, who was recognised as an Apostle to the Jews, did not hesitate to go to Cornelius' household and preach the Gospel to them. He did not say, "Sorry, I can't come to you because I am the Apostle to the Jews, and you are not Jewish. You'll have to wait until Paul, who is the Apostle to the Gentiles, to get converted and then he will come and preach the Gospel to you."So . . . Because Paul described himself as the Apostle to the gentiles, you believe every letter he ever wrote is to you - even though the letters were SPECIFICALLY written TO a different recipient? To be clear, I believe his letters apply to us. But your basis for setting James aside is equally valid for Paul’s letters. Paul being the Apostle to the gentiles does not, in-and-of-itself mean that everything he ever wrote applies to all gentiles.
In actual fact, Paul preached the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles. He did not make any distinction between them. His attitude was that there is no Jew or Gentile, male or female when it came to who needed the Gospel preached to them. Even though he said that he was going to turn to the Gentiles in one city, it didn't mean that he was going to ignore the Jews anywhere else he went. In fact, he continued to preach the Gospel in the synagogue as well as the market place wherever he went until he was imprisoned. When he was in his own rented home in Rome and had an open door for anyone who wanted to come and hear what Paul had to say about the Gospel, he never asked anyone whether they were Jew or Gentile so that he could turn away Jews and welcome Gentiles to hear the Gospel. Peter, who was recognised as an Apostle to the Jews, did not hesitate to go to Cornelius' household and preach the Gospel to them. He did not say, "Sorry, I can't come to you because I am the Apostle to the Jews, and you are not Jewish. You'll have to wait until Paul, who is the Apostle to the Gentiles, to get converted and then he will come and preach the Gospel to you."
Peter, who was recognised as an Apostle to the Jews, did not hesitate to go to Cornelius' household and preach the Gospel to them.
I've misunderstood? Find out with it then. Proclaim to us your truth, for the whole world to hear.You don't want to clear up your misunderstanding of what others believe in, that is pride.
I can't even make sense of their claim that salvation by faith alone began with Paul's preaching, given John 3:16.
I'm not able to connect your dots. John 3:16, as far as I can see, shouts salvation by faith loud and clear.You seem to be misunderstanding John 3:16... which is tied to John 17:9.
Isaiah 24:1-18 [4] The earth mourns and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.[5] And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Law and changed the Ordinances, even the Everlasting Covenant.[6] Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.LXX
Deuteronomy 28:43-52 [43] The proselyte who is among you shall ascend over you upward and upward; but you shall go down lower and lower.[44] This one shall lend to you, but you to this one shall not lend; this one will be for the head, and you will be for the tail.[45] And shall come upon you all these curses, and they shall pursue you, and overtake you, until whenever they shall utterly destroy you, and until whenever they shall consume you. For you did not listen to the voice of the lord your God, to guard His Commandments, and His Ordinances, as many as I gave charge to you.[46] And [they] will be for signs to you, and miracles, and among your seed until the eon.[47] Because you did not serve [the] LORD your God with gladness, and with a good heart, because of the multitude of all these.[48] And you shalt serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send as a successor over you in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things. And he shall put a collar of iron upon your neck, until whenever he should utterly destroy you.[49] Shall bring upon you [the] LORD a nation far off from [the] end of the earth, as the impulse an eagle, a nation of which you will not hear its voice;[50] a nation impudent in [its] face, who will not admire [the] face of an old man, and for [the] young will not show mercy.[51] And it will devour the progeny of your cattle, and the produce of your land, so as not to leave behind for you grain, wine, olive oil, herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until whenever it should destroy you,[52] and should obliterate you in all your cities, until whenever should be demolished your walls--the high and the fortified [ones] upon which you rely upon them in all your land--and it shall afflict you in all your cities, which gave to you [the] LORD your God.
Endtimes will happen, because of all this, to the whole world... into which the House of Israel has been scattered.
You seem to be misunderstanding John 3:16... which is tied to John 17:9.
Isaiah 24:1-18 [4] The earth mourns and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.[5] And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Law and changed the Ordinances, even the Everlasting Covenant.[6] Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.LXX
Deuteronomy 28:43-52 [43] The proselyte who is among you shall ascend over you upward and upward; but you shall go down lower and lower.[44] This one shall lend to you, but you to this one shall not lend; this one will be for the head, and you will be for the tail.[45] And shall come upon you all these curses, and they shall pursue you, and overtake you, until whenever they shall utterly destroy you, and until whenever they shall consume you. For you did not listen to the voice of the lord your God, to guard His Commandments, and His Ordinances, as many as I gave charge to you.[46] And [they] will be for signs to you, and miracles, and among your seed until the eon.[47] Because you did not serve [the] LORD your God with gladness, and with a good heart, because of the multitude of all these.[48] And you shalt serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send as a successor over you in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things. And he shall put a collar of iron upon your neck, until whenever he should utterly destroy you.[49] Shall bring upon you [the] LORD a nation far off from [the] end of the earth, as the impulse an eagle, a nation of which you will not hear its voice;[50] a nation impudent in [its] face, who will not admire [the] face of an old man, and for [the] young will not show mercy.[51] And it will devour the progeny of your cattle, and the produce of your land, so as not to leave behind for you grain, wine, olive oil, herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until whenever it should destroy you,[52] and should obliterate you in all your cities, until whenever should be demolished your walls--the high and the fortified [ones] upon which you rely upon them in all your land--and it shall afflict you in all your cities, which gave to you [the] LORD your God.
These endtimes (found in Daniel) will happen, because of all this, to the whole world... into which the House of Israel has been scattered.
Deuteronomy 28:43-52 is still valid, and it is prophecy found in Daniel. And Isaiah 24:1-18 is in the Revelation. These things will happen because those who are genetic Israel are only Israel because they were given the Everlasting Covenant and told to keep their part of this Covenant. If they cease being Israel by means of this Covenant, then the world will rock on its axis. The whole world will be punished because they didn't take seriously the warnings of Prophet Moses.I'm not able to connect your dots. John 3:16, as far as I can see, shouts salvation by faith loud and clear.
He still went and preached the Gospel to them. He did not hesitate when the Lord showed him the vision and he knew that the Lord was sending him to Cornelius' household. Splitting hairs to try and support a point doesn't prove anything.Are you reading the same Acts 10 as me? God had to show him a vision three times about unclean animals, given that Jews regard all gentiles as unclean, and when Peter finally agreed to go to Cornelius, he had to tell him Acts 10:28-29.
He had to tell Cornelius it was against the Law for him to be there and plainly ask him "What am I even doing here"?
That does not tell me Peter did not hesitate to
- go to Cornelius household and
- preach the Gospel to them
All you have done here is to show that your believe in a gospel of works and not supporting salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone apart from the Law. A religion based on observance to the Law is a Christless religion which seeks salvation in something else other than faith in Christ's shed blood on the Cross. It actually says that Christ's shed blood is not sufficient to gain salvation, and therefore is a denial of the shed blood. But without the shed blood of Christ there is no remission of sin. Therefore if your faith is in your observance to the Law as an addition to faith in Christ, you are still in your sins because without faith in Christ's shed blood alone, your sins have not been remitted. You need to take this seriously because your faith in observance to the Law might come back and bite you in the posterior one day.Know what happens when you only hear one side of the story? You only heard one side of the story.
The phrase "neither Jew nor Gentile" is because Paul is from the tribe of Benjamin, of THE House of Judah(aka Jews) of the still-divided kingdom of Solomon. And Barnabas the Levite is also from the House of Judah. Paul called himself a Jew because that's what he legally is.
Luke was a gentile who wrote down what was believed among his sect in Antioch, as taught by people like James the Lord's brother of Galatians 1:19 (called an apostle). And James had a brother named Simon/Simeon. No wonder Acts says what it says. Luke would never have known the difference, since he was a doctor in Antioch. Any number of the failed-disciples who turned back, or these loved-by-the-world brothers of John 7, could have been thought to be THE Disciples, with no one the wiser.
But for THE Disciple Peter to have deviated from the clear commandments of Matthew 10:5-7 and Matthew 28:18-20... well, that just isn't possible. For scores of reasons, including the fact that Ιησους was sent only unto the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, and so that's where He sent His 12 Disciples, as well (Matthew 15:24, Matthew 10:5-7).
Wonders can be achieved with just a little bit of History. Ιησους even says the Jews didn't believe His words because they were not of His sheep (John 10:26)... which is literally true, because Jews are THE House of Judah (called Jewry in John 7).
This blind spot happens because people act like Paul is the only author of any gospel, period. And so they don't think the kingdom of Solomon is still divided. And they don't want to believe that Isaiah 52:4-7 fortells the Gospel of the Reign of God being given only to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.
Like it or don't, the 10-Lost-Tribes are still scattered among the nations, and are still being searched for by the preaching of the good news Reign of God which is what Ιησους still teaches through the words of His Disciples of Galilee, to those who will believe on Him through their word (John 17:20, John 10:16). I believe this is what the two witnesses will-be/are preaching to the Other Sheep.
He still went and preached the Gospel to them. He did not hesitate when the Lord showed him the vision and he knew that the Lord was sending him to Cornelius' household. Splitting hairs to try and support a point doesn't prove anything.
Know what happens when you only hear one side of the story? You only heard one side of the story.
The phrase "neither Jew nor Gentile" is because Paul is from the tribe of Benjamin, of THE House of Judah(aka Jews) of the still-divided kingdom of Solomon. And Barnabas the Levite is also from the House of Judah. Paul called himself a Jew because that's what he legally is.
Luke was a gentile who wrote down what was believed among his sect in Antioch, as taught by people like James the Lord's brother of Galatians 1:19 (called an apostle). And James had a brother named Simon/Simeon. No wonder Acts says what it says. Luke would never have known the difference, since he was a doctor in Antioch. Any number of the failed-disciples who turned back, or these loved-by-the-world brothers of John 7, could have been thought to be THE Disciples, with no one the wiser.
But for THE Disciple Peter to have deviated from the clear commandments of Matthew 10:5-7 and Matthew 28:18-20... well, that just isn't possible. For scores of reasons, including the fact that Ιησους was sent only unto the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, and so that's where He sent His 12 Disciples, as well (Matthew 15:24, Matthew 10:5-7).
Wonders can be achieved with just a little bit of History. Ιησους even says the Jews didn't believe His words because they were not of His sheep (John 10:26)... which is literally true, because Jews are THE House of Judah (called Jewry in John 7).
This blind spot happens because people act like Paul is the only author of any gospel, period. And so they don't think the kingdom of Solomon is still divided. And they don't want to believe that Isaiah 52:4-7 fortells the Gospel of the Reign of God being given only to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.
Like it or don't, the 10-Lost-Tribes are still scattered among the nations, and are still being searched for by the preaching of the good news Reign of God which is what Ιησους still teaches through the words of His Disciples of Galilee, to those who will believe on Him through their word (John 17:20, John 10:16). I believe this is what the two witnesses will-be/are preaching to the Other Sheep.
not supporting salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone apart from the Law. A religion based on observance to the Law is a Christless religion which seeks salvation in something else other than faith in Christ's shed blood on the Cross. It actually says that Christ's shed blood is not sufficient to gain salvation, and therefore is a denial of the shed blood. But without the shed blood of Christ there is no remission of sin. Therefore if your faith is in your observance to the Law as an addition to faith in Christ, you are still in your sins because without faith in Christ's shed blood alone
Don't read too much into "everlasting" because God isn't a legalistic tyrant. Meaning, He goes by the spirit of the law, not the letter. The spirit of the law is love - the essence of His covenants - hence many of His covenants can be described as everlasting. Any "termination" of these covenants, then, is largely nominal, as the essence is love which remains forever. Let's take an example. Suppose two nations form an everlasting peace treaty and land allocation - neither side is to cross the boundary. One day a third nation comes to war against one of those two nations. In "violation" of the treaty, the other nation crosses the boundary to RESCUE them. Is this really a violation? Or perhaps a termination? Neither, if one is going by the spirit of the law. When circumstances change dramatically, the letter no longer applies, necessarily.Deuteronomy 28:43-52 is still valid, and it is prophecy found in Daniel. And Isaiah 24:1-18 is in the Revelation. These things will happen because those who are genetic Israel are only Israel because they were given the Everlasting Covenant and told to keep their part of this Covenant.
You're reaching here. The only condition spelled out in John 3:16 is belief. It's exegetically torturous to read a works-based salvation into John 3:16.Is John 3:16 the wide or the narrow definition of "world"?
John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Because this "love" is conditional, in this Gospel. It requires a man to prove that he loves Ιησους by keeping His Commandments, THEN and only then, the Father will love him. This is how the Holy Spirit is given in this Gospel:
You seem to be misunderstanding John 3:16... which is tied to John 17:9.
Isaiah 24:1-18 [4] The earth mourns and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.[5] And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Law and changed the Ordinances, even the Everlasting Covenant.[6] Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.LXX
Deuteronomy 28:43-52 [43] The proselyte who is among you shall ascend over you upward and upward; but you shall go down lower and lower.[44] This one shall lend to you, but you to this one shall not lend; this one will be for the head, and you will be for the tail.[45] And shall come upon you all these curses, and they shall pursue you, and overtake you, until whenever they shall utterly destroy you, and until whenever they shall consume you. For you did not listen to the voice of the lord your God, to guard His Commandments, and His Ordinances, as many as I gave charge to you.[46] And [they] will be for signs to you, and miracles, and among your seed until the eon.[47] Because you did not serve [the] LORD your God with gladness, and with a good heart, because of the multitude of all these.[48] And you shalt serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send as a successor over you in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things. And he shall put a collar of iron upon your neck, until whenever he should utterly destroy you.[49] Shall bring upon you [the] LORD a nation far off from [the] end of the earth, as the impulse an eagle, a nation of which you will not hear its voice;[50] a nation impudent in [its] face, who will not admire [the] face of an old man, and for [the] young will not show mercy.[51] And it will devour the progeny of your cattle, and the produce of your land, so as not to leave behind for you grain, wine, olive oil, herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until whenever it should destroy you,[52] and should obliterate you in all your cities, until whenever should be demolished your walls--the high and the fortified [ones] upon which you rely upon them in all your land--and it shall afflict you in all your cities, which gave to you [the] LORD your God.
These endtimes (found in Daniel) will happen, because of all this, to the whole world... into which the House of Israel has been scattered.
Don't read too much into "everlasting" because God isn't a legalistic tyrant. Meaning, He goes by the spirit of the law, not the letter. The spirit of the law is love - the essence of His covenants - hence many of His covenants can be described as everlasting. Any "termination" of these covenants, then, is largely nominal, as the essence is love which remains forever. Let's take an example. Suppose two nations form an everlasting peace treaty and land allocation - neither side is to cross the boundary. One day a third nation comes to war against one of those two nations. In "violation" of the treaty, the other nation crosses the boundary to RESCUE them. Is this really a violation? Or perhaps a termination? Neither, if one is going by the spirit of the law. When circumstances change dramatically, the letter no longer applies, necessarily.
You're reaching here. The only condition spelled out in John 3:16 is belief. It's exegetically torturous to read a works-based salvation into John 3:16.
God is totally legalistic and can be as "tyrannical" as He wants with the Creation He made for Himself.
What God is NOT... is someone who changes His mind.
"Walk before Me and be thou perfect" is what He said to Abraham, and it's what He still says today in Matthew's Sermon on the Mount... where even thinking about adultery carries a death penalty.
And not being circumcised will still keep you out of the Promised Land, because Abraham's part of the Everlasting Covenant never changes... because God never changes.
People may WANT to say it's like man-made treaties... but it's not, because man-made treaties are written in sand... because man changes.
Incorrect. He cannot be a tyrannical monster because He is love (kindness) as part of His irreversible holiness. His holiness also includes justice/fairness and thus excludes legalism.God is totally legalistic and can be as "tyrannical" as He wants with the Creation He made for Himself.
God is totally legalistic and can be as "tyrannical" as He wants with the Creation He made for Himself.
What God is NOT... is someone who changes His mind.
"Walk before Me and be thou perfect" is what He said to Abraham, and it's what He still says today in Matthew's Sermon on the Mount... where even thinking about adultery carries a death penalty.
And not being circumcised will still keep you out of the Promised Land, because Abraham's part of the Everlasting Covenant never changes... because God never changes.
People may WANT to say it's like man-made treaties... but it's not, because man-made treaties are written in sand... because man changes.
The believing . . . even the gentiles ARE circumcised.
Philippians 3:2-4
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh . . . KJV
Galatians 5:11-12
12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off! NKJV
God is totally legalistic and can be as "tyrannical" as He wants with the Creation He made for Himself.
What God is NOT... is someone who changes His mind.
"Walk before Me and be thou perfect" is what He said to Abraham, and it's what He still says today in Matthew's Sermon on the Mount... where even thinking about adultery carries a death penalty.
And not being circumcised will still keep you out of the Promised Land, because Abraham's part of the Everlasting Covenant never changes... because God never changes.
People may WANT to say it's like man-made treaties... but it's not, because man-made treaties are written in sand... because man changes.
Incorrect. He cannot be a tyrannical monster because He is love (kindness) as part of His irreversible holiness. His holiness also includes justice/fairness and thus excludes legalism.
In one sense you're correct. He IS indeed unchanging - in His love, kindness, justice, fairness, integrity.
Yet in Romans 4 we read:According to God, you can neither know nor do "justice" without keeping the Law.
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