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In the context of the whole letter, to newly professing Hebrew Christians who were evidently considering a return to Judaism, the sin being referred to is apostasy--not all sin, that apostasy being warned against several times, the above being the third (Heb 4:1-13, Heb 5:11-6:12, Heb 10:19-39, Heb 12:14-28).
 
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Judaism is a religious create by another group of people who called themselves Jews and are not. Its written in Revelation 3: 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. So there's no newly Hebrew Christians.
 
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Nevertheless, the bible speaks of only one way to get eternal salvation. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.(Ephesians 4:5,6).
The road to eternal salvation starts with knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. God doesn't want us to memorize two or three verses, but instead he left the entire bible so we can learn how to get salvation. If we learn it, believe it and obey it (the bible), salvation will be our reward. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. (Matthew 16:27)

Before you can start any task you must first know about it and without the key of knowledge we are lost. "...thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make the wise unto salvation..." (II Timothy 4:15).
 
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What does Deuteronomy 30:15-19 have to do with the paragraph that you were responding to?
In Colossians 2:13-14, it does not specify anything about sacrificial laws, nor does it say anything about any laws being nailed to the cross. The penalty for our sins was nailed to Christ's cross and he died in our place.


The removal of sins always came through Christ and the law always testified about this.


In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant still involves following the Torah. While we are under the New Covenant and not the Mosaic Covenant, we are still under the same God with the same nature and therefore the same laws for how to act in accordance with His nature. For example, the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness is straightforwardly based on God's righteousness, not on any particular covenant, and God's righteousness is eternal, so any laws that God has ever given for how to do what is righteous are eternally valid regardless of which covenant someone is under, if any. In Psalms 119:142, the Torah is truth, so then choosing to act contrary to the Torah is the way to sin willfully after receiving knowledge of the truth.
 
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And yet, we have a Christian letter to the Hebrews indicating they were babes in the Christian faith (Heb 6:1).

Personal interpretation of prophetic riddles (Nu 12:8) must be in agreement with NT apostolic teaching to be correct.
 
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Revelation 3:9 dos not refer to Jews who practice Judaism, but to those who say that they are Jews when they are not.
 
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Revelation 3:9 dos not refer to Jews who practice Judaism, but to those who say that they are Jews when they are not.
There's no such thing in the Bible Judaism, once you understand that, then you will know what the verse I quoted before means.
 
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There's no such thing in the Bible Judaism, once you understand that, then you will know what the verse I quoted before means.
You are directing that verse against those who are Jews instead of those who say that they are Jews, but are not. What is the name of the religion that you think that Jesus practiced?

Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

Which religion is The Way is a sect of?
 
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And yet, we have a Christian letter to the Hebrews indicating they were babes in the Christian faith (Heb 6:1).

Personal interpretation of prophetic riddles (Nu 12:8) must be in agreement with NT apostolic teaching to be correct.
You reading out of different Bible, the KJV reads different. I strictly reads out of the KJV. When I said there's no new Hebrew Christians, meaning according to the Bible, Hebrews come from Shem in Genesis 10: 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. So by blood line if you run Shem down to Terah, to Abram, Isaac, and Jacob and continue you will run into the Hebrews and or Israelites. Hebrew Israelites, the apostles was first called Christian in Antioch. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. (Acts 11: 25-27)
 
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You are directing that verse against those who are Jews instead of those who say that they are Jews, but are not. What is the name of the religion that you think that Jesus practiced?
From the Bible in certain places Israelites where called Jews, but it's 12 tribes of Israel and in one tribe is called Judah. So if you are not from the seed of Jacob, then you are not a Jew. If one follows Christ then they are consider Christians.


Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

Which religion is The Way is a sect of?
I'm a Bible Christians I deal with the uncut word of God according to the Prophets (Old Testament) and the Apostles (New Testament). I observe the Lord’s Sabbath Day, the Lord’s Feast Days (as outlined in Leviticus 23rd chapter), and the Lord’s Dietary Law (as outlined in Leviticus 11th chapter). I believe and observe the Royal Law, which is the Ten Commandments.

I also believe in the resurrection and that Jesus is the King of Israel who will rule over the House of Jacob forever. I believe Jesus is the God of all people and his house “shall be a house of prayer for all people”. (Isaiah 56:7). I don't called this a religion, maybe it is. But there are people who create religion from the Bible.
 
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From the Bible in certain places Israelites where called Jews, but it's 12 tribes of Israel and in one tribe is called Judah. So if you are not from the seed of Jacob, then you are not a Jew. If one follows Christ then they are consider Christians.
Paul identified as a Jew in Acts 21:39 and Acts 22:3 even through he is from the tribe of Benjamin, so do you think that Revelation 3:9 is speaking about him? "Jew" may have originally referred to someone who was specifically from the tribe of Judah, but it has come to refer to those from any of the 12 tribes, so Revelation 3:9 is referring to someone who is not from the 12 tribes and who has not converted, but who is posing as someone from the 12 tribes.

Please respond to post #27 and please answer the question about what the name of the religion is that Jesus practiced.


While it's good that you believe those things, that does not answer my question about what religion The Way is a sect of. I don't see any room for thinking that Acts 24:14 is referring to a religion other than Judaism.

religion [ ri-lij-uhn ]
noun
a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

What the Bible teaches fits the definition of "religion", so what do you think is the name of the religion that is based on what is taught by the OT?
 
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You reading out of different Bible, the KJV reads different.

Are you saying the letter was not written to Hebrew Christians?

The KJV titles the book, "The Epistle from Paul to the Hebrews."


Would that not also apply to believers from Israel; i.e., Hebrews?

Likewise, the letter is to professing Christians who were familiar with the OT (Heb 3-4). That would not be Gentiles.
It could well have been the "large number of priests who became obedient to the faith" (Ac 6:7), who perhaps wanted to merge with a Jewish sect such as the one at Qumran near the Dead Sea.
 
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Jesus, Peter, John, James, Paul et al understood what the church has always taught, that the primary difference between the old and new covenants involved a new righteousness that flowed directly from union with God, a relationship entered into and established by faith. That union is described as: being under grace, living by the Spirit, being and remaining in Christ. That relationship is the very essence or basis of justice or righteousness for man. And the righteousness resulting in us is able, with our cooperation, to accomplish what the law could only attest to but could not bring about.
 
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Jesus, Peter, John, James, Paul et al understood what the church has always taught, that the primary difference between the old and new covenants involved a new righteousness that flowed directly from union with God,

The NT testifies that righteousness has always been only from God (Ro 1:17, Ro 3:20-21, Php 3:9), never by the law (Gal 3:11), Abraham being the example/proof (Gal 3:8).
The law only cursed (Gal 3:10) because of failure to keep it according to God's standards.
The law was not given to make righteous, it was given only to reveal sin (Ro 3:20).

 
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The NT testifies that righteousness has always been only from God (Ro 1:17, Ro 3:20-21, Php 3:9), never by the law (Gal 3:11)
Um…yes. Of course??!! This is a newly revealed, or “foreign”, righteousness for mankind, however (Rom 1:4), even if Abraham demonstrated it earlier as an individual, with Paul now pointing to him as a model for us all.

“But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.” Rom 3:21-22

This righteousness is given as one enters adopted sonship of God through faith. It's the righteousnesss that man was created to have to begin with, that can only be had by virtue of fellowship with God, the fellowship that Adam rejected in Eden, not desiring to bow to any God above himself, and the righteousnsess that can be best characterized and defined by love, necessarily a work of grace, a work of God's, in us.
 
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Jesus brought grace when he came in the flesh, but example of grace was in the days of Noah. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Now Paul said in (Rom. 3:23-25) (v.23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (v.24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (v.25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. So the bible tells you to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2 :36-38). And by doing so you come up under his precious blood and then you are saved from your sins that are past, not present or future sins but for sins that are past.

We were all locked under death by Adam’s sin, even the second death. But when Jesus became (he was God in the beginning) man and died for the sins of the world, he gave us access back to the tree of life (himself) which Adam had caused us to lose. That’s what grace is, our free gift our access back to the tree of life but that’s another lesson for another time. So by coming under the blood of Jesus you are saved from your past sins. And if you are saved now, it is on a day to day basis. Because for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 23:3), and if you continue to live you will sin again. It is the willful sinning that you need to put in check. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrew 10: 26, 27)
 
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Are you saying the letter was not written to Hebrew Christians?

The KJV titles the book, "The Epistle from Paul to the Hebrews."
The letters or books where written from Hebrews Israelites.



I don't believe there was any merging with Jewish sect such as Qumran near the Dead Sea.
 
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Yes, it's been taught that man is culpable for sin to the extent that he has full knowledge of its sinfullness and deliberate intent in commiting it. It's really not just an either/or thing, however; we're more or less culpable to the extent that we willingly participate in an act that we know is wrong. Either way the new testament brings about a new covenant. And within that covenaat is a new realtionship with God that was earlier not availbe to humankind on a universal scake, presuambly because, while God graced and used certain figures for His purposes previously, man in general wasn't yet ready until the "fullness of time" had come to be introduced more intimately to God. And with this new relationship estalbished via by faith man is now able, with a newly realized righteousnsess, now under grace, by the Spirit, to overcome the sin that otherwise previously condemend him- because he could not overcome it previously, whether by the law or by any other means. He had no ability to overcome sin apart from God.
 
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The letters or books where written from Hebrews Israelites.

However, the KJV presents it as to the Hebrews.

I don't believe there was any merging with Jewish sect such as Qumran near the Dead Sea.

And you know this, how?

Nor was that asserted.
 
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This "righteousness of God" is the righteousness of the divine Son of God (1Co 1:30) which is imputed to us (Ro 4:1-11, Ro 5:19) by faith, as righteousness was imputed to Abraham by faith (Ge 15:6, Ro 4:3).

Were we created with the righteousness of the divine Son of God?


It is had only by faith in and trust on the atoning work (blood, Ro 3:25) and person of Jesus Christ for the remission of one's sin and right standing with God's Court; i.e., sentence of acquittal of guilt, declaration of rightwise standing with God (justification).
 
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