Your thoughts?

[WAB]

Israel was made up of 12 tribes...one nation, different camps.



What are the essentials? Should we reduce the faith to the 'essentials' or should we accept the faith in total? Who decides what the essentials are if not the church or the camp you belong to? Can we know the faith in total?

Peace.

One of the essentials is to recognize that we really are in a different dispensation. Your use of the word "was" actually attests to that fact.

Another attestation is your use of the words "the faith" with which I agree wholeheartedly. Faith by itself can/and does often mean whatever one might prefer. There are myriad "faiths" among the nations.

"The faith" is putting one's trust in the finished work of Calvary's Cross as being the one requirement for eternal fellowship with our Loving Saviour.

You are probably familiar with the definition of the phrase Jesus uttered just before His death... "it is finished" means... the debt is paid! There is nothing more that God or man can do to effect our salvation.

To which I must say...HALLELUJAH!