Search results

Being a Jew does not make anybody a better Christian! He was *not* faithful when he misled you about Jesus being made a "sin sacrifice." "You have no need that anyone should teach you, as his anointing teaches you all things." I didn't say murderers were performing a "pure" act! Jesus...

People make sacrifices every time they visit the store and "sacrifice" some of their money. But it doesn't buy our salvation. The sacrifice Jesus made bought our salvation. Why don't you accept that anymore?

You have a great attitude, and will go far with that. I do think it likely that God has given you a key that works specifically for you, and a key that can also help others. I know that God gave me a key years ago when I was in a state of indecision. I had a trouble being double-minded about...

A lot of truth in that. We tend to see things from the vantage point where we stand, and fail to see the diversity of gifts among us, and how others see things in the Lord differently. But yes, basic doctrine can't be compromised without suffering spiritually, and we don't want our fellowship...

I agree we need to put our own eyes right before we can see the problems in another properly. If we aren't correcting in love, it isn't worth correcting, because it won't be received. But we do have need to judge whether the teaching is false when taught by a brother. Paul spent a lot of time...

2 Peter 2.1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Journeyman: Nobody has ever, in this...

Journeyman, you are being dishonest. I checked to see in various places if Christians felt the same way I did, and they do. They see your statements for what they are. Not only did you say that men saw Jesus as a sinner, you said *this passage* did not indicate Jesus was a "sin sacrifice." At...

Growing in the Spirit. I recently had a fellow Christian argue with me that Jesus never "became sin." He was concerned to say that Jesus was not flawed, and never knew sin. However, in explaining to him the necessity that Jesus did in effect "become sin" by being willing to suffer punishment...

We are not under the Law of Moses, which regardless was only for Israel. However, the New Covenant system of Christ is clearly lawful. It does not require that we keep God's laws to be saved. But it requires that we be willing to follow Christ's laws, which is to believe in him, that he is the...

Once again, you provide zero proof for your position. You are just asserting that if the passage does not read the way you want it to be read, then it is "false." I could say the same thing. If you read the AoD as something still future, then your position is "false." You see--no proof! In...

I have "good communication" days and "bad communication" days. ;) Sorry, I meant to say that the promise of Israel's restoration is bound up in the promise God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The initial promises God made to Abraham was that he enjoy a posterity, which would become a nation...

What's your point, brother? I know the Scriptures well.

That is the worst form of proof--pure assertion! Your view has been around for eons. But it is false. My position is true. End of proof. You see how that goes? At least I'm trying with an angle. I've been at this a long time, and now I'm trying to figure the pronoun "he" consistently in the...

Maybe you're getting me mixed up with somebody else. I'm *not* a Replacement Theologian! I believe that "Israel" refers to ethnic Israel. And I believe that Israel, though she has fallen, and Gentile nations have picked up her mantle, will be restored again at the 2nd Coming. I do believe the...

You're confirming what I said, that it's the *promises* and not the covenant of Law that are eternal and irrevocable. The covenant of Law was revocable, and it was revoked! Paul said so! But you don't address that--even though that is the main issue here. So go ahead and agree with me that the...

Then we are at odds, because I read Paul that the promise was eternal, and not the Law. Gal 3.18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise. The Jewish argument is that the Law is "for all your...

But that appears to be too simplistic for this discussion. As you should know, the covenant with Israel involved 2 elements, and not just 1. It involved both a promise and the dated conditions for that covenant to be fulfilled. The dated conditions were imposed by the Law of Moses, which was a...

That was a nice diversion and digression! I've thought of this also, and find it remarkable how God controls a world that appears random and out of control. God allows just enough self-will to bring men to judgment. Our job is to give our will over to the Lord, so that our will can be reborn...

Rome plays an amazing role in the history of the world. Europe is the center of Christianity, and likely the center of the future Antichristian Kingdom. Rome killed Jesus, a number of the apostles, and Paul. And it persecuted the early Church. It is also like the 4th Kingdom of Dan 2 and 7...

The problem I see with this is that you're mixing two different prophecies together. Eze 37 may very well refer to the endtimes, and to the ultimate restoration of Israel at the coming of Messiah. But Dan 9 does not do so in my judgment. Dan 9 records that God deals with the problem associated...