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Unbelieving Israel (the natural branch) was cut off (of Jesus). Then the Gentiles (the wild branch) was grafted on (to Jesus). No. Jesus is not Israel, neither unbelieving Israel, nor the Remnant that did believe, not in this context. You can't have your cake and eat it too, here. Yes, yes...

Why do you think that I think that? Because I don't.

Where there's life, there's hope.

No, that's how it works. The moment you add law to grace, it becomes law. This is why you don't understand the Bible. Moot, A) because the Bible describes a tree that brings forth a new fruit every month of the year, and B) because you're begging the question that Christians do not sin...

You were asked what we were grafted into. In the context of the question, "Branch of Israel" means Israel, because ISRAEL was the branch that was cut off. Jesus is the one we are grafted into. How can Jesus be cut off from Himself? Irrelevant.

You're still avoiding the answer, Eric. Let's try again: Was Abraham (who can be considered his tribe's government) wrong for doing what he did to rescue Lot? Or was what the kings of the nations did that took Lot and his family and possessions a just reason for Abraham to go to war against...

BZZZT! WRONG! It's not Israel that we are grafted into. It's CHRIST!

The point was that grace can be added to law, and it will remain law, but adding law to grace turns it into law. Sometimes they do. The Bible tells us he was. Do you not believe the Bible? What part of the scriptures do you not understand? *What then shall we say that Abraham our father...

It'd be a miracle if he did! 🤭

Please stop breaking up your responses to my posts into multiple replies. It's a form of flooding, which is against the rules. You're confused, and in your confusion, you've conflated two different things. There IS an objective standard. That standard is God. Whether humans agree on that...

Notice how @Eric h refuses to answer the question. He cannot, for any way he answers it would undermine his entire position. It's because he knows that calling what Abraham did wrong would raise questions about God considering him to be a righteous man, and because he knows that Calling what...

We're not talking about humans. We're talking about objective standards. Justice is one of them. Yes, you do. Take it from someone who is not you. Again, there is no "Justice of God." Justice is justice. God is just. What men think of justice doesn't change the fact that God is just...

No, what you were told by me was that it's not authoritative in the way that you think that things like the Catechism are "authoritative". That doesn't mean that "The Plot" not "authoritative" as a source of information. LIar. My answer is the same. You want to know what MAD says, read...

You're going to have to explain what it is that you think is the heat problem, because as far as I can see, there is NO heat problem with the HPT. Make the argument, don't just make blanket assertions without evidence. I said "what heat problem" because there is no heat problem. Did you not...

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What heat problem? The fountains of the great deep were well below freezing. The continents slid on an almost perfect lubricant. The water that fell back to earth just came back down from space, where any heat that remained was dissipated. Have you never held your hands up next to a bunsen...

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The "New Covenant" is made with the same two parties as the "Old Covenant." The "covenant of Grace" (as it can be called) is a DIFFERENT covenant made with different parties. No. Only put on hold. "Dispense" in this context means "given to," not "thrown away." Indeed. Why Paul at all? Why...

Because THAT was symbolic of the fact that now the Gentiles didn't have to go through the priesthood of Israel. They could enter the temple and go straight to God, because JESUS was the High Priest. They still had to go through Israel, though. Under Paul's dispensation of Grace, Israel is just...