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On your part, yes.Nonresponsive.
On your part, yes.Nonresponsive.
It still a mystery to so many. The churches have done such a disservice to mankind. Preaching a gospel that doesn't even apply to us.God tells it CLEARLY in scripture, but your religious blinders to not allow you to see.
I agree.Nope. It's only our body we wait for.
We are saved by grace when we believe....IN Christ....seated with Him in heavenly places.
But you believe that we cannot even 'give it away', which is something else, where you believe that we lose the freedom to choose to not believe the Gospel, once we believe the Gospel.We believe unto righteousness, and our salvation signed sealed and done....awaiting only our spiritual body, as I mentioned.
Most important, our sins have been forgiven now...in the present. We cannot lose our salvation.
Again, we've see where the idea of enduring to the end is told to the Body as well, in Paul. There's no necessary conflict here, the text doesn't require there to be a conflict.We have NOW received the atonement.
The Jews, on the other hand, have to continue to keep the commandments and endure to the end....the coming of the Lord.
Despite the numerous times Paul talked about the future salvation.Shall be saved. Future tense for the Jews. Present tense for the body.
So you must think we're living in the new covenant right now.Nonresponsive. "I'm looking for the words 'only' or 'not anybody else' or something delimiting like that, I can't find that." Also "just Israel and Judah" would be good. Anything along those lines. I can't find that in your excerpt, or anywhere else. I can find lots of cryptic references to Gentiles in the Old Testament though, and then we find, later on, that the New Covenant isn't just for Jews and Israelites after all, but it's for Gentiles too. Per Paul.
So that all fits together. No need for MAD.
That's part of the mystery. We are new creatures, bought with a price, sealed by the Spirit. We can still exercise our free will and have a loss of rewards when we stand before the judgement seat of Christ, but we cannot ever lose our salvation.But you believe that we cannot even 'give it away', which is something else, where you believe that we lose the freedom to choose to not believe the Gospel, once we believe the Gospel.
There is a big difference. They are told to endure in order to be saved.Again, we've see where the idea of enduring to the end is told to the Body as well, in Paul. There's no necessary conflict here, the text doesn't require there to be a conflict.
Of course. After all, it was Paul, writing to those formerly pagan Corinthians, who said and I quote 1st Corinthians 11:25 " After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."So you must think we're living in the new covenant right now.
I trust the Apostles to instruct me on how to understand the Scripture, over even my own understanding.Well, you're not alone, but you're dead wrong.
This is another example of why the Bible is divided up in dispensations.
This is the new covenant, and it takes place when the Lord returns. This is when their sins may blotted out. See Acts 3.
This is talking about when the Lord sits on David's throne here on earth. There will be no teachers, elders, ministers (like we have now in the church age).
Jer. 31:
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Despite the numerous times Paul talked about the future salvation.
Romans 5:9 (KJV)
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans 5:10 (KJV)
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
LOL That is speaking of the judgement seat of Christ. Of course it's future.1 Corinthians 3:15 (KJV)
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
LOL That verse has nothing to do with eternal salvation.1 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
I know you have a hard time believing that works were required of the Jews.But you're really having a hard time admitting Jews are saved by grace, aren't you?
One of those examples was saved in childbearing. You can't honestly say that is talking about SALVATION.It's all a future salvation, because it's a salvation from death, and they aren't dead yet. It's all about the resurrection, remember.
Nope. Peter's gospel of the Kingdom is not even close to Paul's Gospel.He held Peter to the standard of "the" Gospel, not "gospels".
And Gentiles.
Disagreed, the Church is New Covenant.
Not without knowledge, but without apprehension and without understanding for sure, which even extended to after the 'DBR' and Ascension, until Old Paul came around to save the day. Or the bacon.
Then Jesus preached the Gospel of the grace of God to His future Apostles before the 'DBR' happened.
Acts 15:11 (KJV) But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Then Jesus preached the Gospel of the grace of God to His future Apostles before the 'DBR' happened.
Well put. I wish I'd have thought of that.Yes, God's grace undergirded the requirements of the law.
Doesn't change the fact that Israel had to keep the commandments and endure.
Of course. After all, it was Paul, writing to those formerly pagan Corinthians, who said and I quote 1st Corinthians 11:25 " After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."
"New Testament" = New Covenant we know from 'parallel' passages in the KJV.
And how he says "as often as ye eat this bread..." means that this Corinthian 'church' was celebrating the 'Lord's Supper' or otherwise known as 'Communion'.
So they're all New Covenant.
I trust the Apostles to instruct me on how to understand the Scripture, over even my own understanding.
Yes, Paul said that when they came together... it was NOT to eat the Lord's Supper.Nope. On the contrary, Paul was scolding the Corinthians for their drunken party, saying they didn't even know what the Lord's Supper was, so he explained it to them. Do you see that "remembrance" being spoken of by Paul anywhere else, I'd be interested to see them.
1Cor 11:20 (AKJV/PCE)
(11:20) When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper.
The only Apostle you'd better be trusting is the Apostle Paul.
The reason that Paul said that in that way is the same reason that he wrote this:1Cor 11:1 (AKJV/PCE)
(11:1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.
TODAY those following the 12 apostles that will sit on 12 throne judging the 12 tribes of Israel are doing it wrong.2Cor 5:16 (AKJV/PCE)
(5:16) Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we [him] no more.
Paul was rebuking them for eating the Lord's supper wrongly. You can tell if you just read the next verse.Paul said that when they came together... it was NOT to eat the Lord's Supper.
Just like the BOC, at least in the enduring.Doesn't change the fact that Israel had to keep the commandments and endure.
That is not talking about losing salvation, but of being unreproveable in His sight. We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ where we will be judged according to the deeds done in the body. If it's "wood, hay, stubble" it will be burned up. That speaks specifically of rewards and loss of rewards. 1 Cor. 3 makes it clear. I've brought this portion of scripture up many times, but you seem to ignore it in your quest to show Paul taught salvation can be lost or that we must endure to the end to be saved. It suggests no such thing.Just like the BOC, at least in the enduring.
Colossians 1:22-23 (KJV) 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
That has nothing to do with the body of Christ, nor is it talking about the church of God.We sure don't want to be like Diotrephes, rejecting the authority of those God has placed over us.
3 John 1:9-10 (KJV) 9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth [them] out of the church.