Great post Daqq, and yes, they fail to see that those who are born of God, circumcised of the heart, walking in the spirit in the light of Christ are in fact the true Jews, who are neither Jew nor Greek more nor bond not free nor male nor female, but one body of Christ, and these are those who enter into the new Jerusalem. Cleansed by the blood of Christ, washed of the water by the word and alive in God regenerated by the spirit.
There is one gospel, and it was preached by Jesus Christ, and delivered to the world by his apostles and disciples and is still being preached by his people today. A gospel of love, light and life. And all those who are his sheep, hear his voice!
I won't be answering John w if he replies to this as he is abusive, and an abusive mouth isn't a fruit of the spirit. Our example is to have a clean mouth as our lord Jesus Christ did. The only time Jesus rebuked others is when they didn't believe his words, a bit like the MADs who don't believe that his teachings are for them but for the Jews, whilst failing to see that those who are of Christ are the true Jews.
1 Peter 2
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:.Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
James 3
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be..Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
James 1
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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John 1:12-13 KJV
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.