I believe you are not understanding this correctly.
John 4:22 NASB - 22 "You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Yes, salvation is of the Jews. She was saying, "we can worship God and find salvation in samaria too. Those Jews say we have to worship in Jerusalem and that you can't be saved without being a Jew." And Jesus agreed with her. salvations was only through the judaic system.
Again, it is not true that in the body of Christ you are neither male nor female. You are interpreting incorrectly.
YOu are interpreting it incorrectly. THe verse doesn't say anything about male or female. Why do you keep saying that, it isn't in the passage!!! You are too busy trying to figure out what GOd meant and you arent' spending enought time on what HE ACTUALLY SAID. He said YOU ARE NOT JEW OR GENTILE if you are in the BOC. Why can 't you deal with that very basic fact???
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. We should believe what Jesus said.
The accusation of the jew in that day was that true worship was throught the judaic system. The samaritans had broken away from jerusalem, had set up their own places of worship and they were outside of judaism. The Jews claimed that true worship and salvation only came through the judaic system God set up, the samaritans thought it didn't matter. When she asked Jesus what He thought, she was hoping He said "it doesn't really matter, as long as you are sincere and try to love GOd, you can be saved."
But instead Jesus affirmed the Jewish beliefs, that salvation was in fact only through judaism.
Yes, the law is still for today, even if you are theologically not under the law. I don't see another way to understand this subject.
Read Romans 7 again. If you get a traffic ticket today, you will have to pay a fine. If you die tomorrow, the law cannot follow you into thr grave and demand payment. The law of your state only has jurisdiction as long as you are alive. Once you die, the fine goes away because there is no one to pay it. THe law of your state highway only has jurisdiction over you as long as you are alive. All people alive, are under the jurisdiction of their state laws.
Once you are dead, the law cannot punish you any more. The law of moses does not have jurisdiction over me because I am dead. The law is still in effect, but only for people who have not died. SInce I have died, the law of moses does not have jurisdiction over me anymore. I am free to marry another.
Now I am under the "law of the spirit of liberty". A lot of the current laws are similar, I shoudl love my neighbor, and love God, I shouldn't steal or kill, or lie. The main difference is that the system of penalty is different. Under Moses' law, it was death and hell for law breakers. Under the "law of liberty in CHrist" it is chastisement for a son, even to the point of death, but I will still be saved (1 Cor 5) because I am not under the same system of penalty any more.
Judaism is where we have the expectation of Messiah, who is Yeshua (He came as promised). This is not anti-christ.
All unsaved jews are anti-christ. They have denied their savior, their messiah. They "have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge" (Rom 10:2).
I was born a Gentile. I have been circumcised. I am a Christian, by choice and by God's selection of me. I am Jewish by choice. I am a new covenant believer and I practice much of the old covenant. A person is not a Jew by race. Race, whatever race is, has nothing to do with it. I know about the human race, but people groups do not need to be divided up and called race. God has made us all unique and different, but this is nothing about race and does not paint a picture of negativity either.
This is wrong on so many levels. The Jewish race is anyone who has Jacob as their great grandfather. I don't understand how someone who claims to be a christian cannot understand the biblical concept of the jewish race. It is all over the OT.
It is certainly negative for those who were not jewish. This is again all over the bible.
Rom 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
"according to the flesh" is talking about the race of Jew's. Sons of Jacob. This is bible 101.
Rom 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Rom 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
This is why it was an advantage to be a jew, and not a samritan like the woman at the well. It was good to be a Jew, bad to be a gentile. Just read the OT.
You were either a part of the Jewish race, or you were a gentile. Even gentile proselytes couldn't go into the same places in the temple. They were "outsiders". God set it up that way.
Read it again. What is true about the existence of male and female in Christ is true about Jew and Greek or Jew and Gentile in Christ.
But again, it doesn't say anything about male and female. You are ignoring what the verse says, and inserting something it DOESN"T say in order to do so. What part of "neitehr Jew nor greek" do you not understand?
Salvation is by faith whether you are Jew or Greek/Gentile/non-Jew. It always has been.
False. Jesus told the woman at the well salvation was not through anything other than judaism. there was a priesthood that stood between God and man at one point. There was the "holy of holies" behind the veil that a priest had to enter into yearly to atone for the sins of the people. Unless you were a convert to judaism, that covering (atonement) didn't cover your sins. You were lost, just like Jesus told the woman at the well.
You don't have to be a Jew for something to be Biblical.
No, you just have to be a jew, under the law, for the levitical system to apply to you. It started with moses and ended with the cross.
Then you cannot be under judaism.
There is nothing against being a Jew for anyone.
Yes there is. PLease tell me what this verse means to you:
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
There are many converts and proselytes.
Yes, you are either a christian or jew or gentile according to the bible. You seem to think you know more than GOd does.
Do you believe the verse is about whether or not you were born a Jew?
If you were not born a Jew, you are not Jewish by race. I don't know why you have such trouble with this concept. Race is a pretty basic thing. Either you were a son of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or you were a Gentile. This is why God didn't want them inter-marrying with the non-jews.
That is not what makes a person a Jew.
You can be a jew by race, like you can be italian or chinese, or you can be an adherent to the religion of judaism. YOu cannot be an adherent to christianity and an adherent of judaism.
In one, you have Christ as your High Priest, Heb 4:14 in the other, you have a man, who has to offer sacrifice for himself Heb 5:3
In one you have Christ who died an rent the veil from the top down, Mark 15:38, in the other you have a religion that sewed the veil back up.
In one you have "one sacrifice for all sins" Heb 10:10. In the other you have a daily offering that can never take away sins. Heb 10:11
You should read Hebrews again and again until you see that Christ is better and exclusive of Judaism. There is nothing for a Christian in Judaism. God wants us to worhip in spirit and truth. You don't need the old law that you are dead to if you are saved.
