Timtofly
Well-Known Member
How can you call yourself Spiritual Israelite, if your point only applied to one generation in the first century? Do you understand your own point and Romans 11?LOL. You still don't get it. Have you ever actually read Romans 11? Yes or no? The branches were not cut off by way of death, they were cut off because of unbelief. They are the same individual Israelites that Paul said were blinded and had stumbled, but not beyond recovery. Paul said he hoped to lead some of them to salvation. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Where does Paul ever say anything about death cutting them off permanently? He never says anything like that in Romans 11.
Yes, they could. It says they were broken or cut off because of unbelief. How can unbelief cause someone to lose their natural ethnicity? That is ridiculous. They were cut off in a spiritual sense, not a natural, physical sense. They were not cut off as natural descendants of Israel, they were cut off from the kingdom of God and Spiritual Israel.
No, I'm not doing that at all. You have the worst reading comprehension skills of anyone I've ever seen. I'm not sure why I'm wasting my time with you since you misunderstand and misrepresent everything I say.
How can disobedience to God result in death and eternal separation from God? That is what being cut off means. Not that they lost their religion.
Their ethnicity was their covenant with God. That is why they were called Israel. They were physically and spiritually in a covenant with God. They had to offer physical sacrifices as a whole national economy centered around the tabernacle. The Law was physical just as much as it was spiritual. Even many returned several times a year to keep the feast days in Jerusalem, after being scattered around the empire.
You are the one that has concocted two Israels, one physical, and one spiritual. Do you think there is still a chance for those first century branches cut off to be grafted back in?