You know what's unsettling?
That persons come up with this weird stuff.
You think YOU are qualified to do your own studying.....
Right.
THIS is why sola scriptura does not work.
Did Paul --- Paul, the very favorite of some, as though HE went to the cross and not Jesus ---
Didn't Paul state that the Gentiles are grafted in?
Isn't this the whole point of explaining this to his Jewish brethren in Romans 9, 10 and 11?
How about having respect for what JESUS taught instead of what your friend believes?
Jesus said HE WAS THE NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT.
THEN He sent His disciples out to teach to all nations....
not just the middle east...and Israel in particular.
So,,,are we under ANY Covenant right now?
Many have been on both sides of the fence.
Please post WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOD'S DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL AND GOD'S DEALINGS WITH CHRISTIANS?
Are there 2 churches?
I think Jesus taught that there is one church and that we should agree.
I think Paul taught the same.
PAUL
Acts 20:28
28Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
WHO is being addressed? The Jews? The Christians?
Verse 21 states that Paul is speaking to both Jews and Greeks.
So was Paul ALSO preaching to the Jews?
I thought he was an Apostle to the Gentiles only?
Colossians 1:18
18And he is the head of the body, the church.
One body,,,not two.
1 Corinthians 12:13
13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
JESUS:
Matthew 28:20
20Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
teaching all the nations
Matthew 6:18
18And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And, if I remember right, Jesus said this BEFORE the cross. (as if that made any difference).
John 12:48
48The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Revelation 1:11
11Saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
Was that population Jewish?
There's much more.
Those that believe
1. Paul taught something different than Jesus
or
2. Jesus was addressing the Jews
are separating the New Testament and creating a new religion.
No... It's the time from when God revealed Himself to ONLY Israel, in the very specific way that He did....
Monotheism, for example when the region was practicing polytheism...
and when the revelation of Jesus was also to the Gentiles.
Jesus was throughout the entire bible....not only in the NT.
JESUS was the ultimate revelation of §God...meant for all people.
The culmination of the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants.
No need to pursue.
Scripture is clear and God is clear.
Paul, your favorite, said we have been grafted in.
I'll stick to that.
There is only ONE GOD.
There is only ONE TEACHING.
It is FOR ALL PEOPLE,,,
All people all over the world.
Read Romans 1:19.....until you really understand it.
Romans 1:19-20
19because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.