If I eat no unclean meat, and am circumcised I gain eternal life,
Haven’t read this book yet but have downloaded from this thread for later. Hesitate here “eat no unclean meat” “be circumcised” and gain life. Similar to Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion;
put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
O Zion ...put on thy beautiful garments ...can only mean one. “For hereforth” of putting on thy beautiful garments...there shall NO MORE come into thee the
uncircumcised and
the unclean.
Do we see no more the uncircumcised and the unclean entering in? Entering where ...or Who?
Deuteronomy 10:16
[16] Circumcise therefore
the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Eat no unclean meat...
Be circumcised and gain life...
Romans 14:14
[14] I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Acts 10:14-15
[14] But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. [15] And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Basically then Saul was already headed to eternal life, since that was his practice, then he believed in Christ, who he truly is,
John 8:24; and will now burn in hell.
Paul wasn’t headed toward life but toward death...until the Revelation of Jesus Christ. “Eat nothing unclean” “be circumcised” of the foreskin of the heart and gain Life. Where nothing unclean or uncircumcised enters in...
1 Timothy 4:3-4
[3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving
of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
How can a person “eat nothing unclean...be circumcised” ...and gain Life? Only one way and that is the Revelation Of Jesus Christ shown to Paul on the road...