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Israel ~ God's Israel ~ is not solely made up of the New Testament church, which includes Gentile believers. And what does it mean to be grafted in, EWQ? Don't soft-pedal it, now... :) Disagree. But... this is just not a matter worth really having any sort of contention over, I think. It...

Yes, John, Paul, and Jews in general knew that the Hebrew and Greek verb "to know" was synonymous with "to love" and to sovereignly distinguish and favor in this way. They knew their language, so we should understand it on their terms. Can you ~ or any mere human being ~ make the blind to see...

Well, yes and no. Yes, of course, regarding His time on earth, as that only came about a bit over two thousand years ago, but no, as evidenced by the fact that, as you may or may not acknowledge but is true nonetheless, Jesus prays to the Father to restore to Him the glory He (Jesus) had with...

Jesus, when He calls Himself the Son of Man, is referring directly to what the prophet Daniel wrote of his vision in Daniel 7:9-14... "As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took His seat; His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool; His throne was...

Well, not solely... We are in the church age, since Pentecost, in which, as Paul says in Ephesians 2, we are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being...

Three in distinct personhood does not equal three in distinct substance. I've used this before, and it's a very limited analogy, but serves: A football team (say, the Green Bay Packers) consists of 53 persons at any given time, but still is only one football team. :) Well, 54, including the...

Yeah, you're just being terribly obstinate, Rich. :) Or... Well, I'll leave it there. A "third god." My stars... Yeah, just total obstinance, with a good dose of willful blindness mixed in... Whatever the case, you're certainly not alone; these forums are rife with these things. So be...

I don't think you do understand (although it's far from difficult), and that's why you can't understand. Christ's Church consists of all of those in Christ and thus of God's Israel ~ backward in time from His crucifixion and resurrection and forward. Maybe it would be easier for you if you...

Well, surely not if so many continue to insist it means something quite different than it is ~ or... get the order wrong, that we keep our own salvation by obedience and good works, rather than what is true, that our obedience and good works are the result and natural outpouring of the faith...

Sure. I never insinuated otherwise. Yes, even though we are saved, we still sin. However, if one is in fact saved ~ born again from above ~ he/she will not "choose to turn to live in sin again" but rather choose otherwise, because he/she is no longer of the devil but of God. As Christians...

This is in direct refutation to what Paul ~ the Jew of Jews ~ says regarding Israel and who true Jews really are in the latter part of Romans 2, specifically... "For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and...

I can appreciate that. But what you said was: "We are asked to believe God raised Jesus from the dead. Our salvation depends on that belief." Now, maybe this is not what you mean to say in saying that, but what you're saying here ~ explicitly ~ is that our salvation depends on our having...

Free will ~ although we certainly have wills... :) ~ has no impact on and thus means nothing regarding whom (or Whom) or what (righteousness or unrighteousness) we are enslaved to. Our wills conform to whom (and to what) we are enslaved, and in that limited sense our wills are never free. If...

I was not repeating an earlier question. Methinks it's you that should go back and reread carefully... :) It's not a matter of believing anything you might have said. I was asking you to comment on the explanation (Biblical explanation, at least in my mind) that I submitted to you, and if...

LOL! No, right, and... well, we'll just say mistaken. :) And, heresy is never a good thing... :) Grace and peace to you, MI.

Such a nice avoidance of the questions... Really, though, the silence is deafening... :) Grace and peace to you, Rich.

He will not allow for what Paul says to the Philippians, that He laid aside His position as the second Person of the Godhead for our sake, that even though He was (and is) God in the flesh, He completely disregarded His deity for our sake ~ and it is in this sense that He could say the Father...

See, I disagree with you here, Rich. Let me ask you a question. Which comes first in a person, belief or faith? Before you answer this, read all the way to the end of this post. :) At any rate, you might also remember what Paul says in Romans 9:16-18, that it depends not on human will or...

Moses had faith, just like folks today do. People were not called "Christians" in his day, and not until believers in and followers of Christ until the first century A.D., and even then, the term was not first coined by Christians. See Acts 11:26... Jesus's disciples were first called...

Absolutely. I'm really quite surprised by that question... Moses was certainly a Jew. And Moses most certainly wrote about Christ Jesus... prophesied about Him, starting in Genesis 3:15. Christ Jesus, as surely you know, said everything Moses wrote was about Him ("...if you believed Moses...