I do respond to you directly, but others on this forum may be more familiar with your views and where you are coming from. I see Israel. Are you a Messianic Jew? I have a little Jewish blood, but was raised by an atheist Dad and a rebellious Mom who had a bad 5-year experience in the Catholic Orphanage as a child. The nuns slapped her hands, oh my! The story that was told hundred times. I told her, they didn't slap you enough! She'd always laugh. Both I believe finally came to the Lord just before death. As I told you in another thread, we never know who is written in the Book of Life so we need to be careful with judgments and condemnation against people who we might think are reprobate. We will be surprised when we get there to see those whom we thought were destined for destruction - like the Rich Man!.
My wife is a Messianic Jew....Im just a spiritual one.
Also, There is no reprobate or sinner or anything like this in the Kingdom of God., where all the born again exist, already.
"translated from Darkness ... TO Light"..
This has already happened to us.... by us being born again SPIRITUALLY.....as the KOG is a Spiritual Kingdom of LIGHT.
The born again are "children of the Light", and Jesus is the "Light of the World".
The problem with understanding all this, is........ the part of us that is redeemed, saved, is ONLY the born again Spirit.
This part of us, is what God has turned into a SON, that is : "in Christ".
Its difficult to wrap your head around the fact that our mind and body, are not redeemed....Its only our Spirit that has been born again into God's Spirit by God's Holy Spirit. And its only this that God sees when He looks at us.
We, as people, are down here ... we have a mind and a body....and that is a carnal natural realm level that is always a problem to deal with...
Yet, our born again spirit, is ALREADY in Heaven, (seated in heavenly places In Christ), and our born again Spirit, is already become this...
= "As Christ IS, so are the born again...in this world".
Se, that is the Eternal Reality, regarding who the born again have become, already "in Christ".
The born again are already "ONE WITH GOD"....Spiritually..
But our body, and our mind, are not born again, are not redeemed... So, most believers only see themselves as..>"what i do" "what i think', "am i good today.".."How is my behavior"....and that is the wrong (natural) mind. That is the mind of the flesh, that can't discern or receive the correct understanding of what it means to be born again, and already exist in the Kingdom of God..."in Christ".
So this wrong mind (flesh) is what creates denominations and heretics and heresy..., this fleshly understanding and mentality, will always oppose the truth of "who you have become in Christ"......until our mind is : RENEWED.
Paul says we are to 'Renew" our minds, as this does not happen unless we do it= continually.
And until we learn HOW>... which is to only see ourselves as God has recreated us to be, Spiritually, as who we are LITERALLY...then we have the wrong mind, and the wrong perspective regarding "Christianity".