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Your quotes have absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about. This has nothing to do with coming to Christ or Salvation. I'm talking about what the Gentiles HAD TO DO, in Acts, to be grafted into the all-Jewish church. They were given 4 ordinances, The Judaisers wanted them to keep the whole law, but they were voted down at the meeting in Acts 15. These 4 were probably those that would insult the Jews the most, if the Gentiles did them.
(1) Abstain from pollutions of idols
(2) And from fornication
(3) And from things strangled
(4) And from blood.
I dont know why any would want to. Besides it has nothing to do with us.
 

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Your humble opinion is wrong.
The very fact that Gentile Christians are able to bear the fruit of the Spirit testifies to the fact that my personal and humble opinion is right. John 15:1-8 does not only apply to Jewish Christians.
 

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Oh come on.."says you".
You are entitled to your Opinion, just as everyone else is.
We are each standing or falling, before our own master , to whom we are answerable. The day will reveal it.
Just as you believe I am wrong...I too believe you are not right and you are missing things....much!!


Ok Tell me what you see that I'm missing. I'm open to that. I'm a seeker. :)
 
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I am a bit mystified why you separate Jesus Christ from what Paul preached.
Paul got it from Jesus Christ...Paul was preaching " Christ and Him crucified.." Paul preach what Christ told him to preach.
Yet you seem to have Jesus Christ in one corner and Paul in the other. ...you separate them...Why?

Paul also says that he was taken up into heaven , and heard some things which he was told he could not utter....but what about the things that Christ Jesus told him to utter?


You are mixing up my posts with the OP. I am saying that there is but one Lord and One Gospel.


You are saying they are different by supporting H. Richard...who believes that the gospel of the kingdom is a false gospel.
 
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I am saying that there is but one Lord and One Gospel.
If all there was to the gospel was Christ crucified, I would agree, and do.

Nonetheless, the good news (the gospel) preached to those before He came, was of the promise of His coming. But the good news preached to those after His coming, is that He has come. (Read that again)

Which may seem insignificant - but one thing makes them different, and it is huge. The difference is, that those who only heard the good news after His coming - never received the promise.

So, some of us are not saying there are two gospels, as if there were two Christ's...or something. But rather, that Christ Himself has divided the gospel into two folds, and that good news come different to each.

On the other hand, there is always some whacked out stuff that comes out of this type of discussion :)
 

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I guess the biggest problem of all, for christians, is that during Christ time, for the Israelite's, He was ending the old and beginning the new. it was a transition period, ending law and works of the flesh and beginning the new Grace, Faith and the Spirit. We "christians" came in under the latter <Christ was preaching to the Jews, the lost sheep of Israel what was about to come, The disciples never understood, what Christ was doing. how could they after being a a religion that required sacrifice for salvation that could never save you. Even after His resurrection they supposedly walked a way for a time, it was not till Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell on them that they finally Got it. The Jews still choose to remain under the old because a veil has being placed over there eyes for a time.

Thank God for JEsus
 

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It is a common error for religious preachers/teachers to assume that the Pauline Gospel of Grace should be blended in with what Jesus and the 11 preached. I feel this is a deadly error that will send many to Hell.

Gal 1:8 NKJV
8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

It is a fact that God has given humankind different requirements down through history. The Pauline Gospel of salvation by faith in what God did on the cross (His shed blood) is without precedence in the scriptures. When a person fails to see this they will always blend the Law of Moses (what Jesus and the 11 taught to the Jews) with grace and destroy both of them. Paul warned about this in Rom. 2:16 and Rom 16:25.

Rom 2:16 NKJV
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Rom 16:25 NKJV
25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began.

It is clear that Jesus Christ, by His own words, did not come to minister to the Gentiles, nor was His message "the kingdom gospel" sent to the Gentiles. He did not offer the promised "kingdom of heaven" to the Gentiles. The following scriptures support this fact.

Matt 10:5-7 (NKJ)
5 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.
6 "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 "And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'

Matt 15:23-24 (NKJ)
23 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."
24 But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Paul said: Rom 15:8 (NKJ)
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Note that in Matt 10:5-7 and Matt 15:23-24 Jesus said He did not come EXCEPT to the house of Israel. Jesus came to confirm/fulfill all the promises God made to the Jews that were written about Him in the O.T. His mission was to the Jews, not to the Gentiles. This is what Paul meant in Rom 15:8 above.

IMPORTANT NOTE: -- This is not to say that God did not have another purpose for Jesus' death on the cross. But that purpose was “hidden in God” and revealed to Paul on the road to Damascus by Jesus. (Eph 3:9). The church for this age of grace (the Church of His body) started when Paul preached the gospel of grace that was given to him by Jesus.

It is my obligation/burden to try and make people see this terrible error.

H Richard
Creating a division of purpose is what you're doing.

The purpose of God has always been the same; to save humanity. Because of human shortsightedness he chose to present his salvation plan in different ways. One might say he revealed the different aspects by unfolding it bit by bit. To Adam he revealed so much, to Moses so much more
and when Jesus the great light appeared, this same plan unfolded even more.

Paul was not a stranger to this with his preaching reinforcing this fundamental strategy. To say he had a different message to Jesus is misunderstanding God's purposes
 
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If all there was to the gospel was Christ crucified, I would agree, and do.

Nonetheless, the good news (the gospel) preached to those before He came, was of the promise of His coming. But the good news preached to those after His coming, is that He has come. (Read that again)

Which may seem insignificant - but one thing makes them different, and it is huge. The difference is, that those who only heard the good news after His coming - never received the promise.

So, some of us are not saying there are two gospels, as if there were two Christ's...or something. But rather, that Christ Himself has divided the gospel into two folds, and that good news come different to each.

On the other hand, there is always some whacked out stuff that comes out of this type of discussion :)


What I have an issue with is the purpose and content of the gospel being subverted.

Jesus preached that the kingdom of God was at hand.

People who look to the outer man and the flesh only understand things as being physical. There is no understanding of spiritual things.

So then Dispensational thinking says....the kingdom is NO LONGER at hand because of Jesus' physical removal. So all of Jesus' sayings go out the window. But how can we put ALL our priorities in a kingdom that is not available? Seek FIRST the kingdom of God...becomes meaningless...and that is the central teaching of Jesus.

So then a different gospel seeks to use Jesus but at the same time fully ignore what He said.

The eternal gospel is that Jesus came in the flesh to rescue men from their sins.

To the flesh...on the part of Christ....From the flesh..our part in the exchange. (I am using the OT meanings from Hebrew of "gospel")

This is an eternal gospel...and a message of the entrance into eternal life by faith.

Not one iota of the words of Jesus have been diminished. But people seek to diminish His words to include sinful flesh in some kind of salvation scheme dreamed up by men (or worse). Paul condemns THIS practice.

My conclusion is that the modern churches, in many cases, really don't understand the gospel....or they wouldn't seek to pervert it's message and power to ACTUALLY save people.

Jesus said that the hypocrites of His time would not enter into the kingdom themselves and that they also stopped others from entering in.

This is the current state of the church in our times. And very few can see it.
 
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Creating a division of purpose is what you're doing.

The purpose of God has always been the same; to save humanity. Because of human shortsightedness he chose to present his salvation plan in different ways. One might say he revealed the different aspects by unfolding it bit by bit. To Adam he revealed so much, to Moses so much more
and when Jesus the great light appeared, this same plan unfolded even more.

Paul was not a stranger to this with his preaching reinforcing this fundamental strategy. To say he had a different message to Jesus is misunderstanding God's purposes


The fact that this isn't obvious to many people here...is shocking.
 

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It is a common error for religious preachers/teachers to assume that the Pauline Gospel of Grace should be blended in with what Jesus and the 11 preached. I feel this is a deadly error that will send many to Hell.

Gal 1:8 NKJV
8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

It is a fact that God has given humankind different requirements down through history. The Pauline Gospel of salvation by faith in what God did on the cross (His shed blood) is without precedence in the scriptures. When a person fails to see this they will always blend the Law of Moses (what Jesus and the 11 taught to the Jews) with grace and destroy both of them. Paul warned about this in Rom. 2:16 and Rom 16:25.

Rom 2:16 NKJV
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Rom 16:25 NKJV
25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began.

It is clear that Jesus Christ, by His own words, did not come to minister to the Gentiles, nor was His message "the kingdom gospel" sent to the Gentiles. He did not offer the promised "kingdom of heaven" to the Gentiles. The following scriptures support this fact.

Matt 10:5-7 (NKJ)
5 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.
6 "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 "And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'

Matt 15:23-24 (NKJ)
23 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."
24 But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Paul said: Rom 15:8 (NKJ)
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Note that in Matt 10:5-7 and Matt 15:23-24 Jesus said He did not come EXCEPT to the house of Israel. Jesus came to confirm/fulfill all the promises God made to the Jews that were written about Him in the O.T. His mission was to the Jews, not to the Gentiles. This is what Paul meant in Rom 15:8 above.

IMPORTANT NOTE: -- This is not to say that God did not have another purpose for Jesus' death on the cross. But that purpose was “hidden in God” and revealed to Paul on the road to Damascus by Jesus. (Eph 3:9). The church for this age of grace (the Church of His body) started when Paul preached the gospel of grace that was given to him by Jesus.

It is my obligation/burden to try and make people see this terrible error.

H Richard
GINOLJC, Addressing the OP only, and reading a few post.

the apostle Paul preached what our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ preached. and all the discipled preached the same thing.

not only was the same gospel preached to Abraham, but to all mankind from the begining, supportive scripture, Gen 2:2 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made".

within this one single verse is the full gospel of our Laord and saviour Jesus the Christ, which he, himself, the LORD JESUS, without flesh, preached to all mankind from the begining in Adam to all who will hear.

you don't have to go to the book of Corinthians nor the book of Galatians to know the gospel. it's all here in the begining.
 
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the lengths some ppl will go to to avoid confession, huh?

see, this way HR gets to be perfect right now, he cannot possibly sin bc he worships Jesus now, only there are several, many verses of Scripture, actually, that are like Holy Water to him lol, which he can avoid in forums by ignoring and running but in person he would scream and writhe, see.
4Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishnessg

or you’ll be like him yourself.

5Answer a fool according to his foolishnessh

or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.i
 

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What I have an issue with is the purpose and content of the gospel being subverted.

Jesus preached that the kingdom of God was at hand.

People who look to the outer man and the flesh only understand things as being physical. There is no understanding of spiritual things.

So then Dispensational thinking says....the kingdom is NO LONGER at hand because of Jesus' physical removal. So all of Jesus' sayings go out the window. But how can we put ALL our priorities in a kingdom that is not available? Seek FIRST the kingdom of God...becomes meaningless...and that is the central teaching of Jesus.

So then a different gospel seeks to use Jesus but at the same time fully ignore what He said.

The eternal gospel is that Jesus came in the flesh to rescue men from their sins.

To the flesh...on the part of Christ....From the flesh..our part in the exchange. (I am using the OT meanings from Hebrew of "gospel")

This is an eternal gospel...and a message of the entrance into eternal life by faith.

Not one iota of the words of Jesus have been diminished. But people seek to diminish His words to include sinful flesh in some kind of salvation scheme dreamed up by men (or worse). Paul condemns THIS practice.

My conclusion is that the modern churches, in many cases, really don't understand the gospel....or they wouldn't seek to pervert it's message and power to ACTUALLY save people.

Jesus said that the hypocrites of His time would not enter into the kingdom themselves and that they also stopped others from entering in.

This is the current state of the church in our times. And very few can see it.
I think were talking about two different things.

I believe the point of the OP is noting the two different folds brought by Christ into the kingdom, with no intent to diminish the kingdom, Jesus' teachings, and no attempt to return to the flesh...just a noted difference in the message leading up to the cross, and that of looking back at it. That leading up to the cross was the era of the first Adam, and after the cross is a different era, that of the Last Adam. Literally, with the two eras being as different as the flesh (first) and the spirit (last).

As for your position on many in the modern church, I agree.
 
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GINOLJC, Addressing the OP only, and reading a few post.

the apostle Paul preached what our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ preached. and all the discipled preached the same thing.

not only was the same gospel preached to Abraham, but to all mankind from the begining, supportive scripture, Gen 2:2 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made".

within this one single verse is the full gospel of our Laord and saviour Jesus the Christ, which he, himself, the LORD JESUS, without flesh, preached to all mankind from the begining in Adam to all who will hear.

you don't have to go to the book of Corinthians nor the book of Galatians to know the gospel. it's all here in the begining.

Why are you refusing to believe what Paul taught? The scriptures tell us that Paul's gospel was HIDDEN, HIDDEN, HIDDEN, in God until reveled to Paul. But you refuse to believe the scriptures so that you can support your religion.

1 Cor 2:7-8
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
NKJV

Eph 3:8-9
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
NKJV

Col 1:26-27
26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
NKJV

But your religious mind just will not see the word, "HIDDEN".
 
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I think were talking about two different things.

I believe the point of the OP is noting the two different folds brought by Christ into the kingdom, with no intent to diminish the kingdom, Jesus' teachings, and no attempt to return to the flesh...just a noted difference in the message leading up to the cross, and that of looking back at it. That leading up to the cross was the era of the first Adam, and after the cross is a different era, that of the Last Adam. Literally, with the two eras being as different as the flesh (first) and the spirit (last).

As for your position on many in the modern church, I agree.

I think that the OP is going a lot further than that. Read what HR posted...

It is a common error for religious preachers/teachers to assume that the Pauline Gospel of Grace should be blended in with what Jesus and the 11 preached. I feel this is a deadly error that will send many to Hell.

Here HR is claiming that the gospel of Jesus preached today is worthy of damnation. How can a person get more confused than that?
 

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Why are you refusing to believe what Paul taught? The scriptures tell us that Paul's gospel was HIDDEN, HIDDEN, HIDDEN, in God until reveled to Paul. But you refuse to believe the scriptures so that you can support your religion.

1 Cor 2:7-8
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
NKJV

Eph 3:8-9
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
NKJV

Col 1:26-27
26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
NKJV

But your religious mind just will not see the word, "HIDDEN".


It is still hidden to this day to many believers...and you won't see it...because it is spiritual.
 

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Short and relevant;

James 3:1 KJVS
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

Be careful what you preach. Gullible weak souls are about. Again;

James 3:1 KJVS
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

2 Timothy 2:15 KJVS
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Since the word of truth can be rightly divided then it also can be wrongly divided. A masterful ancient Chinese butcher was said to be able to cut up hundreds of animals without having to sharpen his knife due to his ability to use that knife and his knowledge of anatomy. A poor butcher mangles the work by improper division of the parts of the anatomy and clumsy use of cutting tools.

Such are they that attempt to teach the Bible but introduce strange doctrines.

Jesus said "I and my father are one". He is not divided.
 
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Why are you refusing to believe what Paul taught? The scriptures tell us that Paul's gospel was HIDDEN, HIDDEN, HIDDEN, in God until reveled to Paul. But you refuse to believe the scriptures so that you can support your religion.

1 Cor 2:7-8
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
NKJV

Eph 3:8-9
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
NKJV

Col 1:26-27
26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
NKJV

But your religious mind just will not see the word, "HIDDEN".

First thanks for the reply, second, ERROR on your Part. I will say nothing, but let the scripture speak for themselves.
Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Eph 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

that Mystery is now made known to the apostle in their time. but was not that mystery contained in what God said in the begining? listen,
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

see H. Richard, the error you make is in the fleshly sabbath instead of the Spiritual Sabbath. you didn't know that did you? you didn't know that it's two sabbath, understand "Rest" here, it is the hebrew word,
H7673 שָׁבַת shabath (shaw-ɓath') v.
to repose, i.e. to cease from exertion

yes, "Sabbath". but what is the mystery in the Sabbath of the LORD? "WHAT WAS THE SABBATH/REST FOR".

let's find out, scripture,
Deut 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

the seventh day is the sabbath of WHO? the LORD thy God, not your, nor mine. keep this in mind.
now why do no work on the LORD seventh day rest? let's get to the mystery.

scripture,
Exod 23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

H. Richard, did you see the "MYSTERY?" I guess no, so let's reveal it to you. see that word in blue at the end of the verse in Exod 23:12 "refreshed". it's the Hebrew word,
H5314 נָפַשׁ naphash (naw-fash') v.
1. to breathe.
2. (passively) to be breathed upon.

3. (figuratively) to be refreshed (as if by a current of air).
[a primitive root]
KJV: (be) refresh selves (-ed).

notice definition #2, (passively) to be breathed upon. now where have we seen this before?, let me jog your memory.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

new life, right, now this,
John 20:22 And when he had said this,
he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. the same meaning for "REFRESH" in Exod 23:12 (NEW LIFE IN THE HOLY GHOST)

NEW LIFE, YES, or the NEW CREATION IN THE HOLY GHOST, (this is the Gospel). what did the Lord Jesus Preached? let's see, John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one, as we are.
be one?

what did the apostle Paul preached?

Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Eph 2:17 And came and
preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (one might want to read that again)
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

THROUGH THE SPIRIT? ..... meaning the Holy Ghost,

what did the Lord Jesus preach? scripture,
Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison,
Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled,
and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

the KINGDOM of God? What did the apostle Paul Preach? let's see,

Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

what did the Lord Jesus do and say? John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost

what did Paul Prech? Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

seems like the same gospel to me. (maybe someone else have the religious mind, by the love of the doctrine, and traditions of men). the Gospel is the RESURRECTION, or the "REFRESHING" or the "RESTORING" or the "RESTORATION" of Man, who was dead in sins and tresspass, to everlasting "LIFE". not for the Jews only, no, but for all mandkind who will hear his "GOSPEL".
 
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So then Dispensational thinking says....the kingdom is NO LONGER at hand because of Jesus' physical removal. So all of Jesus' sayings go out the window.
More nonsense about Dispensationalist teaching. There is no doubt that Jesus -- the King Messiah of Israel -- was rejected by Israel. He has not established His real, visible, physical, tangible Kingdom of God on earth as yet. That will only happen after the Second Coming of Christ.

But all the teachings of Christ (other than those applicable to the Old Covenant) are necessary for ALL CHRISTIANS FOR ALL TIME. There is no
Levitical priesthood, for example, and lepers cannot show themselves to priests.

If you are ignorant about Dispensationalism, that does not give you the right to slander Christians. Indeed you were told to get a proper understanding about this since when you first came on this forum, but you have continued to make ignorant and arrogant remarks about Dispensationalists. Be aware that you will be held accountable by God for every false accusation.