I don't see it: you'll need to be more specific than referring to a whole chapter, quote the teaching and show it from the context.
If you are under the OT Old Covenant, then you are not a Christian, you are an OT Jew.
Again, Paul states that the Torah
has become our paidagogos, (a child leader-instructor, Gal 3:24), regardless of whether or not you accept it.
I dont think you qualify.
But you can keep trying it.
@dak
You are the judge of who is a Yhudi and who is not? Sorry, that is not up to you and by this you overstep the authority of the Master himself, THE JUDGE.
None of us but the RAPTURED, "escape physical death".....so, obviously Paul is speaking of the "i came to give you life"... as Jesus said.
The so-called "rapture" only serves to prove what I have said. Paul uses harpazo not once but TWICE in the revelation he received which he narrates in 2Cor 12:1-4, and yet none of the "rapturists" ever quote from or discuss that short little four-verse description of that revelation which was obviously a vision, (2Cor 12:1).
Study also mount Horeb, the mountain of Elohim, (of above), particularly what is written in Exodus 33:4-6, (I say
study because you are not going to get the truth in English translations because they do not understand it for misreading a single prefixed mem particle attached to Horeb).
All that believe in Jesus , He gives them: = "eternal Life".
By his holy Testimony, which is Spirit, (John 6:63), even the Spirit of Grace, (Zec 12:10, Heb 10:29), and therefore anyone who claims his name and does not believe his Testimony insults the Spirit of Grace, (Heb 10:29).
The "Path" to Heaven, Jesus explains in John 14:6... like this.
"""""No person comes to the Father but by ME"""""., because I AM "THE WAY"......to the Father.
So, there is your path... .= Jesus is "THE WAY"..
Yes, I know this and fully agree.
Now, how do you get on it?
1.) "all who believe in Jesus"...........and then God does this.....>>"Faith is counted by God, as (Christ's imputed) Righteousness", unto the believer.
This accounting of faith is obviously from Gen 15:6, the covenant of Abraham, but yet again this proves what I have said and that is because I said it according the scripture and the doctrine taught by the Master to his own disciples and apostles.
The faith/belief accounted to Abram as righteousness in Gen 15:6 was not
fulfilled until he was tested, many years later, in Gen 22.
James 2:20-24 KJV
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? [Gen 22]
22
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: [Gen 15:6] and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Abram was tested much later, in Gen 22, and he endured unto the end and overcame. One cannot just feed off the epistles of Paul and ignore the rest of scripture. Without this passage in Yakob, a.k.a. James, the message from both the Torah, the Meshiah, and Paul, is misunderstood.
So, what proves that has happened.?
Jesus said......"you must be born again"........and that is not water baptism.
Slightly touched on that already in this thread: the following contains a double amen, which is a double affirmation, like saying
So be it, Truly I say....... in other words the first amen means affirmative, yes.
John 3:4-5
4 Nikodemos says to him, How is a man able to be born, being old? Is he able to enter into the womb of his mother a second time, and to be born?
5
Ι̅Η answered, Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone not be born of water and
of the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the Kingdom of Elohim:
Paraphrase:
So be it, (Nikodemos, go back into the womb of your mother(covenant), and relearn everything),
truly I say to you, if anyone not be born of water and
of the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the Kingdom of Elohim:
If the Prophet Yeshayah can do it, Isa 49:1), and if Nikodemos the Teacher of Yisrael can do it, (he did, and believed, and showed his love for the Master, John 19:39), and if Paul can do it, (Gal 1:15-16), and if the same was true for Timothy, (2 Tim 3:15), then surely we also can do so, if indeed we are willing to hear and believe the statement for what it actually says and means. Paul tells you who is our mother(covenant) in Gal 4:26, (Yerushalem of above), which we have discussed thoroughly here in the last several pages.
And all the born again, are "Heirs of God", and 'joint heirs with Jesus........so, there is the "promise of the inheritance", manifesting.
This concludes in Heaven.
Not according to the author of Hebrews which I quoted, and neither does Paul say that:
Ephesians 1:12-14 KJV
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
What I have said is basically straight from this statement also: but I don't confine myself only to the writings of Paul, for Paul must also agree with every one else who penned holy writ by the holy Spirit of the Father upon them. If you read Paul in a vacuum you end up making up your own meanings for the things he writes about.
In the above there is the time when one first believes, and is sealed with the holy Spirit of the Promise, but that is not the end all because Paul states that it is the earnest of our inheritance, (which is not much different than earnest money on a house to show that the purchaser is serious about purchasing the house at a later date). In this case you are the house, (temple of the holy Spirit, temple of Elohim), and the day of the coming redemption of the purchased possession (you) is in the future from the time that you first believed and were sealed with the holy Spirit of the Promise.
The Testimony of the Master is Spirit and Life, (again, John 6:63, his words are his Testimony), and likewise also the Spirit of Grace, (see above), and therefore Paul was indeed very likely handing out his Gospel account, (which he calls "my Gospel", which we now know as "Luke", see the OP and what follows), and if so then surely he was handing it out together with the Acts 15 letter from the apostles and brethren at Yerushalem. Thus the earnest, which is in other places also called the earnest of the Spirit, (2Cor 1:22, 2Cor 5:5), is the all-important
Testimony of the Meshiah.
Moreover the second reference above, 2Cor 5:5, leads into a discussion about the Bema:
2 Corinthians 5:5-11 KJV
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God,
who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Understand that the final verse quoted,
"Knowing therefore the terror of the Master, we persuade men", is Paul straightforwardly telling you that he had already been to the Bema, and thus it happens in this life, not after your carcass dies off, (physical death of the physical body).
Matt 24, is Jesus talking about the Tribulation.....and He says....>"when you see the abomination of Desolation".
So...THAT happens during the Tribulation.......and Jesus had just explained that you have to "endure to the end".. of the Tribulation, to be saved.
Whereas, "in the time of the Gentiles"........and we are in it.......we dont endure........we "receive Salvation" that is a "GIFT"... that Christ has accompished on The Cross., as "God's GIFT of Salvation".
The only question at the moment is are you a dispensationist or a full blown hyper dispy? It's a terrible scourge foisted upon the modern mainstream church.