THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

[Marilyn C]

Jesus said He would build His church, because He understands the Church global to be a singular entity--just as Paul says "you are members of His body--one is an eye, one is a hand". Are you saying Jesus is only building the "ekklesia of Israel", a made-up term, but He isn't building congregations of believers that aren't Jewish?
You really are ridiculous.

`This is he who was in the Church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us....` (Acts 7: 38)

I`m saying that God recognizes the two churches/ekklesia that He made - Israel and the Body of Christ.

And denigrating another just makes yourself look cheap.

 

[GracePeace]

`My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.` (Gal. 4: 19)

That is Paul talking to HIS disciples and using pictorial language as is `bearing fruit to God.` (Rom. 7: 4)

Right, you asked when we became "feminine"--there's your answer.

 

[GracePeace]

Mmm I don`t seem to have that scripture in my Bible about Thomas going to India.

Oh, OK, Ms. "Bible Scholar", the Apostles never went to the nations--they disobeyed Jesus Christ.
No, we don't have Thomas going to India in the Bible, but we do have Peter going to the Gentiles (which is another word for "the nations").

As to the `good news,` yes Peter and Paul agreed that Jesus was Lord and Messiah and that the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles, however, where do you read of Peter teaching about the Body of Christ? That was the revelation given to Paul which Peter could not understand. (2 Peter 3: 16)

1. Peter taught that we were all being built up into a spiritual house of God, so he did see that we were all one entity, but, indeed, Paul was given a revelation about the truth that we don't have a record of Peter teaching--that doesn't mean it was something that applied only to "Pauline" believers (which sort of idea Paul denounces as "carnal"--"I am of Paul"). Do you know what "revelation" means? It means something is being "revealed". That doesn't mean it isn't already true, it just means that someone is being given an understanding about a reality that already is.
2. It does not follow from the fact that Peter did not teach about the body of Christ, that, "ergo", that was what Peter was talking about when he said that some things Paul writes about are difficult to understand. How is it difficult to understand? I can think of other topics, like faith and works and justification, that men have debated about endlessly, that Peter could have been referring to. And getting that topic wrong could actually affect your salvation, as he says--"to their own destruction"--but misunderstanding a simple idea like "the body of Christ" would be a difficult feat, and it likely wouldn't result in someone's damnation.

 

[GracePeace]

`This is he who was in the Church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us....` (Acts 7: 38)

I`m saying that God recognizes the two churches/ekklesia that He made - Israel and the Body of Christ.

And denigrating another just makes yourself look cheap.

It makes no sense, actually : based on your own logic, if anyone would be a part of "congregation of Israel", it would be Paul. It's just an arbitrary decision you've made to not follow your own logic and have him in "congregation of Israel", but part of something else.

 

[GracePeace]

@Marilyn C
Anyway, again, got to do some sleeping.