The Jews missed Jesus and His message. But so do many believers in Jesus. What they have in common is the WAY they believe things....no faith is involved...just religious dogmatism. Naming and claiming.
The Jews are more advanced than most believers in that they leave room for people that do not follow their tradition to be seen as righteous.
The Jews believe that people of the nations can be righteous before God. They see themselves as a holy nation...meant to rule over the nations.
If only Christianity was as aware of eternal things as the Jews. So we have gone downhill from the Jewish faith. Salvation is of the Jews. For modern believers...there is a need to see that we have gone astray from our calling...the high calling in Christ....and we are taking away from a basic understanding of the bible? Why? To justify ourselves.
If we want to surpass the Jews...we need to stop taking away righteousness from the righteous and stop elevating ourselves because of our beliefs.
YEAH they DID MISS the message . TO BELIEVE ON HIM . And they aint alone either epi .
Many today preach a CHRISTLESS CROSS ,
they teach some of the good he taught to do . WELL SO Did the religous jews teach to do some good .
BUT THEY DONT BELIEVE OR THINK ITS NECESSARY TO BELEIVE ON CHRIST JESUS .
KNOW ANYONE LIKE THAT EPI . cause i sure do . ITS YOU . you overlook the dire necessity to HAVE TO EVEN BELEIVE ON HIM
and try and preach SOME OF THE THINGS HE TAUGHT . IT AINT GONNA WORK OUT EPI .
ANYONE can teach a form of religoin , YET DENY THE POWER THEREOF .
MANY have and can have a form of godliness and YET DENY THE POWER THEREOF EPI .
SO HERE IS THE POWER OF GOD .
TRY PREACHING THAT and THEN teach others HIS REMINDERS .
HERES THE POWER YOU OMIT . FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION . JESUS CHRIST .
ONLY YE WONT PREACH TO BELIEVE ON HIM . YOU preach at most a form of godliness , YET DENY THE ONLY NAME
WHEREBY ONE MAY BE SAVED . ITS LIKE putting the horse IN THE CART and then trying to PULL THE CART epi .
IT WONT WORK . You preach a lie my friend . A humanstic view of GOD , which aint GOD .
TIME to stop believing that other religoins can attain salvation . THEY CANT .
ALL must repent and BELIEVE ON JESUS . THEN THE REST WILL SURELY COME .
Epi , your cross you preach holds budda , muhammed and all other paths ON IT .
PROBLEM IS , ITS JESUS ALONE that must be preached . THE DIRE NEED to BELIEVE ON HIM
MUST BE THE FIRST THING TAUGHT . WITHOUT that , ITS ALL VAIN . LEARN YE THAT .