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#25
Who do you think "those souls... who... were not convinced in the days of Noah" are?
(Sons of God who had children with descendants of Adam?
offspring of: Sons of God and descendants of Adam?)

"NOT YOUR Messiah"
Was Jesus the Messiah to those in Sheol that he preached to, people who'd died in the Flood?

1 Peter 3 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
18 Because The Messiah also died once for the sake of our sins,
The Righteous One in the place of sinners,
to bring you to God,
and he died in body and lived in his Spirit.
19 And he preached to those souls who were held in Sheol,
20 These who from the first were not convinced in the days of Noah when the long-suffering of God commanded that there would be an ark, upon the hope of their repentance, and only eight souls entered it and were kept alive by water.

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When 1 Peter 4 says [v. 6]"The Good News was proclaimed also to the dead that they would be judged as children of men in the flesh," do you believe that speaks of angels?

1 Peter 4 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
3 For that past time was enough in which you served the pleasure of The Pagans, in debauchery, drunkenness, in whoredom, in orgies and in the worship of demons. 4 And behold, now they marvel and insult you because you do not run riot with them in this former debauchery, 5 Those who give an account to God, who is going to judge the dead and living. 6 For because of this, The Good News was proclaimed also to the dead that they would be judged as children of men in the flesh and they would live in God by The Spirit.

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Did you begin to exist?
Does God exist without having ever begun to exist?

Slavery is very common in the world these days.
Are you anti-slavery?  If 'yes,' do you decline to legislate your anti-slavery beliefs on others?

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Re: Acts 10, do you agree that:
[v. 34]"God is no respecter of persons"?
[v. 35]"among all nations [Aramaic:  ai-m-m-a:  people/s, nation/s, Gentiles], whoever worships him [God] and works righteousness is acceptable to him"?

[v. 42]"he [Jesus] commanded us [Jesus' group of 12 then 11 closest students] to preach and to testify to the people [Aramaic:  l'ai-m-m:  to the people/s, nation/s, Gentiles] that This is He who was appointed by God to be The Judge of the living and of the dead"?

[v. 43]"everyone who believes in his [Jesus'] Name will receive forgiveness of sins"?
[v. 45]"the gift of The Spirit of Holiness was poured forth also upon Gentiles [Aramaic:  ai-m-m-a:  people/s, nation/s, Gentiles]"?

Re: Acts 11:1, do you agree that "Gentiles [Aramaic:  ai-m-m-a:  people/s, nation/s, Gentiles] had also received the word of God"?

Acts 10 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
https://biblehub .com/aramaic-plain-english/acts/10.htm
34 But Shimeon [Simon Peter] opened his mouth and he said, "In truth, I understand that God is no respecter of persons.
35 But among all nations, whoever worships him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. 36 For the word which he sent to the children of Israel and announced good news of peace and tranquility to them by Yeshua The Messiah, (This One is LORD JEHOVAH of all), 37 You also are aware of the word that has come to all Judea, which went out from Galilee after the baptism that Yohannan preached, 38 About Yeshua who was from Nazareth, whom God anointed with The Spirit of Holiness and with power, and he was traveling and healing those injured by The Evil One, because God was with him. 39 And we witnessed him concerning all whatsoever he did in all the land of Judea and of Jerusalem. The Judeans hanged him on a tree and murdered him. 40 And God raised him up the third day and granted him to appear publicly. 41 But not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses for him, we who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the grave.
42 And he commanded us to preach and to testify to the people that This is He who was appointed by God to be The Judge of the living and of the dead.
43 And all The Prophets have borne him witness, that everyone who believes in his Name will receive forgiveness of sins."

44 And when Shimeon was speaking these words, The Spirit of Holiness rested on all of those who were hearing the word. 45 And circumcised brethren who had come with him were stupefied and astonished that the gift of The Spirit of Holiness was poured forth also upon Gentiles, 46 For they heard them speaking in various languages and magnifying God, and Shimeon was saying: 47 "Can anyone refuse water that they should not be baptized? For, behold, they have received The Spirit of Holiness, as when we did." 48 Then he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Our Lord Yeshua The Messiah, and they begged him to stay with them for some days.

Acts 11:1 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
https://biblehub .com/aramaic-plain-english/acts/11.htm
And it was heard by the Apostles and by the brethren who were in Judea that Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Acts 10:35
http://dukhrana.com/pesh itta/analyze_verse.php?lang=en&verse=Acts+10:35&source=khabouris&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%25
(Etheridge) but in all nations [Aramaic:  ai-m-m-a:  people/s, nation/s, Gentiles] whoever feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.
(Murdock) but, among all the nations, he who feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable with him.
(Lamsa) But among all people, he who fears him and works righteousness is accepted with him.
(KJV) But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Acts 10:42
http://dukhrana.com/pesh itta/analyze_verse.php?lang=en&verse=Acts+10:42&source=khabouris&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%25
(Etheridge) And he commanded us to preach and to testify to the people [Aramaic:  l'ai-m-m:  to the people/s, nation/s, Gentiles] that this is he who hath been separated by Aloha (to be) the Judge of the living and of the dead.
(Murdock) And he commanded us to proclaim and testify to the people, that he is appointed of God to be judge of the living and of the dead.
(KJV) And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.

Acts 10:45
http://dukhrana.com/pesh itta/analyze_verse.php?lang=en&verse=Acts+10:45&source=khabouris&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%25
(Etheridge) And the circumcised brethren who had come with him were astonished and amazed, because upon the Gentiles [Aramaic:  ai-m-m-a:  people/s, nation/s, Gentiles] also the gift of the Spirit of Holiness was poured out.
(Murdock) And the circumcised brethren who came with him, were amazed and astonished, that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Gentiles also.
(KJV) And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 11:1
http://dukhrana.com/pesh itta/analyze_verse.php?lang=en&verse=Acts+11:1&source=ubs&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%25
(Etheridge) And the apostles and brethren who were in Jihud heard that the Gentiles [Aramaic:  ai-m-m-a:  people/s, nation/s, Gentiles] also had received the word of Aloha.
(Murdock) And it was reported to the legates and the brethren in Judaea, that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
(KJV) And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

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"Cornelius was a descendant of Abraham"
By what reasoning/evidence do you come to that conclusion?
Do you believe that the cured leper that returned to Jesus to give thanks "was a descendant of Abraham"?

Acts 10:28
(Lamsa), dukhrana
So he said to them, You know well that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with a stranger who is not of his tribe; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Luke 17:18
(Etheridge) None have separated to come (and) give praise to Aloha, but this, who is from a strange people.

Pesh itta verses that contains word 2:13121 n-u-k-r-i-a
http://dukhrana.com/pesh itta/sedra_concordance.php?adr=2:13121&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%25&source=khabouris

Luke 17:18
(Etheridge) None have separated to come (and) give praise to Aloha, but this, who is from a strange people.
(Murdock) Have they so gone as not to come and give glory to God; except this one, who is of another nation ?
(KJV) There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

Luke 24:18
(Etheridge) And one of them answered, whose name was Kleopha, and said to him, Art thou only a stranger from Urishlem, who knowest not what hath been done in it in these days ?
(Murdock) And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said to him: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou knowest not the things that have occurred there in these days?
(Lamsa) One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to him, Are you a stranger alone from Jerusalem, that you do not know what has happened in it in these days?
(KJV) And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

John 10:5
(Etheridge) But after a stranger the flock goeth not, but it fleeth from him; for it knoweth not the voice of a stranger.
(Murdock) But after a stranger the flock will not follow, but it fleeth from him; because it knoweth not the voice of a stranger.
(Lamsa) The sheep do not follow a stranger, but they run away from him; because they do not know the voice of a stranger.
(KJV) And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

Acts 10:28
(Etheridge) And he said to them, You know that it is not lawful for a man a Jihudoya to attach to a foreign man who is not a son of his tribe. But me hath Aloha showed that I should not declare any man unclean or profane.
(Lamsa) So he said to them, You know well that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with a stranger who is not of his tribe; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
(KJV) And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

1Corinthians 14:21
(Etheridge) In the law it is written, In a strange language and in another tongue Will I speak with this people; Yet so will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
(Murdock) In the law it is written, With a foreign speech, and in another tongue, will I speak with this people; and even so also they will not hearken to me, saith the Lord.
(KJV) In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the LORD.

Pesh itta verses that contains word 2:13122 n-u-k-r-i-a
http://dukhrana.com/pesh itta/sedra_concordance.php?adr=2:13122&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%25&source=khabouris

Matthew 17:25
(Etheridge) He saith to them, Yes. And when Kipha entered the house, Jeshu anticipated him, and said to him, How doth it appear to thee, Shemun ? the kings of the earth, from whom do they take custom and headsilver, from their children, or from aliens ?
(Murdock) He said to them, Yes. And when Cephas had entered the house, Jesus anticipated him and said to him: How doth it appear to thee, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute and capitation money ? of their children, or of aliens ?
(Lamsa) He said to them, Yes. And when Peter entered the house, Jesus anticipated and said to him, What do you think, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth collect custom duties and head-tax? from their sons, or from strangers?
(KJV) He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?

Matthew 17:26

Acts 17:18
(Etheridge) and the philosophers also who were of the doctrine of Epikuros, and others who were called Estoiku, disputed with him. And some of them said, What willeth this accumulator of words ? And others said, He preaches foreign gods; because Jeshu and his resurrection he preached unto them.
(Murdock) And also philosophers of the sect of Epicureans, and others who were called Stoics, disputed with him. And one and another of them said: What doth this word-monger mean ? Others said: He announceth foreign deities; because he preached to them Jesus and his resurrection.
(KJV) Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Acts 17:21
(Etheridge) But all the Athinoyee, and those foreigners who are there, of no other thing are careful, but to say and to hear something new.
(Murdock) For all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there, cared for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.
(Lamsa) (For all the Athenians and the strangers who were there, were uninterested in anything except something new to tell or to hear.)
(KJV) (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

Colossians 1:21
(Etheridge) YOU also, who before were aliens and adversaries in your minds by your evil works, hath he reconciled now
(Murdock) And also to you, who were before alienated and enemies in your minds, because of your evil deeds,
(Lamsa) Even to you, who in times past were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil works, has been given peace,
(KJV) And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

1Timothy 5:22
(Etheridge) The hand suddenly on any man lay not, neither participate in others' sins. Keep thyself in purity.
(Murdock) Lay not the hand hastily on any man; and participate not in the sins of others; keep thyself pure.
(Lamsa) Do not lay hands hastily on any man, neither be a partaker of other men's sins; keep yourself pure.
(KJV) Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Hebrews 12:8
(Etheridge) And if ye be without the correction with which every one is corrected, ye are aliens, and not children.
(Murdock) But if ye are without that chastisement, with which every one is chastened, ye are become strangers and not sons.
(Lamsa) But if you are without discipline, that very discipline by which every man is trained, then you are strangers and not sons.
(KJV) But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Hebrews 13:9
(Murdock) Be not led away by strange and variable doctrines. For it is a good thing, that we strengthen our hearts with grace, and not with meats; for those have not been benefited, who walked in them.
(Lamsa) Do not be carried away by strange and divers doctrines. For it is a good thing to strengthen our hearts with grace; not with food, because it did not help those who greatly sought after it.
(KJV) Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

DavidFord

#26
"God loved only his people Israel"
Did God love the:
Samaritan woman at the well?
widow from Sidon?
Syrian Naaman?
pagan woman from Phoenicia of Syria?
centurian Cornelius?
foreign leper that was cured and returned to give thanks?
King Agrippa, Governor Festus, Berniqi, and all the others who heard Paul's speech?
people who produce fruit, people to whom were given the Kingdom of God?

John 4:9 (NIV)
The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Luke 4 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
24 But he said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is not a Prophet who is received in his town." 25 "For truly I say to you that many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah the Prophet, when the heavens were shut for three years and six months, and there was great hunger in all the land." 26 "And Elijah was not sent to one of them except to Tsarepta of Tsidon unto a widow woman." 27 "And there were many lepers among Israel in the days of Elisha the Prophet and not one of them was purified except Naaman the Syrian." 28 And when they who were in the synagogue heard these things, they were all filled with rage. 29 And they arose and they thrust him outside of the city and they brought him unto the ridge of the mountain on which the city was built to cast him from the precipice. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and he departed.

Mark 7 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
24 Yeshua arose from there and came to the coast of Tyre and of Sidon, and he entered a certain house and he did not want anyone to know him and he could not be hidden. 25 For immediately a certain woman heard about him, whose daughter had a foul spirit, and she came falling before his feet. 26 But she was a pagan woman from Phoenicia of Syria, and she was begging him to cast out the demon from her daughter. 27 And Yeshua said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 28 But she answered and said to him, "Yes, my lord, but even the dogs from under the table eat the children's crumbs." 29 Yeshua said to her, "Go; because of this saying the demon has gone out from your daughter." 30 And she went to her house and found her daughter lying in bed, and the demon had been cast out of her.

Acts 10 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
1 But in Qesaria was a certain man, a Centurion whose name was Cornelius, from the regiment which is called Italiqa. 2 And he was righteous and was a worshiper of God, he and his whole house, and he did great charitable work among the people and always prayed to God. 3 This man saw an Angel of God in a vision plainly before his face at the ninth hour of the day, who entered his presence and said to him, "Cornelia." 4 And he gazed at him and was afraid and said, "What, my lord?" And The Angel said to him, "Your prayer and your charity have gone up for a remembrance before God.
Acts 10:28 (Lamsa), dukhrana
So he [Peter] said to them, You know well that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with a stranger who is not of his tribe; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Luke 17:18 (Etheridge)
None have separated to come (and) give praise to Aloha, but this, who is from a strange people.

Acts 26 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English, with some "s deleted), biblehub
1 And Agrippa said to Paulus, "You are permitted to speak for yourself."
And Paulus stretched out his hand and offered a defense and said:
2 "Concerning everything of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa....
24 When Paulus had thus rendered a defense, Festus cried out with a loud voice, "You are insane, Paul! Much study has made you insane!"
25 Paulus said, "I am not insane, excellent Festus, but I am speaking words of truth and integrity. 26 Also King Agrippa especially knows of such things as these, therefore I speak openly before him, because I do not think one of these matters has escaped him, for they were not done in secret. 27 Do you believe The Prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you do believe."
28 Agrippa said to him, "In a little bit you will persuade me to become a Christian."
29 Paulus said, *"I have desired* from God in a little and in much, not for you only, but also *for all those who are hearing me now to be like me, except for these chains."*
30 And The King stood for him, and the Governor and Berniqi and those who were sitting with them.

Matthew 21 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), with some "s deleted
37 Finally, he sent to them his son as he said, 'Doubtless they will reverence my son.' 38 But when the laborers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir, come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.' 39 And they seized and led him outside of the vineyard and killed him. 40 Therefore when the Lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those laborers?"
41 They said to him, "He will ruthlessly destroy them and he will give the care of the vineyard to other laborers, who will give him the fruits in their season."
42 Yeshua said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was from the presence of THE LORD JEHOVAH, and it is a wonder in our eyes.'? 43 Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken from you and will be given to a people who will produce fruit. 44 And whoever falls on this stone will be shattered, and it will pulverize to dust everyone upon whom it will fall."
45 And when the Chief Priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he had spoken against them. 46 And they sought to seize him and they were afraid of the crowds, because they were holding him as a Prophet.

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"Can we agree that everyone whom Yahweh promised to save was/will be saved?"
Sure.  God promised to save everybody.  See Romans 5. 
'Everybody' includes Sodom.  See Ezekiel 16.

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Does 'kosmō/ κόσμῳ/ world' work better?

Romans 5:13 (NIV)
https://biblehub .com/interlinear/romans/5-13.htm
https://biblehub .com/romans/5-13.htm
To be sure, sin was in the world [Greek:  2889 kosmō/ κόσμῳ/ world] before the law was given,
but sin is not charged against anyone's account where there is no law.

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"first century Jews had ZERO concept of the globe that you and I know. To them, their 'world' was the local environs around Jerusalem"
Including:  Italy?  Rome, Italy?  Egypt?  Ethiopia?  Spain?  Asia?

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"The God of Israel commanded his people to kill others whom God did not love"
Are you aware of Jesus-- God in the flesh-- commanding anything like that?

Matthew 26:52 (NIV)
"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Luke 9 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), https://biblehub .com/aramaic-plain-english/luke/9.htm
51 And it was that when the days of his ascent were fulfilled, he prepared himself to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers before his presence and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans so as to prepare for him. 53 And they did not receive him because his person was determined to go to Jerusalem. 54 And when Yaqob and Yohannan his disciples saw it, they were saying to him, "Our Lord, do you want us to speak and fire will descend from Heaven, and will consume them as Elijah also did?" 55 And he turned and he rebuked them and he said, "You do not know of which Spirit you are." 56 "For The Son of Man has not come to destroy lives but to give life." And they went to other villages.

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"Jews were those of the southern kingdom of Judah who practiced the law.
All jews were Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews.
The gentiles of the New testament were the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
This would have been the other ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel. This is the people God divorced and spread out among the nations. They become hellenized in culture and way of life no longer practicing the law."

So you have categories of "Jews," "Israelites," and "gentiles."
How would you categorize each of these people?:
Moabite Ruth.
Jericho prostitute Rahab.
the people of Ninevah who repented at Jonah's preaching.
Samaritan woman at the well.
widow from Sidon who Elijah helped.
Naaman the Syrian who was cured of leprosy.
pagan woman from Phoenicia of Syria, whose daughter Jesus delivered from a demon.
the people speaking a variety of languages who understood Peter's preaching on Pentecost.
centurian Cornelius of the Italian regiment.
foreign leper that was cured and returned to tell Jesus 'thanks.'
King Agrippa.
Governor Festus.
Berniqi.
all the others who heard Paul's remarks to King Agrippa.
Caesar, who Paul was intent on evangelizing.
the saints of the household of Caesar.
the Roman soldiers guarding Paul that Paul preached to.
the Stoics and Epicureans Paul preached to.
people who produce fruit, people to whom were given the Kingdom of God-- as promised by Jesus.
people from whom was taken the Kingdom of God-- as promised by Jesus.

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"The people you listed in the Old Testament have nothing to do with the mission of the New Testament a gospel"
The Moabite Ruth and the Jericho prostitute Rahab became part of the lineage of Jesus the Messiah.  Jesus spoke of the people of Ninevah who repented at Jonah's preaching.  Jesus offered the Samaritan woman at the well living water, and tradition says she became a Christian martyr.  Jesus discussed the widow from Sidon who Elijah helped, and Naaman the Syrian who was cured of leprosy.  Jesus delivered from a demon the daughter of the pagan woman from Phoenicia of Syria.

"the people you listed, Cornelius, Festus, etc were Israelites"
Upon what basis/grounds do you believe that these people were biological descendants of Jacob?:
pagan/heathen woman from Phoenicia of Syria, whose daughter Jesus delivered from a demon.
centurian Cornelius of the Italian regiment.
foreign leper that was cured and returned to tell Jesus 'thanks.'
King Agrippa.
Governor Festus.
Berniqi.
all the others who heard Paul's remarks to King Agrippa.
Caesar, who Paul was intent on evangelizing.
the saints of the household of Caesar.
the Roman soldiers guarding Paul that Paul preached to.
the Stoics and Epicureans Paul preached to.
people who produce fruit, people to whom were given the Kingdom of God-- as promised by Jesus.

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"Ninevah repented of their actions towards Israel"
Reference for "actions towards Israel"?

Jonah 1:1-2 (NIV)
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
"Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it,
because its wickedness has come up before me."

"Nineveh was the capital of Assyria"
And ....?
"Ninevah repented of their actions towards Israel"
Reference for "actions towards Israel"?

Jonah 3 (NIV)
4 Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown." 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6 When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:
"By the decree of the king and his nobles:
Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

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Parts of the Quran mangle badly history that's recorded in the Old Testament.  I'm unaware of *any* archeological evidence supporting the Quran.  Reference for your claim that "there's evidence corroborating certain parts of the QURAN"?

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"evil is solely the product of man's wicked heart.... you cannot cite a scripture to say otherwise"
The non-material Satan played a part in Judas's betraying of Jesus, and in Ananias's lying to Peter.

Luke 22 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
3 But Satan had entered Yehuda, who is called Skariota, he who had been of the number of the twelve. 4 And he went and spoke with the Chief Priests and the Scribes and the Commanders of the forces of The Temple so as to deliver him [Jesus] to them. 5 And they rejoiced and they promised to give him money.
John 13:27 (NIV)
As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, "What you are about to do, do quickly."

Acts 5:3 (NIV)
Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?

"As for everyone having their own personal heavenly angel...I notice you didn't cite a Bible Verse for that claim"
The Bible doesn't reveal everything about the spiritual world.  Do you agree with me that each child has an angel?

Matthew 18 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
2 And Yeshua called a boy and stood him in their midst. 3 And he said, "Truly I say to you, unless you will be converted and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." 4 "Whoever therefore humbles himself like this boy, he will be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." 5 "And whoever will receive one such as this boy, in my name, receives me." 6 "And everyone who commits an offense against one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a donkey's millstone would be hung around his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea." .... 10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their Angels in Heaven do always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven.

"God is credited with the calamities that came upon Job...42:11"
Credited by uninformed individuals. Do you think God did to Job those calamities?

"So either your position is that 1 Chron & 2 Sam are contradictory"
That's my position.

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"salvation (especially in the Old testament) has nothing to do with 'saving the soul from hell' or something like that but deliverance from physical destruction"
Including Daniel 12:1-4?
The OT has evolving views of the afterlife.

Daniel 12 (Young's Literal), my brackets
1 'And at that time stand up doth Michael, the great head, who is standing up for the sons of thy people, and there hath been a time of distress, such as hath not been since there hath been a nation till that time, and at that time do thy people escape, every one who is found written in the book. 2 'And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-[en]during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-[en]during. 3 And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever. 4 And thou, O Daniel, hide the things, and seal the book till the time of the end, many do go to and fro, and knowledge is multiplied.'

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"So though the APOSTLES of Christ held the Jews responsible for Christ's death/murder in the multiple verses I cited...you are choosing to IGNORE those and try and make others culpable for it?"
No, I'm checking to make sure you agree with me that non-Judeans performed the crucifixion of Jesus.
Do you agree with me that non-Judeans performed the crucifixion of Jesus?
If 'yes,' do you consider those non-Judeans:
biological descendants of Jacob? 
individuals who _weren't_ biological descendants of Jacob? 
individuals who practiced Judaism?
individuals who _weren't_ practitioners of Judaism?

For Mark 10:33, is "shall deliver him to the nations" a decent rendering?

Mark 10 (Young's Literal)
33-- 'Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations,
34 and they shall mock him, and scourge him, and spit on him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.'

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"I have reason to doubt the Ethiopian as being a descendant of Abraham. . . as they were scattered to the four corners of the land. Hence we see examples of 'devout people' from many nations in Acts...we also see a great 'multitude' from every tongue, tribe, and nation in Revelation.
God scattered them and they no doubt, had offspring from others in those nations. But they could still be a descendant of Abraham and heir according to the Promise."

Do you think the proselytes mentioned below were descendants of Abraham?
Do you think all the listeners mentioned here in v. 5+ were descendants of Abraham?:

Acts 2 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
1 And when the days of Pentecost were fulfilled, as all of them were assembled together, 2 Suddenly there was from Heaven a sound like a mighty wind and the whole place in which they were sitting was filled with it. 3 And tongues like fire that were divided appeared to them, and they sat on each one of them. 4 And all of them were filled with The Spirit of Holiness, and they were going out speaking in various languages, according to whatever The Spirit was giving them to speak.
5 But there were men dwelling in Jerusalem who were worshipers of God, Jews from every nation under Heaven. 6 And when that noise occurred, the entire populace gathered and was agitated, because each one of them heard that they were speaking in their dialects. 7 And they were all marveling and were amazed as they were saying, each to the other, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?" 8 "How are we hearing, everyone, his own dialect in which we were born?" 9 "Parthians and Medes and Elanites, and those who dwell in Bayth-Nahrayn, Judeans and Qapodoqians and those who are from the regions of Pontus and of Asia," 10 "And from the regions of Phrygia and of Pamphylia and of Egypt and of the countries of Libya which are near to Cyrene and those who came from Rome, Jews and proselytes", 11 "And who are from Crete, and Arabians, behold, we are hearing from those who are speaking in our own dialects, the wonders of God."

DavidFord

#27
"James 1:1.... 1 Peter 1:1"

In Galatians 2, who do you think:
"the nations" refers to?  (biological descendants of Jacob, scattered around the world?)

"the circumcision" refers to?  (biological descendants of Jacob who practiced circumcision of foreskins?)

"the uncircumcision" refers to?  (biological descendants of Jacob who didn't circumcise foreskins?)

"2 and I... did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations...
7 ... I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision,
as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,
8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision,
did work also in me in regard to the nations,
9 ... James, and Cephas, and John, ... a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations,
and they to the circumcision [may go], ....
11 ... Peter... 12 ... before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating,
and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, ....
14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all,
'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live,
and not in the manner of the Jews,
how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations...."

Re: v. 16, "we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ," do you think Paul wanted people to:
believe in Christ Jesus?
both believe in Christ Jesus and also be a biological descendant of Jacob?

Galatians 2 (Young's Literal), biblehub
1 Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;
2 and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;
3 but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --
4 and [that] because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
5 to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
6 And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,
7 but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision,
as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,
8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision,
did work also in me in regard to the nations,
9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas,
that we to the nations,
and they to the circumcision [may go],
10 only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.
11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,
12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating,
and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,
13 and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all,
'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live,
and not in the manner of the Jews,
how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
16 having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law,
if not through the faith of Jesus Christ,
also we in Christ Jesus did believe,
that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ,
and not by works of law,
wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

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"the diaspora refers to Abraham's scattered seed among the nations ....  only around 1/6th or so of Israelites were Jews. The other 10 tribes were 'paganized' scattered among the nations...hence they were referred to as 'ethne' rather than 'Jews' because they WERE NOT JEWS.  They weren't called 'Israel' by the Jews because Jews were also part of Israel proper"

"circumcised = Jews, those following the Law/Flesh
uncircumcised = those 'anomos' lawless, not following the Law  ....
The 'Prodigal Son' were the Diaspora. (House of Israel)
The son who stayed home were the Jews. (Judah)"

Was Goliath in the category of "lawless, not following the Law"?

1 Samuel 17:26 (NIV) David asked the men standing near him, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
1 Samuel 17:36 (NIV) Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.

In Mt 10:5, do you think "the nations" refers to uncircumcised biological descendants of Jacob?

Matthew 10 (Young's Literal)
5 These twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying,
'To the way of the nations go not away,
and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,
6 and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

"Acts 2.... saying, 'Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 'And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? 9 'Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs--we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.'
Notice there were JEWS who spoke MANY other languages depending on where they came from for Pentecost."

Were those "residents of... Judea" "the son who stayed home... the Jews. (Judah)"?
Minus the residents of Judea, were the devout men in Jerusalem for Pentecost and hearing Peter speak in their own languages "the 'Prodigal Son'... the Diaspora. (House of Israel)"?

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"to say that God does not destroy the wicked also equally contradicts so many OT scriptures"
The OT has evolving views of whether or not there is an afterlife, and evolving views of the fate of the wicked.

R.H. Charles: bring eschatology into harmony w/ Xtian theology of God
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/r-h-charles-bring-eschatology-into-harmony-w-xtian-theology-of-god/

There are scriptures that can seem to support never-ending torture, annihilation, and universalism.  In terms of scriptural evidence, the situation is this:
never-ending torture < annihilationism < universalism
See
Universal Restoration & the Fate of the Wicked
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/universal-restoration-verses/

"Don't you think that their philosophy polluted Christianity"
2 examples?

"when translated into English such words like 'eon' which is an undefined time period, was translated into 'forever'"
Both the original Aramaic NT and its translation into Greek speak of 'age/world.'  I've heard that it's only with the translation of Greek into Latin that 'forever' got inserted into the NT.

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"God's Kingdom belonged to, was Promised to, was prophesied to, Israel and Abraham's descendants"
Including promised to that descendant of Abraham and of David, the God-man Christ/Messiah, who managed to perfectly keep the Mosaic law?
Was the Christ/Messiah promised anything, and if so, who and/or what?

[v. 16+]"and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed;
He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many,
but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;  ....
A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ,
the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after,
doth not set aside, to make void the promise,  ....
19 .... the law.... was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made"

Galatians 3:7 says, "those of faith-- these are sons of Abraham."
Is it correct to say that you think this?:
those of faith-- _all_ of whom are biological descendants of Abraham-- these are sons of Abraham.

Gal 3:9 quotes God as saying to Abraham, "Blessed in thee shall be all the nations." 
Is it correct to say that you think God's statemtent to Abraham means this?:
'Blessed in you, Abraham, shall be all the biological descendants of you, Abraham.'

Gal 3:14 says, "that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus."
Is it correct to say that you think that remark means this?:
'that to the biological descendants of Abraham the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus.'

Gal 3:22 says, "but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin,
that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing."
Re: "the Writing did shut up the whole under sin," do you think that's best understood as,
'the scriptures shut up all biological descendants of Abraham-- and _only_ them-- under sin'?

Do you think the people of Sodom did any sinning?  Did Pilate sin?  Did Cain, who killed Abel?  How about the people:
of Ninevah?  that died in the Flood?

Galatians 3 (Young's Literal)
6 according as Abraham did believe God,
and it was reckoned to him-- to righteousness;
7 know ye, then, that those of faith-- these are sons of Abraham,
8 and the Writing having foreseen that
by faith God doth declare righteous the nations
did proclaim before the good news to Abraham--
9 'Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;'
so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse,
for it hath been written,
'Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things
that have been written in the Book of the Law-- to do them,'
11 and that in law no one is declared righteous with God,
is evident, because
'The righteous by faith shall live;'
12 and the law is not by faith, but--
'The man who did them shall live in them.'
13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law,
having become for us a curse,
for it hath been written,
'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
14 that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus,
that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.
15 Brethren, as a man I say [it],
even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
16 and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed;
He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many,
but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
17 and this I say,
A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ,
the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside,
to make void the promise,
18 for if by law [be] the inheritance,
[it is] no more by promise,
but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].
19 Why, then, the law?
on account of the transgressions it was added,
till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made,
having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator--
20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one--
21 the law, then, [is] against the promises of God?-- let it not be!
for if a law was given that was able to make alive,
truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin,
that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
23 And before the coming of the faith,
under law we were being kept,
shut up to the faith about to be revealed,
24 so that the law became our child-conductor-- to Christ,
that by faith we may be declared righteous,
25 and the faith having come,
no more under a child-conductor are we,
26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
27 for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;
28 there is not here Jew or Greek,
there is not here servant nor freeman,
there is not here male and female,
for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
29 and if ye [are] of Christ
then of Abraham ye are seed,
and according to promise-- heirs.

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"They could be made ALIVE IN CHRIST through FAITH.... ONLY those Israelites of FAITH were considered sons of Abraham and heirs to the kingdom according to PROMISE"
Do you think:
converts to Judaism in the 1st century A.D. "could be made ALIVE IN CHRIST through FAITH"?
converts to Judaism in the 1st century A.D., if they weren't biological descendants of Jacob, _couldn't_ "be made ALIVE IN CHRIST through FAITH"?

Acts 13:43 (NIV)
When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
Acts 6:5 (NIV)
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
Acts 2:11 (NIV)
(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs--we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!"

"I have reason to doubt the Ethiopian as being a descendant of Abraham"
Do you think:
all black persons are unlikely to be descendants of Abraham?
all descendants of Abraham are white?

"The Mystery was that THROUGH FAITH they would be made righteous...and NOT through the LAW"
The Ethiopian that Philip preached to about Jesus in Acts 8 was into Judaism.  The Ethiopian accepted what Philip said, and got baptized as a sign of his becoming a follower of Jesus.  Given your doubt that the Ethiopian was a descendant of Abraham, did, or didn't, the Ethiopian's trusting in Jesus make the Ethiopian righteous?

"If one had Christ it was PROOF/Evidence that they were a descendant of Abraham"
Did the Ethiopian at any point have Christ?
Did "Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism," at any point have Christ?

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"It was an EXCLUSIVE not INCLUSIVE movement initiated by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"
That movement included the Assyrian capital of Ninevah (see the book of Jonah) and Sodom (see Ezekiel 16).
It also included Rahab i.e. Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush:

Psalm 87 (NIV)
Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.
1 He has founded his city on the holy mountain.
2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of you, city of God:
4 "I will record Rahab and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me--
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush--
and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
6 The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
7 As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains are in you."

"The Messiah was promised heir of the kingdom...and granted to sit on the right hand of power of the throne"
A kingdom that would include all nations.

Malachi 1 (NIV)
10 "Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,
so that you would not light useless fires on my altar!
I am not pleased with you,"
says the Lord Almighty,
"and I will accept no offering from your hands.
11 My name will be great among the nations,
from where the sun rises to where it sets.
In every place
incense and pure offerings will be brought to me,
because my name will be great among the nations,"
says the Lord Almighty.  ....
14 "Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock
and vows to give it,
but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord.
For I am a great king,"
says the Lord Almighty,
"and my name is to be feared among the nations."

"The idea of Israel was to carve out a people for His prized possession from among all other people"
God is madly in love with people-- all people.
The nation of Israel was to be a light to the nations.  It failed miserably.
God took matters into his own hands, and sent himself in the form of Yeshua (Yah Saves/Gives Life) the Messiah (Anointed One).  Christ was 'Immanuel,' God with us.  Jesus Christ is "a light for the nations," giving God-brought life "to the ends of the earth."

Isaiah 49 (Berean Study Bible)
1 Listen to Me, O islands;
pay attention, O distant peoples:
* The LORD called Me from the womb;
* from the body of My mother He named Me.
* 2 He made My mouth like a sharp sword;
He hid Me in the shadow of His hand.
He made Me like a polished arrow;
He hid Me in His quiver.
3 He said to Me,
"You are My Servant, Israel,
in whom I will display My glory."
4 But I said, "I have labored in vain,
I have spent My strength in futility and vanity;
yet My vindication is with the LORD,
and My reward is with My God."
5 And now says the LORD,
* who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
* to bring Jacob back to Him,
* that Israel might be gathered to Him--
for I am honored in the sight of the LORD,
and My God is My strength--
6 He says:
* "It is not enough for You to be My Servant,
* to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
* and to restore the protected ones of Israel.
* I will also make You a light for the nations,
* to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth."

"did Judaism include other people groups in its scope of redemption?"
According to Isaiah 60, God said nations/peoples would come to an illuminated Israel, with Midian and Ephah and Sheba "proclaiming the praises of the LORD," and said animal sacrifices from Kedar and Nebaioth would "go up on My altar with acceptance":

Isaiah 60 (Berean Study Bible), biblehub
1 Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
2 For behold, darkness covers the earth,
and thick darkness is over the peoples;
but the LORD will rise upon you,
and His glory will appear over you.
3 Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
....
6 Caravans of camels will cover your land,
young camels of Midian and Ephah,
and all from Sheba will come,
bearing gold and frankincense
and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you
and go up on My altar with acceptance;
I will adorn My glorious house.

_The Isaiah Targum:  Introduction, Translation, Apparatus and Notes_ by Bruce Chilton (1987), 130pp. On 116:
60.1 Arise, shine, Jerusalem;
for the time of your salvation has come,
and the glory of the LORD will be revealed upon you.
60.2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and gloom the kingdoms;
but the Shekinah of the LORD will settle in you,
and his glory will be revealed upon you.
60.3 And peoples shall come to your light,
and kings before your brightness. 
....
60.6 The caravans of the Arabians shall cover you around,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;
all those from Sheba will come.
They shall be burdened with gold and frankincense,
and those who come with them will be declaring the praises of the LORD.
60.7 All the sheep of the Arabians shall be gathered into your midst,
the rams of Nebat shall minister to you;
they will be offered up for pleasure upon my altar,
and I will glorify my glorious house.  ....
60.9 For islands shall wait for my Memra....

DavidFord

#28
"The Messiah was promised heir of the kingdom...and granted to sit on the right hand of power of the throne"
Indeed. At that [v. 5]"right hand," [v. 6]"He will judge the nations," and eventually, [v. 27]"all dominions do serve and obey Him."
Is it your view that some dominions _won't_ bend the knee?

Psalm 110 (Berean Study Bible), biblehub
A Psalm of David.
1 The LORD said to my Lord:
"Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies
a footstool for Your feet."
2 The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion:
"Rule in the midst of Your enemies."
3 Your people shall be willing
on Your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,
to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn
and will not change His mind:
"You are a priest forever
in the order of Melchizedek."
5 The Lord is at Your right hand;
He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead;
He will crush the leaders far and wide.
7 He will drink from the brook by the road;
therefore He will lift up His head.

Daniel 7 (Young's Literal), my "[en]" bracket in 14 and 27
9 'I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow [is] white, and the hair of his head [is] as pure wool, His throne flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.
10 A flood of fire is proceeding and coming forth from before Him, a thousand thousands do serve Him, and a myriad of myriads before Him do rise up, the Judge is seated, and the books have been opened.  ....
13 'I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was [one] coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.
14 And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion [is] a dominion age-[en]during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.  ....
27 and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people-- the saints of the Most High, His kingdom [is] a kingdom age-[en]during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him.

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"Did you really sin by transgressing the Law (1John 3:4), under the FIRST Covenant (Old Covenant) according to Hebrews 9:15? Remember that Christ Jesus died ONLY once and that was to redeem those who sinned under the FIRST Covenant (Hebrews 9:15)"

What exactly is:
"the Law"?
"the FIRST Covenant"?

Genesis 9 (HCSB)
1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2 The fear and terror of you will be in
every living creature on the earth,
every bird of the sky,
every creature that crawls on the ground,
and all the fish of the sea.
They are placed under your authority.
3 Every living creature will be food for you;
as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.
4 However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
5 I will require the life of every animal and every man
for your life and your blood.
I will require the life of each man's brother
for a man's life.
6 Whoever sheds man's blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.
7 But you, be fruitful and multiply;
spread out over the earth and multiply on it."
8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9 "Understand that I am confirming My covenant
with you and your descendants after you,
10 and with every living creature that is with you-- 
birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you-- 
all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.
11 I confirm My covenant with you that
never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood;
there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said,
"This is the sign of the covenant I am making
between Me and you and every living creature with you,
a covenant for all future generations:
I have placed My bow in the clouds,
and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

Genesis 15 (NIV)
4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars-- if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
8 But Abram said, "Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"
9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.  ....
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates-- 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgacrapes and Jebusites."

Exodus 24 (NIV)
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded,
"We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey."
8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said,
"This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

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_The Message of Sadhu Sundar Singh:  A Study in Mysticism on Practical Religion_ by B.H. Streeter and A.J. Appasamy (1922), 209pp., 95-96, 99-102 https://archive.org/stream/themessageofsadh00streuoft/themessageofsadh00streuoft_djvu.txt
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1293189901/
https://www.amazon.com/Message-Sadhu-Sundar-Singh-Mysticism-ebook/dp/B013RN32LU/
THE LAST JUDGMENT
"I inquired once, 'Will the dead stand in a line all together and be judged?'  I was told, No; after leaving the body the soul knows everything that has happened to it.  The memory of it all is clear and fresh, and thereby they are judged.  The heavenly light shows the wicked to themselves; they see at once that they cannot live in that fellowship of saints and angels.  They feel so out of place there, they find everything so uncongenial that they ask to be allowed to go away from Heaven.  Men are not turned out of Heaven by God.  Heaven is not a place with walls and gates where you have to ask for a ticket of admission.  The ticket of admission is the life a man has led.

"Those who are born again can see the Kingdom of Heaven and feel at home there, those who are not cannot do so.  This is the real judgment, and it is a judgment that is going on every day.  It is not effected by an act of God interposing between ourselves and Him, it is internal.  The Last Judgment will be a proclamation of the final result, when every true servant of God will be exalted before the whole creation.

"I was also told that in this world our spiritual bodies are inside our material bodies, and that when we sin it is like when we press with a point on paper behind which is a sheet of carbon; on the outside of the paper there is a very slight mark, but inside there is a clear black mark.  Thus our sins mark and scar our spiritual bodies, and the result of this will be seen when, after death, the spiritual body escapes from the material; and the revelation of the injury it has sustained will in itself be a large part of the judgment.

More material around that:
https://tentmaker.org/forum/index.php?topic=15030.msg215532#msg215532

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"Salvation from what"
Salvation from death.  Which equals life.

https://biblehub.net/search.php?q="salvation+from"
Luke 1:71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us
Acts 28:28  So I want you to know that this salvation from God has also been
offered to the Gentiles, and they will accept it
1 Chronicles 16:35 And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name
2 Corinthians 1:10 Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our
hope that he will still go on to give us salvation
Isaiah 20:6 And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom
we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria
Proverbs 2:12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men .... Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false
2 Chronicles 32:22 So the Lord gave Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem salvation from the power of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria
2 Timothy 2:10 For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen
so that they, too, may receive salvation from Christ Jesus with glory
Proverbs 10:2 Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Romans 5:9 Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation
from the wrath of God come to us through him.

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God has saved some people-- albeit temporarily-- from death this side of the grave:  they didn't die, when had not God intervened, they would have died.
God has saved some people-- albeit temporarily-- whose physical bodies had died, and then God resurrected them in their physical bodies.  E.g., Jesus raised Lazarus, and Peter raised Gazelle aka Tabitha.  (Both Lazaras and Gazelle later died this side of the grave.)
Supposedly, some have been saved permanently from dying this side of the grave:  Sadhu Sundar Singh supposedly met a guy in the early 1900s who was a cousin of someone converted by Francis Xavier 400+ years earlier.  Also, Elijah never died.
After dying a physical death, many go on to die an additional death in the afterlife.  It's unpleasant to varying degrees to die in the afterlife.  Because of what Jesus did, many through the centuries have been saved from dying a death in the afterlife:  they never experienced dying in the afterlife.  Because of what Jesus did, even those who have died in the afterlife will at some point be restored to life.

gloss added: Acts 9:36
Acts 9:36 (based on Younan of pesh itta.org)
Now there was a certain talmidtha [female student] in the medintha [city] of Yoppa whose name was Tabitha.[Gazelle] This (one) was rich in good deeds and in the zedqata [alms] that she did.

The Greek translation of the original Aramaic of the book of Acts gives a transliteration of an Aramaic word and then explicitly says it translates that word:

Acts 9:36 (NABRE), biblehub
Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated means Dorcas).[a] She was completely occupied with good deeds and almsgiving.
a: Tabitha (Dorcas), respectively the Aramaic and Greek words for "gazelle,". . . .

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"As for Nineveh, they were merely SPARED destruction....for a time"
They thought their getting spared was significant.  It mattered greatly to them.

"They weren't converted into Israelites"
It's not possible to get Jacob as one's biological ancestor if one didn't have Jacob as a biological ancestor.  It was possible to convert to adhering to the religion of Jacob.  Some here converted to Judaism, but who knows how sincere the conversions were and how long they lasted:

Esther 8:17 (Young's Literal)
https://biblehub .com/interlinear/esther/8-17.htm
https://biblehub .com/esther/8-17.htm
and in every province and province, and in every city and city, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, gladness and joy are to the Jews [3064 lay?yə?hū?ḏ?m/ had the Jews], a banquet, and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land are becoming Jews [3054 miṯ?ya?hă?ḏ?m/ מִֽתְיַהֲדִ֔ים/ became Jews], for a fear of the Jews [3064 hay?yə?hū?ḏ?m/הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים/ of the Jews] hath fallen upon them.

Do you consider any of those converts by virtue of their conversion "Israelites"?
Do you agree with me that the Moabite Ruth became an Israelite via her adoption of Judaism and marriage to a descendant of Jacob?

Probably a Canaanite, Tamar had sex with Judah, and gave birth to the twins Perez and Zerah (Gen 38). The family of Perez was spoken highly of in Ruth 4:12. The Messiah had a lineage that included probably-Canaanite Tamar, Jericho-prostitute Rahab, and Moabite Ruth (Mt 1:3, 5)

"The Messiah's Kingdom did include Israelites from every nation, tongue, etc. Remember they were scattered to the four corners, from where God would bring them back" The Messiah's Kingdom also included Abraham, Abraham's son Isaac, the Moabite Ruth, the Jericho prostitute Rahab, the Samaritan woman at the well, the Ethiopian believer in/adherent of Judaism that Philip preached to, members of Caesar's household, the God-fearing Cornelius, the people of Nineveh that repented at the preaching of Jonah, the Queen of Sheba, those that heeded Jesus' preaching in Sheol, and Nicholas from Antioch (a convert to Judaism who became a follower of Jesus).  Paul wanted _everyone_ he preached to, including Caesar, Felix, King Agrippa, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Roman soldiers guarding him to enter the Messiah's Kingdom.

"Psalm 87 doesn't say ANYTHING to me akin to including other peoples into His covenant"
I also don't see anything there about other peoples being included in any covenants.  I do see God saying that Rahab i.e. Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush as among those that would know God:

Psalm 87 (NIV)
Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.
1 He has founded his city on the holy mountain.
2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of you, city of God:
4 "I will record Rahab and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me--
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush--
and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
6 The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
7 As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains are in you."

"You said 'God is madly in love with people-- all people.'  This is CONTRARY to scripture"
Including this?:

John 3 (Young's Literal), my brackets
14 'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness,
so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish,
but may have life age-[en]during,
16 for God did so love the world [2889 kosmon/ κόσμον/ world], that
His Son-- the only begotten-- He gave,
that every one [3956 pas/ πᾶς/ everyone] who is believing [4100 pisteuōn/ πιστεύων/ believing]
in him
may not perish,
but may have life age-[en]during. 

"It's right there...a light to the nations....the scattered lost Israelites...raise up and restore the tribes of Jacob...being a light bringing salvation (the gospel) to the ends of the land (ge)"
Are you aware of any other instances in the book of Isaiah where "the nations"/ 1471 gō?w?yim/ גּוֹיִ֔ם equals:
"the scattered lost Israelites"?
not-scattered, not-lost Israelites?

https://biblehub .com/interlinear/isaiah/49-6.htm
1471 gō?w?yim/ גּוֹיִ֔ם N‑mp [I assume "p" stands for 'plural']
3444 yə ū ā ṯ/ יְשׁוּעָתִ֖י/ My salvation
to
7097 / qə ṣ h/ קְצֵ֥ה/ the ends
776 hā ā reṣ/ הָאָֽרֶץ/ of the earth [/land]

"So if group A were aware of instructions for them from God, and group B were NOT because God did not give them instructions.....well here's a couple scriptures that speak to that"
Like this:

Romans 2 (Young's Literal), my v. 7 bracket
3 And dost thou think this, O man, who
art judging those who such things are practising,
and art doing them,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering,
dost thou despise?--
not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!
5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart,
thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath,
in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who shall render to each according to his works;
7 to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work,
do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility--
life age-[en]during;
8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--
indignation and wrath,
9 tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil,
both of Jew first, and of Greek;
10 and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good,
both to Jew first, and to Greek.
11 For there is no acceptance of faces with God,
12 for as many as without law did sin,
without law also shall perish,
and as many as did sin in law,
through law shall be judged,
13 for not the hearers of the law [are] righteous before God,
but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --
14 For, when nations that have not a law,
by nature may do the things of the law,
these not having a law-- to themselves are a law;
15 who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also witnessing with them,
and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,
16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men,
according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

"This is about saving a REMNANT of ISRAEL, His SONS, HIS PEOPLE, from among the nations...even being protected in spite of others. It's NOT all inclusive, it's EXCLUSIVE"
In Dan 7:27's "all dominions do serve and obey Him," is the "all dominions" "NOT all inclusive"?

Daniel 7 (Young's Literal), my "[en]" bracket in 14 and 27
9 'I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow [is] white, and the hair of his head [is] as pure wool, His throne flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.
10 A flood of fire is proceeding and coming forth from before Him, a thousand thousands do serve Him, and a myriad of myriads before Him do rise up, the Judge is seated, and the books have been opened.  ....
13 'I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was [one] coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.
14 And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion [is] a dominion age-[en]during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.  ....
27 and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people-- the saints of the Most High, His kingdom [is] a kingdom age-[en]during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him.

DavidFord

#29
"lawlessness is transgressing the Mosaic law"
Did the people that died in:
the Flood engage in lawlessness?
Sodom engage in lawlessness?

"I didn't get the memo"
Has your conscience ever told you you did something evil?
God often whispers to people, and those God-whispers comprise part of the 'conscience.'

"there is not a law of God that convicts humanity of sin"
In your lifetime:
has anyone ever sinned against you/ done something evil to you?
have you done anything similar to somebody else?

My role model Jesus regularly responded to questions with a question.
Anytime person X recognizes person Y's action A as evil, and then goes on to inflict action A on individual Z, person X sins by violating a law they recognized.

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Besides Isaiah 49:6, which if any of the 'nations' plural below do you consider a reference to the lost, scattered tribes of Israel?

1471. גּוֹי (goy)
https://biblehub .com/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm
Isaiah 2:2
NAS: And all the nations will stream
Isaiah 2:4
KJV: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke
Isaiah 9:1
KJV: Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 10:7
NAS: And to cut off many nations.
Isaiah 11:10
NAS: Then in that day The nations will resort
Isaiah 11:12
INT: will lift A standard the nations and assemble the outcasts
Isaiah 13:4
INT: of the uproar of kingdoms of nations gathered the LORD
Isaiah 14:6
NAS: Which subdued the nations in anger
Isaiah 14:9
NAS: the kings of the nations from their thrones.
Isaiah 14:12
NAS: You who have weakened the nations!
Isaiah 14:18
NAS: the kings of the nations lie
Isaiah 14:26
KJV: that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah 16:8
KJV: the lords of the heathen have broken down

Isaiah 23:3
NAS: And she was the market of nations.
Isaiah 25:3
NAS: of ruthless nations will revere
Isaiah 25:7
KJV: that is spread over all nations.
Isaiah 29:7
KJV: And the multitude of all the nations that fight
Isaiah 29:8
INT: the multitude of all the nations wage against
Isaiah 30:28
NAS: To shake the nations back
KJV: to sift the nations with the sieve
Isaiah 33:3
KJV: at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Isaiah 34:1
NAS: Draw near, O nations, to hear;
Isaiah 34:2
KJV: of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury
Isaiah 36:18
NAS: of the gods of the nations delivered
Isaiah 37:12
KJV: Have the gods of the nations delivered

Isaiah 40:15
NAS: Behold, the nations are like a drop
Isaiah 40:17
NAS: All the nations are as nothing before
Isaiah 41:2
NAS: He delivers up nations before
Isaiah 42:1
INT: and justice to the nations will bring
Isaiah 42:6
NAS: As a light to the nations,
Isaiah 43:9
NAS: All the nations have gathered together
Isaiah 45:1
KJV: to subdue nations before
Isaiah 45:20
NAS: you fugitives of the nations; They have
KJV: ye [that are] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge
Isaiah 49:6
NAS: You a light of the nations So that My salvation
Isaiah 49:22
INT: will lift to the nations my hand to

Isaiah 52:10
KJV: in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends
Isaiah 52:15
KJV: many nations; the kings
Isaiah 54:3
NAS: will possess nations And will resettle

Isaiah 60:3
NAS: Nations will come to your light,
Isaiah 60:5
NAS: to you, The wealth of the nations will come
Isaiah 60:11
NAS: to you the wealth of the nations, With their kings
Isaiah 60:12
KJV: thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly
Isaiah 60:16
INT: suck the milk of nations the breast of kings
Isaiah 61:6
NAS: the wealth of nations, And in their riches
INT: shall call the wealth of nations will eat their riches
Isaiah 61:9
NAS: will be known among the nations, And their descendants
Isaiah 61:11
KJV: to spring forth before all the nations.
Isaiah 62:2
NAS: The nations will see
INT: will see the nations your righteousness and all
Isaiah 64:2
NAS: to Your adversaries, [That] the nations may tremble

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Do you think the tall Sabeans mentioned in Isaiah 45:14 were part of the lost, scattered tribes of Israel?

Isaiah 45 (Berean Study Bible)
14 This is what the LORD says:
"The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
along with the Sabeans, men of stature,
will come over to you
and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you;
they will come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will confess to you:
'God is indeed with you, and there is no other;
there is no other God.' "  ....
17 But Israel will be saved by the LORD
with an everlasting salvation;
you will not be put to shame or humiliated,
to ages everlasting.  ....
19 I have not spoken in secret,
from a place in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,
'Seek Me in a wasteland.'
I, the LORD, speak the truth;
I say what is right.
20 Come, gather together, and draw near,
you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood
and pray to a god that cannot save.  ....
23 By Myself I have sworn;
truth has gone out from My mouth,
a word that will not be revoked:
Every knee will bow before Me,
every tongue will swear allegiance.
24 Surely they will say of Me,
'In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.' "
All who rage against Him
will come to Him and be put to shame.
25 In the LORD all descendants of Israel
will be justified and will exult.

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Re: the Mt 22 parable below, who or what is represented by:
the "King who made a wedding feast for his son"?
that son?
"those invited to the wedding feast"?
the King's servants who were "seized, abused and killed"?

For v. 7, "the King... was angry and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city," did anything like that ever occur in history?
For v. 9's "Go therefore to the ends of the roads and call everyone whom you find to the wedding feast," who or what is represented by that "everyone"?
Someone who "was not wearing a wedding garment" got ejected from the feast.  What does "wearing a wedding garment" represent?

("Heaven" was sometimes used as a circumspect way of saying 'God.'
In the book of Matthew, 'Kingdom of Heaven' means 'Kingdom of God.')

Matthew 22 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
1 Again, Yeshua answered in a parable, and he said:
2 "The Kingdom of Heaven is compared to a man who was a King who made a wedding feast for his son.
3 And he sent his servants to call those invited to the wedding feast, and they chose not to come.
4 Again he sent other servants, and he said,
"Tell those invited, 'Behold, my banquet is ready, and my oxen and my fatlings are killed, everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast.' "
5 And they showed contempt and went, one to his field, and another to his commerce. 6 But the rest seized, abused and killed his servants.
7 But when the King heard, he was angry and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his servants,
'The wedding feast is ready, and those who were invited were not worthy.'
9 'Go therefore to the ends of the roads and call everyone whom you find to the wedding feast.' 10 And those servants went out to the roads, and they gathered everyone whom they found, bad and good, and the place of the wedding feast was filled with guests.
11 And the King entered to see the guests and he saw a man there who was not wearing a wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you enter here when you did not have a wedding garment?' But he was speechless. 13 Then the King said to the attendants, 'Bind his hands and his feet and cast him out into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' 14 "For the called are many and the chosen are few."

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"the law was given exclusively to Israel only"
So this law against murder "was given exclusively to Israel only"?:

Genesis 9 (HCSB)
1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
2 The fear and terror of you will be in
every living creature on the earth,
every bird of the sky,
every creature that crawls on the ground,
and all the fish of the sea.
They are placed under your authority.
3 Every living creature will be food for you;
as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.
4 However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
5 I will require the life of every animal and every man
for your life and your blood.
I will require the life of each man's brother
for a man's life.
6 Whoever sheds man's blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.
7 But you, be fruitful and multiply;
spread out over the earth and multiply on it."
8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9 "Understand that I am confirming My covenant
with you and your descendants after you,
10 and with every living creature that is with you-- 
birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you-- 
all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.
11 I confirm My covenant with you that
never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood;
there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said,
"This is the sign of the covenant I am making
between Me and you and every living creature with you,
a covenant for all future generations:
I have placed My bow in the clouds,
and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

"Go to the end of the story to see who they were that got saved"
When Rev 21 says "The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it," are you telling me that "the nations... and the kings of the earth" "got saved"?

Revelation 21 (HCSB), biblehub
24 The nations will walk in its light,
and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
25 Each day its gates will never close
because it will never be night there.
26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

"God died to redeem his people"
Including Moab, Edom, and Philistia?

Psalm 108 (HCSB), biblehub
7 God has spoken in His sanctuary:
"I will triumph!
I will divide up Shechem.
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine,
and Ephraim is My helmet;
Judah is My scepter.
9 Moab is My washbasin;
I throw My sandal on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia."

Ruth 4 (NIV)
.... "I will redeem it," he said.
5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."
6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, "Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it."
7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it yourself." And he removed his sandal.
9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"

"He didn't die for people he knew he was never going to redeem"
Ezekiel 16 says Sodom would be restored.  Who won't ever be redeemed?

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"the law against murder was given exclusively to Israel only"
Do you agree with me that Jacob aka Israel was born many years after the Flood?

"The nation of Ethiopia was not responsible to obey the covenant law of Israel"
Do you agree with me that:
the Ethiopian that Philip preached to was an adherent of Judaism?  and as such, sought to obey the Mosaic law?
converts to Judaism sought to obey the Mosaic law?
the Moabite Ruth became an Israelite via her adoption of Judaism and marriage to a descendant of Jacob?

"The Queen of Sheba and the Ninevites did literally rise up in the judgement"
Do you agree with me that Nineveh had acted wickedly-- despite not being under the Mosaic law?

Jonah 1:1-2 (NIV)
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
"Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it,
because its wickedness has come up before me."

"Only Israel was under law"
Do you agree with me that Sodom had acted wickedly-- despite not being under the Mosaic law?

"God made the new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah"
And per Ezekiel 16, Israel was worse than Sodom, so God's rescuing Israel necessitated God's also rescuing Sodom.

"Christ died only for the sins committed under the first covenant"
Christ preached to those who had died in the Flood.  Did Christ die for those individuals' sins?

"Go to the end of the story to see who they were that got saved"
When Rev 21 says "The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it," are you telling me that "the nations... and the kings of the earth" "got saved"?

Revelation 21 (HCSB), biblehub
24 The nations will walk in its light,
and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
25 Each day its gates will never close
because it will never be night there.
26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

"God died to redeem his people"
Including Moab, Edom, and Philistia?

Psalm 108 (HCSB), biblehub
7 God has spoken in His sanctuary:
"I will triumph!
I will divide up Shechem.
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine,
and Ephraim is My helmet;
Judah is My scepter.
9 Moab is My washbasin;
I throw My sandal on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia."

Ruth 4 (NIV)
.... "I will redeem it," he said.
5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."
6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, "Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it."
7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it yourself." And he removed his sandal.
9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"

"He didn't die for people he knew he was never going to redeem"
Ezekiel 16 says Sodom would be restored.  Who won't ever be redeemed?

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"Only Israel rose in the judgement"
Reference?

Matthew 12 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
41 The Ninevite men will arise in the judgment with this generation
and will condemn it,
for they repented at the preaching of Jonah,
and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of The South will arise in the judgment with this generation
and will condemn it,
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

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"the end of the Bible story has already occurred by A.D. 70"
Is has the increase of the Messiah's rule and peace ended?

Isaiah 9:7 (Young's Literal)
To the increase of the princely power,
And of peace, there is no end,
On the throne of David, and on his kingdom,
To establish it, and to support it,
In judgment and in righteousness,
Henceforth, even unto the age,
The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

When Daniel 2 speaks of a [v. 35]"rock that... became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth," and says [v. 44]"the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever," do you believe that that God-instituted kingdom already "filled the whole earth"?

Daniel 2 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/niv/daniel/2.htm
34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. 36 "This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king.  ....
44 "In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands-- a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
"The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy."

When Daniel 7 speaks of someone [v. 13-14]"as a son of man" coming "with the clouds of the heavens.... and to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion [is] a dominion age-[en]during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed," do you think that "all peoples, nations, and languages do serve" that "son of man"?

Daniel 7 (Young's Literal), my "[en]" bracket in 14 and 27
9 'I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow [is] white, and the hair of his head [is] as pure wool, His throne flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.
10 A flood of fire is proceeding and coming forth from before Him, a thousand thousands do serve Him, and a myriad of myriads before Him do rise up, the Judge is seated, and the books have been opened.  ....
13 'I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was [one] coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.
14 And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion [is] a dominion age-[en]during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.  ....
27 and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people-- the saints of the Most High, His kingdom [is] a kingdom age-[en]during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him.

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Revelation 12 in Preterist Perspective - Sept 20, 2020 [his Rev book isn't yet published AFAICT]
https://www.forerunner.com/blog/revelation-12-in-preterist-perspective

_In The Days of These Kings: The Book of Daniel in Preterist Perspective_ by Jay Rogers (2019), 740pp.  On 703-4
https://books.google.com/books?id=Xq9GDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA703&ots=O7QP4v8KOw&dq=jay%20rogers%20%22a%20present%20reality%22&pg=PA704#v=onepage&q=jay%20rogers%20%22a%20present%20reality%22&f=false

DavidFord

#30
When Psalm 2 says to the Messiah, [v. 8-9]"Ask of Me and I give nations-- thy inheritance, And thy possession-- the ends of earth. Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them," to what does "nations" refer?  (biological descendants of Jacob-- and _only_ them?)

Psalm 2 (Young's Literal)
1 Why have nations tumultuously assembled?
And do peoples meditate vanity?
2 Station themselves do kings of the earth,
And princes have been united together,
Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:
3 'Let us draw off Their cords,
And cast from us Their thick bands.'
4 He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh,
The Lord doth mock at them.
5 Then doth He speak unto them in His anger,
And in His wrath He doth trouble them:
6 'And I-- I have anointed My King,
Upon Zion-- My holy hill.'
7 I declare concerning a statute:
Jehovah said unto me,
'My Son Thou [art], I to-day have brought thee forth.
8 Ask of Me and I give nations-- thy inheritance,
And thy possession-- the ends of earth.
9 Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron,
As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
10 And now, O kings, act wisely,
Be instructed, O judges of earth,
11 Serve ye Jehovah with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Chosen One,
lest He be angry,
And ye lose the way,
When His anger burneth but a little,
O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

To who or what does "nations" here refer?:

Revelation 2 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
26 "To him who is victorious and keeps my works,
I shall give authority over the nations,"
27 "To Shepherd them with a rod of iron,
and like the vessels of a potter you shall shatter them,
for in the same manner I have also received of my Father."

Revelation 12:5 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
And she delivered the Son,
the Male who was to Shepherd all the nations with a rod of iron.
And her Son was caught up to God and to his throne.

Revelation 19 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
13 And he wore a garment soaked with blood,
and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies of Heaven were joined to him on white horses
and were wearing linen white and pure.
15 And sharp swords came out of their mouths
by which they will kill the nations,
and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron
and he treads the winepress of the wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his garment over his thigh the name written:
"The King of Kings and The Lord of Power".

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Do you think John the Baptizer considered it important to have Abraham as biological forefather?

Luke 3:8 (NIV)
Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
And do not begin to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham as our father.'
For I tell you that out of these stones
God can raise up children for Abraham.

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"Rev 2:26 is quoting from Psalm 2. We know that Israel would inherit the promised land (not planet).  .... Psalm 2 is speaking to ISRAEL, not other nations. It is concerned with teaching ISRAEL about the anointed one of God, fulfilling the promises to Abraham, about increasing His descendants and giving them the LAND"

So when Ps 2 says, "Why have nations tumultuously assembled," those "nations" are Israel?

And re: "kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah," those "kings of the earth" are kings of Israel?

And re: "My Son.... Ask of Me and I give nations-- thy inheritance, And thy possession-- the ends of earth," those "nations" and "the ends of earth" is talking about the land of Israel?

And re: "Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them," the "them" is Israel?

Psalm 2 (Young's Literal)
1 Why have nations tumultuously assembled?
And do peoples meditate vanity?
2 Station themselves do kings of the earth,
And princes have been united together,
Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:
3 'Let us draw off Their cords,
And cast from us Their thick bands.'
4 He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh,
The Lord doth mock at them.
5 Then doth He speak unto them in His anger,
And in His wrath He doth trouble them:
6 'And I-- I have anointed My King,
Upon Zion-- My holy hill.'
7 I declare concerning a statute:
Jehovah said unto me,
'My Son Thou [art], I to-day have brought thee forth.
8 Ask of Me and I give nations-- thy inheritance,
And thy possession-- the ends of earth.
9 Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron,
As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
10 And now, O kings, act wisely,
Be instructed, O judges of earth,
11 Serve ye Jehovah with fear, ....

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"he was born blind for God's glory"
Maybe that's mispunctuated, and is better rendered this way:

John 9:3-4
Jesus said to them,
"He did not sin nor his parents.
But that the work of God might be seen in him,
it is necessary for me to do the works
of Him who sent me while it is daytime.
The night is coming when man is not able to work.

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When The Psalms of Solomon 17 speaks of "the nations," do you think that refers to:
'the scattered, lost tribes of Israel'?
'the land of Israel'?

"4 And the kingdom of our God is for ever over the nations in judgement. ....
15 (13) Being an alien the enemy acted proudly,
And his heart was alien from our God.
16 (14) And all things whatsoever he did in Jerusalem,
As also the nations in the cities to their gods.  ....
25 And that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample (her) down to destruction.
(23) Wisely, righteously 26 he shall thrust out sinners from (the) inheritance,
He shall destroy the pride of the sinner as a potter's vessel.
(24) With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance,
21 He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth;

(25) At his rebuke nations shall flee before him,
And he shall reprove sinners for the thoughts of their heart.  ....
(29) He shall judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his righteousness. Selah.  ....
32 (30) And he shall have the heathen nations to serve him under his yoke;
And he shall glorify the Lord in a place to be seen of (?) all the earth;
33 And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it holy as of old:
34 (31) So that nations shall come from the ends of the earth to see his glory,
Bringing as gifts her sons who had fainted,
35 And to see the glory of the Lord,
wherewith God hath glorified her.
....
38 (34) The Lord Himself is his king,
the hope of him that is mighty through (his) hope in God.
All nations (shall be) in fear before him,
39 (35) For he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth for ever.   ....
51 May the Lord hasten His mercy upon Israel!
May He deliver us from the uncleanness of unholy enemies!
The Lord Himself is our king for ever and ever."

The Psalms of Solomon
https://carm.org/psalms-of-solomon
XVII. A Psalm. Of Solomon. With Song. Of the King.
17 1 O Lord, Thou art our King for ever and ever,
For in Thee, O God, doth our soul glory.
2 How long are the days of man's life upon the earth?
As are his days, so is the hope (set) upon him.
3 But we hope in God, our deliverer;
For the might of our God is for ever with mercy,
4 And the kingdom of our God is for ever over the nations in judgement.
5 (4) Thou, O Lord, didst choose David (to be) king over Israel,
And swaredst to him touching his seed that
never should his kingdom fail before Thee.
6 (5) But, for our sins, sinners rose up against us;
They assailed us and thrust us out;
What Thou hadst not promised to them,
they took away (from us) with violence.
7 They in no wise glorified Thy honourable name;
(6) They set a (worldly) monarchy in place of (that which was) their excellency;
8 They laid waste the throne of David in tumultuous arrogance.
(7) But Thou, O God, didst cast them down
and remove their seed from the earth,
9 In that there rose up against them a man that was alien to our race.

10 (8) According to their sins didst Thou recompense them, O God;
So that it befell them according to their deeds.
11 (9) God showed them no pity;
He sought out their seed and let not one of them go free.
12 (10) Faithful is the Lord in all His judgements
Which He doeth upon the earth.
13 (11) The lawless one laid waste our land so that none inhabited it,
They destroyed young and old and their children together.
14 (12) In the heat of His anger He sent them away even unto the west,
And (He exposed) the rulers of the land unsparingly to derision.
15 (13) Being an alien the enemy acted proudly,
And his heart was alien from our God.
16 (14) And all things whatsoever he did in Jerusalem,
As also the nations in the cities to their gods.
17 (15) And the children of the covenant in the midst of the mingled peoples surpassed them in evil.
There was not among them one that wrought in the midst of Jerusalem mercy and truth.
18 (16) They that loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them,
As sparrows that fly from their nest.
19 (17) They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm,
And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them.

20 (18) Over the whole earth were they scattered by lawless (men).
21 (19) For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth,
Springs were stopped (that sprang) perennial(ly) out of the deeps,
(that ran down) from lofty mountains.
For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and justice;
(20) From the chief of them to the least (of them) all were sinful;
22 The king was a transgressor,
and the judge disobedient,
and the people sinful.
23 (21) Behold, O Lord, and raise up unto them their king, the son of David,
At the time in the which Thou seest, O God, that he may reign over Israel Thy servant
24 (22) And gird him with strength, that he may shatter unrighteous rulers,
25 And that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample (her) down to destruction.
(23) Wisely, righteously 26 he shall thrust out sinners from (the) inheritance,
He shall destroy the pride of the sinner as a potter's vessel.
(24) With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance,
21 He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth;
(25) At his rebuke nations shall flee before him,
And he shall reprove sinners for the thoughts of their heart.
28 (26) And he shall gather together a holy people,
whom he shall lead in righteousness,
And he shall judge the tribes of the people
that has been sanctified by the Lord his God.
29 (21) And he shall not suffer unrighteousness to lodge any more in their midst,
Nor shall there dwell with them any man that knoweth wickedness,

30 For he shall know them, that they are all sons of their God.
(28) And he shaIl divide them according to their tribes upon the land,
31 And neither sojourner nor alien shall sojourn with them any more.
(29) He shall judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his righteousness. Selah.
32 (30) And he shall have the heathen nations to serve him under his yoke;
And he shall glorify the Lord in a place to be seen of (?) all the earth;
33 And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it holy as of old:
34 (31) So that nations shall come from the ends of the earth to see his glory,
Bringing as gifts her sons who had fainted,
35 And to see the glory of the Lord,
wherewith God hath glorified her.
(32) And he (shall be) a righteous king, taught of God, over them,
36 And there shall be no unrighteousness in his days in their midst,
For all shall be holy and their king the anointed of the Lord.
37 (33) For he shall not put his trust in horse and rider and bow,
Nor shall he multiply for himself gold and silver for war,
Nor shall he gather confidence from (?) a multitude (?) for the day of battle.
38 (34) The Lord Himself is his king,
the hope of him that is mighty through (his) hope in God.
All nations (shall be) in fear before him,
39 (35) For he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth for ever.

40 He will bless the people of the Lord with wisdom and gladness,
41 (36) And he himself (will be) pure from sin,
so that he may rule a great people.
He will rebuke rulers, and remove sinners by the might of his word;
42 (37) And (relying) upon his God,
throughout his days he will not stumble;
For God will make him mighty by means of (His) holy spirit,
And wise by means of the spirit of understanding,
with strength and righteousness.
43 (38) And the blessing of the Lord (will be) with him:
he will be strong and stumble not;
44 (39) His hope (will be) in the Lord:
who then can prevail against him?
(40) (He will be) mighty in his works,
and strong in the fear of God,
45 (He will be) shepherding the flock of the Lord faithfully and righteously,
And will suffer none among them to stumble in their pasture.
46 (41) He will lead them all aright,
And there will be no pride among them that any among them should be oppressed.
47 (42) This (will be) the majesty of the king of Israel whom God knoweth;
He will raise him up over the house of Israel to correct him.
48 (43) His words (shall be) more refined than costly gold, the choicest;
In the assemblies he will judge the peoples,
the tribes of the sanctified.
49 His words (shall be) like the words of the holy ones in the midst of sanctified peoples.

50 Blessed be they that shall be in those days,
In that they shall see the good fortune of Israel
which God shall bring to pass in the gathering together of the tribes.
51 May the Lord hasten His mercy upon Israel!
May He deliver us from the uncleanness of unholy enemies!
The Lord Himself is our king for ever and ever.

XVIII. A Psalm. Of Solomon. Again of the Anointed of the Lord. ....

_Jesus the Jew_ by Geza Vermes (1973), 286pp., on 130-131
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Jew-Geza-Vermes/dp/0800614437/
What was the Messianic hope of Israel in the inter-Testamental age? What kind of Redeemer figure was expected?
A reliable answer is to be found in the least academic, and at the same time most normative, literary form:  prayer. In this respect, two significant sources have been preserved: the Psalms of Solomon, and the ancient synagogal prayer, _the_ prayer (_Tefillah_) _par excellence_, the Eighteen Benedictions. Their content of Messianic belief will be compared, with a view to verification, with that of a Qumran liturgical Blessing and with the rabbinic interpretation of classic Messianic prophecies.
Psalms 17 and 18 of Solomon derive from a first-century BC collection of poems inspired by mainstream Jewish religious ideology with a pronounced anti-Hasmonean political tendency. The title of Psalm 18, as well as verses 6 and 8 (or 5 and 7), mentions God's Anointed who will be raised up on 'the day of mercy and blessing' and will use his 'rod' to instill the 'fear of the Lord' into every man and direct them to 'the works of righteousness'.  This prayer, inspired by chapter 11 of Isaiah, is preceded by the celebrated supplication in Psalm 17 concerning the coming of the 'son of David', described also with words borrowed from the same prophet and explicitly referred to as 'the Anointed'.

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[Ps of S]"he shall have the heathen nations to serve him under his yoke"

"is BAD...not good"
How so?

Matthew 11:30 (NIV)
For my yoke is easy
and my burden is light."

Romans 6:16 (NIV)
Don't you know that
when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,
you are slaves of the one you obey--
whether you are slaves to sin,
which leads to death,
or to obedience,
which leads to righteousness?

Psalms of Solomon
https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Psalms-Solomon
4. Messianism. The seventeenth psalm in this collection contains one of the clearest statements of the Jewish Messianic hope to be found in the lit. of that people. The discoveries at Qumran have contributed masses of new information, but much of it is framed in imagery so complex as to be dismaying, whereas the concepts here are found in much simpler language. The Messiah is clearly an individual. He is a son of David, in special fulfillment of God's promise after the apparent destruction of that kingship. While there is no clear statement of his divinity, he is called "the Lord Messiah." (Although commentators believe that this should be read "the Lord's messiah," there is no example of such a reading in these psalms.) Since "the Lord" refers to God only, the implication is clear.

Beyond this, it is clear that the kingdom which will be set up will be no ordinary human one, but a supernatural one wherein all wrongs and all inequities will be conclusively righted. He will purify Jerusalem, destroy the ungodly nations and convict the sinners. He will give the earth to the tribes of Israel and free them from the heathen in their midst. Yet, all this was to be done without implements of war. He would smite the earth with His word and purify the nations with His righteousness. He would care for His people as a shepherd cares for his flocks. This picture is not different from that which may be gained from a reading of canonical Messianic passages, but it is more complete and coherent. Interestingly enough, it perpetuates that ambiguity between conqueror and redeemer which was to confuse so many during Jesus' lifetime.

DavidFord

#31
"consume all these kingdoms"
After all is said and done, will anyone remain outside of that kingdom?

Luke 1:33 (YLT)
and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages;
and of his reign there shall be no end.'

Anyone else?  Or just the house of Jacob?

Isaiah 45:14 (NIV)
This is what the LORD says: "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans-- they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, 'Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.'"

Isaiah 19 (Berean Study Bible), biblehub
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women.
They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts,
when He brandishes it against them.
17 The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt;
whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
will speak the language of Canaan
and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts.
One of them will be called the City of the Sun.c
[c:  Some MT manuscripts, DSS, and Vulgate; most MT manuscripts City of Destruction]

19 In that day there will be
an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt,
and a pillar to the LORD near her border.
20 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt.
When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors,
He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
21 The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt,
and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD.
They will worship with sacrifices and offerings;
they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.
22 And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague;
He will strike them but heal them.
They will turn to the LORD,
and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria.
The Assyrians will go to Egypt,
and the Egyptians to Assyria.
The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.
24 In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance
with Egypt and Assyria-- a blessing upon the earth.
25 The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying,
"Blessed be Egypt My people,
Assyria My handiwork,
and Israel My inheritance."

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Because of ISIS, half the Muslims in Egypt became atheists.
Has the Messiah ruled over the house of Jacob?  Will the Messiah ever rule over Rahab i.e. Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush, which God said would acknowledge God?

Psalm 87 (NIV)
Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.
1 He has founded his city on the holy mountain.
2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of you, city of God:
4 "I will record Rahab and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me--
Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush--
and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
5 Indeed, of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
6 The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
7 As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains are in you."

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If I'm understanding correctly, you object to translating as "increase."  What translation would you prefer for Isaiah 9:7?

4766. marbeh
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/4766.htm
marbeh: abundance
Original Word: מַרְבֶה
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: marbeh
Phonetic Spelling: (mar-beh')
Definition: abundance
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from rabah
Definition
abundance
NASB Translation
abundant (1), increase (1).

Targum Jonathan on Isaiah 9:6
https://www.sefaria.org/Targum_Jonathan_on_Isaiah.9?lang=bi
The greatness of those who do the law shall be magnified,
and to those, that preserve peace.
There shall be no end to the throne of David,
and of his kingdom,
to establish it and to build it
in judgment and in righteousness
from henceforth, even for ever.
By the Word of the Lord of hosts this shall be done.

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"Those countries no longer exist"
Egypt exists. All the people that have ever lived, including those in Ninevah (the capital of Assyria) and Sodom, still exist.

"God only made the new covenant with"
God promised his Messiah the nations.  And that includes Egypt, and those in Assyria, Cush, Philistia, Tyre, and the Sabeans.

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Do you think "nations" in Zechariah 14 refers to the lost, scattered tribes of Israel?

Verse 9 says, "On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth-- the LORD alone."  Does "all the earth" include Egypt?

Zechariah 14 (Berean Study Bible), biblehub
1 Behold, a day of the LORD is coming
when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
2 For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem,
and the city will be captured,
the houses looted, and the women ravished.
Half of the city will go into exile,
but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations,
as He fights in the day of battle.

4 On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem,
and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
forming a great valley,
with half the mountain moving to the north
and half to the south.
5 You will flee by My mountain valley,
for it will extend to Azal.
You will flee as you fled from the earthquake
in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Then the LORD my God will come,
and all the holy ones with Him.
....
8 And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem,
half of it toward the Eastern Sea
and the other half toward the Western Sea,
in summer and winter alike.
9 On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth--
the LORD alone, and His name alone.
10 All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain,
but Jerusalem will be raised up....
14 Judah will also fight at Jerusalem,
and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected--
gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.   
....
16 Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem
will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts,
and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
17 And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem
to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts,
then the rain will not fall on them.
18 And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in,
then the rain will not fall on them;
this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes
the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations
that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

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"if we're into Jesus"

1 Corinthians 15 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
20 But now The Messiah is risen from among the dead
and is the first fruits of those who sleep.
21 Just as by a man death came,
in this way also
by a man the dead come to life.
22 For just as by Adam all people die,
in this way also by The Messiah they all live;
23 Each person in his order;
The Messiah was the first fruits;
after this, those who are The Messiah's at his arrival.
24 And then the end will come,
when he will deliver The Kingdom to God The Father,
when he will destroy every Ruler and every Authority and all Powers.
25 For he is going to reign until all his enemies will be set under his feet,
26 And the last enemy death shall be destroyed.
27 For he brought all things to submission under his feet.
But when it says,
"All things are subjected to him",
it is understood that it excludes him who subjected all things to him.
28 And when all is subjected to him,
then the Son shall be subject to him who subjected all things to him,
that God might be all in all.

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Some have life-- abundant life, which Jesus came to give.  In the years to come, more and more individuals will repent and will accept God's mercy and will have abundant life.  Eventually, every human will have abundant life-- including Hitler, who is currently roasting.

Mike Parsons says that God told him this:
"The restoration of all things is not Our ultimate desire but it is the way Our original intention for oneness can be achieved. Once all things are restored, then the journey continues into the ages to come; and My sons can become ascended fathers who can be like We are. Restoration first begins with the truth of who We are unveiled. Love, in Perichoresis and Trinitarian truth restored, leads to inclusion being revealed as a consequence of love's passion and zeal for relationship with our children."

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One, older covenant applied to a particular subset of humanity. 
The New Covenant of which the prophet Jesus is a spotless mediating priest applies to all of humanity: 
_everybody_ is called to bend the knee to King Jesus and come under Jesus' rule, and have Jesus be their advocate who mediates as a spotless priest between them and God.

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Blake Healy saw a massive angel fighting a massive dark angel or demon over, IIRC, Dresden, in super-slow-motion.  The angel got a blue sword when the son or grandson of one of the pilots that participated in the fire-bombing of Dresden participated in a reconciliation ceremony with people in Dresden.  Forgiveness is a weapon.

_Indestructible_ (2020) by Blake Healy
https://www.amazon.com/Indestructible-Fight-Spiritual-Battles-Winning/dp/1629996777/

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Did the people of Sodom have a debt against anyone?
Were the debts of those who died in Sodom's destruction ever paid off, and if so, when?
Have you ever had a debt against anyone?

Matthew 6:12 (NIV)
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.

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It appears there won't be an answer forthcoming on my Jonah question.
Ignoring elephants in the room doesn't make them disappear.
"the END of the STORY"
is where?  (a Daniel verse that says the Messiah's kingdom keeps ever-expanding?  a Revelation verse that says the gates of the New Jerusalem never shut and are always open?)

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Do you think some _won't_ "stand before the judgment seat of The Messiah"?
And some _won't_ give "an account of himself to God"?
And regarding the claim that "every knee shall bow to" Master YHWH, some _won't_ bow their knees?

Romans 14 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
9 For this purpose also The Messiah died and lived and arose,
that he would be THE LORD JEHOVAH to the dead and to the living.
10 But why are you judging your brother,
or why do you even despise your brother?
For all of us are going to stand before the judgment seat of The Messiah,
11 According to what is written:
"As I live, says THE LORD JEHOVAH,
every knee shall bow to me
and to me every tongue shall swear."
12 So then, every person among us gives an account of himself to God.

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"God uses Satan to achieve his purposes. Satan is always on God's leash. All that happens in history is ultimately according to the will of God, even the dark work of Satan fulfills Gods plan. E.g. Jesus Christ on the cross. The world, the flesh and the devil wanted Christ crucified. This could only be achieved because it was Gods will. THe devil meant it for evil, God meant it for good.
It is true that the Jews and Romans had Jesus Crucified. It is also true that the ultimate cause of the Crucifixion was the will of God, planned before the earth was created"

Everything that happens-- including mass murders-- God allows to happen.
Reference that God wanted the Crucifixion to occur?
Was the Crucifixion something the devil wanted to occur?

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"do you personally lean toward Universal Reconciliation?"
Without having studied matters, I accepted the never-ending-torture view.
I studied things and became an annihilationist.
I studied things again, and became a universalist. 

"what is your position on the Deity of Christ and the Trinity doctrine?"
There are 3 in the godhead: Jesus the Messiah, God the Father, and the Spirit of Holiness.
Jesus was somehow both fully God, and fully man.

"in regard to Romans 5:12, I would point to chapters 3 and 4 of Romans where Paul clearly and unequivocally states that NO ONE is justified (reconciled) with God without FAITH. Without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb 11:6). That eliminates a whole lot of people from justification and reconciliation"
Before all is said and done, _everybody_ will have placed their trust in God.
Do you agree with this?:

1 Timothy 4:10 (NIV)
That is why we labor and strive,
because we have put our hope in the living God,
who is the Savior of all people,
and especially of those who believe.

"Both Galatians and Ephesians make that same point. And Jesus said that those who blaspheme the Spirit 'NEVER have forgiveness, neither in this life, nor in the one to come'"
How about in an age after that?  (the Greek 'ainon' means world/age).

Mark 3 (Young's Literal), my bracket
28 'Verily I say to you, that
all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men,
and evil speakings with which they might speak evil,
29 but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit
hath not forgiveness-- to the age,
but is in danger of age-[en]during judgment;'
30 because they said, 'He hath an unclean spirit.'

"Judas Iscariot died without forgiveness, and therefore will spend eternity outside the presence of God in everlasting punishment"
So when Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them,' Jesus wasn't talking about Judas? 
And to this day, Jesus has unforgiveness toward Judas?

"Satan and his angels will never be forgiven"
Mike Parsons has released love to and forgiven 3 dark angels, including one called Destiny Robber, and now those 3 are serving God. Destiny Robber became Destiny Restorer.

"and they will likewise spend eternity in the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:10). That is NOT a physical place, but rather a place of eternal punishment in the unseen realm"

Revelation 20:10 (Young's Literal)
and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where [are] the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night-- to the ages of the ages.

From where do you derive "eternity"?

"Jesus at the judgment sent the wicked into that same place where Satan and his angels were cast (see Matt 25:31-46). There is no escape from that place of eternal punishment"
Did anyone that Jesus preached to in Sheol escape from Sheol?

1 Peter 3 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
18 Because The Messiah also died once for the sake of our sins,
The Righteous One in the place of sinners,
to bring you to God,
and he died in body and lived in his Spirit.
19 And he preached to those souls who were held in Sheol,
20 These who from the first were not convinced in the days of Noah when the long-suffering of God commanded that there would be an ark, upon the hope of their repentance, and only eight souls entered it and were kept alive by water.

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"S.S. Singh isn't a teacher"
How much of his material have you read?  His insightful observations about the spiritual world using nature as a springboard are amazing.
These days, in the afterlife does anybody suffer any bad consequences for their misdeeds in this life?  Are there currently hellish realms with new arrivals daily?

"Jesus changed our fundamental relationship with God"
True.  And our understanding of God's nature.

R.H. Charles: bring eschatology into harmony w/ Xtian theology of God
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/r-h-charles-bring-eschatology-into-harmony-w-xtian-theology-of-god/

"if we preach that God sends us to hell, a kind of spiritual death invades our lives and witness.
It is employing fear as a motivation to love God, it is misrepresenting his nature and intentions"
Sounds right.

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"Scripture according to you"
The Scripture is the OT books listed in the LXX and Pecrapta OT, and the NT books.
"Christ himself quoted Scripture as an ultimate authority"
Remind me, if you would:  where?

Matthew 5 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
27 You have heard that it was spoken,
'You shall not commit adultery.'
28 But I am saying to you,
everyone who looks at a woman so as to lust for her,
immediately commits adultery with her in his heart.

Luke 9 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), my emphasis
34 And as he [Peter] said these things, there was a cloud that formed a tabernacle about them and they were afraid when they beheld Moses and Elijah who entered into the cloud.
35 And there was a voice from the cloud that said,
"This is my Son, The Beloved; **Hear him."**

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"God is the ultimate cause of ALL that comes to pass.... Every single thing that happens in the universe, happens according to the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, grace, justice, goodness and wisdom, righteousness and wrath"
Was God the ultimate cause of the Holocaust?

Genesis 50:20 (Young's Literal)
As for you, ye devised against me evil--
God devised it for good,
in order to do as at this day,
to keep alive a numerous people;

Romans 8:28 (Young's Literal)
And we have known that
to those loving God all things do work together for good,
to those who are called according to purpose;

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Was God the ultimate cause of the:
Fall of Adam and Eve?
destruction of Jerusalem?

Matthew 23 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that murdered The Prophets and stoned those who were sent to it! How many times have I desired to gather your children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate!

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Do you think God said Leviticus 21:9?  It sounds to me more like a threat a priest would concoct to try to keep his daughter in line.  Do you believe that this punishment came from the mind of a God of love?:

Leviticus 21:9 (NIV)
"'If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute,
she disgraces her father;
she must be burned in the fire.

Jeremiah 19:5 (NIV)
They have built the high places of Baal
to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal--
something I did not command or mention,
nor did it enter my mind.

someone:
"It is quite possible that words are attributed to god YHVH that he didn't actually say. There is a strong suggestion that he said that scribes had indeed lied in the writing of the old testament.
In regards to burning to death as a punishment for law breaking: Leviticus 20:14, 21:9, Genesis 38:24, Joshua 7:15 - 24-25. I can provide you with at least another half a dozen from the top of my head and I'm pretty sure there are many more.  Once again I ask you, are these the punishments of a god of love?"

"Malachi 3:2-3.
How could i have been so blind??
The fire is truly a purification process. And surely, these verses also confirm my suspicions that the Levitical law was added to by the Levites. Why else would Malachi directly refer to the sons of Levi in these verses?!"

CHB

Eternal means without a beginning or an end which cannot apply to us, only to God.

CHB

DavidFord

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Quote from: CHB on October 10, 2020, 09:29:29 PM
Eternal means without a beginning or an end which cannot apply to us, only to God.
If a creature began to exist, and went on to exist for an infinitely-long length of time, would you consider that creature "eternal"?

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Do you think God:
loved the foreigners residing amidst the Israelites?
wanted Israelites to love foreigners?

Deuteronomy 10 (Berean Study Bible), biblehub
16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore,
and stiffen your necks no more.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords,
the great, mighty, and awesome God,
showing no partiality
and accepting no bribe.
18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow,
and He loves the foreigner,
giving him food and clothing.
19 So you also must love the foreigner,
since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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I believe that there currently are hellish afterlife realms with new arrivals daily.  There currently are in the afterlife numerous individuals suffering bad consequences for their misdeeds in this life.  The biblical principle of reaping what one sows, more than one sows, later than one sows, is in operation.  Many who created hellish situations for others while alive on earth are in hellish realms in the afterlife.

Is God the painful, purifying fire some experience?
https://tentmaker.org/forum/index.php?topic=15013.msg215832#msg215832

Bryan Melvin's tour of a hellish realm
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/those-in-sheol-getting-what-they-dished-out-to-others/

_Clinically Dead: I've Seen Heaven and Hell_ (2012) by Ian McCormack with Jenny Sharkey
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492319341/
https://youtu.be/Yg4188Ii-fg

Philip Mantofa's visit to a valley of torture/death
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/gehenna-in-church/msg211546/#msg211546

Robin Main and Mike Parsons preached in hellish realms
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/r-h-charles-bring-eschatology-into-harmony-w-xtian-theology-of-god/msg217151/#msg217151

Many don't heed preaching in this life.  But eventually, everybody that didn't heed preaching in this life will heed preaching in the afterlife.
Many didn't listen to Noah's preaching, wound up in Sheol, and then were preached to by Jesus.

"They are delusional.  Hell is an unbiblical myth"
Is a Sheol in which some suffer torment a myth?

Luke 16:23 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
?And suffering in Sheol, he lifted up his eyes from afar off
and he saw Abraham, and Lazar in his bosom.?

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Meaning of "God's Will"?
Mike Parsons says he talks a lot less these days about 'free will,' and a lot more about choices.  People are in various situations, and in those situations make various choices.

"God makes all choices"
Reference?
I strongly doubt God makes choices that are evil.  I imagine that concerning every good choice, God had a large role in that good choice being made. 
God knows all that could possibly be known, including the beginning and end everything in between.

I don't see "God makes all choices" here:
Ephesians 1:11 (NIV)
In him we were also chosen,
having been predestined according to
the plan of him who works out everything
in conformity with the purpose of his will,

Nor do I see "God makes all choices" here:
1 Corinthians 1 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
22 Because the Jews ask for signs
and the Aramaeans seek philosophy.
23 But we preach The Messiah as crucified,
a scandal to the Judeans
and madness to the Aramaeans.
24 But to those who are called, Jews and Aramaeans,
The Messiah is the power of God
and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the madness of God is wiser than humans
and the weakness of God is stronger than humans.
26 For you see also your calling my brethren, that
not many among you are wise in the flesh,
neither are many among you mighty,
neither are many among you children of a great family line.
27 For God has chosen the foolish of the world
to shame the wise,
and he has chosen the weak of the world
to shame the mighty.
28 And he has chosen those of low descent in the world
and the rejects and those who are nothing,
to nullify those who are,
29 That no one will boast before him.

I fail to notice "God makes all choices" here:
Romans 8:28 (Young's Literal)
And we have known that
to those loving God all things do work together for good,
to those who are called according to purpose;

Did God make:
Adam and Eve's choice to eat of the forbidden tree?
the devil's choice to rebel against God?
numerous angels' choice to join the devil in rebelling against God?

"If God chooses the weak, stupid and the ignoble things of the world then doesn't He choose the strong, smart, noble and powerful things also?"
No.  If I choose to purchase samples of all the purple produce at the grocery store, it doesn't follow that I choose to purchase samples of all the red produce.
Before all is said and done, all people-- whether weak, stupid, ignoble, strong, smart, noble, powerful, or otherwise-- will be willingly serving the Messiah.  Everything and everybody belongs to God.  God can rightfully lay claim to everything and everybody, and does so.

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"no one gets tormented in Sheol. It's a parable, not a literal place"
So Jesus' talking about a guy suffering torment in Sheol, and desiring just a drop of water for his tongue, had utterly zero basis in reality?

"You can believe what you want"
Just as does everybody.

"I have done my research. Historical, semantic, and precept upon precept"
Feel free to share.

"There is evidence in history that hell was there to keep people under control"
Even if that's true, the history of an idea's origination doesn't necessarily mean the idea is erroneous.

"God would no send loved one to a place called hell so that the good could watch them suffer"
In your view, would God allow loved ones to go to a Nazi concentration camp or Soviet gulag, where they'd suffer?

"I am sure there is material on tentmaker strongly suggestive that hell does not exist"
Material such as what?

"I have got a lot of good information off that site in the past"
"The only judgment that we have left is in this life"
So a vicious, sadistic unrepentant Nazi concentration camp guard who escapes from the crumbling Third Reich and takes up life in the U.S. as an auto assembly worker, and dies in his sleep at his house at the ripe old age of 89 surrounded by his loving kids and grandkids, received "judgment... in this life"?

"Adam and Eve sinned before they had eaten from the tree.  They sinned when the law came do this and don't do this"
Reference for "sinned before they had eaten from the tree"?

"God intended for Adam and Eve to sin"
Do you agree with this?:

James 1 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
13 A man should not say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God", for God is not acquainted with evil and he does not tempt a man. 14 But each man is tempted from his own desire, and he lusts and he is seduced. 15 And this desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin, but sin, when it has matured, gives birth to death.

"God does not have the right to lay claim to everyone. If he did he would"
Do you agree with this?:

Hebrews 10 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English)
12 But This One offered one sacrifice for the sake of sins, and he sat down at the right side of God for eternity. 13 And he waits from then on until his enemies are put as a footstool under his feet,

Romans 11:36 (NIV)
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
"stop your scare mongering"

Do you think all of this advice is relevant these days?:
Matthew 10:28 (Young's Literal)
'And be not afraid of those killing the body,
and are not able to kill the soul,
but fear rather Him who is able
both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

Do you think this is currently true?:
Hebrews 10 (NIV)
30 For we know him who said,
"It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"
and again,
"The Lord will judge his people."
31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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"your purple produce example. Didn't God manifest the day, the store, the produce and each moment of you walking through the store"
It sounds like you think God is solely responsible for everything that occurs.
"Didn't God give you the heartbeats and working hands to grasp the produce. Didn't God given you the eyes that could see the color and shape of the desired fruit?"
Yes, x 2.
"Was it really your idea to get that produce today?"
I like to think so.  I like to think I'm not merely a program running and acting precisely as I was programmed to run.

"Or was it God's plan long ago that today he would manifest you getting that produce?"
God knows what will occur in the future.
God has numerous plans, and backup plans upon backup plans.  When a human makes a less-than-ideal choice in a situation, God has a backup plan.  God is so brilliant and so powerful that he can allow humans and angels to make lousy choices and make a huge mess of things, and God can still derive fantastic results from it all.

"As for your Adam and Eve example, yes it was God's plan for them to sin"
God knew they'd sin, but God didn't want them to sin.  God didn't "plan for them to sin."  God knew they'd sin, and God had a backup plan for when they would sin.

"Because of that sin, we needed a savior, because we needed a savior, we came to know Jesus. God sent His own son to die for us all. We would never known Jesus nor God nor the Love He has for all of His creation without that first offense"
God takes humanity's and dark angels' lemons and makes lemonade.

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Do you think some currently in their afterlife are prodigals who haven't yet returned, coins that haven't yet been found, lost sheep that haven't yet been located?

Do you believe that everybody who dies is immediately upon death a returned prodigal, a located coin, a found sheep?

_The Spiritual Autobiography of Charles De Foucauld_ (2003), 213pp. by Jean-Francois Six (annotator, editor), Charles De Foucauld; on 101-2
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Autobiography-Charles-Foucauld/dp/0932085776/
"I am the Good Shepherd, constantly in search of strayed sheep. _Love me_-- I have said those words to you a hundred times, because I love you so much, O my sheep, all of you. And _love one another_, because your Shepherd loved you so tenderly. Be grateful for my painstaking search for you, my goodness in forgiving you, and my joy when I find you again.

_"Help me in my work:  follow me._  Like me, working with me, each of you following the guidance of his spiritual director, make every effort to lead back as many strayed sheep as possible.  Share my feelings, my suffering at seeing my sheep get lost, my joy when I find them again.  Share my constancy, my hope, my indulgent search, never-ending belief in the possibility of their return, my indulgence in forgiving them.  Share my tenderness towards them when they do return-- far from reproaching and punishing them, I shower caresses upon them, taking them to my heart, as the father took the prodigal son.

"So then, hope always for the return of every soul living in the world to what is good; work for it always insofar as obedience allows, and be tender towards sinners who do return as you have seen me be to so many souls.  Putting everything in a word:  _Do for sinners what you would want me to do for you."_

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"Why would God manifest so many people over thousands of years, millions of days and billions of minutes and seconds, each containing a heartbeat for every person that lived, if He was going to burn and torture them?"
Torture doesn't serve any positive purpose.  God doesn't torture anybody.
God is a consuming fire, and that fire can be painful for some.  Also, that pain won't last for an infinite length of time.

Hebrews 12 (NIV)
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,
29 for our "God is a consuming fire."

Is God the painful, purifying fire some experience?
https://tentmaker.org/forum/index.php?topic=15013.msg215832#msg215832

_66 Love Letters: A Conversation with God that Invites You into His Story_ (2009), 400pp. by Larry Crabb; on 264, 265 in the chapter on Ephesians
https://www.amazon.com/66-Love-Letters-Conversation-Invites/dp/0849946409/
And finally, expect opposition.  My enemy will stand against you at every turn.  You are no match for him.  But My Spirit is in you.  My enemy is no match for Him.  ....
* _Keep the helmet of salvation on your head_.  Keep hope alive.  No matter what happens, no matter how you fail, all shall be well and (as Julian of Norwich heard Me say) all manner of things shall be well.
* _Never stop reading my letters_.  My word is My Spirit's sword.  Use it to fight evil, first in you, then around you.
* _Learn to pray_.  Pray in My Spirit, on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers and requests, for everyone you know, especially those who suffer for my sake [6:1-18]."

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God doesn't fail.  It's humans and dark angels that fail.  God is very persistent, smart, and powerful, and ultimately gets what he wants.
God doesn't fail.  In contrast, people fail regularly.  When people do fail, God has a new course of action that they can accept.  Sometimes following their failure, they do accept God's new, preferred course of action, but often they don't.

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What is the position of 'Israel Only' on the ultimate extent of the realm of the Messiah?  (merely over the land of Israel, and no further?)

_The Messiah:  An Aramaic Interpretation: The Messianic Exegesis of the Targum_ by Samson H. Levey (1974), 180pp.  On XIX:
The following is our delineation of Messianism as differentiated from eschatology.

Messianism is the predication of a future golden age in which the central figure is a king primarily of Davidic lineage appointed by God.  In the period under consideration^8 [8: Roughly from the second century B.C.E. to the 9th century C.E. ....] it was believed that during the time of the Messiah the Hebrew people will be vindicated, its wrongs righted, the wicked purged from its midst, and its rightful place in the world secured.  The Messiah will pronounce doom upon the enemies of Israel, will mete out reward and punishment in truth and in justice, and will serve as an ideal King ruling the entire world.  The Messiah may not always be the active agent in these future events, but his personality must always be present at least as the symbol of the glorious age which will be ushered in.

The eschatological is not as limited as the Messianic.  It optimistically envisages a salutary outcome of history, brought about by God himself, who will dispense reward and punishment here and/or hereafter. Included in it are various ideas that are sometimes heterogeneous without definite plan or system.  The Jewish version usually encompasses the ingathering of the exiles and their return to Palestine, the destruction of the armies of the archenemies of Israel, purification of the land from defilement, the restoration of the pristine splendor of the temple, divine protection for Jerusalem and its inhabitants, subjugation of the nations to God and/or Israel, material prosperity, and peace.  Attached to these may also be the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.  All this, without the involvement of the definite personality of Davidic lineage which marks the Messianic hope.

Interwoven into the Messianic picture may be any or all of the eschatological elements, sometimes also some of the characteristics of the apocalyptic, but the distinguishing feature which marks it as such is the figure of the Messiah himself.

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An angry Peter, not God, not the Holy Spirit, killed Ananias and Saphira.  Just as in the garden when Jesus was betrayed, an angry Peter cut a guy's ear off, and an angry Peter cursed a guy.

Acts 8 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
18 And when Simon saw that by laying on of the hands of the Apostles The Spirit of Holiness was given, he brought silver to them, 19 As he said, "Give me also this authority that he on whomever I place a hand will receive The Spirit of Holiness."
20 Shimeon Kaypha [Simon Peter] said to him, "Your silver will go with you to destruction, because you thought that the gift of God is acquired by the possessions of the world." 21 "You have no part or allotment in this faith, because your heart is not upright before God. 22 But turn from this your evil and request from God that perhaps the treachery of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are in the wrath of bitterness and in a knot of evil."
24 Simon answered, and he said, "Ask God for my sake, that none of these things which you have said may come upon me."

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Yes, many (including Judas) were expecting a different Messiah than what Jesus was.  Given the prophecy in Daniel re: when the Messiah would appear, if Jesus wasn't the Messiah, then there wasn't and won't ever be a Messiah.

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"Sodom was a threat to the Apple of His eye-- God protects His chosen"
Reference that Sodom was "a threat to the Apple of His eye.... His chosen"? 
(as a reminder, Jacob hadn't yet been born at the time Sodom got destroyed)

"God rescued Lot"
OK.
Do you believe Lot was part of God's "chosen"?
Do you believe Lot's descendants were part of God's "chosen"?

At one point, via the preaching of Jonah, God rescued Ninevah from the bad consequences of their bad actions.  Do you think those Ninevites that repented at Jonah's preaching were part of God's "chosen"?

"It doesn't matter what I think.  We are discussing the bible"
Should you decline to share your views on the Bible, I can't dialogue with you about your views on the Bible.

"if Jesus said he would come back within his generation would you believe him?"
I believe that "Jesus said he would come back within his generation," and that he did so.
Do you believe Jesus:
existed?
died?
was resurrected?

Do you think a creator God created the universe and humanity, including you?

jugghead

Quote from: DavidFord on October 11, 2020, 01:27:32 AM
Quote from: CHB on October 10, 2020, 09:29:29 PM
Eternal means without a beginning or an end which cannot apply to us, only to God.
If a creature began to exist, and went on to exist for an infinitely-long length of time, would you consider that creature "eternal"?

No, I would consider them to be "immortal" not "eternal", that is how I see the difference

:2c:
Wisdom is not measured by time, it is measured by understanding

Justification Under God's Grace Having Every Answer Delivered

DavidFord

#35
"The God of Israel only loved his children. Duet 7:6, Amos 3:2"
Do you think Jesus only loved biological descendants of Jacob?

"The Jews were commanded by God to divorce their foreign wives and send away their children when they returned from Babylonian captivity.  Ezra 9:2,10:2-3"
Reference that they were commanded by God to do that?
Boaz married the Moabite Ruth. Was that immoral?

Matthew 19 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
3 And the Pharisees came to him and they were testing him, and they were saying, "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"
4 But he answered and said to them,
"Have you not read that he who made from the beginning, made them male and female?" 5 And he said, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two of them shall be one flesh." 6 "Therefore they were not two, but one flesh. The things therefore that God has united let not a man separate."
7 They were saying to him, "Why therefore did Moses command to give a writing of divorce and to send her away?"
8 He said to them,
"Moses, confronting the callousness of your heart, let you divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so." 9 But I say to you, "Whoever divorces his wife apart from adultery and will take another, commits adultery, and whoever will take her who is divorced commits adultery."

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"that is what the Bible says, explicitly"
Did Jesus love the Samaritan leper that Jesus healed, and that returned to thank Jesus?

Luke 17 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
11 And it was that as Yeshua went to Jerusalem, he passed through among Samaritans to Galilee. 12 And when he approached to enter a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, and they stood afar off. 13 And they lifted up their voices and they were saying, "Our Rabbi, Yeshua, have mercy on us!" 14 And when he saw them, he said to them, "Go show yourselves to the priests", and as they were going, they were purified. 15 But one of them, when he saw that he was purified, he returned to him and he was praising God with a loud voice. 16 And he fell on his face before the feet of Yeshua as he gave thanks to him, and this one was a Samaritan. 17 But Yeshua answered and he said, "Were there not ten who were purified? Where are the nine?" 18 "Have they neglected to come give glory to God, except this one who is from a foreign people?" 19 And he said to him, "Arise; go. Your faith has saved you."

"why do you not believe that Christ was the savior of his people that had the curse of the law imputed unto them?"
Curse of what law?

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"what laws did you break to impute sin?"
I can't cite a specific statute, but I do know that my conscience told me that I'd done wrong.  That whisper of my conscience was-- I believe-- God talking to me.  Have you ever had your conscience tell you that you'd done something wrong?

"Where are these laws that impute sin?"
Beats me.  I also don't know where the number 5 exists.

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Are these accurate statements, in your view?:
Dan has never sinned.
Dan has never done anything immoral.
Dan has done only loving or neutral actions toward others-- and never ever anything ugly toward another.
Dan has had only loving or neutral thoughts toward others-- and never ever thought anything ugly toward another.

Matthew 5:28 (NIV)
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 15 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
18 "Anything that proceeds from the mouth proceeds from the heart and it defiles the man." 19 "For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, murders, fornications, thefts, lying testimonies, blasphemies." 20 "These things are those that defile a man, but if a man will eat after not washing his hands, he is not defiled."

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"did Jesus die for nations that were not in covenant with the god of Israel?"
I think Jesus' life, death, and resurrection benefited all of humanity, past present and future.

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"Romans 4:15 NASB
for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation."
What is "the Law"?

Matthew 22 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
36 "Teacher, which commandment in The Written Law is the greatest?" 37 Yeshua said to him,
"You shall love THE LORD JEHOVAH your God from all your heart and from all your soul and from all your power and from all your mind." 38  "This is the great and the first commandment." 39 "And the second which is like it is, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commands depend all The Written Law and The Prophets."

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"Daniel 9:24 NASB
'Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place."

What do you conclude from that verse?

"go study what the law is I don't want anything to do with it"
What exactly is it that you "don't want anything to do with"?

"That is what Adam fell for knowledge of good and evil in other words law. Not for me I couldn't keep it I would need a saviour to rescue me from my sin if I would be under a law"
I don't understand.  Are you saying you have no idea what's "evil"?  If somebody were to hit you over the head with a skateboard and take your wallet, would you consider that "evil"?

DavidFord

#36
"actually love God in this manner. You can only do that by keeping the 10 commandments.  .... If you love God, you will keep the first four. And if you love your neighbor, you will keep the last six"
How does one demonstrate one's love for God?

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Matthew 25:40 (NIV) "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

Romans 14 (Berean Study Bible), https://biblehub.com/bsb/romans/14.htm
5 One person regards a certain day above the others,
while someone else considers every day alike.
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 
6 He who observes a special day does so to the Lord;
he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God;
and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

1 John 4:20 (Berean Study Bible), https://biblehub.com/niv/1_john/4-20.htm
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar.
For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen,
cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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'Deuterocanonical' books are in Bibles of Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and in the OT Pes hitta.  The NT Pes hitta was the original version of the NT, and got translated into Greek.
In the table of contents on page 33 of the 1611 KJV, "The Bookes called Apocrypha" are listed:
https://archive.org/details/theholybibleareprintoftheoriginal1611edition18331911/page/n31/mode/2up

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"actually love God in this manner. You can only do that by keeping the 10 commandments. .... If you love God, you will keep the first four. And if you love your neighbor, you will keep the last six"
How does one demonstrate one's love for God?

Matthew 25:40 (NIV) "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

Romans 14 (Berean Study Bible), https://biblehub.com/bsb/romans/14.htm
5 One person regards a certain day above the others,
while someone else considers every day alike.
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who observes a special day does so to the Lord;
he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God;
and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

1 John 4:20 (Berean Study Bible), https://biblehub.com/niv/1_john/4-20.htm
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar.
For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen,
cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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Do you think it's critical that people 'keep the sabbath'?
If 'yes,' what does that involve?

https://biblescan.com/search.php?q=sabbath
John 7:23... Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man's whole body on....
Luke 13:14 But the synagogue leader was indignant.... because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath.... "There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days....
Mark 2:27 Then Jesus declared, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.  ....
Matthew 12:5 .... Or haven't you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? And haven't you read in the law of Moses that....

Leviticus 23:3 .... There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work....
Exodus 31:15 .... For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to....
Acts 18:4 .... Each Sabbath found Paul at the synagogue, trying to convince the Jews and Greeks alike.  ....
John 5:10 .... so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."

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"Jesus clearly says not everyone will enter the kingdom of heaven... Matthew 7:21.... 25:30"
Jesus clearly says he'd draw all people to himself.

John 12:32 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/john/12-32.htm
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

"All the disobedient will be cast into outer darkness"
To what end/purpose?  (torture, for the sadistic enjoyment of God?)

Proverbs 3:12 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/proverbs/3-12.htm
because the LORD disciplines those he loves,
as a father the son he delights in.

Proverbs 13:24, https://biblehub.com/proverbs/13-24.htm
Whoever spares the rod hates their children,
but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

Hebrews 12:6, https://biblehub.com/hebrews/12-6.htm
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son."

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"There 1050 commands I believe in the New Testament. All of the commandments of God are repeated. But mainly the commandments or royal law of God"
Do you agree with this?:

Galatians 5:14 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/galatians/5-14.htm
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command:
"Love your neighbor as yourself."

James 2:8, https://biblehub.com/james/2-8.htm
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture,
"Love your neighbor as yourself,"
you are doing right.

Romans 13:9, https://biblehub.com/romans/13-9.htm
The commandments,
"You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder,"
"You shall not steal," "You shall not covet,"
and whatever other command there may be,
are summed up in this one command:
"Love your neighbor as yourself."

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"That's like asking to exclude God by not following the first 4"
By following the neighbor-based commandments of The 10 Commandments (i.e., commandments 5-10), one is loving God:  Jesus, who is God:  'whatever you did to the least of these, you did to Me.'

"James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it"
James was originally written in not Greek, but rather Aramaic.  There's something wrong with that rendition there.  If I break commandment 2, do you really believe I simultaneously broke commandments 7, 8, and 9?

Analysis of Pesh itta verse James 2:10
http://dukhrana.com
(Murdock) For he that shall keep the whole law,
and yet fail in one [precept],
is obnoxious to the whole law.

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"there is only one day blessed and sanctified by its creator that is the sabbath. So of you rebel and not pick the day he picked you don't get the blessing"
So, how do you typically break observance of Saturday?  (washing dishes on Saturday?  vacuuming on Saturday?)

"healing is permitted on the Sabbath"
What else is permitted on Saturday?  (rescuing a child in trouble?  rescuing an animal in trouble?  carrying one's mattress?)

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Do you disagree with any of this?:

_Breaking the Romans Code_ by Michael Wood (2011), 196pp.  On 155-161:
Puzzle 1 The first teaching in the body of the Sermon on the Mount:
_Unless you treat people better than the scribes and the Pharisees,
you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven_.  ....
Puzzle 2 The full body of the Sermon on the Mount:
_God is going to treat you based on how you treat others_.  ....
Puzzle 3 The warnings at the end of the Sermon on the Mount:
_Only those who actually follow Jesus' interpretation of the law will make it on Judgment Day_.  ....

Puzzle 5 The key to all of Jesus' teachings on salvation and judgment in the Gospel of Matthew (including the very key to the Sermon on the Mount): 
_Jesus didn't come to abolish the Law and the Prophets
because only the neighbor-based commands are the Law and the Prophets_.  ....
Puzzle 7 The key to Paul's letter(s) to the Romans:
_Only the neighbor-based commands count,
the Jobs of the Law count for nothing_.

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"Jesus responded by telling him to give up everything he had and become His follower. The young man could not do this 'works', because money was his god; he was guilty of idolatry"
Yes, probably "money was his god; he was guilty of idolatry."  That can be seen in his failure to follow the commandment to "love thy neighbour as thyself."

Matthew 19 (King James), https://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/19.htm
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which?
Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

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"Lev. 18:22; 20:13"
"Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination"
There's something wrong with that translation-- see below.
Are there any actions prohibited by Old Testament regulations you consider to _not_ be sins?
Do you: wear mixed-materials clothing? eat pork? do 0 work on the Sabbath (Friday night to Saturday night)?

Word Study -- Man Laying with a Memory -- by Chaim Bentorah - Jul 3, 2015
https://www.chaimbentorah.com/2015/07/word-study-man-laying-with-a-memory-אישׁ-ישׁכב-אתזכר/
Also in his book
_Treasures of the Deep: 365 Daily Hebrew Word Studies_ (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/Treasures-Deep-Daily-Hebrew-Studies/dp/1948794381/
What bothers me about this verse are the words: "If a man also lie with mankind." You have two very different words for man and mankind. Man is ish and mankind is zakar. Why did it not use the word ish for both man and mankind? Why did it not use the word adam which is the word for a physical man when ish is the word for both a physical and spiritual man? You really have to stretch things to get zakar to be rendered as mankind. You see zakar means remembrance or to memorialize. We get mankind from zakar because we often memorialize man both male and female. But the idea of zakar is a remembrance. What is being remembered in this verse? The word lie is shakab which means to crouch down, have sexual intercourse, copulate, or just sleep in a bed. Literally, the verse reads, if a man lie down with remembrance of laying with a woman the two commit an abomination.

That does not make much sense so we must resort to paraphrasing and the most obvious paraphrase is a man lying with a man like he would do with a woman. But when I think of my former friend and how he was storing up memories, thinking of what it would be like to sleep with these women he was admiring, if a man lie down with remembrance of laying with a woman the two commit an abomination, begins to make sense. The two being his memories and then laying with his wife and thinking of those women. That is not only an abomination to God it is an abomination and insult to his wife, God's precious gift to him. I think this verse is addressing por nography.

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"Rom. 1:26-28"
What is "the due penalty" referred to here?: "received in themselves the due penalty for their error"
Does God give to individuals who engage in homosexual activity any penalties beyond "the due penalty"?

Romans 1 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/niv/romans/1.htm
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.  28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

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"the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine 1 Timothy 1:10"
"Men who practice homosexuality" is a mistranslation.  It's better rendered with, 'men who rape pre-pubescent boys.'  See

_Pauline Paradoxes Decoded_ (2013) by Michael Wood (2013), 525pp., 275
https://www.amazon.com/Pauline-Paradoxes-Decoded-Michael-Wood/dp/1936565161/

"Here is the Greek"
from interlinear of 1 Cor 6:9
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/6-9.htm
be deceived:  neither
4205 pornoi/ πόρνοι 
nor
1496 eidōlolatrai/ εἰδωλολάτραι/ idolaters
nor
3432 moichoi/ μοιχοὶ/ adulterers
nor
3120 malakoi/ μαλακοὶ
nor
733 arsenokoitai/ ἀρσενοκοῖται

In Roman times, rape of young boys was widely practiced.
What would you call men who rape young boys?  (homosexuals?  child molesters?)

Martin Luther translated the Greek as knabenschander i.e. rapists of young boys.  Did Luther err in his translation?

733. arsenokoites
https://biblehub.com/greek/733.htm
arsenokoites: a male engaging in same-gender sexual activity
Original Word: ἀρσενοκοίτης, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: arsenokoites
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace)
Definition: a sodomite
Usage: a male engaging in same-gender sexual activity; a sodomite, pederast.

pederast
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pederast
a man who desires or engages in sexual activity with a boy

Do you think the Latin Vulgate mistranslated the Greek?
"The medieval Latin translation in the Vulgata Clementina was 'masculorum concubitoribus,' implying concubinage or pimping, not homosexuality specifically."

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Arsenokoites
Arsenokoites is extremely rare in ancient Greek - so rare, there is no other extant use predating or contemporary to the Bible (a linguistic phenomenon known as a hapax legomenonWikipedia). Philo is often claimed to have used it around 35 CE.[4][5] Some believe the claim to be false.[6] ....
Translations
Over the centuries, there has also been a range of interpretation of how best to translate "arsenokoites" into the different European languages.

The medieval Latin translation in the Vulgata Clementina was "masculorum concubitoribus," implying concubinage or pimping, not homosexuality specifically. Martin Luther's 1545 German translation employs the word "Knabenschander" (from "Knaben", boys or young children), implying that "arsenokoites" was interpreted as pedophilia as early as the 16th century. A modern German translation speaks of "Kinder sexuell missbrauchen" ("to abuse children sexually"). The 1649 Giovanni Deodati Bible in Italian refers to "quelli che usano co' maschi". The term "maschi" can refer either to men or boys, but has a more general sense of boys, as in the traditional Italian expression "Auguri e figli maschi" (literally, "Congratulations and may you have many male children.")

"Jesus's own Law was to love God and secondly: our neighbour"
Does a man raping pre-pubescent boys violate Jesus' law via that activity?
Do 2 men engaging in consensual homosexual activity with each other violate Jesus' law via that activity?
Do 2 19-year-olds engaging in consensual pre-marital sexual activity with each other violate Jesus' law via that activity?

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"language has been changed to fit the narrative"
What is that "narrative"?
Do you consider "them that defile themselves with mankind" a good translation of "arsenokoitais"?

1 Timothy 1 (Webster Bible Translation), https://biblehub.com/wbt/1_timothy/1.htm
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers, 10 For lewd persons, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

1 Timothy 1 (KJV), https://biblehub.com/kjv/1_timothy/1.htm
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

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Do you disagree with any of this characterization of 'the gospel'?:

_The Two Gospels:  Defeating the Nicene Creed_ by Daniel Yordy (2013), 217pp.,  on 53
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Gospels-Daniel-Yordy/dp/1497404045/
The gospel is that I am filled full with another person, and that person is God.
Every particle of me is found ONLY inside of God Himself in Person,
and God Himself in Person fills every particle of me with ALL that He is,
and God Himself in Person flows out from me at all times and in every direction.
I share heart with this God who fills me full
and that shared heart is the very throne of heaven, the Mercy Seat of God.
I am seated always upon that throne inside of God and God inside of me.
Together, He and I draw all into love upon that throne by a life laid down, by love poured out.

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Do you disagree with any of this?:

_Pauline Paradoxes Decoded_ (2013) by Michael Wood (2013), 525pp., on 477
https://www.amazon.com/Pauline-Paradoxes-Decoded-Michael-Wood/dp/1936565161/
Paul cited the Stoics as a Gentile example of _patriarchal faith_, and he cited Abraham as a Jewish example of _patriarchal faith_. Paul portrayed God's redemption as having three distinct periods:
Jews are saved by Patriarchal Faith-- This period lasted from Abraham until Moses.
Jews are saved by Torah observance-- This period lasted from Moses until Jesus.
Jews _and Gentiles_ are saved by Patriarchal Faith-- This period lasts from Jesus onward.

Because of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, salvation is now by patriarchal faith for Jews _and Gentiles_ alike-- fulfilling God's promise to Abraham that he would be the father of _many nations_.

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"Paul. Jesus... blinded him. Paul was not given a choice he was told what to do and how to do it"
The blinding was temporary.  Paul could have chosen to continue persecuting Jesus.  Paul had a choice.
"Did Jesus ever use anyone?"
Jesus used things and loved people.

DavidFord

#37
Reason @whiz666 - 13 April 2021
https://gab.com/whiz666/posts/106060259128991480
Sodom wasn't destroyed because of homosexuality. God accepted the 10 "righteous" men presented by Lot knowing of their incest and homosexual behavior.
God's decision to destroy Sodom came because they wanted to forcibly rape Lot's visitors which was evil on multiple levels.

I make no judgements on homosexuality because of interpretation problems first off, but also because it seems disingenuous to zero in on that activity while ignoring the many other activities that were serious sins and suddenly are not mentioned. Why aren't we still stoning adulterers to death?

I have told many homosexuals I met to confess who and what they are to Jesus, become Christians, and then, when they have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, they can work it out with Him! I do know of one man that went straight, and several others that are married gay Christians. From what I can tell they have the Spirit and are working with Him. Who am I to interfere unless I see them stray?

Sometimes I think Paul's Jewish bias may have come into play in his writings, but perhaps it is the translations. I do notice when the Spirit instructs me to write to someone, it is often not Him telling me word for word what to say. And at other times, I am literally astounded by what I (He) writes, or says, through me!

"Sometimes I think Paul's Jewish bias may have come into play in his writings, but perhaps it is the translations"
It's the bad translations.  Paul distinguished between
a) violations of Jesus' command to love your neighbor (e.g., the rape of pre-pubescent boys, which was _very_ common in ancient Rome), and
b) violations of the Torah commandments (e.g., consensual sexual relations between adult males who weren't married to anybody).

See this Wood book, and his book on Paul and homosexuality:
_Pauline Paradoxes Decoded_ (2013) by Michael Wood (2013), 525pp.
https://www.amazon.com/Pauline-Paradoxes-Decoded-Michael-Wood/dp/1936565161/

"all sin is against GOD, not you"
'Whatever you did to the least of these, you did to Me.'
'Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
Unloving actions against people are unloving actions against God.  If everybody loved his neighbor as himself, humanity would be treating God much better than it is now.

"The sin you need to fight is your own, not the sin of others, unless they are taking actions against you"
Actions taken against defenseless children half a world away are actions against me.  All humans are part of 1 body; when 1 member of the body is injured, the body suffers.

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"where the sin and responsibility is"
Responsibility for what?
'love your neighbor as yourself'
If a female secretary commits adultery with a married colleague, that hurts the guy's wife (and the secretary, and the colleague).
If an unmarried man and an unmarried man engage in a sexual relationship, which 'neighbor' is injured?  (I grant that they hurt each other, perhaps unknowingly:  'receiving in themselves the due recompense for their perversion')

"Those sins are forgiven if we accept the Kingdom, which means to love Him and to love our neighbour"
Everybody's sins are forgiven.  Many people don't know that yet.

"how do those actions you describe accord with a love of God, who gave us the sacrament of marriage and told us to procreate?"
Are those who don't procreate (e.g., those who took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience) sinning by not procreating?
Eating pork vs. not eating pork, and wearing mixed-materials clothing vs. not wearing mixed-materials clothing, has nothing to do with loving or not loving God, and nothing to do with loving or not loving one's neighbor.

I'm sure there is some love in some homosexual relationships.
I bet many homosexual 'couples' believe they are loving their neighbor via their involvement in the relationship, and are unaware of any 3rd parties that they're injuring.

"Jesus gave us a meta-analysis to Leviticus, which were His transcendent commands"
Do 2 unmarried males engaging in a long-term sexual relationship violate Jesus' command to 'love your neighbor as yourself'?

"the coming spiritual Kingdom"
Jesus' kingdom is here, and growing.  See Daniel, and 'the kingdom of Heaven/God is within you.'
"achieve only worldly pleasure is wrong"
I bet there's a lot more to most homosexual acts than merely a desire for pleasure.

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Do you believe God was responsible for this broad permission for husbands to divorce their wives?:

Deuteronomy 24 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/niv/deuteronomy/24.htm
1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, 3 and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, 4 then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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"anything God says is right and just"
Do you believe 0 scribes tampered with the scriptures they were copying out?

Jeremiah 8:8 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/niv/jeremiah/8-8.htm
"'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD,"
when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?

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"don't believe God is powerful enough to preserve His word?"
God is extremely powerful, and can do anything that's within his nature to do, and that's sensical.  E.g., God can't make a 'square triangle,' because a 'square triangle' is nonsensical.
Humans have recopied and recopied the scriptures over hundreds of years.  Some errors have crept in.  Per this passage, even some blatant tampering has occurred:

Jeremiah 8:8 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/niv/jeremiah/8-8.htm
"'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD,"
when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?

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"God is powerful enough to.... my God is omnipotent!"
How old do you think the:  universe is?  earth is?
Do you agree with me that if God wanted to, God could have created the universe plants animals and humans in an instant?

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"why are we centered on prejudice against one group of people, one sin, while ignoring another sin, or group of people, when they BOTH fall under sexual immorality? Or even a 3rd?  Homosexuals
Adulterers/Adulteresses  Fornicators"
Adultery goes against Jesus' command to love your neighbor as yourself.
Engaging in adultery is worse than
a) 2 adult males engaging in consensual homosexual activity, and
b) two 17-year-olds engaging in consensual heterosexual activity prior to a marriage of either individual.

Neither a) nor b) go against the command to love your neighbor as yourself.

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"we will have bodies"

1 Corinthians 15 (Peshi tta Holy Bible)
https://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/15.htm
35 Someone among you will say,
"How do the dead rise?
With what body do they come??
36 Fool! The seed that you plant will not live unless it dies.
37 And the thing which you sow is not that body which is going to be,
for you sow a naked grain of wheat or barley or of other grain.
38 But God gives it a body just as he chooses
and to each one of the grains a body of its nature.
39But not every body is equal to another,
for there is the body of a man and another of an ox
and another of a bird and another of a fish.
40 And there is a Heavenly body and there is an Earthly body,
but there is one glory of the Heavenly and another of the Earthly.
41 And there is one glory of the sun
and another glory of the moon
and another glory of a star,
and one star is greater than another star in glory.

42 Thus also is the life for those who die.
It is sown with corruption,
it rises without corruption.
43 It is sown with disgrace,
it rises with glory;
it is sown in weakness,
it rises in power.
44 It is sown an animal body;
a spiritual body rises,
for there is an animal body,
and there is a spiritual body.
45 Thus also it is written:
?Adam the first man was a living soul;
the last Adam - The Life Giver Spirit.
46 But the first was not spiritual,
but the animal, and then the spiritual.
47 The first man was dust from the ground;
The second man, THE LORD JEHOVAH from Heaven.
48 Just as he who was a being of dust,
so also is that which is of the dust,
and just as he who is The Being from Heaven,
so also is the Heavenly.
49 And as we have worn the image of him who is from the dust,
so we shall wear the image of him who is from Heaven.

"not being given in marriage does not necessarily mean 'no sex', nor does it necessarily mean no children"
I'm unaware of any eye-witness accounts of sex or procreation in heaven.
Bryan Melvin has a scary account of his visit to hell, where people were tormented by demons in the _exact same ways_ as those people had mistreated others while on earth.

1 Cor 6:9 speaks of idolatrous temple prostitution in which patrons would gang rape anally pre-pubescent boys (and gang rape females) until their premature demise.

A witch named Elaine had been trying to kill the medical-type person Rebecca Brown, and Brown helped free Elaine from involvement in witchcraft.  Elaine recounts being raped by satan.
_He Came to Set the Captives Free_
https://www.amazon.com/He-Came-Set-Captives-Free/dp/0883683237/

darryl

Quote from: DavidFord on September 27, 2020, 03:24:07 AM
Who do you think "those souls... who... were not convinced in the days of Noah" are?
(Sons of God who had children with descendants of Adam?
offspring of: Sons of God and descendants of Adam?)

"NOT YOUR Messiah"
Was Jesus the Messiah to those in Sheol that he preached to, people who'd died in the Flood?

1 Peter 3 (Aramaic Bible in Plain English), biblehub
18 Because The Messiah also died once for the sake of our sins,
The Righteous One in the place of sinners,
to bring you to God,
and he died in body and lived in his Spirit.
19 And he preached to those souls who were held in Sheol,
20 These who from the first were not convinced in the days of Noah when the long-suffering of God commanded that there would be an ark, upon the hope of their repentance, and only eight souls entered it and were kept alive by water.

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When 1 Peter 4 says [v. 6]"The Good News was proclaimed also to the dead that they would be judged as children of men in the flesh," do you believe that speaks of angels?

The Good News was proclaimed also to the dead that they would be judged as children of men in the flesh and they would live in God by The Spirit.

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i believe they were members of worlds most evil generation but God gave em nother chance after death !..now, thts GOOD NEWS !
"I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance".Isaiah 45:23

DavidFord

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Quote from: darryl on April 15, 2021, 04:47:15 AMi believe they were members of worlds most evil generation but God gave em nother chance after death !..now, thts GOOD NEWS !
Indeed. 
Someone's description of 'the gospel':

The Gov @TheGov5
He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed (Isa. 53:5)
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and give his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45)
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name (Acts 10:43)
Through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses (Acts 13:38-39)
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification (Rom. 4:25)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Rom. 5:8)

Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures ? he was buried. . . . The third day he rose again from the dead, according to the Scriptures . . . and he appeared (1 Cor. 15:3-6). Paul writes that this is the Gospel ?I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this Gospel you are saved? (1 Cor. 15:1-2). In outlining it here, Paul asserts that ?what I received I passed on to you is of first importance? (1 Cor. 15:3)
God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting men?s trespasses against them (2 Cor. 5:19)
God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him (2 Cor. 5:21)
Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David: this is my Gospel (2 Tim. 2:8)
He gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good (Titus 2:14)
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:4-7)

Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him (Heb. 9:28)
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed (Peter 2:24)
Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God (1 Peter 3:18)
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:10)

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_The Jesus Secret_ by Michael Wood (2010), 95pp., on 70
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Secret-Michael-Wood/dp/1936565064/
Paul.... divided sins into three categories:
sins that harm the soul,
sins that harm the body,
and sins that don't harm anything.  ....
According to Paul,
the inequitable treatment of others harms the soul,
immorality harms the body,
and breaking the Works of the Law harms nothing.
That is Paul in a nutshell.

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"Jesus covered the Commandments with two laws: 'Love your God', which covers the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd and 'Love thy neighbour', which covers the 5th - 10th. The 4th being for Man"
I'd say, Jesus said loving your neighbor as yourself is equivalent to loving God.
?:  top command?  A: 'Love God.... The 2nd is like it: ....' is a bad translation.  It should be rendered, 'Love God.... the 2nd is equivalent to it:  love your neighbor as yourself.'

'Whatever you did to the least of these you did to Me.' 
'If you've seen me you've seen the Father.'
'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'

Ancient Jews apparently included keeping the Sabbath as a commandment directed toward God.  When Jesus was asked which commandments were needed to be kept to have life, he mentioned 5 of the 6 neighbor-directed commands of the '10 Commandments'-- and mentioned none of the God-directed commands.

_Breaking the Romans Code_ by Michael Wood (2011), 196pp.  On 155-161:
Puzzle 1 The first teaching in the body of the Sermon on the Mount:
_Unless you treat people better than the scribes and the Pharisees,
you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven_.  ....
Puzzle 2 The full body of the Sermon on the Mount:
_God is going to treat you based on how you treat others_.  ....
Puzzle 3 The warnings at the end of the Sermon on the Mount:
_Only those who actually follow Jesus' interpretation of the law will make it on Judgment Day_.  ....

Puzzle 5 The key to all of Jesus' teachings on salvation and judgment in the Gospel of Matthew (including the very key to the Sermon on the Mount):
_Jesus didn't come to abolish the Law and the Prophets
because only the neighbor-based commands are the Law and the Prophets_.  ....
Puzzle 7 The key to Paul's letter(s) to the Romans:
_Only the neighbor-based commands count,
the Jobs of the Law count for nothing_.

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"1 Corinthians 6:9-10 KJV ? Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

That translation stinks.  It says things in English that the underlying Greek doesn't say.
E.g., "nor effeminate" is a bad translation.  If it was accurate, most women would be in trouble.  Do you really believe the effeminate won't "inherit the kingdom of God"?
Do you know what "abusers of themselves with mankind" refers to?

"Raping young boys is a sin"
Agreed.
"Homosexuality is a sin"
Agreed.  An adult male that that engages in informed consent consensual sexual activity with another adult male engages in a sin that harms his own body.
Stealing from others is a worse sin, because with stealing, one harms others.
Harming others is worse than harming one's self.

"Man raping a boy= sin"
Agreed.
"Man laying consensually with another man=sin"
Agreed.

"God has declared sodomy an abomination and has stated that it is unnatural"
Reference?

"I wonder, if I had posted the Scripture that declares women are to wear modest apparel would you have responded with, 'are you saying that strippers arent Christians?'"
I dunno.  How about you post the Scripture, and we'll see how I respond.

"If the picture had stated you cant be an adulterous christian, would you have responded with, 'are you saying that (insert pastor who cheats on his wife) isnt a Christian?'"
No.  Also, engaging in adultery harms the spouse of the adulterer.  Adultery is a worse sin than 2 adult males engaging in informed consent consensual sexual activity.

"You stated 1 Corinthians was rebuking temple prostitution. Are you suggesting that prostitution elsewhere was acceptable?"
There are different varieties of sin, with some sins being worse than others.  Thievery and adultery harm others.  Prostitution involving 2 adults who aren't under any coercion is not as bad a sin as thievery.

"this Scripture condemns other acts other than sodomy such as lying. So are you suggesting that he was only rebuking lying at church?"
Which word(s) in the passage refer to lying?
Where in the passage do you see a reference to sodomy?

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"In Mark 12, Jesus tells us to love God with all our heart, and to love our neighbor as ourself"

Mark 12 (Peshi tta Holy Bible), edits to quotation marks
https://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/mark/12.htm
28 One of the Scribes approached him and he heard them debating and he saw that he had answered them beautifully and he asked him, "Which is the first commandment of all?"
29 Yeshua said to him, "The first of all the commandments: 'Hear Israel, THE LORD JEHOVAH your God, THE LORD JEHOVAH, he is One.  30 And you shall love THE LORD JEHOVAH your God with your whole heart and with your entire soul and with your entire mind and with all your power.' This is the first commandment 31 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
32 And that scribe said to him, "Excellent, Rabbi! You have spoken the truth, for he is One, and there is not another outside of him. 33 And for a man to love him with all the heart and with the entire mind and with all the soul and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." 34 But Yeshua, seeing that he had answered wisely, answered and said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." And no man again dared to question him.

"If you love God with all your heart, you will automatically keep the first four"
Jesus and his students didn't 'keep the Sabbath':  Jesus healed on Saturday, and told a guy he'd healed to carry his mat on Saturday.  Jesus' students plucked and ate grain on Saturday.

"if you love your neighbor, that sums up the second six"
Yes, 'love your neighbor' sums up the last 6 of the 10 Commandments.
In Mt, when Jesus was asked which commandments were needed to inherit the world/age of life, Jesus mentioned 5 of those 6-- and none of the first 4.

"This is in answer to the question, 'which is the greatest commandment of all?' Jesus very cleverly gives equal" weight "to all by addressing how they relate to our heart"
Jesus made loving one's neighbor equivalent to loving God.  If one loves his neighbor, one loves God.

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"Jesus is seen keeping Sabbath in scripture.... he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day as was his custom.... Paul kept Sabbath (Acts 13:14)"
If I attend a church service on Saturday, does that mean I 'kept the Sabbath'?

"We are supposed to refrain from worldly work (earning wages, etc), and things that take us away from God that day"
If someone prays while doing a not-unloving activity, is that activity OK to do on Saturday?
If a single mother works at a restaurant serving diners to support herself and her children, is that "worldly work" that ought not to be done on Saturday?

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"idumeans...edomites"
What about them? (are you saying they are "JEWS"?)
Do you agree with me that:
God laid claim to those of Moab, Edom, and Philistia?
Yeshua the Meshikha's lineage includes Ruth the Moabite?

Psalm 108 (HCSB), biblehub
7 God has spoken in His sanctuary:
"I will triumph!
I will divide up Shechem.
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine,
and Ephraim is My helmet;
Judah is My scepter.
9 Moab is My washbasin;
I throw My sandal on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia."

Ruth 4 (NIV)
.... "I will redeem it," he said.
5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."
6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, "Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it."
7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it yourself." And he removed his sandal.
9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"

Matthew 1 (Peshi tta Holy Bible)
https://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/matthew/1.htm
1 The book of the genealogy of Yeshua The Messiah, The Son of David, The Son of Abraham.
2 Abraham begot Isaaq, Isaaq begot Jaqob, Jaqob begot Yehuda and his brothers. 3 Yehuda begot Pharez and Zarah from Tamar. Pharez begot Hezron, Hezron begot Aram. 4 Aram begot Aminadab, Aminadab begot Nahshon, Nahshon begot Salmon 5 Salmon begot Boaz from Rahab, Boaz begot Obayd from Ruth, Obayd begot Jesse. 6 Jesse begot David the King, David begot Solomon from the wife of Uriah.  ....

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"the Old Testament tells us God hates his enemies with a perfect hatred"
Reference?

"Jesus called Jews Satan's kids.... So-called Jews are people who call themselves Jews but reject Christ"
What are the names of 3 such prominent people?
What are individuals who consider themselves Jews who have accepted Christ? ('messianic Jews'?)
What would you call Samaritans who reject Christ?
Did Jesus hate Samaritans that rejected him?

Luke 9 (Peshi tta Holy Bible)
https://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/luke/9.htm
50 Yeshua said to them, "You shall not forbid, for whoever is not against you is for you."
51 And it was that when the days of his ascent were fulfilled, he prepared himself to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers before his presence and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans so as to prepare for him. 53 And they did not receive him because his person was determined to go to Jerusalem. 54 And when Yaqob and Yohannan his disciples saw it, they were saying to him, "Our Lord, do you want us to speak and fire will descend from Heaven, and will consume them as Elijah also did?" 55 And he turned and he rebuked them and he said, ?You do not know of which Spirit you are.? 56 "For The Son of Man has not come to destroy lives but to give life." And they went to other villages.

"you hate the Bible"
Not as far as I know.

"Jesus.... will throw them into the lake of fire for eternity. Talk about hate"
Nobody will roast for an infinite length of time. Not even Hitler, who is currently roasting.

"you know that shows hatred.... of whom he told parables of going corporately to Hell"
Does saying this to someone show hatred?:
'You are a child of the devil. But you can be adopted by God, and become a child of God.'
'You are headed to hell. But if you ask God for forgiveness of your unloving thoughts words and deeds, and regularly ask for God's help in loving others, you'll be on track to go to heaven.'

"Jesus didn't forgive the Jews who killed him. He hated them. He sent Rome to crush them in the worst tribulation the world has ever seen.... 70 AD proves the Jews weren't forgiven"
Regarding the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and the severe troubles leading up to that destruction, do you think Jesus was:
happy to see those calamities occur?
sad about the calamities' occurrance?

Matthew 23 (Peshi tta Holy Bible)
https://biblehub.com/aramaic-plain-english/matthew/23.htm
36 Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.  37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that murdered The Prophets and stoned those who were sent to it! How many times have I desired to gather your children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate!

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@7Floydog "I'm not worried about Judgement day..... If a person is preaching the wrong Jesus....and a wrong message.....they aint gettin' in"
Even if she was extremely loving her entire life?
What if a person didn't even know anything about Jesus her entire life-- can that individual enter heaven?

"I let the dead die in their sins and I worry about my own soul...God wants me home"
Does God want your relatives-- all the members of humanity-- home?
Jesus preached to those in hell who'd died in Noah's Flood.  Does God want those who wind up in hell to come home?

"He wants me to worry about me.....not the dead"
The dead aren't dead, but rather in their afterlife.  E.g., Hitler is roasting in hell-- he's very much alive.  Numerous people are in hellish realms in the afterlife.  Some e.g. some Eastern Orthodox pray for those in hellish realms.

"I don't pray for the dead"
The 'dead' in hellish realms could benefit from prayer for them.

"Once your host dies, you are judged"
In the afterlife, people are self-judged-- they judge themselves.  Those into evil-doing on earth are uncomfortable in afterlife heavenly realms and feel greatly out-of-place there (but they're even more uncomfortable in hellish realms).

"being a 'nice' person matters not"
It matters a lot.  'Whatever you did to the least of these, you did to Me.'

"FEW there be that find it.... Jesus was clear"
That was said before Jesus did what he did for the immense benefit of all humanity.

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"I am not convinced that such a theology can be established with certainty based on the one scripture you have shared"
How about that one, plus Romans 5 and Ezekiel 16?
There's also the pro-universalist scripures mentioned here:
https://tentmaker.org/forum/judgement-and-punishment/universal-restoration-verses/

"If the plan at the end was to amaze everyone into falling down and confessing his name, why would he bother with waiting and sending Jesus?"
I don't know.  (I also don't understand the question.)
What are some possible motivations?

"Would their confession gain their salvation at that point?"
God has even accepted people that turned to Him after angels brought out chains to bring them away in.

"I'd hate for people to buy into this thinking and miss such a great salvation, figuring they can 'get in' at the end. And besides, life in Christ, with a full understanding of a pure, true grace, is amazing even here on earth. My heart is to share that grace so people can walk even now in the peace that passes understanding and righteousness that was paid for by God. Now is a good time for Good News"
Sounds good.

Everyone is in. Only a fraction of people, though, are yet aware of that, and have accepted God's forgiveness and welcoming. God isn't holding unforgiveness against anybody, and God welcomes all and has rejected nobody.
God gave angels and humans the ability to make choices, and both chose poorly and consequently made a huge mess.  Yet every human and every angel will eventually gladly choose to return to God.  God is that brilliant.

DavidFord

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"I hope you are right"
Do you hope this is right?:

1 Timothy 4:10 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/1_timothy/4-10.htm
That is why we labor and strive,
because we have put our hope in the living God,
who is the Savior of all people,
and especially of those who believe.

1 Corinthians 15:22 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-22.htm
For as in Adam all die,
so in Christ all will be made alive.

Romans 11:32 (NIV), https://biblehub.com/romans/11-32.htm
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience
so that he may have mercy on them all.

"I choose to use my time now to call others into Christ's love and grace"
Everybody is loved by God.  Only a portion of people, though, realize that and welcome that and return that love to God.

"If God chooses to take everyone in the end"
On God's end, God is reconciled to all humans because of what the godman Jesus did on behalf of humans.
On humans' end, some but far from all humans are reconciled to God.  Many people actively reject God.

"I don't really know"
Much of what humans think they know, they actually "don't really know."

"the scripture doesn't seem to clearly state what you are claiming in a way that makes me confident that it is truth"
Perhaps time and effort in examining the pro-never-ending torture, annihilation, and universalist scriptures is called for.

"I will study the chapters you give in greater detail tomorrow with an open mind"
Sounds great.

"we have access to the Father today"
Several people have done 2-way dialogue with God.  Several people report that God remarked that there's no never-ending torture.

"I love seeing the Gospel change lives and hearts, and there is no better time than the present"
Mike Parsons has released love, forgiveness, and hope to a dark angel, and it's now serving God and people. The dark angel 'Destiny Robber' became 'Destiny Restorer.'  Two other dark angels called Bondage and Disharmony also got restored, and became Freedom and Harmony, respectively.
See his book
https://www.amazon.com/Restoration-all-Things-continuing-journey/dp/1789632005/

Mike Parsons and Robin Main have preached in hellish realms.  Parsons preached several times to a large number of his deceased ancestors in anguish in the fire of God's love, and practically all of them turned their lives over to Jesus.

While seeing in the spiritual realm, Ana Mendez Ferrell went with Jesus to get her sister out of a hellish realm, and in this physical realm, her sister recovered from cancer (the sister subsequently came down again with & recovered from cancer several times, but finally ended up succumbing).
Another individual has with positive results preached to people that had been sent from hell to earth to cause trouble.  Many of those people never returned to hell and instead went to Jesus.

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"Jesus and the Father are one. And those who have not repented are not forgiven"
Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them."  Has the Father forgiven any of those involved in crucifying Jesus? ('yes-- only those who repented'?)

Is it OK for me to have unforgiveness toward those who haven't repented of their mistreatment of me and those close to me?

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I personally consider everyone that's into rabbinic Judaism to be a Jew.
Before the advent of rabbinic Judaism almost 2,000 years ago, those into Judaism were Jews.
Everybody else _isn't_ a Jew.

The Moabite Ruth and the Jericho prostitute Rahab adopted Judaism, and thereby became Jews.  People that have converted to rabbinic Judaism are Jews.
Soros is an atheist, isn't into rabbinic Judaism, and isn't a Jew.

Do you detect any problems with my definition of what constitutes a "Jew"?

DavidFord

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Luke 6 (NIV)
27 "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. ....
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
Even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you?
Even sinners do that. ....
35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
37 .... Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 
38 ....with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

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"I can't speak for Jesus"
If person X curses person Y, who did X speak for?  (solely X's self?  the devil?)

"that is written in the KJV Bible"
There's an entire Psalm that consists of cursing enemies.  Do you think it's OK to use that Psalm to speak curses over one's enemies?

"Do you cut the head off a venomous snake"
I might, if I knew what they look like.  All I've seen are harmless black snakes.

"or allow it to whisper into your woman's ear?"
I've never seen any snakes whispering in anybody's ear.

"Psalm 11:5 The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked"
Do you think it's OK for me to 'hate the wicked'?

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"God is Truth"
And every human is a sliver of God being expressed via an earth-suit of flesh and bones.  Every human's true nature is to live in truth and to be truthful.

DavidFord

Every person who has decided for Christ as of the moment of death,
and
every decision for Christ in the afterlife,
adds to the number of those in God's kingdom.

That # of people, and the strength of God's kingdom, is constantly increasing.

marie glen

#43
I love how Jesus said - All those in the tombs/graves will hear God?s voice and will come forth (from the graves/tombs) some into the resurrection of life (into THE millennium). And some into the resurrection of judgment (Jn.5:28-29). Which elsewhere He calls agelasting correction [kolasin aionion oR eonian correction - Mt.25:46].
    It really clarified things for me. And then I realized all three mentions of lake of fire are at huGe fiery events! First one seems, imo, to be manmade, go figure! Making Mt.13:30 - the gathering of the tares - to be Rev.16:13-16, the gathering to armageddon battle.
    And(!) this makes me now view the Lord?s long second advent to be a wider, longer version of his first so brief one. But with helpers serving, called reigning. For to do His works is surely(?) to reign..
   I also realized his first advent fulfilled the Spring holy days to a T. So..? Surely the Fall ones prophecy his 2nd advent - which to me is a proof of UR/CU:
   TRUMPETS (of Rev & his return) - 1Odays/1OOOyrs to,
DAY oF ATONEMENT (judgment ?day?) - 5days/5OOyrs to,
TABERNACLES (fieRy universal regenesis, how death dies) - Rev.21:3 - God will now tabernacle/tent/dwell with mankind.. Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow.
"I will draw ALL to Me." [Jesus, Jn.12:32] Written in the pattern of the Holy Days? an image - https://inner-monastery.blogspot.com
Enter The Story Annual Reading Schedule ~ https://inner-monastery.blogspot.com/p/daily.html

DavidFord

"long second advent to be a wider, longer version of his first so brief one.
But with helpers serving, called reigning"
Interesting perspective.

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_Can a Loving God Be Wrathful?: An Orthodox Christian Perspective_ (2008), 102pp., on 68
https://www.amazon.com/Can-Loving-God-Wrathful-Perspective/dp/1933654031/
Christ Dies on the Cross Not to Pacify the Father's Wrath but to Destroy Death
The good news of Christianity is rooted not in the wrath of God but in the love of God. Christ died on the cross not to appease or pacify the wrath of the Father against us,  but to abolish death, to overcome the power of sin, to make all things new and to demonstrate God's love for us even while we were yet sinners. This is why the rainbow surrounds the icon of the Pantocrator Christ in the Byzantine church dome.

Christ is our Savior. He is our peace. He is our life. He is the promise of better things to come. Never in the New Testament is God said to be reconciled to man; it is always man who is being reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19). In the Orthodox understanding of redemption, there is no idea of punishment (which comes from Calvin) or pacifying God's wrath (which comes from Anselm).

The great Easter (Paschal) hymn of the Orthodox Church does not say,
"Christ has risen from the dead, by his death _He has pacified the Father's wrath_."
It says rather,
"Christ has risen from the dead, by his death _He has destroyed death_ and to those in the tombs, he has bestowed life."

joeteekay

For those who are followers of Jesus Christ we are told:

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 


Joe  :Peace2:
3 John 4 - I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Ross

Proverbs 3:11-26
Hebrews 12:5-11
The correction of mankind is literal.
The outcome is incredibly positive.
Love never fails.
Fellow brother in Christ

darryl

Quote from: Ross on January 10, 2024, 01:14:24 AM
Proverbs 3:11-26
Hebrews 12:5-11
The correction of mankind is literal.
The outcome is incredibly positive.
Love never fails.

Amen
"I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance".Isaiah 45:23

marie glen

Quote from: DavidFord on December 30, 2023, 11:34:10 PM
"long second advent to be a wider, longer version of his first so brief one.
But with helpers serving, called reigning"
Interesting perspective.

================================
_Can a Loving God Be Wrathful?: An Orthodox Christian Perspective_ (2008), 102pp., on 68
https://www.amazon.com/Can-Loving-God-Wrathful-Perspective/dp/1933654031/
Christ Dies on the Cross Not to Pacify the Father's Wrath but to Destroy Death
The good news of Christianity is rooted not in the wrath of God but in the love of God. Christ died on the cross not to appease or pacify the wrath of the Father against us,  but to abolish death, to overcome the power of sin, to make all things new and to demonstrate God's love for us even while we were yet sinners. This is why the rainbow surrounds the icon of the Pantocrator Christ in the Byzantine church dome.

Christ is our Savior. He is our peace. He is our life. He is the promise of better things to come. Never in the New Testament is God said to be reconciled to man; it is always man who is being reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19). In the Orthodox understanding of redemption, there is no idea of punishment (which comes from Calvin) or pacifying God's wrath (which comes from Anselm).

The great Easter (Paschal) hymn of the Orthodox Church does not say,
"Christ has risen from the dead, by his death _He has pacified the Father's wrath_."
It says rather,
"Christ has risen from the dead, by his death _He has destroyed death_ and to those in the tombs, he has bestowed life."

    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Quote from: Ross on January 10, 2024, 01:14:24 AM
Proverbs 3:11-26
Hebrews 12:5-11
The correction of mankind is literal.
The outcome is incredibly positive.
Love never fails.

Amen!!


Quote from: joeteekay on December 31, 2023, 05:41:28 AM
For those who are followers of Jesus Christ we are told:

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.


Joe  :Peace2:

Amen!!

"I will draw ALL to Me." [Jesus, Jn.12:32] Written in the pattern of the Holy Days? an image - https://inner-monastery.blogspot.com
Enter The Story Annual Reading Schedule ~ https://inner-monastery.blogspot.com/p/daily.html