>> “Paul is a Hebrew, studied in the Word at the foot of Gamaliel. To strip the Hebrew sense of what he is saying is to lose a vast amount of context.”<<
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>> “I would disagree. The Holy Spirit through Paul was most often addressing a Gentile or Greek speaking audience. In doing that he would have had to keep in mind that they would not understand the Hebrew “sense” but would rather try to communicate to them in something they understood.” <<
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Again you willingly display your deep ignorance!
The only audience Paul addressed were the same audience that Yeshua sent his apostles unto: The lost sheep of The House of Israel.
Those are the gentiles he spoke and ministered to, and they spoke Hebrew, each and every one of them. You have difficulty accepting that the House of Israel were to the man gentiles, out of covenant for scores of generations, yet still doing their human best to follow what part of Torah that they could without the temple.
Read Matthew 10; he told them not to go to the Greeks or Samaritans, but to the lost sheep, and that is indeed what his obedient apostles did.
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Matthew 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
Did I miss Paul’s name in there? Paul was sent to the Gentiles.
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
A dispensation (management) of grace was given to the Gentiles.
Ephesians 3: 2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
The Gentiles were NOT the same body as the “lost sheep of Israel” as you would contend.
Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
The gospel of grace was given to the Gentiles. If you Israelite wannabe’s choose to be back under the law you had better not break even one or you have broken them all and are considered law breakers which you have said makes you a sinner. At that point his verse applies to you.
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
True until they turned to the Gentiles, and Saul/Paul was appointed the Apostle to the Gentiles. He always went to the Jew first. He also went to the Greeks/Gentiles. Your desire that all nonJewish believes be secret descendants of so-called lost tribes of the Northern Kingdom separated after Solomon, is not taught in the Scripture, not part of Apostolic / Early Church traditions that we received, and was certainly adopted by Mormons, British Israel followers, and others who feel making themselves Jewish will bring them closer to God (which is false). If you were born to Jewish parents and believe on Yeshua, be at liberty to keep any law or tradition you can that does not conflict with the entire Canon. If you were born a Gentile, remain a Gentile and feel free to do the same but do not cast a stumbling block before Jew or Gentile; beware of cults and heresies, and those who deceive for money