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To: NYer
Then you are in good company. Have you read "Salvation is from the Jews" by Roy Schoeman?

No; but I know Romans 11.

b'shem Y'shua

94 posted on 12/08/2005 8:00:05 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Y'shua <==> YHvH is my Salvation (Psalm 118-14))
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To: XeniaSt
No; but I know Romans 11

Romans 11 is part of a very big picture. It is the Jews who accepted Jesus and became the first Christians who stayed within the core of Judaism, while those who rejected Him left the mainstream, the fullness of the truth of the religion. This concept is shared, and most beautifully expressed by St. Paul in his image of the "ingrafting". This image appears in Chapters 11 of the letter to the Romans.

"I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew."

Here is the definitive statement in Sacred Scripture that when the Old Covenant, which had been restricted to the Jews, was opened up to all peoples in the New Covenant, it did not mean that God removed His special election from the Jews - not even from those Jews who did not recognize Him.

I recommend you obtain and read a copy of Roy Schoeman's book, Salvation is from the Jews . This is one book so well referenced, that you will find yourself referring back to it again and again. As the author notes, the fullness of God's written revelation to the Jews in the Old Testament has been confirmed and adopted in its entirety by Christianity worldwide and the salvation of all of mankind came about through the Jews -- Jesus himself said in John 4:22 that "salvation is from the Jews," hence, the title of the book -- and the Jews in fact succeeded in their God-given task of bringing that salvation.

102 posted on 12/08/2005 8:29:32 PM PST by NYer (“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
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