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So you're not feeling the love... why don't your kind quit calling real Christians heretics, and quit accusing us of anathema, and quit forcing works like water baptism as a requirement for salvation, and acknowledge that the Apostle Paul has been given the ministry to the Gentiles and the ministry of reconciliation: II Corinthians 5:18: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; and acknowledge that the Apostle Peter was given the ministry to the Jews 2,000 years ago, which had completed by the end of the book of Acts when Paul was forced to preach only to the Gentiles because the Jews had finally and fully rejected the grace of God; and acknowledge that Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, consisting of all believer-saints (non-Catholics) [Colossians 1:18), and that Christ is the only mediator between God and man (not through Mary) - I Timothy 2:5: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; and acknowledge that Christ taught that mens traditions were not to be followed (Mark 7:3,5,8,9,13, Matthew 15:2,3, Colossians 2:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:6) - Colossians 2:8: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. II Thessalonians 3:6: Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.; and acknowledge that the virgin Mary called our to reject that her saviour was Christ Jesus, she recognized her former sin as evidence from Luke 1:47: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.; and acknowledge that the virgin Mary is never once called in Scripture a mediator or co-mediator together with Christ - that would make her equal with deity!; and acknowledge what Peter said in II Peter 3:15: And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; II Peter 3:16: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.. These acknowledgments would begin a sure sign of mutual love for one another as John wrote about in 15:17; but if you persist in calling real Christians heretics, and accusing us of anathema on these Bible truths, then it is upon your head that you neither love us Christians nor respect the truths of the Bible that God holds dear in our hearts.

WHAT YOU SAID! AMEN!

Find your place in God's Plan for Man and you'll not be tossed to and for with every wind of doctrine.

A good starting place would be a careful, prayerful reading of Galatians, Chapter 2. When did "time past" end so that "But now" could begin? And when does "but now" end so that "the ages to come" can begin? This is rightly dividing God's Word of truth. If a person today is trying to live his religion from "time past" commandments, teachings, and promises, he is DOOMED to fail. And will go through this life deceived and confused.

It is only the "But now" that gives us our walk for today, our commission for today, the gospel that saves, our eternal security, and our understanding of God's approval for us as His workmen in His Plan. But it will not last forever. "The Ages to Come" is going to replace it.