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To: Phinneous
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people."

Following a set of written-down rules with religious practice doesn't make you one of His people, in my opinion. Being one of His people makes you want to follow His rules, not the other way around. That's what is said to be a fruit of the spirit.

And unlike some Christians you may have heard about, not that I blame them, I don't worship Christ directly or say he is God. He is the way to salvation, not salvation itself. This is a very complicated subject, however. I refer to the parable of the sheep and the goats. It doesn't matter how many times you say "I believe in Jesus" in church if you mistreat your fellow man.
45 posted on 06/08/2014 10:11:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

G-d and His prophet Moses just put the Law in my heart anew last Wednesday...the 3326th time since the original revelation at Sinai. We actually never stop counting.

FOLLOWING as carefully and to the best of one’s G-d-given ability the written-down rules is EXACTLY what we strive for. Lest you then think the Jew doesn’t have a spiritual side, just dry, route law, one of the laws themselves is to KNOW G-d. So the Christian world’s (and most of the Jewish world’s) lack of insight into Judaism can’t be helped.


50 posted on 06/08/2014 10:20:28 PM PDT by Phinneous
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