Posted on 10/15/2020 4:57:09 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
No, I'm stating that Joseph was the legal paternal guardian of Jesus - not his biological father. Is not the matrilineal descent what determines Jewishness? According to Why Is Jewishness Matrilineal? it is:
It's not a surprise you reject the New Testament but consider at least the fact that it was all written during the first century of the Christian era and had the lineage been recorded incorrectly or fraudulently about Jesus of Nazareth, there would have been plenty of his detractors who could have and would have disputed and disproved it. Like you said about Jewish people, "We keep track. We count.".
Joseph, at his ‘first coming’ was:
-the most loved by his father
-a God inspired prophet (the dreams)
-hated by his brethren
-almost murdered and buried (the pit) by his brethern (he wasn’t Messiah, so he couldn’t actually be murdered, or else there would be no fulfillment of the dreams)
-sold for a price and essentially vanished
-a preacher to souls in (an earthly prison)
His ‘second coming’ was unexpected
His brethern didn’t even recognize him
His power and wisdom saved all that came to him.
A few others that ‘came twice’:
Noah
Abraham
Jacob
Moses
Okay...here are 39 (of the nearly 300) Old Testament proofs:
Please, show us your evidence these are all just mistranslations, out-of-context quotes or blatant lies. Did not the LORD provide any hints to Jews so that y'all could recognize the Messiah when he comes? What did all those Prophets do anyway???
I agree. Those who claim they have departed from the Christian faith they were brought up in are really revealing that they never had true faith nor a relationship with Jesus Christ in the first place. Like you stated, God reaches into our very hearts and souls and indwells us with the Holy Spirit when we come to Him in sincere faith and receive Jesus Christ. That is something so deeply within our hearts that it will not be possible for that person to reject Him later. I'm not saying there won't be doubts, testings, trials of our faith, but we will persevere. It is God working within us to perfect our faith and He will never leave us nor forsake us.
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