Posted on 01/13/2024 12:29:22 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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Maranatha!
The only covenant that now exists is through Jesus Christ. There are not two covenants.
That is consequences and punishment for disobedience. Not caveats. God does not break promises.
Such was the case before when is came to allies. Abba Eban was an observer at the UN as countries debated establishing Israel. In his autobiography he said one diplomat told him that 6,000,000 dead Jews had bought no more than two years of tolerance for the statehood issue. Six million is the number most remember, but the Nazis used the complicity of civil governments in occupied countries to kill two out of every three Jews living in Europe in 1940, including those in European Russia.
Careful. Pointing out simple facts like that will get you labeled as "anti-semitic" and accused of supporting "Replacement theology"
Abrahamic Covenant with he and his descendants was unconditional, God making the promises and He alone passing between the halves of the sacrifice.
https://www.bibleref.com/Genesis/15/Genesis-chapter-15.html
As a Jewish Professor I once heard during Q&A after a lecture at Catholic University put, “We Jews have a contract. You Christians have a promise.”
Yes. The Covenant is unconditional, although it certainly doesn’t prevent God from punishing the Israelites.
Agree
God made a promise to Abraham but keep in mind He also said “and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.”
Moses laid the contract bare on Mt. Ebal
The law of Moses consists of more than 600 individual laws, or commandments, including the 10 main ones.
(How many is he keeping?)
The Law was not given to all humankind.
God made a covenant, or an agreement, with the descendants of Jacob, who became the nation of Israel.
God gave his laws to this nation only.
The Bible makes this clear at Psalm 147:19, 20.
Then why the Law?
What purpose was it that God gave his law to Israel?
Paul answered: “To make transgressions manifest, until the seed should arrive to whom the promise had been made . . . Consequently the Law has become our tutor (or teacher)leading to Christ.”
(Galatians 3:19-24)
The special purpose of the Law was to protect and guide the nation of Israel so that they might be ready to accept Christ when he arrived.
So when Christ came and gave his perfect life as a sacrifice, what happened to the Law?
It was removed. “We are no longer under a tutor,” Paul explained.
There is neither Jew nor Greek,there is neither slave nor freeman,there is neither male nor female,for you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.
(Galatians 3:25)
29 Moreover, if you belong to Christ, you are really Abraham’s offspring heirs with reference to a promise.
The removal of the Law was a relief to the Israelites. It had shown them up as sinners, for all of them fell short of keeping that Law perfectly.
“Christ by purchase released us from the curse of the Law,” Paul said.
(Galatians 3:10-14)
The Bible also says: “Christ is the end of the Law.”
(Romans 10:4; 6:14)
You are a hopeless Jew-hater, but Roman Catholicism...
Galatians 3:16
The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.
Why? Because I want all Jews (and all Muslims, atheists, and everyone else) to convert to Christianity and thus be saved?
First the literal greek translation... with my own comments in bold.
"Brethren, what I have to say is in accordance with common human practice. Even though it be a man’s covenant, when it has finally been ratified, no man annuls it nor adds stipulations to it. Paul then explains... Nor does the text say that the blessings of the covenant were all fulfilled in Christ. It says that the promise was made to Abraham and his ultimate seed, Messiah. As such, there was no possibility that the Law given in between those two would do away with the promises in the Abrahamic Covenant. THAT is the argument being made in this passage - and is one of several that form the whole section - all worth reading.Galatians 3:15-18
The original covenant to Abraham stands as promised by God swearing on Himself. No changes will be made to it and no stipulations added.
"Now to Abraham were made the promises, and to his Descendant. He does not say, And to the descendants, as in respect to many descendants, but in respect to one Descendant, and to your Descendant, who is Christ. And here is the point, Abraham was given unconditional promises. 430 years later, the Law was given. The Law did not abrogate the unconditional covenant to Abraham.
"This now is what I mean. A covenant previously established by God, the law which came after four hundred and thirty years does not render void with the result that the promise becomes noperative, for if the inheritance is from law [as a method of divine dealing], no longer is it from promise [as a method of divine dealing]. But to Abraham, through the intermediate instrumentality of promise, God has in grace freely bestowed it. So first, the covenant to Abraham was a multi-dimensional promise based on the grace of God. It remains so, according to the Holy Spirit inspiring Paul in Galatians. The Holy Spirit, through Paul is making a theoretical argument to those who said the Law did away with the promise covenant of Abraham, and that now salvation came alone through law. Holy Spirit says no.
Wuest, K. S. (1961). The New Testament: a literal translation (Ga 3:15–18). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Don‘t worry. This individual believes that it is in my people‘s DNA to be a Nazi, or such dung. My family members, who were murdered during the Nazi era, must be scratching their heads in Paradise :-)
Very Christian of him indeed :lol:
But most probably he doesn‘t know any better, since he has certainly been fed with hateful propaganda since the day he was born, and now he is unable to break free from his indoctrination. Obviously the effect of this is even clouding his Christian charity.
Or maybe he doesn’t mind to bear false witness, when it suits him. Some people simply are like that, no matter whether they believe to be ‚saved by Him’, or to be good Christians or whatever. Matthew 7, 21-23 should be a warning to desist from such behavior.
——>Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.
Not according to Paul:
Romans 9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
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