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To: kosta50; HarleyD
The Jews unfaithfulness does not nullify the promises of God

The promises of God, as stated in Romans 9-11, are made to the nation of Israel as a whole. This is not to say that each and every JEW will be saved, but that God, for His own reasons, had chosen the Jewish people as His people in the Old Covenant - and for NOTHING that they did. And while Paul laments that the Jewish people as a whole had not accepted the New Covenant, Paul notes at the end of Romans 11 that God can certainly graft the NATION back onto the tree. None of this has anything to do with the individual, as we know that every single Jews will not be saved (check the Psalms...).

The individual Jews that is faithless and rejects God will be reprobate, just as the faithless Catholic who rejects God will be reprobated. Both were at one time members of God's People, the Church, and both individually can lose their inheritance in heaven. But this does not effect the promise made to the Church itself. Those who remain within Holy Mother Church will be saved for eternal glory.

Regards

9,755 posted on 10/23/2007 7:54:24 PM PDT by jo kus
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To: jo kus

***Those who remain within Holy Mother Church will be saved for eternal glory.***

I disagree with your whole supposition. I will never attend your church, I will never subscribe to the Catholic beliefs.

I will believe in Jesus Christ as my savior. I will trust in God the Father who sent him. I will abide in the Holy Spirit who dwells within me. I will be in heaven, and nothing you can say will change that.

If you trust in Jesus as your savior, I’ll see you there, too.


9,758 posted on 10/23/2007 8:01:24 PM PDT by irishtenor (How much good could a Hindu do, if a Hindu could do good?)
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To: jo kus; HarleyD
The promises of God, as stated in Romans 9-11, are made to the nation of Israel as a whole...

Although I was named first in your reply, you were replying to Harley D I suppose...since what you said agreed with what I said.

9,760 posted on 10/24/2007 5:18:45 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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