[Iscool]

The central theme of the Bible is God's salvation for mankind. That's how it reads right from the Fall to Apocalypse

Nope...The theme of the Bible is the Kingdom...The Jewish Kingdom...

Thruout the OT God's focus in on his chosen people, the Jews...NOT, the salvation of mankind...

In the NT, same thing...

God became a Jewish man to minister to the Jews...

Only after the Jews rejected Jesus did he turn to us Gentiles...And that was only to make his chosen people jealous, for a time...

When God is done letting the Jews learn their lesson, he will take us Gentiles out of the way by way of the Rapture and will again turn to his chosen, the Jews...

The theme of the Bible is not salvation for mankind...

Your comment about picking up a bible, reading it from Genesis to Revelation and staying within the context is way, way over the top...Or way under the bottom...

Other than a nice story, the scriptures apparently are meaningless to your religion...It's apparent that's why your religion could not write a commentary on the scriptures, just a handful of scriptures taken out of context and put into your catechism...

[Cronos]

iscool: Only after the Jews rejected Jesus did he turn to us Gentiles...And that was only to make his chosen people jealous, for a time...

When God is done letting the Jews learn their lesson, he will take us Gentiles out of the way by way of the Rapture and will again turn to his chosen, the Jews.

Thank you for sharing your beliefs

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

i know the public schools are horrible, but did they stop teaching history altogether?

[Cronos]

cronos: The central theme of the Bible is God's salvation for mankind. That's how it reads right from the Fall to Apocalypse

Iscool:

Nope...The theme of the Bible is the Kingdom...The Jewish Kingdom...

Thruout the OT God's focus in on his chosen people, the Jews...NOT, the salvation of mankind...

In the NT, same thing...

God became a Jewish man to minister to the Jews...

Only after the Jews rejected Jesus did he turn to us Gentiles...And that was only to make his chosen people jealous, for a time...

When God is done letting the Jews learn their lesson, he will take us Gentiles out of the way by way of the Rapture and will again turn to his chosen, the Jews...

Interesting, iscool -- you said Only after the Jews rejected Jesus did he turn to us Gentiles...And that was only to make his chosen people jealous, for a time... -- so the incarnation was to make the Jews jealous.

Did you get this belief of yours only by reading scripture? Or did you use other sources to arrive at this conclusion?

[Cronos]

I don't know the details of the rapture philosophy, but does Iscool's post 305 indicate common belief that

cronos: The central theme of the Bible is God's salvation for mankind. That's how it reads right from the Fall to Apocalypse

Iscool: Nope...The theme of the Bible is the Kingdom...The Jewish Kingdom..

In the NT, same thing..

Is this common belief that it is the same thing in the NT? All the Gospels, Pauline Epistles, other Epistles, Apocalypse etc. are all just about the Jewish Kingdom?

thank you CB and paladin in advance for your response

[Cronos]

Also, sticking on to this does Iscool's post 305 indicate common belief that

Iscool: Nope...The theme of the Bible is the Kingdom...The Jewish Kingdom..

In the NT, same thing.Only after the Jews rejected Jesus did he turn to us Gentiles...And that was only to make his chosen people jealous, for a time...

When God is done letting the Jews learn their lesson, he will take us Gentiles out of the way by way of the Rapture and will again turn to his chosen, the Jews...

The theme of the Bible is not salvation for mankind....

Is this common belief that it is the same thing in the NT? All the Gospels, Pauline God used the Incarnation to make the Jews jealous?

I know this would differ from the beliefs of strict fundamentalists or calvinists, correct? But is this dispensationalist belief?