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So regardless of the label on the assembly of Christians, it is crucial to test all traditions against the words of God. His words come first and we must not add to them or take anything away from them.

Thanks for your reply, Alamo-Girl, and for buttressing the argument with scripture. One of the primary problems of Replacement Theology, which held sway in all of Christendom for so very long, is the idea that we as Christians have been given authority to change that which was declared everlasting.

Quite to the contrary, those everlasting things are the throttle and the evidence against those who claim license in Yeshua.

It seems all to evident to me that the same reliance on oral law that the Pharisees laid their claim to power in has been repeated point-for-point in the traditions of Christianity.

Thanks for the great post!

Thank you so much for your encouragements, dear roamer_1!

It seems all to evident to me that the same reliance on oral law that the Pharisees laid their claim to power in has been repeated point-for-point in the traditions of Christianity.

Indeed. The following is also prophecy:

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not thee.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes.

For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance. - Romans 11:18-29

To God be the glory, not man, never man.