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To: DeprogramLiberalism
>>Scripture simply describes the Church as a whole imasculine terms and never in feminine terms.<<

>>Church = Israel + Gentiles = "one new man" = "one body"<<

You really need to think about what you write. Look at your two statements above. You claim that the "church" has to be male. Then you claim that Israel and Gentiles are the "church" the "one new man". Now, we KNOW that Israel was the wife of God. One would presume female unless you want now to go into homosexuality or trans-gendered. But that's not the only problem with your scenario. God also said He would restore Israel as His wife.

Isaiah 54:6 "For the LORD has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected," Says your God. 7 "For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great compassion I will gather you.

So God promised to bring back His wife but she has become a male per your analysis.

>>Yeast always represents evil in Scripture.<<

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened."

So now the Kingdom of Heaven represents evil? In your previous post you simply dismissed this verse without explaining other than to claim it clashed with other references to yeast. Christ said "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven" meaning it changes the whole. How can that be a negative in this sense?

Like I said in my last post. Your post and your ebook are rife with error. It would be impossible to cover them all in one post or even this forum. My suggestion would be for people to totally ignore both your posts and your ebook.

65 posted on 06/15/2015 9:28:28 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

>>>So God promised to bring back His wife but she has become a male per your analysis.<<<

I simply revealed what Scripture says about Israel + the Gentiles. It wasn’t me that said that the Church = Israel + Gentiles = “one new man” = “one body” in Ep.2.15b-16. God did - go argue with Him.

I explained Mt.13.33 in my first post. Why do I have to explain it again?

Again, Revelation tells us flat-out that the heavenly Jerusalem is the bride, not the Church, and Galatians tells us flat-out that the heavenly Jerusalem is also our mother (of the Church - her son). No errors.

But by all means, go ahead and cling to your tradition...


68 posted on 06/15/2015 11:48:46 AM PDT by DeprogramLiberalism (<- a profile worth reading)
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