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To: unlearner

Sure okay. God has divided Heaven into multiple denomination sections with different rules for each one. And disregard that ark over there that has the Ten Commandments in it. Neither touch it or mention it. Now is that how you envision it?


20 posted on 06/20/2023 5:10:11 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: BipolarBob

“Sure okay. God has divided Heaven into multiple denomination sections with different rules for each one. And disregard that ark over there that has the Ten Commandments in it.”

The New Covenant is not based on handwriting on paper or stone. It is written, without letters, on the hearts of those who believe in Christ for salvation.

2 Corinthians 3:3-6 NKJV
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

The Sabbath applies to Gentile believers just like circumcision does. Circumcision is of the heart. So is the Sabbath according to Hebrews 3 and 4. Both circumcision and physical rest on the Sabbath were given by God to His earthly people as signs. Both apply spiritually to Gentile believers. Only Jewish and Israelites who are fleshly descendants of Abraham and Jacob are obligated to be circumcised in their flesh and physically rest on the Sabbath. These signs apply to them in both flesh and spirit.

Hebrews 3 talks about the heart God wants to replace: hard, rebellious, wandering, unbelieving, and stubborn. Hebrews 4 continues by explaining what the heart that God gives us (the one with His laws written on it) looks like: obedient. It honors the Sabbath by resting in Christ’s finished work. See 4:10.


46 posted on 06/20/2023 7:10:03 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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