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To: aMorePerfectUnion; grumpa; metmom
aMPU -- grumpa is correct. How can you, aMPU, deny that Israel is expanded to encompass gentiles too?

Ephesians 2

11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

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Ephesians 3

. 6 This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.
This is pretty clearly rejecting the dispensational fantasy of two separate groups.
43 posted on 04/22/2024 10:11:47 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos
... fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household...

...as long as you are a Catholic.

56 posted on 04/23/2024 3:34:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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