I vaguely recall some event about 2,000 years ago where a bunch of jews stopped calling themselves jews because someone said something? I don't remember. Maybe it's in the Bible.
My point is that God is sorting the sheep from the goats. The sheep follow the Shepherd.
Orthodox Christians in the Middle East include many whose families became Christian in the first century. I had the good fortune to attend church with them in a major metro area. You can look around and see a full range of noses, and not because it’s infiltrated. In fact the ADL keeps close tabs on them because they tell the truth about what happens to their friends and families in e.g. Palestine.
Jesus came to fulfill the law not up end it. While we follow the shepherd, it is not up to us to cast Judgement on a group of people who have special relationship with God. How God handles his promise vs. Jesus fulfillment of it is not something any one of us should get in the middle of.
Read the Bible. The "special relationship" God has with the Jews is compared to a husband married to a cheating prostitute, a master to servants who have killed his heir, etc... God will bring the jews back AFTER they have repented and become clean from their sins, and the Gentiles will already be righteous living in their land.
Your not wrong, but that wasn't his point. I agree with him that we cannot take judgment into our hands on people who have sinned against God; that is His perogative. We can fight a war but we cannot assume to take His vengeance on anyone.
I vaguely recall some event about 2,000 years ago where a bunch of jews stopped calling themselves jews because someone said something? I don't remember. Maybe it's in the Bible.
My point is that God is sorting the sheep from the goats. The sheep follow the Shepherd.
Orthodox Christians in the Middle East include many whose families became Christian in the first century. I had the good fortune to attend church with them in a major metro area. You can look around and see a full range of noses, and not because it’s infiltrated. In fact the ADL keeps close tabs on them because they tell the truth about what happens to their friends and families in e.g. Palestine.
Jesus came to fulfill the law not up end it. While we follow the shepherd, it is not up to us to cast Judgement on a group of people who have special relationship with God. How God handles his promise vs. Jesus fulfillment of it is not something any one of us should get in the middle of.
Read the Bible. The "special relationship" God has with the Jews is compared to a husband married to a cheating prostitute, a master to servants who have killed his heir, etc... God will bring the jews back AFTER they have repented and become clean from their sins, and the Gentiles will already be righteous living in their land.
Your not wrong, but that wasn't his point. I agree with him that we cannot take judgment into our hands on people who have sinned against God; that is His perogative. We can fight a war but we cannot assume to take His vengeance on anyone.
Thank you
JINOs it is.