Thank you, and yes a little unorthodox BUT all that means is you don't agree with the consensus of the controlling bodies on this - i.e the churches, but in 1st Century the Pharisees, Scribes, etc. and one only needs to look at the conversations between Jesus and them to understand that they had gone astray from God's intentions.
I don't believe that either the failure of Israel nor the church was something which caught God out. He knew from the time of creation, and indeed as Jesus was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world he made provision for our redemption.
The simple fact, IMHO, is that God desires our love (not to be confused with sloppy romantic love as many modern worship songs and preaching suggest), now He could have made us as robots programmed to return His love BUT that isn't what He desires at all. So He gave us free will but provided signposts along the way, so in the OT we end up with Talmudic Rabbinic worship of God and in NT Pauline Christianity - which is clearly different from Christ's Way.
The problem comes when both of these is that they end us as controlling organisations. 'I do not permit ...' says Paul, He suggests He received all this 'not from flesh and blood ...' but provides no evidence - in modern day parlance the Mormans have Joseph Smith and his 'golden tablets - only seen by him, and the established church calls this a cult! The problem with Paul, Rabbis and the like is you end up with a mixture of what God intended mixed with many philosophy - which never works, it is an apostacy.
To be clear as far as Paul is concerned I find many contradictions in things he wrote, and these are contrary to what the OT says, I find in places he misquotes or misapplies the OT scriptures, yet also says some profound things which do accord with the OT and relative to Jesus teaching. However if one espouses these in the church one is immediately condemned a heretic.
In the final analysis I believe that when Jesus returns - stone cut without hands - and established His worldwide rule we will indeed see the truth of the way God has called us to live. At which point two things will have happened - the New Covenant will be on the hearts and minds of those who will be priest and kings with Him, and we shall not sin however the unconverted at that time will still sin (Isaiah 65:20-25) - Paul terms this as 'the new creation' and 'corruption changed to incorruption'.
Secondly when we see the truth of 'the Way' which Jesus spoke of we shall indeed realise that we have needed God all along much more than our feeble minds ever thought, and that out human thoughts and ideas of worshipping our Creator were so wrong, and how we really needed Him to show us the right way. But more in order to get point and to ensure as many as will come to repentance do, as John writes:
John 1:12-13 ... as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Thank you, and yes a little unorthodox BUT all that means is you don't agree with the consensus of the controlling bodies on this - i.e the churches, but in 1st Century the Pharisees, Scribes, etc. and one only needs to look at the conversations between Jesus and them to understand that they had gone astray from God's intentions.
I don't believe that either the failure of Israel nor the church was something which caught God out. He knew from the time of creation, and indeed as Jesus was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world he made provision for our redemption.
The simple fact, IMHO, is that God desires our love (not to be confused with sloppy romantic love as many modern worship songs and preaching suggest), now He could have made us as robots programmed to return His love BUT that isn't what He desires at all. So He gave us free will but provided signposts along the way, so in the OT we end up with Talmudic Rabbinic worship of God and in NT Pauline Christianity - which is clearly different from Christ's Way.
The problem comes when both of these is that they end us as controlling organisations. 'I do not permit ...' says Paul, He suggests He received all this 'not from flesh and blood ...' but provides no evidence - in modern day parlance the Mormans have Joseph Smith and his 'golden tablets - only seen by him, and the established church calls this a cult! The problem with Paul, Rabbis and the like is you end up with a mixture of what God intended mixed with many philosophy - which never works, it is an apostacy.
To be clear as far as Paul is concerned I find many contradictions in things he wrote, and these are contrary to what the OT says, I find in places he misquotes or misapplies the OT scriptures, yet also says some profound things which do accord with the OT and relative to Jesus teaching. However if one espouses these in the church one is immediately condemned a heretic.
In the final analysis I believe that when Jesus returns - stone cut without hands - and established His worldwide rule we will indeed see the truth of the way God has called us to live. At which point two things will have happened - the New Covenant will be on the hearts and minds of those who will be priest and kings with Him, and we shall not sin however the unconverted at that time will still sin (Isaiah 65:20-25) - Paul terms this as 'the new creation' and 'corruption changed to incorruption'.
Secondly when we see the truth of 'the Way' which Jesus spoke of we shall indeed realise that we have needed God all along much more than our feeble minds ever thought, and that out human thoughts and ideas of worshipping our Creator were so wrong, and how we really needed Him to show us the right way. But more in order to get point and to ensure as many as will come to repentance do, as John writes:
John 1:12-13 ... as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
My Unorthodoxy
Thanks for sharing your unorthodoxy.