When you claim to follow Christ but hate Jews, you experience some serious cognitive dissonance. One way to resolve it is by denying that Jesus was a Jew.
But He was a Jew. So was Paul. The authors of all the books of the New Testament (except Luke/Acts) were Jews.
Jews played a role both in Christ's crucifixion and the founding of the Christian Church, exalting Christ as Lord and Savior. Focusing on the former to the exclusion of the latter is done solely for the purpose of vilification. It's pure hatred for people loved by God. Paul would have repudiated this in the harshest terms possible.
People call me "NostraThomas" for accurately predicting @SpeakerJohnson would use the Christmas recess to force a massive spending bill through Congress.
After claiming he would not, Johnson is embracing a D.C. tradition that's nearly as old as decorating Christmas trees.
18 years ago, only one Duke student went on mainstream media to defend the Duke lacrosse players
His name is Stephen Miller
Next year, he will become the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump White House
Every Saturday my husband and I get up and start a fire, open the Bible, and read to eachother. We then discuss theology over coffee. This is my favorite time of the week!
Sometimes I think about how my husband was a homeless drug addict and now we do this … no one can tell me that Jesus Christ isn’t real, I have the proof. He went to 20 rehabs and detoxes, he lived in the Salvation Army in SF for 2 years after being homeless in skid row in LA, he never stayed clean.. nothing worked.
The day he gave his life to Jesus Christ he never used drugs again and was made new in an instant. It was truly miraculous, I saw it happen.
Jesus is King.
@MikeWingerii I own an ESV MacArthur Study Bible and an ESV Study Bible by Crossway. Both are great, but I'm not sure how in-depth of a note you're looking for in a study Bible. What study Bibles do you already have?
I think I’m the only person who likes this video.
I’m not surprised she lied and ruined lives. I knew that already.
Here she is admitting it, apologizing, and showing real contrition for what she did.
Bravo.
I'm very thankful for Allie Beth Stuckey. She's no feminist; she's a clear complementarian, focused on helping women love God, and she is as courageous as she is sharp.
Samuel Sey is a terrific young voice! He is impossible to dislike. God is good to give us these two!
🇦🇷 MILEI: ARGENTINA ENDS DEFICIT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 123 YEARS
"The deficit was the root of all our evils—without it, there’s no debt, no emission, no inflation.
Today, we have a sustained fiscal surplus, free of default, for the first time in 123 years.
This historic achievement came from the greatest adjustment in history and reducing monetary emission to zero.
A year ago, a degenerate printed 13% of GDP to win an election, fueling inflation.
Today, monetary emission is a thing of the past."
Source: @JMilei@agarra_pala
I think instead of debating a 19th-century hermeneutic it would be helpful to go straight to scripture, so let's look at Romans 11, written by the Jewish Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit:
"I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, as it is written:
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that could not see
and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.”
And David says:
“May their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent forever.”
Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
All Israel Will Be Saved
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way[e] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
And this is[f] my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”
As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[i] knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”[j]
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”[k]
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
And this is where Mace demonstrates her limited understanding of the issue & how we got here. America decided men could become women because they first decided husbands could become wives. Men and women became interchangeable because husbands and wives became interchangeable. “Trans women are women” only makes sense to people who first believed “love is love.”