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This is good! I would go so far to argue that trying to get Jews to stop being Jewish in order to be saved is just as much an assault on the gospel as the judaizing heresy. Both root salvation in ethnicity rather than the blood of Messiah
When I advocate for remaining a Jewish follower of Jesus, I am often met with Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek.”
What many people overlook is that the very same verse also says, “There is neither male nor female.”
Yet every conservative Christian would agree that males and females still exist and that the God-created distinctions between them remain.
Galatians 3:28 is not erasing human distinctions. It is speaking about our standing before God. We are all equally sinners, equally dependent on God’s grace, equally loved by Him, and equally saved through faith in Messiah.
The verse does not eliminate male and female.
So why do people insist that “there is neither Jew nor Greek” means that Jewish identity is abolished in Messiah?
Do you know what ideology seeks to blur the distinctions between male and female?
Transgenderism.
In the same way, erasing the distinction between Jew and Gentile is a form of spiritual identity confusion, spiritual transgenderism.
We are still Jews, we are still Gentiles. And we are one in Messiah.
@AwaitingChrist He fulfilled the passages in the Tanakh that showed the Messiah would suffer, He is attested to by his miracles, life, and compassion, and God raised Him from the dead to prove that He is the one appointed by God to judge the world and execute the Day of the Lord
@JMNewsNetwork_ A Gentile Christian can eat pork if they want to. This is something one can have freedom in and I would argue a GC should not do it out of obligation or Torah observance. Ironically, most people who push this are against replacement theology when this is a form of supercessionism
This is quite an aside from my usual posts, but I feel it necessary. The sudden surge of "Christians" attacking Michael Heiser here on X is, at best, ignorant and misguided, and at worst, hateful and anti-Biblical. His works are scholarly and intriguing, not altering the Gospel, but adding (or rather, recovering) another aspect of it that deepens and enriches our love for God and His Word. (On the positive side of these new attacks, I'm finding new people to follow, those who respectfully defend the scholarship!)
Amen! While I’m sympathetic to a revivalistic optimism in regard to the End of the Age, biblical eschatology is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but rather realistic
Scripture seems to teach that the world will get worse and more sinful before the Messiah returns. For instance, Yeshua says that “lawlessness will be increased” in the end days (Matthew 24:12). But that is not the whole story. Two verses later, he also says that the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world before the end comes (Matthew 24:14). So, while lawlessness increases, the gospel also increases. As the darkness intensifies, so does the light.
@rabbriansamuel I’m fine with the wording. I know “Catholic” is used there to mean “Universal”. In the same way I’m fine with “Apostolic” in the Nicene Creed
@PaulAnleitner Agreed! My Dad wondered if Nolan was secretly a conservative after he first saw Dark Knight. He thought it was a metaphor for America and its war on terror and Bin Laden by being willing to be viewed as the bad guys in fighting evil that can’t be reasoned with (i.e., the Joker)
@farmingandJesus Well said! It’s the offense of the Cross and the blood of Jesus which is a stumbling block to the religious and proper. I deserve the unending flames of Gehenna for my wickedness. And if I don’t see that in myself first before I see that in others I do not understand the gospel
@Joel7Richardson Is the video out yet? I’d love to hear the arguments. Personally I take the view that Ezk. 38-39 is the same as Rev. 20 because the sequence of Ezk. 36-48 lines up well in my head with Rev. 19-22. That would mean satan is probably “Gog.” But I could be swayed to your view :)
I still remember trying to explain away Zech. 14 to a Messianic Jew when I was preterist and they looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my nose. It was one of the things that eventually lead to me going down the road of embracing the Jewish apocalyptic gospel
I honestly think that if more gentile Christians cared about chapters like Zechariah 14 we could have a theological revival that could truly transition many into a gospel of power and give them understanding to stand for the right things in the days ahead.
Zechariah 14 is a very plain, consistent narrative picture regarding Israel’s final covenantal discipline, Jesus second coming, the resurrection of the dead, the judgment of the wicked, the restoration of Israel and Jerusalem, and the millennial reign of Jesus from Jerusalem. It is absolutely one of the most stunning pieces of Scripture in all the Bible and it has clearly never taken place my Preterist friends.
If you want to argue eschatology then come up with a good argument against Zechariah 14…
YOU DON’T HAVE ONE.
America has five core enemies:
1. Zionism
2. Liberal Women
3. Islam
4. Hinduism
5. Violent Blacks
Here are the solutions:
1. Eliminate Dispensationalism
2. Repeal the 19th
3. Mass Deport Muslims & Outlaw Islam
4. Mass Deport H1B’s & Outlaw Hinduism
5. Publicly Hang Murderers