-question one, who is a Jew, what does it take o be a Jew? -question two, does -ANYONE- deserve to live, does -ANYONE- deserve mercy? -question three, why does God kill people, or told Jews to kill others? -is the OT and NT the same? did God change? -what does it mean to be chosen? and what are Jews chosen for? -is the OT salvation plan the same as the NT? prepare to be rocked! because the rock will either fall on you and break you or fall on you and shatter you into powder.
everyone that has ever died and will ever die has died because of Gods judgement on humanity(even his own son), nature and the universe and He take full responsibility for this evil. "the day you eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil you will surely die" and no, no one person deserves to live or deserves God's mercy because God's law requires that men be righteous as they are his image "not one is righteous, no not one" "the wages of sin is DEATH" "the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it" what about innocent babies? this question is a complete misunderstanding of the gravity of men's rebellion. yes even babies in the womb have a rebellious nature which all humanity shares and therefore also guilty and subject to death. in other words God kills the guilty even onto this day. I do understand that from our perspective we believe we are all angels. sometimes we help feed the poor, and may even do many 'good' deeds
there was one, that was not rebellious, that was not a sinner, and that was his son, the living representation of love, and look what we did to him....and God had to kill his own son as a living sacrifice, what God asked Abraham to do, God did to his own son...you see this is no game -it is live and death. but for those who have been chosen "to be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD"
CHRISTINITY IS A JEWISH RELIGION, A SECT OR BRANCH OF JUDAISM it is a broader explanations of things not fully revealed in the Hebrew torah....
Zechariah 3:8 "'Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.”
Isaiah 52:15 “so will he sprinkle many nations,[goy] and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.”
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
The law (meaning everything God has said about everything as it is found I the bible):
John 5:39 You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,
Christian beliefs are found in the old covenant: Fasting: Isaiah 58:6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”
Luke 5:33 They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
animal sacrifice: Proverbs 21:3 “To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”
Isaiah 1:11 "The multitude of your sacrifices--what are they to me?" says the LORD. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.”
circumcision: Jeremiah 4:4 “Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, CIRCUMCISE YOUR HEARTS, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done--burn with no one to quench it”
Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the desert in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
Jeremiah 9:25 “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;”
spiritual baptism: Ezekiel 36:25”I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.”
Isaiah 52:15 “so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.”
the law(meaning everything God has said about everything as it is found I the bible):
God's people, who is going to be saved:
new covenant: ..."Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; AND BECAUSE THEY NULLIFIEFD MY COVENANT, so I also despised THEM, says YHWH"... -JEREMIAH 31: 32 ..."My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, and YOU SHALL BE NO PRIEST TO ME; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children"... -HOSEA 4: 6
..."Behold, the days are coming, says YHWH, when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah"... -JEREMIAH 31: 31
CHRISTIANS ARE TRUE JEWS:
Romans 2:28 A MAN IS NOT A JEW if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical… Romans 2:29 A MAN IS A JEW if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code
ABRAHAM, WHOS FATHER IS HE? Matthew 3:9 "And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham." John 8:33-44 "They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin... I know you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me,...“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do the things Abraham did. As it is, you are determined to kill me,... You are doing the things your own father does.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,... You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire." 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: And so all Israel will be saved...For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. Galatians 3:7 Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. Romans 9:8 "In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring." Galatians 3:29 "If you belong to Christ [MESSIAH], then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." 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 [MESSIAH]."
Romans 10:12 "For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him," Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ [MESSIAH]. Such a man is the antichrist... 2 John 1:7 Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ [MESSIAH] as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
WHO IS A JEW? Jeremiah 9:25 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh… Romans 2:17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew… Romans 2:28 A MAN IS NOT A JEW if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical… Romans 2:29 A MAN IS A JEW if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code Colossians 3:11 "Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ [MESSIAH] is all, and is in all." Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done--burn with no one to quench it. Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the desert in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart." Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men) Galatians 6:15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ [MESSIAH]. Such a man is the antichrist... 2 John 1:7 Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ [MESSIAH] as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.