If you have to ask this question, then you have not read the bible very well because Jesus specifically states that he came for the Jews and the Jews alone.
Where does Jesus say this?
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Of course when the Jews rejected him, salvation came to the rest of us through him... better read your bible again. Jesus healed a roman or two or 2 but he never evangelized them. Find me where he preached to the Romans, Linear, please, I'd love to see it.
I never said He preached to the Romans.
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I would support banning all other religions from the US.
Why?
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I wouldn't support a theocracy though.
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You did state the OT laws were meaningless. Someone else said to you
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if this is what you believe, that how can you then claim you follow Christ who pointed these things out in the bible?
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Because Christ stated that the law doesn't save you.
If your reply does not indicate that the law is meaningless what does it imply?
I could not find where Christ stated that following the law would not save you so perhaps I was wrong about Him making actually saying that. However, in Romans, Paul states that the law doesn't save you unless you follow every letter of it for our whole life. It is only through coming to Christ that we can be saved. Christ indicates that following the law unwillingly is also a sin (angry with your brother = murder, looking at a woman in lust = adultery). So making laws that force others to outwardly follow the precepts of the Christian religion, does nothing to save them. I didn't say the laws were meaningless...I said they don't save someone.
I think SS is just generalizing what happened but not quoting Christ specifically regarding the Jews. However, He did say with regards to that issue that "the first would be last and the last would be first" (referring to the gospel going to the gentiles later).
I agree about the law issue Linear and all the comments you've made with regards to the issues you are talking about. IMO you are being humble and honest and there is no basis for accusing you of otherwise. Regardless of things said in the past..... A great man once said that the closer we are to God the less we will have a disposition to do evil. And you can only save through love. Or motivate people...(Only Christ can save). As a rule we all have a tendency to be down enough on ourselves. We don't need others help. Example goes further than anything - but I guess on such a forum when you don't see real people we tend to say things we wouldn't ordinarily to someone's face. Not sure what the point of seemingly, at least, attacking Linear is.
Linda Lou's observations were a concern to me, too, and I'm glad she brought them up.... (Farther up - just now reading from the beginning). Glad they were straightened out....
