Christianity is not dualistic.
It’s not faith vs works An active faith leads one to do good works.
It’s not Law vs grace, but law with grace as grace can not exist with out Law.
It’s not flesh vs spirit. The flesh is not evil, but can be used by the spirit to do good or evil.
It’s not the Father vs the Son. The Father and Son are one. If you don’t worship the Son you don’t have the Father or the Son.
Hebrews 7:19 “(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.”
The Greek word translated “bringing in” means superintroduction. In the Greek it is a combination of the words superimposition and introduction. Superimposition is to “place or lay (one thing) over another, typically so that both are still evident”.
So the new covenant did not replace, but was laid over the first covenant. Both are still evident and with us today. So the perfect law made nothing perfect, but we are given a better hope with the new covenant overlaid upon the first.
Most do not think about what is the New Covenant. What are its terms?
“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind”. Hebrews 10:16
This is a quote from Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8:8-10. As these verses say the covenant was only made with a specific people. God’s Law done away? There is no new covenant or grace without God’s Law.
Look to the Greek and Hebrew text for the exact meaning of scripture. Some interesting truth is found in the Greek root words. The English in some places does not represent a reliable translation. In a few places the English says the opposite of the Greek and Hebrew. In the Greek and Hebrew there is agreement between the old and new testaments in both doctrine and faith. God did not change His morals, His Law or His people.
Strong and Thayer did the best they could based on what they had available. Strong and Thayer did their work ten years before the Koine Greek was known. Here are a few examples of when Strong was guessing.
Watch for those and a few others. Read Strong’s instructions. Any word after :– is not a part of the definition. The first word is the most reliable with the last word the most “radical”.
The parables are not just nice stories to teach a moral lesson. The Prodigal Son represents the ten tribed house of Israel, the other son is the house of Judah. Obviously the Father is Yahweh God. They were brought back together under one head, Christ. Ephesians chapter 2 is the answer to this as prophesied in Hosea and elsewhere.
One can not be alienated from or reconciled to something they were never a part. Those far were the ten tribes in Greece and Europe. Those near the two tribes. The middle wall of partition was the animosity between the two houses after the national split.
Ephesians 2:12-16, that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
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Hosea 1:11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
In the Greek, Romans 14:14 does not have the word unclean. Here is how the Greek reads.
Romans 14:14 “I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is common of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be common, to him it is common.”
There is quite a difference. Common is something contaminated or profane. Scripture is very precise. Any unclean thing is never called food in scripture. Some translations ignore this fact in the Greek text. Food is considered common if it was offered to idols. Scripture never calls food unclean. When you read the word food in scripture, let scripture define it’s own terms. Even the word holy should be understood based on the source of this quote in 1 Peter 1:16 which is Leviticus 11:44.
“Be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16
Exodus 20:14 “Thou shall not commit adultery.”
In the Hebrew and Greek the word adultery means adulteration, to mix. This includes:
Every Law of God has a command, statutes that explain the command and judgments for breaking the command. Above is a list of items found in statutes that explain the command found in Exodus20:14, Deuteronomy 5:18 and Romans 13:9. God made everything and said it was good the way he made it. It’s not our right to modify Yahweh’s creation.
There are over one hundred marks given in scripture to help one identify who is true physical Israel. Here are three more unconditional physical promises.
Numbers 6:27 “They shall put my name on the children of Israel”.
Christian.
Hebrews 11:18 “In Isaac shall thy name be called”.
Isaac’s sons, Sacae, Saka, Saxons.
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Decent from The Adam (in the garden), The Hebrew word for Adam means to blush, show blood in the face, (that purple rosy glow). RK Hoskins.
There are over one hundred marks given in scripture to help one identify who is true physical Israel. Here are just three unconditional physical promises. They promise that Israel would become:
1 A Multitude of Nations – A promise made to Ephraim. Genesis 48:19
2 Many Nations – A promise to Abraham (not Abram) Genesis 17:4
3 A Company of Nations – A promise made to Jacob/Israel Genesis 35:11
Ever think about Psalms 19:1-2?
“The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.”
The Gospel story is in the stars. Astrology is a distortion of something good created by God.
