Yes, Bob, I can see how that word "feel" could upset the New Covenant obsessives. I posted to the first person that didn't like that, or felt that I was clearly unsaved by it. What I meant was that my early years were that of a cornflake Christian to the maximum.
Then I was saved into Jesus Christ and went directly into very American pentacostal experiences. IT was probably four years before I had time to even investigate the O.T., although we had Bible studies about it constantly. I now love the O.T., and spend equal time looking through it for new things the Holy Spirit might want to show me for examples or faith lessons for my life. Or proofs of history. Or a million other things. I love the O.T.
I will say that in my case if I had never HEARD of Abraham, I probably would have had a wonderful life with God. Has it affected my walk with God? I can't tell. The knowledge of it is so obvious, and the concept so clear, and there could be no other way, as I see it now, that I have not exactly dwelled on it night and day. I've tried to simply get closer to the Source. Sorry, but that's a fact.
And I repeat for clarity here, HAD I NEVER FOUND AN O.T. and never understood the process of killing poor animals for the horrible activities of humans --(aside--right now do you think the earth might be stripped bare of all living creatures in a week if this were still the case? I do)-- I still might have had the exact walk I've had, which is not dependent one whit on what the Jews did with God 3,500 years ago. That I understand enough not to make it a stumbling block and a point to dislike other believers over. And on that I would like to leave this. Jesus Christ is not only my personal Savior, He is about the sun, the moon and the stars. So I believe the fact that He died for my sins has been well received, and on it I do not feel that I need further instruction. There are other things I really need to get better at as the world decays around me. Understanding the Mosiac/Abrahamic
relationship with God is a thought pattern that is perfectly clear in my mind. I hope you can all leave it there and get on to much more important things than trying to straighten out my concept of the New Covenant. I never assumed there was anything but the New Covenant, exactly as overly stated here almost 100 times now.
IF there is any more doubt about my understanding of the New Covenant, please do not waste good thread time posting to me about it, just pray for my wayward, sinful soul that the Holy Spirit will finally explain to me what He most clearly explained to me at salvation, I guess, since it has never been a second of question in my mind, and as you all post over and over you are just posting knowledge well known to me, but not the most important concept of the Gospel. If I WAS Jewish, I could see your harranging me to death with it if I said I don't believe you. It's not there in print.
And even though Alan and Nancy agree completely, and ever speak of the New Covenant for all Jews themselves, they are still mugged in the park daily with words.
And from sentence one, this whole thing is that Alan is a man who
considers himself a "Jew who loves Jesus" rather than Emiles
wording of a "Christian who once was a Jew by birth." It's crazy to me.
But in our own pathetic stumbling way here, breaking all rules of order and decency among brethren as Peter would speak against, and Jesus would probably denounce loudly, probably good fruit will have to come out of it. All things work together for good for those that are in Christ Jesus. |
