"The Holy Bible was the only guaranteed word of God. If there is any other writings from God guaranteed to be his and only his words, I don't know about them."
How do you know that, Steve? The Scriptures are nothing but the family history of the people of God, the Christian People. The Scriptures tell us about our birth as the People of God. They written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit. Hundreds of years after the Scriptures were written, the holy men ordained and inspired by God in the Church held a council to determine which books should make up the canon of Scriptures. The Bible did not fall from the sky as some pretend, but was written and preserved by Christian leaders in the Church.
Now, if you can trust these Christian leaders enough to accept the Word of God from their hands, why is it that you cannot look at their writings with humility and a teachable spirit. Was the Holy Spirit wrong in using these men and anointing the Church in every century and every decade of the last 2000 years? Maybe you reject the thought that the Holy Spirit has been in the Church adn directing the Church for the last two thousand years. Are we to try and reinvent Christianity and Christian doctrines today and avoid the Church--the People of God--whom the Holy Spirit has anointed for the last two thousand years?
On the one hand, you ask me to completely disregard the teachings of the Church Fathers and Christians for the last two thousand years, and on the other, you ask me to consider the modern Rabbinical theories about a worldly kingdom that modern Judaism has set up in Palestine. The Pahrisees and rabbinical leaders rejected and crucified Jesus two thousand years ago because Jesus offered them an eternal and spiritual Kingdom rather than the worldly and carnal kingdom their fleshly minds desired. For two thousand years this antichrist Judaism has continued to reject Jesus and the Kingdom of God that he established, and now they have succeded in brainwashing a segment of Christianity with their dispensational vision of a worldly kingdom.
Jesus established his Kingdom two thousand years ago and His Kingdom is eternal. Jesus sits as King and Melchizedek Priest forever on the throne of David and rules over the children of the Kingdom. Rabbinical Judaism was wrong two thousand years ago when they rejected Jesus and His spiritual Kingdom, and they are still wrong today in continuing to reject Him and in attempting to establish a worldly kingdom in Palestine that is looking to foolishly to reestablish Temple sacrifices to replace the eternal Sacrifice of Christ.
Modern Judaism is pseudo-Judaism. There is no more Levitical Priesthoodk, Aaronic Priesthood, genealogy to confirm their claims to be jews, no more Ark of the Covenant, and most importantly, no more Shekinah or Holy Spirit glory. Modern Judaism is antaichrist because they reject Christ.
Why should I give any heed to their false rabbinical theories?
So what you are doing Steve is rejecting the clear teachings of the Church Father on this subject as well as the teachings in the Scriptures about the new Covenant Israel, and instead focusing on the the thological theories of modern rabbinical Judaism and their dispensational allies.
We need no rabbinical or dispensational theories because Christ makes us the Sons of God today by recreating our human spirit in the image and likeness of his son and filling us with His Holy Spirit. This is the only door into the Kingdom of God; there is not other.
In love
Emile |
