To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (10420 ) 1/1/1998 1:00:00 PM From: O'Hara Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 39621
><>...Bob, I did not say as you have stated..><> "That none of the religious leaders of the day were descended from "Abraham" ">>> I said many of the Pharisees and Sadducees...Not all! Do we not ourselves have, even today, many high prisests who stand in pulpits with Bibles in hands that say they are christians, and preach another gospel ? >>>"I don't want to discourage any one from studying or discount the value of word studies but I knew a preacher once who had it worked out so that it was OK to have unmarried single "concubines" when he was married!">>> This above statement by you is a prime example of another gospel ...You have stated my case. You say: "That any had snuck in with a false genealogy is also very unlikely"...Not unlikely at all That is exactly what happened! Have you not read? Throught the entire Bible OT and NT. It is nothing new or something that should be beyond belief, Jesus Christ Himself taught on this very issue in many scriptures on different levels....Praise God! Jude 1:4 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. __________________ __________________ And of course our Lord Jesus was King of the Jews. He was of the Tribe of Judah...The kingly Line!, Is He not also called the Lion of the tribe of Judah? Have a blessed New Year Shalom...><> Luke 12:1 1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy .