Hi Donald
Maybe you could help us by explaing what you mean in this statement you made on the Grafted thread:
"Blessed are you, 0 Lord our God, Ruler of the universe who has given us Messiah Yeshua and the words of the Renewed Covenant. Blessed are you, 0 Lord, giver of the Renewed Covenant.
Do these words mean that you have rejected the New Covenant in Jesus's Blood and want to live under the Old dead Covenant?
Does it also mean that you reject the following Scriptures?
Chapter: Heb.8
1: Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest(Jesus Christ), who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2: A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle(in heaven not in carnal Israel), which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3: For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4: For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6: But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7: For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8: For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (Jesus fulfilled this Covenant and saved hundreds of thousands of Jews during the first century of Christianity.)
11: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.(The glory of the New Covenant in Jesus's Blood.)
13: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (The old covenant died after the New was established. God destroyed the Old TEstament religion of Temple Judaism.)
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How about these verses from the Word of God, Donald:
6: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb. 10
7: Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8: Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9: Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10: By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11: And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13: From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14: For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15: Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16: This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17: And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18: Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19: Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20: By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21: And having an high priest over the house of God;
22: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
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You see, Donald, Jesus has opened A New and Living Way into the presence of God--The New Covenant.
St. Peter tells us that under the New Covenant it's the Christians that are:
1Pet.2
4: To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of
God, and precious,
5: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
9: But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvellous light:
St. Paul tells us similar things about the children of the New Covenant:
Romans 2
28: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is
outward in the flesh:
29: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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Galatians 3
16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to
seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
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Galatians 3
29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
promise.
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Donald, do you still think that Christianity is a renewed Old Covenant" as you state or a New Covenant with A New and Living Way
I hope this helps.
Love in Christ
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