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1 | Which sacrifices have ended? | Acts 2:46 | Saint Luke | 174541 | ||
Would it then be your opinion that the Gentiles should be placed under the requirements of the tedium of the OT Law also? That idea is contrary to the Book of Galatians that warns against placing believers under the Law. Galatians 3:24-25 "Wherefore the law WAS our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith is come, we are NO LONGER under a schoolmaster" How much clearer do we need it? Believers are no longer under the Law, Scripture is quite clear on this. If the Jews want to continue the "work of GOD" with the sacrifices and all of there other rituals after the temple is rebuilt, maybe they should read John 6:29. But I think their destiny is clearly spelled out. They are just using these religious rituals to fulfill the prophesy of the Book of Revalation. I don't give such there is much thought about the credibilty it the writings that were cited. After all these are the descendants of the bunch that rejected and demanded the crucificion of there own King, and will embrace the Anti-Christ. I guess GOD really does know their heart. I'm just thankful I am a Gentile. Luke |
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2 | Which sacrifices have ended? | Acts 2:46 | Emmaus | 174673 | ||
Luke, "This is as crazy and ignorant an approach to Scripture as the guy who asked for divine guidance and accidentally fingered the verse about how Judas "went and hanged himself" (Mt 27:5) and then fingered "Go, and do likewise" (Lk 10:37). "A Classic Misreading "the first thing we have to do in reading Scripture is realize that we are listening in on a conversation between the authors and an audience that is not us. That doesn't mean it doesn't apply to us. Rather it means that we can only apply it to ourselves once we realize how it was intended to be applied by the writer in the context of the lives of his audience. "A classic example of this is the shocking remark of the crowd at the crucifixion which is recorded in Matthew 27:25: "His blood be on us and on our children!" Matthew records this remark, not to declare the Jews "accursed," but to point out a sort of divine pun. "The irony of these words is, of course, that this is precisely the prayer of every Christian for himself. The mob is not calling down a curse on Jews in Matthew. It is unconsciously speaking prophetically, like Caiaphas when he says, "It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish" (Jn 11:50). Matthew and his readers likewise get the divine pun. They see that what the mob intended for evil, God has turned to good. Every time we approach the cup we ask for His blood to be upon us. Every time we baptize our babies, we pray His blood will be upon our children. "But if we are not familiar with the way Matthew and his audience think, we can easily begin to make the error of so many Christians who did not see the divine pun and who therefore committed the heinous sin of pretending that "Jesus died because of Those Jews Over There, not because of me." In doing so, we effectively deny that Jesus died for our sins, a rather serious thing for a Christian to deny — and far more culpable than the average non-Christian who knows nothing of Jesus and comes no closer to knowing thanks to witless anti-Semites who heap the blame on Jews while forgetting that it was their own sins that put Jesus on the Cross." http://www.catholicexchange.com Mark P. Shea, Hearing Scripture on Its Own Terms Emmaus |
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