For those who are religious and claim to be Christian the law of the old covenant is relevant gentile Christians today casting themselves into bondage and mental and spiritual chaos.
I have had a very interesting conversation with some on the internet concerning the Jewish people. This individual claims that the current Jews are not Jews but Edomites and Canaanites because of the centuries they intermarried and contaminated the Jews bloodline. Of course the Jewish nation as it is now is not actually the Jewish nation of old. The reason I say that is because the nation split where there was the northern kingdom known as Ephraim aka(Israel), and the southern kingdom known as Judah (1 Kings 12:19).
Jesus linage on the other hand was from Judah and not Ephraim so the discussion was that Jesus is a Jew just not like a modern Jew. Bottom line here is that none of that matters because God, in His mercy promised to reunite the two kingdoms. God will raise a banner for the nations gathering the exiles of the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth. Additionally, Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross paid the penalty for the sins of the world, past, present and future (1 John 2:2). This does not absolve us from willful sinning or shunning God’s commandments; He gave us a choice, believe upon the name of Jesus and have eternal life or do not and die both physically and spiritually (John 3:16-18). You see, It is God’s love for His creation, you, me, the animals, the earth, the universe that God saved through His messenger Jesus Christ. Some say He only forgave the sins of all humankind but that is not what is said John 3:16 states. The Greek word used in 3:16 is kosmos: order, the world Original Word: κόσμος, ου, ὁ Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kosmos Phonetic Spelling: (kos’-mos) Definition: order, the world Usage: the world, universe; worldly affairs; the inhabitants of the world; adornment. Take your pick as to what the writer actually meant. In english “cosmos” means “the universe seen as well-ordered whole.”Needless to say the word there is more than we imagine, and with that, what some continue to argue about who or who isn’t Jewish has been settled by Jesus: Meaning, what ever law the earlier Jews committed by interracial marriage is a moot point. As for salvation, there is nothing anyone can do to earn it, you must believe on Jesus the Christ of God and understand that is by God’s grace that you are saved, through faith in Jesus – and this is not from yourself, it is the gift of God so you do not get a big head. See Ephesians 2:8-9.
My reason for writing this is simply to state that what matter to us, does not necessarily matter to God. What religion we insert on top of faith is definitely no something that Jesus would agree with. We are free as John 8:36 testifies, we are free indeed.
All I can add is that there are far too many who are anti-Jew!
If you are interested in the argument about the Jewish people here are a couple of sites to whet your appetite.
National Geographic article “DNA from the Bible’s Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews.” Click here
Biblical Archeology article “Review Arabs and Jews descended from Canaanites.” Click here
Know your DNA article “Who are the Canaanites today?” Click here
Narkive Newsgroup Archive article “The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, page 41, states, “Edom
is in modern Jewry.” Click here
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