Originally Posted by
clarity
You have accused people of lying and twisting Scripture simply because they do not abide by the same doctrine you (and the majority) accept. Now you want people you don't agree with segregated from the rest. You can continue your persecution, but you cannot stop the Truth.
Truth is neither dictated by democracy nor spurious translations of the Bible. Truth is also not dictated by people insecure in their faith that they would rather hide our views in the Cemetery, or in our own hole where no one can read them. If we are so obviously wrong, it should be incredibly easy for you to tear it apart, but you don't because you can't. The evidence supports the Truth.
You repeatedly use the words Jew and Gentile as a support for your doctrine. Is that really Truth? Does the underlying meaning of the words you spout truly support it? No.
The word Jew itself is erroneous. A truncated transliteration of a Latin word that has adapted a modern definition that is not supported in Scripture. The word distinctly means Judean--someone of the nation of Judea or of the culture. The Greek word being Ioudaios, a word rooted from the word Ioudaia which is Judea.
Jew does not mean Israelite or Judahite. This is evident in John 7:1 when Jesus was walking in Galilee to be avoid being killed by the Jews (Judeans). Galillee was the home of Israelites as well, but they weren't seeking to kill Him; only the Judeans were seeking to kill Him, so he avoided Judea.
The word Gentile has got to be the most deceptive of all. It is a completely modern fabrication from the transliteration of the Latin adjective gentilis which means 'of or 'belonging to a nation'. The word replaces two different Greek words in the KJV: Hellen and ethnos. Hellen meaning Greek and ethnos meaning nation. The word ethnos does not mean non-Israelite as can succinctly be seen in John 18:35 when Pilot uses the word in reference to the Jews (Judeans).
There is a repeated contrast of two groups in the New Testament because there are two groups being discussed: the divorced house of Israel and the house of Judah. The Greek and Judean contrast is one of many references to these two groups.
When Paul wrote in Romans 11 of the wild olive tree being grafted onto the 'cultivated' olive tree , he was referring of the rejoining of the houses of Israel and Judah. This was a fulfillment of the two stick prophecy in Ezekiel 37. Throughout the Old Testament olive trees are used to represent Israel such as the olive tree in Jeremiah 11:16, which says, The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
The houses are rejoined now, not later as some would say. This is told in Hebrews 8:8-12 (quoting Jeremiah 31:31-34) which says,
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:
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.
...and finished with a new declaration,
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 new covenant is for Israel and Judah and they have been reunited in the Christ.
