I find it interesting the distinction you're making between Jews and Gentiles in Christianity when there isn't a different New Covenant based off of one's ethnicity. Do you think this is important to mention and, if so, why?
ALL Christians are commanded to be biblical in their relationship to God. Their doctrinal understanding of God and His "so-great salvation" must also be biblical. As I've said many times, we must ALL see the same Jesus Christ, we must ALL say the same thing as God. To do otherwise is to OPPOSE Him.
There is distinction between many groups of people. At the beginning of the true Church era which continued on the Day of Pentecost (ca. AD 32) in which after Israel's Messiah ascended, He ten days later sent the Holy Spirit of Promise to His covenant people Israel. And for about four decades until the destruction of Israel and their Second Temple the Church of God was populated by Jews whom God saved and birthed as per covenant and prophecy. Circumcised Gentile proselytes and uncircumcised Gentile God-Fearers were the first Gentiles to hear the gospel message which primarily was "God has kept His Promise and your Messiah, Redeemer, and King has come." And this message was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Jesus was sent to only the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Proselytes and God-Fearers were the first because of the closeness and association to the synagogues and Temple before its destruction and Judaism began to revolve around their Feasts and Holy Days. Later, uncircumcised, non-covenant Scythian, Roman, and Greek Gentiles were saved during this period but in small numbers until the destruction of the Temple and in time more Gentiles were coming to know Israel's Messiah, and in time began to believe they were the replacement of Israel in God's Redemptive timeclock. They went forward in stealing from Israel everything God gave to them. Terms like "saints" and "Church" and Bride" and "covenants" were stolen from Israel - even their inheritance - and took those terms and all the others and applied them all to themselves.
I make distinction between these groups because God makes distinction between these groups.
If I understand you correctly, the essence is the deity. Is God a person or an it in your view? Also, do you consider yourself to be a Trinitarian?
All three Members of Trinity are Persons. All three Persons are God. I am not a Trinitarian - but ignorance will label me as such - I am a Biblical Christian. If it is in the Bible, then I am Biblical.
Exactly. The Bible is clear about what is in the heart of the common man. This isn't knowledge that would have been exclusive to Jesus.
True. Christ taught us we can know what's in a person's "heart" (mind) through knowledge of Scripture (allowing the Word of God to richly dwell in us) and through trial and error, but eventually who by reason of use have our senses exercised to discern both good and evil, and truth and lies,
Right, I agree with that, but that isn't the same thing as literally being the God. Jesus was himself "tempted in all ways" while God cannot be tempted.
There are not two ways to be tempted. All temptation comes from within not without. And as Jesus was tempted in all ways as we are "yet without sin" He is able to relate to our experiences and this suits Him to be our Intercessor and High Priest. Temptation is not a sin. Jesus was in the desert for the sole purpose to test the human aspect of His Personhood before His Ministry to His people Israel. He said, "the 'devil' cometh and hath nothing in me" meaning the
traducer (adj.) cometh but there was nothing in Him in which to strike a chord. The woman in the Garden, Jesus Christ, and we are all tempted the same way. From within.
