Incorrect. I have not run into any other Biblical Christians other than myself.
You are not a biblical Christian.
A Biblical Christian takes all 66 'books' of the Boible as written and TO WHOM it is written...
Which is something you NEVER do. Not only does that not happen in any of your posts here in CCAM, but when another poster does use whole scripture (like myself), two things happen: 1) dissent and 2) self-aggrandizement. There isn't a single thread in this entire forum where you and I have traded posts where I haven't used whole scripture and you've selectively sampled it. I am the one between us that constantly posts what happened prior to Abraham and what the NT states about the OT. Rarely, if ever, do you do either. It is due to our "conversations" that you've corrected your own posts to use "Hebrew" where "Jew" would previously have been used. Recently we've seen the need to change the use of "Hebrew" because you've posted the Babylonian Chaldean Abram was Hebrew when that is not correct.
Had whole scripture been used that mistake would not have been made.
, that is, Hebrews/Jews/Jewish Christians write it TO and FOR other Hebrews/Jews/Jewish Christians as it is a Hebrew covenant, with a Hebrew/Jewish Messiah, recording Hebrew/Jewish history, culture, life and living, religion and its rituals and practices, Hebrew/Jewish nationality, the whole Bible is about the Hebrews/Jews and their Hebrew/Jewish Messiah.
None of that is correct.
Moses penned the first five books of Tanakh to cover early human history God deemed salient to His eternal and everlasting purposes. At the time that book was
first written "to" the Hebrews (not Jews)
and Egyptians, along with other slaves from other countries, he was stewarding (God was leading) across the wilderness to the land God had promised the Babylonian Chaldean Abram (later called Abraham). They were the first to
receive the Pentateuch, but the Pentateuch was not written solely to them because the chosen people were supposed to be
an example to the entire world AND so too was God's Law. It's like my giving you a truck load of food to distribute among everyone you meet... and you keep it to yourself. If we had a covenant whereby I give you the truck and promise it will never go empty and you distribute its contents but don't.....
that makes you a covenant breaker NOT someone with whom I still have a covenant!!!
If whole scripture was used then you'd know that and you'd post the whole truth, not just the selections you like.
Wholes scripture teaches us there were adverse consequences for breaking the covenant, including the destruction of the covenant people. Whole scripture teaches us there wasn't a single moment in human history when the Jews kept God's covenant for any great length of time. Whole scripture teaches us the problem was not only chronic, but got so bad God - the God who
hates divorce - divorced Israel.
Jeremiah 3:6-10
Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. I thought, 'After she has done all these things she will return to Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception," declares the LORD.
Israel was divorced from God. For two centuries God sent the Jews a series of prophets calling them back to a covenant relationship, but they continued to refuse,
bringing upon them all the curses stated in Deuteronomy 28, and eventually desolation and silence: the intertestamental period.
Utter silence. God spoke to them in Babylon, but God ignored the covenant breakers and let Rome occupy the land He'd given Abraham and Jesus and their descendants.
If you'd said, "
The first half of the Bible was written to Jews who were supposed to share it with the rest of the world," then
that would be correct. Had you said something like, "
The New Testament was largely written to Jews who'd converted to Christ," then
that would be measurably better than including non-believing, covenant-breaking Jews. Had you said, "
The New Testament epistolary was written to early Christians, most of whom were previously Jewish," then that would be correct. Had you said, "
The gospels were written about Jesus' time in Israel preaching repentance to the Jews, but they were all written to the world at large so everyone would believe and have salvation," then that would be correct. The gospels were written long after Jesus had come and gone and the gospel had spread throughout the known world.
Colossians 1:21-23
And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach — if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
The four gospels were written
about the Jews, but the four gospels were written to the entire world.
Matthew 28:17-20
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Mark 16:15
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."
John 1:29
The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth.”
You do NOT use whole scripture, the scriptures were NOT written to the Jews alone, nor for the Jews alone, and every word you post in this forum is self-aggrandizing and divisive. You think you are the only biblical Christian hear and you openly state it.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
If we measure your posts by that list, then we'd necessarily have to conclude you will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. Link us to a single op where you did not sow dispute, dissent, and faction into the forum.
Everything in the Bible has both Israel front and center and all Jewish prophecies of their Messiah.
That is mostly correct.
I tell you that is mostly correct because I want you to know that I will gladly commend anything you write that is correct. Sadly, most of what you post is incorrect. The first book of the Bible has nothing to do with the nation of Israel. The sons of Israel and the Hebrews of which they are a part, do not become a nation until the early part of Exodus. While Genesis is only one book of the Bible that one book covers multiple millennia of human history.
In other words, MOST of what the Bible was written about long precedes the existence of Israel. It does NOT have Israel front and center. If we count books then, yes, it could be said most of the books have Israel front and center, but it is not correct to say most of scripture do so.
Most egregiously, though,
everything in God's word is first and foremost about Jesus, not Israel!!! How anyone claiming to be a "Biblical Christian" can assert Israel over Christ is incomprehensible... the epitome of self-contradiction!
Just a really, really dumb thing to post.
I'll take up the rest of Post 75 later (the ungodly misuse of 1 Jn. 4:1 for implicit self-aggrandizing ad hominem in Post 76 will be ignored) when I have the time and inclination. Until then I defy you to prove one sentence I just posted incorrect.
