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Post by mystic on Apr 3, 2021 4:51:45 GMT -8
One thought is he came to save the Jews while another says he came to save ALL mankind? Based on scripture I am not finding any which specifically shows he came to save only the Jews?
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Post by alon on Apr 3, 2021 17:51:40 GMT -8
One thought is he came to save the Jews while another says he came to save ALL mankind? Based on scripture I am not finding any which specifically shows he came to save only the Jews?
For I am God, and there is no other.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
But the plan was always that the world would come to know God through the Jews:Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."In those days a change of religion was not as we understand it today, though the principles were/are the same. It meant you changed allegiance to your gods to follow another, in this case the true God of Israel. It was both religious and political, and considered an act of treason. You left family, friends, even your native land; customs, often language, and everything you'd known. It was a total commitment to a new way of life as well as to this (to you) new God. You became a Jew. This is why Rav Shaul spoke of branches of a wild olive tree (Gentiles) being grafted onto a cultivated olive root-stalk (Israel). So in a sense yes, He only came to save the Jews. But by being saved you are adopted into the Jewish family. But that's all so much linguistic embroidery. Anyone can accept the God of Israel, repent of their sins, and agree to obey Him and do as He said (obey His Torah), and they will be saved: Jew and/or Gentile.
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