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Originally Posted by WoundedEgo
Well, let me ask you, are these words meaningless to you?:
Heb 8:8 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**:
Suppose I found a nice contract I liked, and it said "with the house of Smith and Jones"... could I just ignore that and add my name?
Ga 3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man‘s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
So what view of scripture allows you to ignore this specification of the parties with whom the covenant is made?
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Look, if you want to go with your whacked-out construction of the scriptures based upon half-understanding of them and insist that you're right - BE MY GUEST!
I'm not about talking you out of your bogosity, just suggesting that you're bogus is all. But I really have no leading or interest to go all into the construction of the original covenant referenced (which is where your first problem is) through the interpretation of the letter to the HEBREWS (YOU realize that's who it was written to, right?) to show you the path of light, truth, orthodoxy, etc. Good Lord, no!
Seek the Lord for the light in His Word and don't lean on your own understanding is about all I can do for you, other than to add just this:
A
covenant (not identical with a
contract, BTW) involving multiple parties can contain provisions that are applicable to only some of the parties without nullifying the agreement between parties not mentioned in some particular rider or other.
God created Adam, and through Noah until Abraham there was no peculiar people of God. Even in establishing the chosen nation of Israel, it was obvious that the eventuality of God's kingdom was to encompass all of the earth, the selection of this one tribe being the instrumentality by which He would accomplish His universal purpose. But Hebrews 8:9 even makes clear that the old covenant referred to in context was the Mosaic
law, which coming along later could not nullify what was established through Abrahamic
promise.
But you've got something etched deeply into a hard head and it's just not my job to try to scratch that out for you.
Good luck with that!
