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Or, perhaps it’s not backwards. Esau is the one who sold his birthright, placing no value in it at all. In fact, Jacob is the one who profited through Esau’s ”stumble”. I‘d never thought of this before, but it fits that they are used as examples here. 🧐

I think you’re confusing terms. What you’re talking about sounds like foreknowledge to me. Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: The part that is predetermined is God’s response to sin...

Interesting. Do you have a verse I might find that breath of God you speak of at the resurrection? I haven’t noticed that part, but I like it. We will surely experience wonderful things at that time.

You quote a verse from Isaiah to claim our SINS are predetermined by God? And then you say He’s not the creator of sin? Then you quote a verse that proves your conclusions are in error. 🧐

No, because the Bible says so. So you don’t believe there are any Jews today who are saved? Do you think the Jews have ceased to exist? Surely not. Hitler wasn’t that thorough, and antisemitism hasn’t managed to wipe them all out. That’s correct. Peter and Paul and the other Jewish...

No, I just jumped there to show you. 😉 That “operation of God” made a big impact on me when I first encountered it….right here on TOL if I remember correctly. Long ago and far away. In fact, I have come to believe that is one of the signs of the new covenant being fulfilled in us...

He didn’t prepare the good works, he prepared us to do good works. Careful not to put the cart before the horse.

Maybe he’s barely escaped that religion, so it just comes blurting out. 🤐

Hmmm I believe that term operation of God is referring to that circumcision made without hands. That circumcision of our heart through faith. So, I believe it’s talking about that new man. Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the...

Why do you keep saying that?

There will always be a remnant. Then, now, and in the future. Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Maybe one refers to this. The first one happened when we were saved, when we were raised unto eternal life. I don’t know if risen with Him would be considered a resurrection. I doubt it. Col. 2:12. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the...

What do you think Jesus meant when He said Abraham looked forward to His day? And, what is this? Talk of a coming Saviour is all throughout the Bible. Isaiah 45: 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it...

Then what do you think Jesus meant when He said Abraham looked forward to His day? and David. John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Acts 2:25. For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand...

So many truths hidden in plain sight. I figure Paul was so studied in the Bible that he was shocked when he realized he had missed the Messiah when he came. Probably smacked himself in the forehead wondering how he’d failed to see what had been clearly predicted. It was a mystery, alright...

Good catch, also from the OP. ”Instead of using the ‘mouths of his holy prophets’ as a source of support, Paul says that his message was kept secret from those prophets.” He forgets to add verse 26. “But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets.“. Which, btw, is why...

Indeed, and those before the cross looked forward just as we must look back. John 8:Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

You’re such a silly man, but funny, too. Kinda confirms my bias.

Clearly. 🧐 Did you know that blinders on horses keep them from seeing things that might scare them? Don’t read James or Peter or Hebrews, or Jude, and most of all, don’t pay any heed to the Gospels, since Jesus only came to the lost sheep of Israel. Clearly that was taken out of context and...

I do understand his position, and have found it to be false. Too much of Scripture is discounted. That leads to a certain blindness concerning the Gospel of salvation. It is actually so simple even the slowest among us can hear.