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What does that have to do with your use of EQUIVOCATION as a tool to LIE and DECEIVE?
ECT Israel is not the BOC
- Thread starter Tambora
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(Exodus 4:22) Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son,
Was Israel God's firstborn son?
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CONTEXT son.... CONTEXT... learn about it.
Nang
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Jesus Christ is God's ONLY begotten Son.
John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; Hebrews 1:17, I John 4:9
A firstborn son.
Ephraim and David are also called firstborn.
All of which disobeyed and backslid.
Do confuse these firstborns with THE FIRSTBORN.
They are not the same.
It only appears that way to you because you have been brainwashed by Dispensationalism.
Drop Dispensationalism,........"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Ephraim was not a firstborn. He had an older brother named Manasseh.
Regardless, neither Manasseh, David, Esau, or any other firstborn Israelite child, was ever called "my firstborn son" by God the Father.
Only Israel was ever called God's firstborn son.
Nang
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The dispensational confusion, touches the Gospel message, big time.
There is only one Son of God, who became flesh . . lived, died, and resurrected in that flesh, to sit again in His glory with the Father in heaven.
There is only one Jesus Christ. One church body, of which He is head.
One could drop the word "firstborn" as seen multiple times in the bible, and Gospel doctrine would not change, but one cannot drop the "only begotten" from the description of God's Son, without damaging the teachings of the Trinity, Hypostatic-Union of Christ, and the Gospel message that has the power to save.
But dispies think nothing of denying that "Israel" is a name of the only begotten Son of God.
Ephraim is my firstborn - Jer 31:9
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Always your fall-back when the truth bites you.
Nang
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Prophecy pointing to Jesus Christ, and fulfilled by Jesus Christ.
An interesting study is to go through Scripture and find all the inspired names given to the Head of the Church of God.
Tam, Tam, Tam....
You just refuted yourself.
(Gen 41:51) Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
So, now that we know Ephraim wasn't the firstborn son to Joseph, let's ask why God called Ephraim His firstborn son.
The key in Jer 31:9 is that God called Ephraim HIS firstborn son, not Joseph's.
Why did God call Ephraim HIS firstborn son?
Nang
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Point being, there is only one Son of God . . so there cannot be two or more firstborn Sons of God.
:duh:
(Jer 31:20) Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
No I did not.
GOD calls Ephraim His firstborn. (Jer 31:9)
You can refute GOD if you so desire, but I don't have that desire.