I do not believe they are interchangable terms. I believe there is over lap.
Israel is to receive grace and be dead to sin. Israel as a nation is to what I am refering. The law will be written on their hearts, causing them to keep the statutes. They will sin no more. That is not the Body of Christ where there is no sin and no law.
The dispensation of grace is specifically to make Israel jealous. Romans 11:11 explicitly defines this for us. We are dead to sin without the law or keeping it.
What do we have in scripture to the contrary?
You wrote that back in October 4th, 2012, 11:47 AM.
Just a few months ago, I left off from participating in a Messianic Judaism forum, and some years ago, I spent some time around some of them. They're provoked to jealousy - big time.
It comes up in their conversations - how that "the Christians" have put them "to shame, even though they [the Christians] have it wrong..."
Lol, as they believe they are a continuance of that Messianic assembly in Acts 2, and keep the Law, and believe Gentiles ought to, and all the rest, they did not take kindly to my reminding them every so often that they were not only two thousand years to late, as to Acts 2 as the right model, but two thousand years too soon...
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