Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: GoLightly

Perhaps. Or perhaps that bloodline and family affiliation business as a Jewish traditional cultural obsession into which God fit His Son in order to make an impression on the Jews using things he knew they would understand and value, as opposed to there being any intrinsic value in that bloodline.

I would go farther than you when you say "All can gain Salvation through Jesus Christ". I would say, to more perfectly fit the Gospel, that all who gain Salvation do so through Jesus Christ (although, to go a step further, it does not appear that all who gain Salvation REALIZE that it is Jesus Christ who is saving them until after they physically die). Enoch and Elijah, too, were saved by Jesus Christ, although they couldn't have heard of him until they were taken up into heaven, perhaps BY him, or perhaps by angels, etc.


801 posted on 02/01/2007 12:26:37 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 799 | View Replies ]


To: Vicomte13
Perhaps. Or perhaps that bloodline and family affiliation business as a Jewish traditional cultural obsession into which God fit His Son in order to make an impression on the Jews using things he knew they would understand and value, as opposed to there being any intrinsic value in that bloodline.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

God told the Jews which lineage priests were to be from. When they became lazy & disobidient about it, a price was paid.

WHen the sons of God came down to earth & bred with the daughters of man, the intent was to mess up God's plan by muddying Adam's line with the seed of fallen angels. If there had been no one left with a pure bloodline, Jesus would have been as much a son of the fallen angels as he was a son of man. God needed Mary to have a pure bloodline.

I would go farther than you when you say "All can gain Salvation through Jesus Christ". I would say, to more perfectly fit the Gospel, that all who gain Salvation do so through Jesus Christ (although, to go a step further, it does not appear that all who gain Salvation REALIZE that it is Jesus Christ who is saving them until after they physically die). Enoch and Elijah, too, were saved by Jesus Christ, although they couldn't have heard of him until they were taken up into heaven, perhaps BY him, or perhaps by angels, etc.

I agree.

802 posted on 02/01/2007 1:12:53 PM PST by GoLightly
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 801 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson