You wrote:
“You’re playing word games.”
No, you are. There is no Gentile Church. There is just the Church.
” Paul is clearly referring to the “gentile” who have been grafted into the Jewish church (the one stretching back to the Partiarchs) and who can be “Cut off” if they fail to stand firm.”
And that would prove there is NO Gentile Church. You just contraducted yourself. If Gentiles were grafted in, then there was no Gentile Church. You were wrong from the beginning and now you’ve proven it with your own words.
“And that would prove there is NO Gentile Church. You just contradicted yourself. If Gentiles were grafted in, then there was no Gentile Church.”
When I say Gentile church, I am referring to the Gentile component of the Church - a distinction which Paul makes in the passage.
Now, word games aside, what do you think Paul was trying to get across to us in the passage in question?