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Again, Van, you miss the context and your lack of following a basic principle in the thinking of the Jews at that time.

You look at this as “the kingdom of God” to the Jews at that time required salvation through Christ.

Van, that was and remains a foreign concept to the majority of them.

Why do you think the Lord spent time explaining to an Old Jewish Rabbi a leader/teacher of the Jews if the concept of “being saved” was known and taught as it was by the apostles following Pentecost? Do you see the message given by Peter that day an not see the first call to turn from the Temple worship to that of the Christ? “…It was you who killed Him…”. The religious rulers who stand to loose all status and later greatly persecuted the founding churches.

The Temple and the rituals performed were all the salvation the people knew, and to get to the kingdom of God meant something Temple related. Being a “righteous Jew” meant and still means you have a right relationship to the temple (currently the local area Temple).

Part of that right relationship is acquiring wealth and giving to the temple large sums. Remember the Lord looking at the giving and remarking about the mite given by the woman.


Because you refuse to understand this basic principle of Jewish life, you then take verses such as the eye of the needle and the rulers hindering others from the kingdom as the statements that reference eternal salvation as Gentiles now understand it (for God has continued to keep the Jews hearts and minds darkened until the time of Gentiles is

finished - it is finishing),

Please do not confuse this issue any more.

It has been explained to you before.

However, I wil predict that you will be stubborn in your ignorance and blame it on Calvinism and Calvinists. For that does seem to be your theme.

 

Mark 10:27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Van, can a human birth themselves?

2 Corinthians 5:17-19 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

 

Van, I was trying to show you the historical Jewish view and how the folks of that day and even this day take the authority of the places of worship as key to the kingdom.

I cannot help that you are so biased to Calvinists that even a practical lesson is somehow in your mind twisted.

How did Christ respond to Nicodemus? …you cannot even see the kingdom of heaven….

Why? To disarm him from the Temple authority tradition and lay in the man’s mind the awareness of prophetic fulfillment was taking place.

Why did Christ deal with the woman at the well in such a manner? To make her aware that the kingdom did not rest in the place of worship authority.

Why did Christ say to the religious righteous you “ …hinder those wanting entrance…”? To acknowledge the temporary authority the temple held and show a new greater authority to the people.

and on and on.

But your own bias destroys any attempts at giving you education.

In my post I stated a prediction;

Looks like I was correct in predicting your reaction.

 

your bias blinds you from the truth.