Rom 2:29 is not speaking of just physical jews, now you are adding to the scriptures ! And no one can believe the Gospel who is in a lost condition, 2 Cor 4:3-4 verified that, then those in the flesh cannot please God Rom 8:8 so they cannot hear and put Faith in Christ, they have no choice nor ability to !
I have given a rebuttal to every verse you have posted. I have shown how you have taken them out of context, used them as pretexts to defend a doctrine which is erroneous and not in the Scriptures.
Your only claim is a basic: "I am right and you are wrong," without showing how. Furthermore you make the ridiculous claim that I am adding to the Scripture, when indeed I am only showing you the context, which as usual you totally ignore. If this is how you "rightly divide the word of truth" what hope is there? Why even debate?
Romans chapter two is addressed to Jews, physical Jews:
Right from verse one:
Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
--"Thou art inexcusable O man (Israel). Why? Because they judged themselves better than the Gentiles, when they themselves did the same things.
Romans 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good,
to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
--It is important why he mentions the Jew in this passage.
Romans 2:17 Behold,
thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
--Is this direct enough??
Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
--It was the Jew that boasted in the law, not the Gentile.
Romans 2:25 For
circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
--It was the Jew that considered circumcision as profitable, not the Gentile.
Romans 2:27 And
shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
--He is still addressing the Jews who are under the law about the profitability of circumcision
Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
--The profit of circumcision and the Jew. That has been the topic here. None of this relates to the Gentile. The entire chapter is directed to the nation of Israel, and their standing before God.
Romans 2:17
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Then you say:
"2 Cor 4:3-4 verified that, then those in the flesh cannot please God."[/]
Again, it is jerked out of context and misinterpreted.
2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
--First, Paul is denouncing false teachers: the Judaizers, those that add circumcision and the keeping of the law as requirements to salvation. He also speaks of their oratorical skills, their persuasiveness in speaking, but their dishonesty in speaking this false gospel, which in Gal.1:6-10 he declared to be "another gospel."
Paul preached the truth. He renounced the hidden things...
Therefore:
2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
--His gospel was not hid.
IF his gospel was hid or veiled. It was not hid. He had renounced the hidden things of darkness, and the gospel was a message, "the glorious gospel of Christ...that should shine unto them." (vs.4). It was not hid at all. Why would Paul hide his own message, the glorious gospel of Christ? You tell me!
IF it is hid, it is hid to them that are lost. But it is not hid.
Many were saved by this glorious gospel.
Those that were not saved were those that deliberately rejected it, and they were aided and abetted by the devil himself who further helped in blinding their eyes. But the rejection first came by their own accord.
Who is greater: the Holy Spirit or the Devil? Which one.
