Jesus Is Everything

@Diotrephes I usually don’t get into religion but he did say in Matthew 28 to go to the Whole world and make disciples. He gave them the Holy Spirit to work with the Gentiles and gave a revelation to Paul in Acts. Paul was the Apostle for the Gentiles and Peter was Apostle for the Jews. Just sayin…

@hardlessons The Jews were scattered all the way from Spain to India and throughout the Mediterranean Basin into Africa. That is what he meant about going to the wohole world. Lots of the twelve tribes had drifted away from their roots and the intent was to find them and unite them with the message that the Jesus character was spewing. Although he was suposedly the son of God he lacked the necessary superpowers to cover such a vast area so he delegated it to his apostles.

It is always amazing when believers call him a liar and say that his message applies to them when he plainly said that he didn't give a damn about the Gentiles.

Maybe that is why people like the Bible. It is such a racist book and therefore it can appeal to people's innate racism and satisfy their racist desires even though it discriminates against them on every page.

@Diotrephes
Galatians 3:28

28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

John 1:13

children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

Galatians 3:8

Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Galatians 3:29

If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Romans 9:8

So it is not the children of the flesh who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

@RocktheHouse Galatians and Romans were written by the Paul character. He had a vested interest in selling his resurrection religion to the Gentiles. That is not the Jesus character talking.

John 1:13 is not Jesus speaking.

Matthew 3:9 is not Jesus speaking; it is the John the Baptist character.

The Jesus character told his minions to stay away from the Samaritans and the Gentiles. He was a racist bigot.

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@Diotrephes Jesus talked to Paul in Acts. He said Saul why are you persecuting me? Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan and he talked to the Samaritan woman at the well. Your statements are easily rebutted with scripture. Jesus was a Jew in the Roman Empire.You think Jews are racist bigots? Wow!

@Diotrephes John was a disciple of Jesus. St. Paul, okay, for the sake of fairness, let's dismiss his writings. Afterall, believing in Jesus doesn't mean we have to accept St. Paul's letters as scriptural or authoritative. But even if you don't believe St. Paul, you cannot dispute St. James and Luke who also accepted this truth:

Acts 15:13-21

13 When they finished, James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me. 14 Simon has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:

16 “‘After this I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things’—
18 things known from long ago.

19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

@hardlessons Have you even read the fairytale? What does the First Commandment say, Exodus 34:11-16?

Deuteronomy 20:17 (ERV) = "You must completely destroy all the people—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. The Lord your God has commanded you to do this."

Deuteronomy 23:1-3 (TLB) =23 “If a man’s testicles are crushed or his penis cut off, he shall not enter the sanctuary. 2 A bastard may not enter the sanctuary, nor any of his descendants for ten generations.

3 “No Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the sanctuary, even after the tenth generation."

I'm an Ammonite/Moabite.

@RocktheHouse Paul created the Jesus character to serve as the base for his resurrection religion as a counter to the Sadducees. Paul was the first person to write about the Jesus character and his main point was that Jesus had been resurrected. That is the basis for the Christian religion. The other guys wrote the backstory, explaining what Jesus had supposedly done and why he should be worshipped, being the son of God and all. However, they deviated from Paul's blueprint and had Jesus focus only on the Jews.

@RocktheHouse If you read carefully in Acts 15:11, the Peter character is speaking as if he was a Gentile. https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Acts%2015:11

@Diotrephes 😂 Strong delusions.

@RocktheHouse Well, the God character specializes in telling lies and deceiving people.