Waiting on Him
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Paul also said about the God of Jesus that he didn’t write on stones.
What makes a doctrine false?
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Waiting on Him
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Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
— 2 Corinthians 3:2-3
In the Bronze Age it was very common for Egyptians to chisel graven images.
— 2 Corinthians 3:2-3
In the Bronze Age it was very common for Egyptians to chisel graven images.
Mattathias
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The God of Jesus is Yahweh.
Paul wouldn’t have said, and the thought would never even have entered his mind, that Yahweh didn’t write on the stone tablets.
Mattathias
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The living God is Yahweh.
In the Hebrew Bible, God wrote on the stone tablets that were given to Moses.
Mattathias
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The Hebrew Bible is the Bible which Jesus and the Apostles read, quoted, and had confidence in its reliability.
The Hebrew Bible is about God -> their God -> the one and only true God -> the living God -> Yahweh.
The Hebrew Bible is about God -> their God -> the one and only true God -> the living God -> Yahweh.
Waiting on Him
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
— Amos 5:25-26
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
— Acts 7:42-43
So then Solomon built Him house?????
Do you really believe the God of Jesus would commission this man to build a house of stone and waist all those resources that could have been supplied for the poor and needy.
Being God would never dwell in a stone house?
— Amos 5:25-26
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
— Acts 7:42-43
So then Solomon built Him house?????
Do you really believe the God of Jesus would commission this man to build a house of stone and waist all those resources that could have been supplied for the poor and needy.
Being God would never dwell in a stone house?
Waiting on Him
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Notice how the true King of the Jews chose not to build a stone temple?
Mattathias
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God’s complaint against Israel is that they weren’t sacrificing to him but should have been.
Israel’s forays into idolatry are documented in the Hebrew Bible. Every turning away to idols was a turning away from Yahweh.
Of course I believe Solomon was commissioned by God to build the Temple.
God cannot be contained in a stone house but where can anyone go to escape God’s presence?
Who in the Hebrew Bible do you hold up as someone who worshipped the God of Jesus? A few names would be sufficient to address my question.
Waiting on Him
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I don’t believe you’re paying very close attention. It seems your primarily speaking from the doctrines of men that you’ve been taught.
Waiting on Him
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The God of Jesus didn’t require sacrifice. You’ve read it in the prophets.
It’s why they killed them, like Jesus.
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos.etc.
The men that had that stance murdered Stephen as Saul watched.
Mattathias
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There are many kings of the Jews in scripture. Some of them were good kings. Why were these good kings not true kings?
I presume though that you’re alluding to Jesus when you speak of the true King of the Jews.
What about Yahweh? He is the King of Israel. Israel wanted to be like the nations around them and God, whom they rejected by asking for a king, gave them a king. He also told them what the kings would do.
Yahweh is the God of Israel. If you’re rejecting Yahweh, you’re rejecting the God of Israel.
There is no God besides the Gods of Israel. The only alternative in scripture to Yahweh is idolatry.
Mattathias
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I’m speaking from the perspective of someone who believes in the reliability of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.