You really don't think clearly. I explained the entire thing to you by explaining what that scripture was talking about. There was nothing in the scripture about repentant Jews. Strangers in this passage simply means they were not God's people.
Eph. 2:
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Again, you preach one thing, the Bible preaches another.
He gave His covenants and promises to the descendants of Abraham through Isaac. Deut 14:2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was Jesus who tore down this partition by taking salvation to all nations.
Who were Abraham's descendants? Do you believe in the Jesus of the Bible? "
If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham."
Is. 56:
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Are these "sons of a stranger" not also Abraham's Children? Were the Saint's at Ephesus not also "Abraham's Children"?
Ex. 20:
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Does this also not include the Stranger who Joins himself to the Lord?
Gal 3:26-29 non-Jews were always able to have God as their God,
That is the truth Arial. That is what God's Word says from the beginning to the end. Duet. 7 doesn't diminish that Truth even a little bit. But the Jews, that is "The Pharisees" AKA, the Circumcision, taught that Gentiles, even the Saints at Ephesus, "
were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:"
So in your perpetual attempt to justify yourself, you talk in circles. The Biblical Truth is, "NO ONE PERSON" ever born is "
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:" But to have hope, one must accept Paul's teach, both Jew and Gentile. Here is what Paul, who used to be snared by the "Circumcision" which persecuted the Church of God for centuries teaches the Gentiles in Ephesians by the revealtion of Christ Himself..
Acts 26:
19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
This is the exact same Gospel Isiah taught to the Stranger that you refuse to acknowledge.
but they had to be circumcised and were obligated to keep all of God's Law, just as Israel was.
We are still required to be circumcised, in the context in which it was commanded. A context the "circumcision" refused to acknowledge.
Duet. 10:
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Paul was of the true Circumcision.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Philippians-3-4/
I didn't blow off the answer. You asked a question about something that wasn't true and wasn't even on the table. "Repentant strangers." Paul wasn't talking about and never said repentant strangers.
The "Saints in Ephesus were most certainly repentant, your Calvinism notwithstanding.
This Lev passage is not about the partition. We see the partition made by God in Deut 7:6-8 as well as other places.
Your false interpretation of Duet. 7, doesn't make God's Promises to the Stranger Void. As you yourself had to admit, the Strangers of the World and the Jews, had the same requirements of God. It was the "circumcision" who created the partition.
If you believed Paul over your adopted religion, you would know this. As it is to this day, at least according to Paul.
Rom. 2:
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Again, God wasn't the one that placed the partition between Jew and Gentile, the Priesthood who taught for doctrines the Commandments of men, created the Partition. And Jesus made a show of them openly, by exposing their doctrines and commandments as from man and not from God.
It's right there in your own Bible, it's just that the religion you have adopted, doesn't teach it.
No one called repentant strangers anything in that passage. Uncircumcised in this instance is referring to non-Jews. Those not of the circumcision. Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by the uncircumcision
This is simply deceptive twisting and changing of Scriptures. Here is what Paul said. "
who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
In other words, the corrupt religion of the Jews called the Gentile Saints in Ephesus "Uncircumcised" and "
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world".
But Jesus made a show of these frauds, and their laws.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
The same Prophets I have been quoting, but you refuse to acknowledge.
When it speaks of strangers in Eph 2 it is not talking about the stranger that joins himself to Israel, but to all who were outside Israel, therefore strangers to the covenants and promises---without God.
The Saints of Ephesus were not outside Spiritual Israel, but were the true descendants of Abraham. I can show you the scriptures, but it is you who either accepts or rejects them.
Deut. 7:
6 For thou (Descendants of abraham) art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Stranger who Joins himself to the Lord, and the Homeborn that Joins himself to the Lord. "
For there is no respect of persons with God."
Your unbelief doesn't make the Word of God Void.
