Bible Discussion Thread

Someone on another site says "The Bible is just for Israelites. He (God) has not dealt with any other nations" Psalms 147:19&20.. So would it be correct for me to say.."ya the old testament yet everything after Acts 13 is for everyone that excepts Christ as Lord & Savior repenting & believing that when He died for all and all our sins, it is finished! Meaning ..we can never do ANYthing to get to heaven, ever, unless we do just that.! I'm looking for the actual scripture, because he is correct in saying he doesn't want opinions only scriptural proof. That's understandable and what I should have done to begin with. soon as I get a chance yet phones dead and don't want that app on here. Anyone like to send a few?

Yeah, this is where you show them that Paul was fore ordained to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, which were must of His Epistles.

Hi Luke,

Yes, Paul is the apostle whose evangelism to the Gentiles are recorded in his epistles and Acts. He also evangelized Jews that were dispersed in the areas he evangelized. At a specific time, he stopped preaching in the synagogues, but when he was preaching to crowds, there most likely were Jews among those who listened.

Also, some of the 12 apostles also evangelized to peoples in areas that had many Gentiles. So Paul was not the only one who evangelized the Gentiles. We just don't have recorded in Scripture what the other apostles did and where they preached.

I agree yet only got to tell him very little before he blocked me. Christ death & resurrection was for ALL. (All meaning All ) I just pray he continues reading Gods word and learning the truth. it was on youtube not on this site.

That's right, Luke did write about parts which are relative to Paul's three fold ministry in The Book of Acts, along with Peter, John's and also Stephen, and Philip's; rightly called "The Acts of the Apostles"

Thank you!

The book is a record of the Acts of the Holy Spirit through witnesses chosen before of God

Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, Who set apart me from my mother's womb, and called me unto His grace,

16 To reveal His Son in me, in order that I might preach Him among the Gentiles ; immediately I conferred not with any human being:

Paul is stating how God chose(set apart)him before he was born, and called him unto grace to reveal Jesus in Him/Paul to preach salvation among the Gentiles.

God chose Paul before he was born to teach the Son of GOD/GOD to the gentiles, that person is wrong,,,

All the Apostles/prophets were chosen before the their mothers womb,,,, they are the set aside one's

I love the old testament . I read it as much as I do the new . It's all one as far as I'm concerned . It's amazing to read the new testament and be able to recognise how much of the old is being spoken about and referenced by Jesus and his disciples and apostles . One big joy to me .

Hi Texsis. He is partly correct in what he said, but more accurately, it should be written, 'The Bible is, in part, about the history of Israel, the people chosen by God, through whom God's blessings would come; that all the world should know the One & True Living God, Who would one day send His Son to be the Redeemer for Israel & the World.' The Torah had an immediate benefit only to Israel, for it was given to them to learn from & obey. Had they been true to God, they would have been used by God as a mighty witness to the World. But they failed Him, disobeying Him & taking on the sins & corruptions of the Gentiles, thus falling into the same condemnation.

God may not have "dealt with any other nations" as He did with His people Israel, but the nations stood condemned for their sins & idolatry just as Israel suffered under God's Hand when they despised Him. The nations may not have known anything about Israel's God, but the Bible in its fullness must have a very real bearing to the Gentiles as their history is also intertwined within Israel's history.

From Adam & Eve right up to Abraham & Isaac, Israel was not a people or nation. Gentiles too have an heritage to Adam even though not much is given after the Flood when the descendants of Ham & Japheth spread out into the world. But we have the mention of Melchizedek ( Genesis 14:18-20), Hagar ( Genesis 16:1-3), Rahab ( Joshua 6:22-25), Ruth (Ruth chapter 2), the repentance of the City of Nineveh ( Jonah 3:5-10). All these in the OT show that Gentiles were still in God's Mind & to be used of Him.

And Hosea 2:23, "...I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God", to this verse the Apostle Peter refers in 1 Peter 2:10. The Church, composed of Jew & Gentile believers were planned for in the Old Testament & realized in the NT Church & the coming of the Holy Spirit to make her God's special possession.

Thanks so much for your input I greatly appreciate it yet he has since blocked me. I pray he reads all this however. God bless