Seeking THE Truth

Paul comes up with a very aggressive statement that the Jews did not accept Jesus so the gentiles can get the blessing of knowing & accepting Jesus. Jesus claimed that he was sent by god to save the lost sheep of Israel and Paul here seems to say that, Jesus was supposed to be rejected by the Jews even though he came only for the Jews and this was part of god's plan. What is even more strange is that Paul claims, that god makes people disobedient so he can have grace on the disobedient people. Kind of strange that god does these kind of confusing acts. I don't have much to write here as Paul writes a doxology that could have been sung in the early churches to praise Only point I can call out is that neither Isaiah nor Job has anything to do with the messiah or rejecting the messiah or people being disobedient. Both these passages are about how the ONE TRUE G-D of the universe is the creator of every thing that exists and that he owns his creation. All Images are links to G...

Paul in this passage is saying that Christians have been given a spirit of god and the mind of Jesus. This spirit is what allows Christians to see who Jesus was. Jews did not have this spirit but were using their own understanding and hence were not able to appreciate that Jesus was the messiah who came to die for their sins if they believed in Jesus. Also one contradictory point Paul makes, is because the Jews did not have the spirit of god they crucified Jesus. This contradicts the belief of Christian theology that Jesus had to die so people who believe in him will be saved from their sins. So why does Paul complain, when the Jews HAD to be blinded and Judas HAD to be possessed by Satan so Jesus could die on the cross?     He quotes Isaiah 40:13 to prove that this was spoken by Isaiah. All Images are links to Google Images. Copyright violations not intended. All Greek Text references are from NIV and Tanakh references are from Chabad. This post is not intended to o...