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It was difficult for many of the Jews who came to
Christ to understand that salvation came solely from faith in Jesus
and had nothing to do with keeping the law. Paul was a former
Pharisee and a staunch defender of Judaism until he came to Christ
and he was adamant that the First Covenant had been made null and
void by the arrival of the Second Covenant. You simply cannot earn
your way to heaven! Any Jew who wants to be born again and follow
Jesus must abandon the teaching that salvation comes by keeping the
law. This coincides with the message of the apostles in the Book of
Acts and lays the two-tier salvation plan of Christian Zionists in
the dust. The Kabbalah was a major teaching in Judaism and
someone had accused Paul of adhering to this hellish doctrine of
making the whole world evil in order to raise the holy serpent from
the bottomless pit. Any follower of the Kabbalah has made a covenant
with death and God strongly rebuked it throughout the Bible. After
refuting this slander, Paul turned the tables by stating there
wasn't a single righteous Jew or Gentile in the world. Mankind is
justified by faith and repentance and clothed in the righteousness
of Christ at the moment of salvation. |
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