Wilso wrote:RexRed wrote:
Where with Christianity, studying only grants approval of God but not the sanctity of God for the Christian God is "not a respecter of persons". God does not like one over another because they meditate longer or burn the incense with more servitude. He looks to the spirit which is a product of "his own" likeness not our own.
The first few chapters of the bible has god liking Abel's offering but not Cain's. So this is just another instalment in the endless litany of worthless drivel that spews from your keyboard each day.
Very good point (nearly obscured by an apparently bad attitude).
As I said the spirit has come in the form of different catalysts. God is not respecter of persons under this dispensation of grace that we now live where the spirit is given as a gift and not based upon the works of the flesh. But in the past the spirit was based upon other conditions where in the garden the condition of the spirit was to not eat of a certain tree. In Cain and Abel's time it was based upon how one gave worship toward God.
It has been based upon a promise of Noah and the letter of the law of Moses until it came to our day and time where the spirit is based upon simple belief and we are granted access to it's graces.
One problem is mistaking changes in dispensations for contradictions. God as Jehovah relates to his creation dynamically under the varied conditions of cultures and times. This is why we need to understand "to whom" each particular verse of the Bible is addressed. Some are addressed directly "to" the church and some are only "for" our learning. Because they were addressed to peoples of different spiritual conditions and times. God has changed with the times and altered the conditions in our favor though Christ Jesus.
