No, it doesn't replace it. Grace supersedes the Law. We all are called to rectify the world, while under Law. Being unable to, we give over judgement to Christ.

Oholah and Oholibah? That's one of my favorites. The prophecies against Samaria and Jerusalem. Jerusalem, when it goes bad (The Catholic Church), it's going to do more corruptly than the Protestants. And be a reason for the captivity.

I sort of understand this... I don't know the controversy or your Ethos enough to know what you mean. On one hand you're on the cusp of a deep truth, while the second hand you dismiss the Bible and say God is ranting.

Hebrews also says there are two everlasting covenants. The first, if one is truly righteous, will fulfill--As Christ will fulfill judgement at the end of the age, and fulfilled mercy on His first coming--and Grace is when we acknowledge our sin, and let Christ work on our behalf. Otherwise, we'd have to take possession of the World and rectify judgement, which we cannot.

That's not Christians' argument at all (That we need God to know right from wrong). It became Christians' argument, but it's not. Objective morality is self evident. It can exist without God. It's the fact that people don't follow it. That's why there is God. Basically, the Torah is hell. It's what we deserve. I'm sure there's rape and infanticide and something like murder in hell. It's the punishment we deserve for breaking God's law, and dishonoring His commandments. Rather, it's Christ who establishes Grace, and a rest from working to change or fix the world. Rather, we just live according to the Law of Conscience, and are forgiven for our past.

God's objective morality does work. If you wanted to create Utopia, with no suffering, there's your handbook. And look how bloody awful it is? It's why Communism and all that other jazz won't work. The point of the Gospel is to acknowledge there are flaws in the world and yourself, but live the best you can. And to be forgiven of what you failed to do. Obviously, there's a place for war--and even rape, genocide and slavery--in the context of making a perfect world. It's like, the best world possible for humans, would require a tyrant to accomplish. That's why that Law is given into Christ's hands at the end of the age, and He'll punish the nations. Because He's the only one who could do it right, and know who deserves punishment, and who does not. Not us. As, you're right... pertaining to the Old Testament law, it is bloody and immoral, so to try and Crusade for a perfect world without any suffering, it would be fruitless in the hands of a human being. But if you wanted to rid the world of suffering, you'd have to follow the Laws in the Bible. Stone sinners, punish enemies, ravage their women, make slaves. Because that's the kind of force necessary to end the world-systems that enable suffering in the first place. To do so would make you something like Alexander the Great or Genghis Kahn. It's simply not good. That's why the Law is like that.

But we, as Christians, live by the laws of Grace. It's not our job to condemn the world. Merely warn it. It's not our job to punish the nations, but rather call them to repentance, so such force doesn't become necessary. That's why Christ said, "Do not think I came to bring peace. I did not come to bring peace, but rather the sword." That's hard to understand, I know. But, you can't imagine the depths of suffering sin causes, as it naturally reaps those things anyway. War, disease, famine, oppression and pestilence are the natural results of sin; which, in the end, people will be obstinate and hardened in their sins, and continue doing so, despite the suffering it causes. Which will cause Christ to come and judge the world for its sin; and that for the sake of the Elect, so they don't get stuck here, and so the world does not become like hell.

And I'm sure Satan knows this, too, and will seek to bind people to the Old Covenant Laws, and conquest with this in mind. That's the final straw, is when Satan takes the Law into his own hands, and exercises complete and total Lawlessness and absolute Law, in the same power vacuum. Which is why he's evil. Satan will say, "Confess 'me' as LORD, and I will absolve your sins, and you can do all your heart desires whenever you sin... however, if you do not, I will punish you according to the Torah." And he will at once tyrannize and abolish all law whatsoever in the same breath and stroke.

The Questions I ask



Why don't people see what's right from wrong? 

Why do people hurt one another? 

Why do people not believe in Jesus? 

Why are people so evil? 

Why are questions deemed more noble than the answer? 

Why is everyone a skeptic of what's plainly true? 

Why does everyone need to be taught by one another? 

Why does everyone have to reinvent a system of morals? 

Why do the most intelligent men find answers? 

Why do governments oppress people? 

Why is freedom of speech not a given in every country on Earth? 

Why is the Human Rights Charter ignored? 

Why is the Constitution ignored? 

Why did men in the seventeen hundreds know our rights were unalienable, when now that's even questioned? 

Why doesn't everyone say, "Give me liberty, or give me death?" 

Why is everyone a coward? 

Why is everyone morally bankrupt? 

If there were a righteous man within a hundred miles, let me find him. 

If there were a wise woman within a thousand miles, let me find her. 

The rights of the people are infringed, and I'd like to know why. 

Why are sales more important than content? 

Why is poetry considered "Untrue"? 

Why do people believe that words have no meaning? 

If this sentence were understood, doesn't that insinuate everything we question about meaning is a lie? 

Why do strings of meaning tap into the Logos of the universe: Why is Lucretius discovering Newtonian Physics, and Milton hypothesizing the Atomic Bomb? 

Why do poets prophesy? 

Why is Love the muse of the great ones? 

I can answer this, but it's still has even greater mysteries. 

Why is math more precious than language arts these days? 

If people read more poetry, wouldn't they have less time for idle minds? 

Why do Literary Critics snob at the greatest letters? 

Why does everyone have a different opinion, and why are they often wrong? 

Why can't people relate to the real world? 

Why is beauty not patronized in the arts? 

Why is truth so self evident, yet everyone pretends it not to be so? 

Why are we born knowing the way, and how do we stray from that path so quickly? 

Why are Tao and Logos so similar? 

Why are the sages always affirming what the Bible says? 

If the Roman Church burned all the books, why were they so careful to preserve them? 

If the Library of Alexandria wasn't burned, would we have any more noteworthy classics still being read today? Likely, I deem it not. 

Why do the stars tell the story of Jesus? 

Why is there so much proof that Jesus is the Christ, yet everyone pretends like it isn't there? 

More importantly, do people know the proof that Jesus is the Christ, and maybe they aren't pretending? 

Will God damn someone for ignorance? 

This I don't know. 

Why is racism a worst crime than theft these days? 

If Racism were a three, cussing would be a two, and homosexuality would be a ten; yet, we have it all backward. 

Why is adultery considered noble, when it obviously hurts so many people? 

Why is Homosexuality considered noble, when no society can function justly which accepts it? 

Those and many like it are the questions I ask. 

Questions for poets. 

Some Evidence for Jesus



Why would Abraham want to sacrifice Isaac, if not a picture that God would provide a sacrificial lamb?



Why would Leviticus condone human sacrifice in Leviticus 27:29, when such sacrifice is unlawful? Except in the context that it meant One Devoted to God? That Being Emmanuel?



Why would Nehemiah tell the people to eat fat? From what I understand that's unlawful. Unless, it was to establish that the Jews were in waiting for a New Covenant?



Why would Abraham be told, "Your Seed shall bless all nations?" Who is that Seed? Jacob didn't bless all nations. Rather, it seems quite clear that by Jacob, all the nations of the world were condemned to die.



Why wouldn't "Almah" or "Maid" mean "Virgin"? Don't some words have two meanings? And if they do, wouldn't it make sense that a Virgin give birth to the promised Heir, whose coming would destroy Assyria? Rather than a harlot? I've heard it said that the woman was a harlot, but then that's only if you don't interpret the word "Almah" as "Virgin".





What is the "Newly Created Thing" referred to twice in Isaiah? Why does it tell you to forget the old?



Whose Soul is to be made an offering for our sins? 



Who was "pierced for our transgressions?"



Why must we kiss the Pure, the One Begotten by God? My Bible says "Son", but you translate "Bar" as "Pure". So, obviously it makes more sense that the word be translated as "Son". Because a "Son" is Begotten.



Why are there two everlasting covenants? Why did Jeremiah proclaim a new covenant?



Why did Ezekiel say "Arise" to dry bones? If there is not a resurrection?



Why did Zechariah name Jesus as the Messiah twice? As, Uzziah tried to reign as both priest and king, and was stricken with Leprosy. Why is "Joshua" in this instance, allowed to reign as both priest and king?



Why did Job want a mediator between him and God?

Why did Xerxes receive a dream that sounds like God's voice in Herodotus?



Why did the conquering of the Aztecs look exactly like the Prophetic campaign of Joshua? Why did all the same miracles occur? Five hundred Conquistadors would defeat armies upward of five to one hundred thousand without any aid. Plagues descended which did not touch the Conquistadors or most of their armies?



If the Aztec used inferior weapons, and that's why they were severely beaten, why did La Triste Noche happen? 



Why, in 1561 in Nuremberg, did two crosses do battle over the eye of the sun, and St. Paul's Cathedral was struck with lightning?



Why is there a picture of the Dragon from Revelation on a Hindu Temple, and why does it look like an alien?



How did Milton predict Atomic Bombs and the movement of the Universe, and also predict Postmodernism?



Why does Orion have a sling and look like David? 





Why is there a giant figure---looks like a five year old's drawing---that raises up on the horizon in the direction of Orion's sling? 



Why is there a triangle in the summer, called the Summer Triangle, and there's an arrow at the one point of the triangle, and it points to a cross at the other?  



Why is the North Star very dim, when it used to be taught that it was one of the brightest in the Nighttime sky?



Why does Cassiopeia look like a woman giving birth?



Why is there only infinity existing in a vacuum?



Why does math work, and prove itself in the real world, even out to the most obscure equations?



Why are we able to communicate?



Why do all of the greatest sages in history come to ideas similar to that of the Bible's?





Why do poets like Virgil and Lucretius find truths, logically prove them, and those truths are what the Bible had said? 



Why is faith called the "Evidence of things unseen, and the substance of things hoped for."? 



Why did the Hundred Years War and Black Plague follow a time period where a Pope was martyred, and Homosexuality was normal?



Why is Christ's law in Matthew 5 - 8 so self evident, if He is not God Come in the Flesh?



Why is Isaiah 53 in the Dead Sea Scrolls? 



Why doesn't the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles prove Judah was a principality prior to Babylonian Captivity? 



Why does the Tel Dan Stele give verbatim the most obscure Biblical detail, and it gets it right? 



How does a feather evolve over even a trillion years?



Can a frog turn into a toad, unless God made it so?



Why did the the Lipit Ishtar get established right where the Biblical Genealogies date Abraham?

  

Why did Hebrews worship God's Son before Christ?



Why were El and El's Son worshiped in Mesopotamia at the time of Hammurabi's Code?



Why does Moses line up with the cult of Aten in the Biblical Genealogies?



If God were real, why wouldn't He reveal Himself?



Why are there miraculous events described in Roman and Greek Historians which directly correspond to places where God would work? Such as Hannibal's invasion of Rome the sun blackened and the shields sweat blood, or the Sacrifice of virgins turning rivers to blood and made a moondog? Are we to believe that didn't happen?



Why did George Floyd's monument get destroyed by lightning?



Why does the complete History as given by Ancient Astronaut Theorists sound like it was describing demons instead of aliens?



Why are there so many myths and stories that resemble one another?



Why does every civilization, on every continent, have a mythology about a global flood?'



If all things are vibrations, and Word is a vibration of air, and Jesus is the Word Who holds all things together,---what, exactly, can science do except prove that Jesus is the Word?



Why would aliens demand human sacrifice, if they were not demons instead?



Who would ultimately hold mankind responsible for all the suffering it created, if God did not exist?



How could a man ever be forgiven without Christ? If sin must be punished, how else could a man escape Judgment unless that punishment were placed on Emmanuel?





Will you make the decision to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, and will you repent of ALL sin.

The Eye  of Sin,
The Eye of Horus,
The All Seeing Eye,
The Eye of Fatima,
The Eye of Mariam,

It is an idol.

First, I attest to the three oldest creeds of the faith.
The Athanasian Creed, the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Second, I believe in John Bunyan's understanding of Calvanism.
I believe we are sealed by God, through the predestination of His election,
And that we must hold onto our Seal, lest we succumb to death by rejecting Christ.
I believe every man, woman and child are called and written into the book of life
Until they have sinned, and were thereby separated. 
Yet, by accepting the LORD Jesus, our names are rewritten back into the book of life.
If we lose our profession of faith, our names will be blotted out of the book of life.
I believe in the Millennial Kingdom, as prophesied in Isaiah, Ezekiel and Revelation;
That it is its own distinct time and dispensation
Meant to give sustenance to those who've suffered in this life; that they shall then gain the things of this world during Christ's reign, and it will be so that the Meek inherit the Earth.
I believe in dispensations, that first men had a vapor of knowledge that God exists
And later, God would reveal Himself to Abraham, and Moses, the Prophets and finally reveal Himself unto Death as Christ Jesus, and furthermore through the Apostles.
I believe works of charity are integral for salvation. If one has sustenance, they must give to the poor, and have a deep desire to do so.
I believe that the Old Covenant is what Jesus referred to as "Finished", 
And that when Paul says "Works" he means "Works" pertaining to the Mosaic Covenant.
I believe in the direct revelation of Prophets and Faith Healings and Tongues---
That all these gifts are still active today.
I do not believe the Bible is literally inerrant, because I believe it must be that men do not worship it above God.
I believe God's law is inherent, and can be observed by those outside of the church, and even discovered and witnessed.
I believe in the Miracles of Genesis, and that God's Omnipotence is above my own understanding.
I believe the morals set down by Christ and His Apostles are the law we must follow, and that the Mosaic Law in the Old Testament we must abstain from following.
I believe every man, woman and child deserves a sentence of death, as described in the Mosaic law, and this is why Christ accomplished grace at the cross, for even disobeying the Sabbath---who is Christ---is a penalty worthy of death.
I believe in the Old Liturgy and Hymns over newly created ones, save that the hymns have rich theology based in the Holy Prophecies of Christ.
I believe the Rapture is at the 6th bowl of wrath, as is prophesied by Christ and John.
I believe that if I hold onto these beliefs, and never reject them, and all others taught by God through the Holy Scripture and Prophets and Saints, that I shall never see nor taste of death, and I shall never need suffer through the seven years of tribulation.
I believe in laying no barriers to Baptism, save a confession that Jesus is the LORD, that He raised, and a confession of the Trinity.
I believe true salvation is evidenced by a deep desire to Fear God's name, and walk in His commandments.
I believe in the Fruit of the Spirit, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Self Control, Goodness and Faithfulness are gifts from God, and come from no other source but through God, and are the evidence of the faith.
I believe that I am a sinner, guilty of capital punishment and therefore guilty of hellfire, and so need God's grace to return unto Him, and walk a perfect walk with an unstained conscience.

This is the list of beliefs one must have to be a member of the Church of Philadelphia.

Dear,
Pastor McGee

I love you brother, with my whole heart. You are the soundest teacher I'd ever listened to. Your knowledge of the Bible is unrivaled.

On the inerrancy of the Bible, both of us have made a diligent search of its claims, and found them to be satisfied by direct evidence. However, there are some errors in the Bible--by Modernist standards--but those errors exist to eschew the pedant from making doctrines from small matters.

On the continuance of the Miraculous... there are still miracles. But, I agree with you that the church has turned itself into a circus, and defer that I have seen magic tricks at some church services, where the congregants were fooled into believing miracles happened, when they really didn't. However... there are still miracles.

On works, the Christian is to have a change of heart. And is to do good works. They are to do what's right in all circumstances, and abstain from sin. By the Spirit's guidance, is a man made right before God, and enabled to walk according to God's grace and power unto righteousness.

These are my only disturbances when listening to Baptist preaching... but the Word of God is supreme above all else, and the Divine Logos preeminent among all things, to give order and sense to God's creation, and thereby, empower the soul to do good, and thereby, establish themselves in good works and faith. For, by faith, we are enabled to do good works. And those works are precious in the sight of God.

Sincerely,
Brandon