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<p><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Email Exchange on Paul and Pharisees</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Michael's Email That Paul Is Unlike Pharisees (7/28/16)</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">Paul's message is of the spirit of the law and not the letter, the very thing that Christ attacked the Pharisees for. They followed the letter and not the spirit. They were outwardly effective and not inwardly inspired or driven. They employed intellect and rationale rather than love, honor and dignity. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;"><strong>My</strong> <strong>Reply</strong>&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">The&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #1f497d;">Pharisees, Jesus taught, neglected the entire Law except one tiny provision. What provision was that?</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><sup>23&nbsp;</sup></strong>`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> give <span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>tithe</strong></span> of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and <span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>did </strong></span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>neglect the weightier things of the Law</strong></span> -- the judgment, </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">and the kindness [i.e., mercy] and the faith; these it behoved</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> [you] to do, and <span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><em>those not to neglec</em></strong></span>t. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23%3A23&amp;version=YLT">Matt 23:23 YLT</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23%3A23&amp;version=YLT"></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">So Jesus did not attack the Pharisees for following the Letter of the Law, but instead for not following almost the entire Law except tithing. Paul fits virtually identically the same pattern.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul Holds Onto One Mosaic Law from Clear Self-Interest.</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul was very much like other Pharisees -- Paul neglected the Mosaic Law except a single provision that he could use to guilt people into financial support of himself. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul quoted the law only once as applicable to Gentiles to guilt them to pay money to preachers. Paul in 1 Cor. 9:9 quoted Deuteronomy 25:4 where it says not to muzzle an ox while it is treading out the field. Paul meant he as a preacher is allowed to eat (a right to payment) from the field he sowed, i.e., the Gentiles. For this reason, Macarius Macres in the early church said Paul was hypocritical about the Law...only citing it applied when financially advantageous to himself. See our article on Macarius Magnes at this <a href="/recommendedreading/397-macarius-magnes-on-paul-from-circa-300-ad.html">link</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Compare this the similar command from the Mosaic Law which Jesus said the Pharisees taught. The Pharisees inspected the vegetable gardens of sons of Israel to collect the tithe - a cut of agricultural produce of 10%, but they did so from self-interest. They no doubt thought they served the same job as Levites who would collect tithes on agricultural produce, and lawfully take a 10% cut from the 10% of your agricultural produce. So the Pharisees evidently collected the tithe with the same intention -- they would assert a tithe on the 10% tithe they collected from you. See <a href="http://www.bibleserver.com/text/KJV/Nehemiah10%3A38">Neh 10:38</a>&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul could not cite the tithing law to guilt Gentiles to whom he wrote as tithing only applied to "sons of Israel," just like circumcision only applied to "sons of Israel." See <a href="/recommendedreading/562-whether-gentile-christians-have-to-tithe.html">Law of Tithing on Gentiles?</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus, not surprisingly, the only command from the Torah-law which Paul taught Gentiles was still applicable to them is found in <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/9-9.htm">1 Corinthians 9:9</a>&nbsp;-- the Mosaic Law that you cannot muzzle an ox -- preventing the ox from feeding from the field -- eating while it is treading out the corn (Deut 25:4). &nbsp;Paul said this Mosaic law implies you must support those teachers who teach you -- implying Paul had a right to financial support based upon Deut 25:4. However, that command of animal husbandry had nothing to do with supporting financially one's teacher.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">In fact, Jesus taught us not to take wages for preaching and teaching. &nbsp;(Matthew 10:8.) And thus Paul made of no effect the commandment of Christ by virtue of a commandment of a man -- Paul, a Pharisee -- based on a far-fetched application of Deut 25:4.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;">Paul Made Of None-Effect A Command of Jesus.</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">This was the other fault that Jesus condemned the Pharisees for in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+15%3A6&amp;version=ESV">Matthew 15:6</a> -- &nbsp;they made of none effect a commandment of God &ndash; the duty to honor your parents &ndash; by their self-made law about providing a donation to the temple. By you paying a gift to the temple, the Pharisees said you no longer had to help your parents when they were in financial distress, contrary to what Jesus said the law implied from your duty to honor your parents. This Pharisaic doctrine is known as the Korban Principle. See&nbsp;</span><a href="/recommendedreading/230-korban-or-corban-jesus-criticized.html"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Pharisee Doctrine of the Korban Payment.</span></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">No doubt the Pharisees based this principle upon some flimsy application from the Law given Moses. Paul did the same to a commandment of Christ about not taking wages for preaching by an obtuse application of a Deuteronomy verse about not muzzling an ox. Paul extracted from it his right to claim an entitlement to eat from the "field" he helped sow just as an ox had over the cornfield he furrowed. Oh the inconsistencies of Paul! Oh the strange Bible applications of Paul which led him to contradict Christ's words in Matthew 10:8! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Now you can see why your church pastor can never open his heart to Jesus' words in Matt 10:8, but is compelled by self-interest to accept Paul as validly contradicting Jesus in 1 Cor. 9:9.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul Condemns What Pharisees Likewise Condemned About Jesus' Evangelistic Methods for His Lost Sheep.&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Next, another critique by Jesus about the Pharisees was their rule about not eating with sinners, such as prostitutes, tax collectors, etc. Jesus did so in Luke 15 in which context he defended this eating-practice by delivering the Parable of the Lost Sheep. Luke introduces this:&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span>Now&nbsp;the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.</span><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">2&nbsp;</span>And the <strong>Pharisees</strong> and the scribes&nbsp;<strong>grumbled</strong>, saying,&nbsp;&ldquo;This man receives <strong>sinners</strong> and&nbsp;<strong>eats</strong> with them.&rdquo; (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+15&amp;version=ESV">Luke 15:1-2 ESV</a>.) </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582">Jesus responds by telling the Parable that the good shepherd will diligently seek out one of "<strong>my</strong> sheep" who wanders away even though ninety-nine sheep did not stray. Jesus was telling the<strong> Pharisees that their rule to not receive and eat with sinners was wrongful, and contrary to God's will</strong>. Jesus was going to recover "my sheep" (which necessarily at least includes brothers / sisters in Christ) who wandered away. He would rescue them by sitting at a meal to talk. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582">But what did Paul teach? <strong>Paul taught the same thing as the Pharisees taught which Jesus condemned</strong> in the Parable of the Lost Sheep:&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span id="en-ESV-28447"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">9&nbsp;</span>I wrote to you in my letter&nbsp;not to <em><strong>associate</strong></em> with sexually immoral people&mdash;</span><span id="en-ESV-28448"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">10&nbsp;</span>not at all meaning&nbsp;the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters,&nbsp;since then you would need to go out of the world.</span><span id="en-ESV-28449"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">11&nbsp;</span>But now I am writing to you <strong>not</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>associate</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>anyone&nbsp;</strong><strong>who</strong> <strong>bears</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>name</strong> <strong>of</strong><strong> brother</strong> if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler&mdash;<strong>not</strong> <strong>even</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>eat</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>such</strong> <strong>a</strong><strong> one</strong>.</span><span id="en-ESV-28450"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">12&nbsp;</span>For what have I to do with judging&nbsp;outsiders?&nbsp;Is it not those inside the church<span style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-28450a" data-link="[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-28450a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+5%3A9-13&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28450a" style="background: transparent; color: #b34b2c; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>&nbsp;whom you are to judge?</span><span id="en-ESV-28451" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-weight: bold;">13&nbsp;</span>God judges<span style="line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-ESV-28451b" data-link="[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-28451b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;/a&gt;]">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+5%3A9-13&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-28451b" style="background: transparent; color: #b34b2c; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>&nbsp;those outside.&nbsp;&ldquo;Purge the evil person from among you.&rdquo; (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+5%3A9-13&amp;version=ESV">1 Cor. 5:9-13 ESV.</a>) </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span id="en-ESV-28451">So Paul teaches you "not to even eat" or "associate" with one who says he is a brother but whom you judge a sinner -- exactly the same teaching of the Pharisees whom Jesus condemned for such principles, Jesus declaring them to be contrary to God's will. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span id="en-ESV-28451">Finally, Jesus likewise condemned the Pharisees making of none effect the sixth commandment to honor your father and mother which implies in Hebrew that children should support their parents in financial need. The Pharisees taught the child was excused if the child made a korban offering at the temple. Once again, Paul had a similar principle to the Pharisees which Jesus condemned. We read in<a href="http://biblehub.com/kjv/2_corinthians/12.htm"> 2 Cor. 12: 14</a>&nbsp;KJV "the children<strong> ought not lay up</strong> for their parents, but the parents for the children." <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span id="en-ESV-28451"><strong>Gentiles are Damned by following Torah </strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span id="en-ESV-28451">Finally, as explained in the following linked article, the Pharisees taught a Gentile was damned by reading Torah. It was strictly forbidden on pain of death unless a Gentile was circumcised, or Torah-provisions of voluntary compliance were involved which includes circumcision to enter the temple, making offerings at the temple, and circumcision to participate at Passover. Paul said similarly in Galatians that Gentiles must stop trying to obey the Law, and if they continue doing so, they are severed from Christ and cursed. In saying this, Paul repeated the Pharisees' doctrine, but removed their allowance a Gentile could study the commands that are voluntary upon a Gentile, such as circumcision to enter the Temple or to attend Passover. See <a href="/recommendedreading/810-paul-taught-pharisee-doctrine-to-condemn-gentiles-who-tried-to-follow-torah.html">Paul Taught Pharisee Doctrine Gentiles Damn Themselves Reading / Following Torah.</a>&nbsp;<br /></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span id="en-ESV-25582"><span id="en-ESV-28451">That article also explains this evil doctrine of the Pharisees is possibly the intended subject of Jesus' condemnation of Pharisees in Matt 23:23.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">John the Baptist's Teaching Expose What Pharisees Taught.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul in his epistles shared a view similar to the Pharisees' doctrine of election and predestination. In this, Paul shared a similar implication that works worthy of repentance were not necessary for salvation. We learn the Pharisees' doctrine from John the Baptist's encounter with them in Matthew 3. As explained next, John says that these Vipers -- the Pharisees -- should not have come for baptism unless they had works worthy of repentance. When John says that if God wanted to he could raise sons of Abraham from the rocks, this was a critique on the doctrine of election and predestination of the Pharisees.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">John the Baptist Spoke Against Two Pharisee Doctrines</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">John the Baptist &mdash; whom Jesus called the Greatest Prophet (Matt 11:11), excoriated the Pharisees for teaching a doctrine of election that discounted the need for any repentance, as we shall explain here. John proclaimed:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> (7) But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, &ldquo;You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come from God? (8) Produce the <strong>f</strong><strong>ruits</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>perfect</strong><strong> repentance</strong>. (9) And do not think to say within yourselves, &lsquo;We have Abraham as our Father,&rsquo; for I tell you, that <strong>God</strong> <strong>is</strong> <strong>able</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>raise</strong> <strong>up</strong> <strong>his</strong> <strong>son</strong> <strong>Abraham</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>these</strong> <strong>stones</strong><em><strong>.</strong></em> (10) And even now the axe lies at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that <strong>does</strong><em> </em><strong>not</strong> <strong>produce</strong><em> </em><strong>good</strong> <strong>fruit</strong> is cut down, and cast into the fire.&rdquo; (Matt 3:7-10 OGM.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">What was John meaning by saying God could make stones into sons of Abraham? And in context, why is this contrasted with the Pharisees who resisted true repentance? John was making a rhetorical point about the Pharisees' doctrine of election. If God is simply unconcerned with a person&rsquo;s heart, and would save the elect of Israel despite disobedience, then God could simply make stones into sons of Abraham. It would be all the same to God. But of course God does not want to save stones &mdash; heartless, emotionless and repentant-free stones. He wants loving obedient children.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">To understand this point in context, one has to know the doctrine of election and predestination that John and Jesus too were battling against. As Ebinezer Ireson in <em>The&nbsp;</em><em>Methodist Preacher</em> (Putnam: 1833) at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fFo3AAAAMAAJ&amp;lpg=PA160&amp;ots=WBqo6b1WGb&amp;dq=pharisees%20doctrine%20of%20election%20abraham%27s%20sons&amp;pg=PA160#v=onepage&amp;q=pharisees%20doctrine%20of%20election%20abraham's%20sons&amp;f=false">160</a> wrote: </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">The Pharisees were, at that time, the <strong>most</strong><em> </em><strong>rigid</strong> <strong>predestinarians</strong> in the world, and <strong>believed</strong> (as a matter of course) in the <strong>doctrine</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>unconditional</strong><strong> election</strong> and reprobation; and believed, also (as all do who credit the doctrine) that <strong>they</strong> <strong>were</strong> <strong>elect</strong><em><strong>,</strong></em> because they were descendants of Abraham&hellip;. (Emphasis added.)</span></p>
<p><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Paul, a Pharisee (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+23%3A6&amp;version=WEB">Acts 23:6</a>) himself, never gave up on this doctrine, oddly enough. Paul says &ldquo;All Israel will be saved.&rdquo; (Rom. 11:26.) The wider context makes clear that Paul means this is an &ldquo;election&rdquo; and &ldquo;mercy&rdquo; of God, having nothing to do with a change in belief or "repentance.&rdquo; Rather, it was to fulfill a supposed unconditional promise toward Israel. In Romans 11:26 we read:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so <em><strong>all Israel shall be saved</strong></em>: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as <em><strong>touching the election</strong></em>, they are beloved for the father's sakes. 29 For the <em><strong>gifts and calling of God are without repentance</strong></em>. 30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: 31 Even so have these also now not believed, that <em><strong>through your mercy they also may obtain mercy</strong></em>. 32 For God hath concluded them <em><strong>all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all</strong></em>. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+11&amp;version=KJV">Romans 11:25-32</a>.)</span></p>
<p><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul thus believes "<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">all</span></strong> Israel is in unbelief" but &ldquo;<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">all</span></strong> Israel will be saved&rdquo; and God will have "mercy upon<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> all</span></strong> [of them]." How does this salvation come about? Paul claims it is based upon an &ldquo;election&rdquo; and &ldquo;calling&rdquo; of Israel that is made &ldquo;without repentance.&rdquo; They will receive &ldquo;mercy&rdquo; through the &ldquo;mercy&rdquo; God bestows on Gentiles who &ldquo;believed&rdquo; which came about due to Israelite &ldquo;unbelief.&rdquo; How is this just? Because by the &ldquo;unbelief&rdquo; of Israel, the Gentiles received mercy. Now the belief of the Gentiles will impart mercy &ldquo;upon all&rdquo; of Israel &mdash; and thus &ldquo;all Israel will be saved.&rdquo; &nbsp;</span></p>
<p><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> What did John the Baptist say instead is the true basis of salvation? He said &ldquo;God wants works worthy of repentance.&rdquo; (Matthew 3:8.) You cannot rely upon election and predestination to excuse the requirement. Oddly enough, Paul's doctrines then extended an election and predestination to Gentiles, equally without the "works worthy of repentance" necessary. Eph. 2:8-9.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">So the cure to that doctrine of election and predestination of the Pharisees was, John says, to have "works worthy of repentance." God's promises of blessings to Abraham and his seed are not to each specific individual from physical birth, thus guaranteeing salvation, but only those sons of Abraham who love and obey Yahweh as did Abraham. Their national blessing would be the Torah that would guide them to all blessings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus in the same chapter of Matthew then repeats the gospel of Works Worthy of Repentance. This lets us know Jesus likely was teaching this so as to reject and make clear that unconditional election and predestination are invalid doctrines, as they wrongly dispense with the necessity of repentance, including works worthy of repentance. See our article <a href="/recommendedreading/628-works-worthy-of-repentance.html">Works Worthy of Repentance</a>.</span></p>
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