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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">Paul's doctrine in Galatians is clear: Gentiles who try to obey Torah damn themselves, and are cursed. Elsewhere, we prove that this was a common Pharisee doctrine. Gentiles who read the Law would be put to death by the Pharisees. For the startling proof, see <a href="/component/content/article/1-jwo/810-paul-taught-pharisee-doctrine-to-condemn-gentiles-who-tried-to-follow-torah.html">Paul Taught Pharisee Doctrine Gentiles are Damned if they Try to Follow Law by Reading the Law</a>. See also <a href="/component/content/article/1-jwo/829-what-did-jesus-mean-by-mercy-that-the-pharisees-did-not-teach.html">What Did Jesus Mean By Saying the Pharisees Did not Teach God's Mercy</a>. We also prove there that Jesus in Mathew 5:17-19 intended to condemn this teaching by the Pharisees.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Terrorizes Galatians Who Follow the Law</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">with Israel. See </span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut%205:12-15&version=YLT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Deut. 5:12-15</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> ("sojourner within thy</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2023:12&version=YLT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">23:12</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> (sojourner). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Paul then says "anathema" -- cursed -- are those who wish to</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">be just / justified by keeping such parts of the Law, </span><span style="font-style: italic; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">i.e.</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">,</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">sabbath, etc. For otherwise, Paul argues, they will have to keep</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">"all" of the Law, and not selected parts. (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+1%3A6-12&version=DLNT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gal. 1:6-12</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">; </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+2%3A14-16&version=DLNT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gal. 2:14-</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+2%3A14-16&version=DLNT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">16</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> (cursed if not continue in all points of law); </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+3%3A9-12&version=DLNT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gal. 3:9-</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+3%3A9-12&version=DLNT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">12</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> (under a curse, <strong>misquoting</strong> <strong>Deuteronomy</strong>, as explained at</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">this </span><a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/topicindex/360-paul-misquotes-of-scripture.html" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">link</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">), </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+3%3A21&version=DLNT" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gal. 3:21</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">. <br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><br />(Paul thereby misrepresented the Law was all or nothing</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">for a Gentile, rather than tell Gentiles they were a</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">discreet category called sojourners in the Law which </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/98-law-applicable-today.html" style="color: #517291;">The</a> </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/98-law-applicable-today.html" style="color: #517291;">Law Applicable to Gentiles.</a>)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">As Bart Ehrman, a professor on the New Testament, explains:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">“Paul is absolutely clear [in Galatians] that he thinks non-Jews are not to do these things [<em>i.e</em>., keep Sabbath, holidays, etc.] once they believe in Christ. In fact, in his most vitriolic letter, the one to the Galatians, <strong>he lays a curse on anyone who thinks that Gentiles who come to believe in Jesus should engage in such practices</strong>. (1:8-9; 2:15-16; 3:10-14.” (Bart D. Ehrman, <strong>Peter, Paul & Mary Magalene</strong> (2006) at 117.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, Paul curses those Gentile Christians who obey Sabbath for a Biblically-valid reason (i.e., <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&version=KJV" style="color: #517291;">Exodus 20:6</a> - mercy to those who love YHWH and obey commandments of YHWH).</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Paul extends the same curse implicitly to Jews by saying that <strong>anyone</strong> who believes one is justified before God by "keeping the law" is actually lost if they did so. Gal. 2:15-16 ("no one" is justified by keeping the law.). Thus, implicitly Paul is saying Moses himself was a false prophet for in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+6%3A24-25&version=NKJV" style="color: #517291;">Deut 6:24-25 KJV</a> Moses said:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"[YHWH] commanded us to observe all these statutes...Then it will be <strong>righteousness</strong> [i.e., <strong>justification</strong>] for us <strong>if we are careful to observe all these commandments</strong>...."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Paul's views are particularly ironic that Gentiles are</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">supposedly </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">cursed by obeying Sabbath and being</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Temple if he chose to enter </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">which </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">was optional) so as </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">to</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">be righteous </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">and continue as </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">salvation-</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">worthy </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">in </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">God's</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><br />It is </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">especially noteworthy </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">that Paul </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">emphasizes </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">dissuading </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Sabbath observance among </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gentiles by</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">laying a curse on </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gentiles when their attitude is to </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">keep</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">a right standing </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">with God mandated in Deut 6:24-25 </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">quoted above. The </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">irony is because Paul </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">claims Gentiles</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">the </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">verses on the promised new covenant, and the</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">conditions </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">for </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">the entry of Gentiles into it.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">The promise in Isaiah 56 of salvation to Gentiles ("my</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">salvation is <strong>about to come</strong>", </span><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/56-1.htm" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">56:1</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">) through God's</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">suffering </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">servant in Isaiah 53 (whom was obviously</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Jesus) was predicated on two </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">things: "</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">keep the Sabbath</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">from profaning it and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">keep his </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">hand from doing evil.</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">"</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">(Isaiah </span><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/56-2.htm" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">56:2</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">) or "who </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">keep My </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Sabbaths</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">, and choose</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">things that please Me, and</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> take hold of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">my covenant</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">."<br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">such as in the Ark of the Covenant, i.e., the box holding the tablets of</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">the </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ten Commandments. Yahweh clearly adds in Isaiah 56:7 the aim: </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"For my House, a House of Prayer, is called for all peoples." (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+56%3A7&version=YLT">Isaiah </a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+56%3A7&version=YLT">56:7</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">This passage of Isaiah 56:6-7 identially appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls 125 BC. See <a href="https://airtable.com/shrL18GsJmk6lGfwD">link</a> to PDF of page 363 of Abegg's DSS Bible. </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">We should mention that Jesus partially quotes this passage in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+21%3A13&version=NIV">Matthew 21:13</a>: "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it 'a den of robbers.'"</p>
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<p> <span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Paul's so-called 'gospel' thereby eviscerated one of the</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">key </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">conditions of salvation for Gentiles -- the weekly </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">time out from </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">work -- despite Paul claiming he had the</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">correct path of </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">salvation for them. Oh what man cannot</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">be led to believe! </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">In the same vein, Paul says to the Galatian Christians</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">about </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">those who obeyed God's commands as Christians</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">to stay in God's grace: </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">"You have been </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">severed from</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"> <span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Christ</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">, you who are seeking to </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">be justified by Law; you</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">have </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">fallen from grace</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">." (</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-4.htm" style="color: #517291;">Gal. 5:4</a> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-4.htm" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">NASB</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">.) </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">So Paul acknowledges he is talking about true Gentile</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Christians. They are severed from Christ by obeying</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Sabbath </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">rest as a condition of salvation as expressed by</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">God in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&version=KJV" style="color: #517291;">Exodus </a></span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&version=KJV" style="color: #517291;">20:6 KJV</a>. That verse says God grants</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">"<strong>mercy</strong> to those who love me and </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">o<strong>bey my</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><strong>commandments</strong>."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Thus Paul teaches you are saved by faith alone, but </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">become </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt;">damned by obeying one of God’s commands</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt;">in the Ten </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Commandments if motivated to satisfy the</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">requirement in </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&version=KJV" style="color: #517291;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Exodus 20:6</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A6&version=KJV" style="color: #517291;"></a>— part of the Ten</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Commandments too. Paul is </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">talking about the Sabbath</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">command in context -- a command </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">that was specifically</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">extended in the Law to Gentiles aka </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">foreigners /</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">sojourners who dwelled among the sons of Israel.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">And again on the parallel topic of circumcision (which</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">the Law </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">necessitated a Gentile have done </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">only if</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> they</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">wished to enter </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">the Temple at Jerusalem per Ezekiel 44:9</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">or wished to participate in </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">passover per Exodus 12:49),</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Paul </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">says in the same context:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">"Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">yourselves </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">be </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">circumcised, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Christ will be of no</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">value</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"> to you at all." (</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm" style="color: #517291;">Gal.</a> </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">5:2 NIV</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Or as the KJV says, "Christ will </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">profit you </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">nothing.</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">" (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm" style="color: #517291;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gal. 5:2 KJV.</span></a><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">) </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Thus, even a Gentile Christian who wanted to be</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">circumcised </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">solely to enter the temple to avoid being</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">says would </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">actually lose their </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">salvation for such clear</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">sin-avoidance</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">. Hence, Paul warned a </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Gentile Christian</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">obedience to a command that the Law </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">said a</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Gentile </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">must follow if they wanted to enter the</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Temple at Jerusalem </span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">and pray. </span></p>
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