Preaching it as an inheritance could be sending a wrong message, that parents’ faith in Christ could be passed down to their kids as an inheritance, that’s obviously not true. You’ve probably heard that “God has no grand children.” Also, in the parable of the ten virgins, the oil that symbolizes the Holy Spirit could not be shared. Therefore each individual must encounter and follow the Holy Spirit on their own.
Jesus came to earth to give us a new testament/covenant.
Yes, but we have to be willing to receive and be faithful to him.
Receive? We have to do what Jesus says to do in order to be accepted.
The plan was foreknowledge.
God loves His creation but does not love us personally until do what Jesus says to do.
Preach that to those churches that only follow the "Pauline doctrine" while Jesus's teachings in the gospel are often dismissed as simple historic record because that's just "for the Jews".
They are wrong.
Yeah, one of the most commonly known yet horrendously misinterpreted verse is Romans 6:14 - "for we are not under law, but under grace." By not means does that promote or even slightly imply lawlessness, that notion is debunked in the next section in Rom. 6 and the next chapter. However, if you just single out this one verse and put it on a bumper sticker, than its meaning is totally twisted.
Right, excellent point. The faith alone people misunderstand Paul, but like you just shown with scripture Paul speaks about how we die to sin, and that is what happens when we come to Jesus to get saved, we have to die to the sins of the world and live to please Jesus. James and Peter heard how people misunderstood Paul about faith alone, and then they warn us to obey. I know my life would have been way different if I had known the true gospel instead of all this faith alone or Catholic stuff I was taught early on.
Thats impossible. Being an Heir is a Birth Right. Like Isaac, he was an Heir before he was born.
It is an inheritance, it should be preached as so. Gal 3:18
I'm not denying that it's an inheritance, I'm just saying that the term "inheritance" could give people the wrong idea. Yes, it is definitely an inheritance, but you can't inherit it from parents or pastors or any of your peers. Every believe has to build their own relationship with the Lord and lay up their own treasure in heaven, it can't be passed down like a house or a brand.
It is impossible to be an heir? So you say no one but a blood relative to Abraham and Isaac can be a child of God's?
But you had just went against our being an heir, yet what then do you think inheritances are given to?
An heir is determined before they are born Gen 15 4
Jesus tells us how to become heirs. I think you should study that scripture better, because it proves you wrong about what you have been saying.
One is an heir before they are born.
