the only thing i would add is that for them, the ‘competition’ is existential, or at least very consequential, given their history. compounded by the fact that unless you know one’s teacher, you don’t know if you’re human in his eyes or not.
Having grown up in a dispensational household, I disagree that the law was the means by which they could be saved. Dispensationalist taught that the law exposed their inability to be perfect and a need for the God to cleans them which the sacrifice in the Temple to God provided. The Jews expected a Messiah. They just expected this Messiah to establish Israel over the world materially. Dispensational belief is often also tethered to premillennialism is that Israel would be reestablish in the end time and that they would finally be saved when they recognize Jesus as the Messiah and God. I say this because I want them to get presented fairly. I am not a dispensationalist but that is how it was taught to me.
the only thing i would add is that for them, the ‘competition’ is existential, or at least very consequential, given their history.
compounded by the fact that unless you know one’s teacher, you don’t know if you’re human in his eyes or not.
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Having grown up in a dispensational household, I disagree that the law was the means by which they could be saved. Dispensationalist taught that the law exposed their inability to be perfect and a need for the God to cleans them which the sacrifice in the Temple to God provided. The Jews expected a Messiah. They just expected this Messiah to establish Israel over the world materially. Dispensational belief is often also tethered to premillennialism is that Israel would be reestablish in the end time and that they would finally be saved when they recognize Jesus as the Messiah and God. I say this because I want them to get presented fairly. I am not a dispensationalist but that is how it was taught to me.
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