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The vine IS Christ and we are his branches. It's good language isn't it. I am the vine and you are the branches. Saint Paul speaks of the body of Christ of which we are the members (limbs and parts). But we are not grafted into the vine. John chapter fifteen doesn't mention grafting. Perhaps...
I presume that you meant "more healthy than you would otherwise have been", but then the same or better can be said for being a vegetarian. You get exasperated because your claims are not well founded and cannot withstand serious examination. If the laws on clean & unclean foods were a health...
Jesus came both to save sinners and to set the faithful free from the burden of the Law. The holy scriptures testify to this repeatedly. I gave the references once before in a post in another thread. Here they are again: Rom 13:8,9 & 3:21 & 7:6 & 13:8 & 13:10, 2 Cor 3:5,6 & 3:13,16 - Gal.2:12 &...
No, according to the gospel Christians are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and are incorporated into him. Judaism is not the same as Christianity nor is being a Jew the same thing as being a Christian.
Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling...
Far more serious and far more common is people adopting the view that they are saved no matter what they say, think, or do and also of people adopting the view that they need to become Jewish to some degree in order to be saved. Don't you see it here in CH already?