Being
Jewish is a result of a covenant that God made with Abraham based on
faith. As a result of that covenant God
gave the Jewish people a Promised Land and a holy city, Jesus Christ ushered in a new covenant. In the Old Covenant the Philistine was destroyed or would destroy. When Baalaam disobeyed God, God talking through an ass forbade the foolishness of the prophet. Because that prophet went into a Philistinian city God could not destroy that city. It was kill or be killed because co-mingling meant extinction! Furthermore in the Old Covenant homosexuality is an abomination. What did Jesus Christ do? We are one new man. The Philistine did not choose to be a Philistine any more than the Jew chose to be a Jew or I chose to be Greek. The homosexual did not choose to be a homosexual any more than I chose to be a heterosexual. God loves the Philistine as much as he loves the homosexual as much as he loves the Christian as much as he loves you and me. Not only that God loves the Hindu and the Buddhist and the Muslim as much as he loves anybody else. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. It is scriptural. Because of this covenant Jew or Gentile and the gravest sinner can be born again because we are ONE NEW MAN. Thinking that the Jew is now free to obliterate a people and we as Christians support that position is as far from the Truth, the Mind of Christ as believing that God did not send his Son to die for us and even if the Philistine or the Homosexual were to believe in him they could not be saved and would PERISH.
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