dwight92070 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 10:17 am
So, under your belief system, Jesus didn't even have to come. We would have been fine with just Abraham.
Yep. that's what the Bible is saying. Had Israel continued to follow Abraham, they would have been blessed.
"Those who bless (honor) Abraham will be blessed."
Ezekiel 16:4 -14 "As for you nativity, on the day you were born, your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor swathed in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into an open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured and and became very beautiful.... When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine. Then I washed you in water and I anointed you with oil. I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin, I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk........You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through my splendor which I bestowed on you."