jews are generally considered an ethno-religious group. evidently the character Jesus thought that men served one of two masters. Serving God made you Jewish no matter the origin of your birth and serving Belial made you otherwise.
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Are Gentiles Inherently Atheists?
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So, for instance, insisting that the airliner you're going to fly in has been inspected and will be flown by qualified pilots instead of relying on prayers that you won't crash? That sort of thing?
everyone has the potential for loving kindness and compassion, humanism. not everyone chooses to be so. praying that someone else be responsible for compassion and another's safety is abdicating one's actual ability and asking someone else to be responsible.
the potential is there. the actual isn't necessarily. such is the reality of free will. not everyone is here to serve the greater good, or all.
not everyone enjoys the actual job. some are in it for the vain glory, some for the pay, some because they couldn't get the job they wanted, et al.
12 No one has ever seen love but if we love one another, love lives in us and this love is made complete in us.
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Obviously....its the hotel California..or Dylans all along the watchtower.
Jumi
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So theists who act like atheists because they are gentiles do this??
i'm using the term gentile slightly different than yourself. a gentile is a person who doesn't know god for themselves. god for a gentile is something separate from themselves. God for a jew, as jesus explained, is something within self. the kingdom of God comes from within, not exclusively without self, not exclusively apart from self.
this is why a theist who believes god isn't omnipresent in self will never be able to prove god exists. god is some anthropomorphic thing elsewhere for a gentile theist.
just as the following verse explains, the perfect law; which is god is manifested when the gentile does something.
14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.
obviously they don't understand the Law, or God. God is Love. Love is the perfect Law, the perfect moral. he who has the Law of One, the Law of Love, can do awesome things.
Neither of those seem to have much to do with being an (a)theist considering we can readily find examples of both in both groups.
Faithofchristian
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To answer the question.
Are Gentiles inherently Atheists.
What does Atheists have to do with being a Gentile?
Are Gentiles inherently Atheists.
What does Atheists have to do with being a Gentile?
Faithofchristian
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Are all Atheists Gentiles?
First what do you think a Gentile to be?
First what do you think a Gentile to be?
This is not serving God by any means, size, shape or form----
“I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
http://www.israel-state-terrorism.org/children.html
Israeli Child Killers: Documentary Proof
Mikail Hakeem
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what group of theists acting like atheists?
gentile has only Jewish significance in that sense..
there are two types of service: service to self and service to others as self, or service to all.
Jesus taught service to All as self, the other other form is considered selfish and discriminatory. It would be a form of egoism, tribalism, self-glorification, or familialism.
Divers weights and measure are an abomination to the Lord. You cannot serve God apart from others, or others apart from God.
1 John 3:10
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
1 John 4:20
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brotherand sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
a theist who seeks god apart from self, or views god as separate from self and provable.
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as an exoteric maybe, but not necessarily from an esoteric, or figurative meaning.
judaism is an ethno-religious vs christianity isn't.
jesus didn't base the faithful on their ascribed religious affiliations, or tribalism. case in point jesus' contact with a canaanite woman
matthew 15
26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.
obviously faith isn't exclusive to a group, its exclusive to a believer who does the will of god
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
Trading the established definitions of words for your own definitions is likely to get in the way of meaningful discussion, especially when you don't tell anybody that you're using your own personal definitions until deep into the conversation.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Jew
shows that jew is a person based on race or religion. jesus didn't necessarily consider those born of the ethnic group as jews but did consider jews based on their actions and will to god.