There you go - that's it - "were."
Now study it out in Scripture from both sides of the fence. Then come back and post your findings.
More games.
How were the Little Flock "not a people" and a foolish nation?
There you go - that's it - "were."
Now study it out in Scripture from both sides of the fence. Then come back and post your findings.
More games.
How were the Little Flock "not a people" and a foolish nation?
I'm serious; I'm not playing a game - study out in the manner I recommended.
Uggh, the dividers. The industrial-strength dividers. Peter is writing to CHRISTIANS. What ever you say to one CHRISTIAN you can say to them all. The letter is to all Christians, and Hebrews is to all Christians, even if you didn't grow up on Judaism.
The works of the flesh list in Galatians uses the term 'aireseis' but it did not originally mean 'wrong doctrine'! It is the word for the mathematical process of dividing! It meant dividers! Dividers are in the flesh, not in the Spirit of the Gospel.
:rotfl: industrial strength dividers; now that was funny! Good one, Inter.
And who said Peter was not writing to Christians.
I'm afraid you and yours are also allowing for divisions of a sort.
Uggh, the dividers. The industrial-strength dividers. Peter is writing to CHRISTIANS.
As soon as you say a letter to Christians is only to some of them, then it is not.
Peter was only addressing the Israelites from the 10 tribes.
No one else was ever told they were "not a people".
(Hosea 2:23) I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one.' I will say to those called 'Not my people,' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"
(1 Peter 2:10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
You can't read the above two verses and say Peter is speaking to all Christians.