Verily
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You posted a lot but responded none regarding Ezekiel 14. Whether it is they shall be saved by righteousness. OR they would save themselves by their own righteousness.
Instead you go into a host of verses that approves (you say)of finger pointing. How do we know if you repent of the evil you do and turn from it …and I will repent of the evil I thought to do unto you…how do we know it is not
Isaiah 58:9-11 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, [10] if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. [11] And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
you’ve left off Jonah 4:9-11 But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." [10] And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. [11] And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?"
Even those laughing and mocking and tempting Jesus Christ to save himself. His answer “Forgive them Father they know not what they do.” Who? Those doing things to him that honestly, I would have been shouting all the ways they are wrong and try my best to justify myself! I do this in arguments. I try and try to justify myself instead of like the Son of God submitted himself. That is foreign to this worlds ways.
Way different from Jonah which you are using as the model…what was God teaching Jonah that Christ revealed?
again…finger pointing is one spoke of as “a yoke” among you that if you take it away, then I will hear you.. Regarding “yoke” He spoke to the Pharisees and religious leaders that they put heavy burdens on others yet, would not with a finger help any with those burdens. Also they tell others what not to do, while they themselves do what they tell others not to do.
Which verses did I post that pointed a finger? You have failed to show what the problem was with the verses posted as if one set of verses voided the other.
As far as the nations themselves, they not knowing their right or left, the times of this ignorance God winked at as Paul said, but now commandeth all men every where to repent. from here forward they had received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name
Acts 14:16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.