RE: [TruthTalk] Children of God?

[ShieldsFamily]

Izzy wrote   >   God does not have one method of salvation for Jews and a different one for the gentiles.   I agree most emphatically with you, Izzy. Please go back now and reread my post and see if you can get beyond that hang up.   Bill   No I cannot get beyond what you wrote: But where the Gentile is not necessarily rejecting Christ if he does not "believe" in him, this was not so for the Jews. To the Jew to not believe in Jesus was to not receive him, which was to reject him, which is to reject the right to become a child of God. This looks like the gentile is saved passively, while the Jew must be saved by actively accepting Christ.  But none of it matters anyway, as all of this is just human rationalizing around the fact that we must ALL be born again, by our own free-will volition of believing and repenting and following Christ (dying to self/sin in the process). Izzy