The church before the Bible

[BFSmith764]

[There WAS NO Body of Christ PREVIOUS to His BEING revealed. The traditional or orthodox Jews STILL don't accept Christ AS the Messiah.

Yes I agree, though I was not talking about orthodox Jews; I was talking about God's inspiried word...the Old Testament. That Book was written long before the Church was founded by Jesus.

[They were a PEOPLE 'set apart' so far as their relationship with God but there WAS no Spiritual Temple durring the First covenant. EVERYTHING was physical, determined by LAW.

Before I go any farther it must be understood that the Jews are not the house of Israel...the Jews are just one tribe of the house of Israel. That is true what you said, but one need to understand that though God was not dwelling in them as He is doing in Christians, He was in fact dwelling in a few of them, such as Moses, David, Samuel to name a few.

[Basically the heart is a figurative name of that which is able to hold and distribute LOVE. That our PHYSICAL hearts are MOVED by LOVE is MOST likely where this sybolic reference came from. For WHEN we FEEL that which is LOVE, HATE, ANY EMOTIONS in their EXTREME, we DO get a physical sensation in the REGION of our CHEST in which our heart is located. Actual physical CHANGES take place IN THE HEART, (organ), and therefore it is sybolically the LOCATION of OUR LOVE.

When the Bible mentions the word "Heart" its realy talking about the mind/emotion. It has nothing to do with the literal heart.

 

[Imagican]

And I 'agree' with all that you offered.

MEC