Rom. 9:1 I say the truth, (that is), in (like in the mind of) Christ,... I lie not, my conscience (that Christ recommended
to us is my guide) also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost (of Truth, itself, my Good Shepherd),
Rom. 9:2 That I have great heaviness (in realizing the loss of the main stream Jewish community), and continual sorrow in
my heart (that it must be so).
Rom. 9:3 For I could, (but I certainly do not), wish that (I), myself, were accursed from Christ for my brethren (sake),
my kinsmen according to the flesh, (for I feel a continued camaraderie with them):
Rom. 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law,
and the service of God, and the promises;
Rom. 9:5 Whose (forefathers) are the (patriarchs), fathers, and of whom, (genetically), as concerning the flesh, Christ
came, who is over all (Jews), God blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom. 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they, (my brethern), are not all (of) Israel which are
of Israel (which remains blind and deaf):
Rom. 9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children (of the Promise): but, In Isaac,
(only), shall thy seed, (Abraham), be called: {Gen 22:2].
Rom. 9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, (those genetically linked), these are not (necessarily
to evolve further: [1Co 15:50-51], becoming) the children of God, (son of the Most High: [John 1:12]): but the children
of the promise are (those which are to be) counted for the seed (of Abraham to which God was referring).
Rom. 9:9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, (in an act of God), and Sarah shall have a
son (somewhat genetically different).
Rom. 9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one (act of God, also), even by our father
Isaac;
Rom. 9:11 For the children being not (even) yet born, neither having done any good (of unselfish altruism),
or evil (of the original sin of selfish pre-disposition), that the purpose of God, (our purification in the
evolutionary furnace of time), according to election (or natural selection, that some would evolve further, beyond
Modern Homo sapiens), might stand, not of works (in adaptations to the environment), but of him that calleth
(them to survive by genetic mutation);
Rom. 9:12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Rom. 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, (and shall cause to evolve further), but Esau (whose pre-set,
innate psychological disposition of self centeredness) have I hated.
Rom. 9:14 What shall we say then, (how can I explain this, in this day)? Is there unrighteousness with God
(as must seem, without the knowledge of the creative process of evolution available to us now)? God forbid (that the
dross of the furnace of evolution that is cast aside seem unmerciful).
Rom. 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy (because the ends will be justified
by the means of evolution), and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion (because it is I, YHVH, the I
am, who is becoming (as future frames of Reality shall express, and shall dwell with men, immanently, in the mental kingdom
within: [Luke 17:21]).
Rom. 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth (to live as a species forever), nor of him that runneth (the
good race, adapting to the physical environment), but of God that showeth mercy (in everlasting life to a species).
Rom. 9:17 For the scripture saith unto (Akhenaten or Amenhotep IV, 1379-1362 BC), Pharaoh, even for this same
purpose, (the purification of Modern Homo sapiens), have I raised thee up (into Monotheism: [Exod. 11:1]), that
I might show my power in thee, and that my name, (ultimately) might be declared throughout all the earth.
Rom. 9:18 Therefore, (letting those fit to survive), hath he mercy, on whom he will have mercy, (they shall
survive, indeed), and whom he will (pass into extinction) he hardeneth (to the process).
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Rom. 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he (in the reality of his creation) yet find fault, (is it a personal matter)?
For who hath resisted (Reality), his will, (in that we are here because of our own past adaptations in our phylogenetic chain)?
Rom. 9:20 Nay but, O man, (transformed from earlier humanoids: [Genesis 4:17-5:31), who art thou (so uninformed) that repliest
against God, (the Reality of the refining fire of evolution which has promise of life on earth forever)? Shall the thing formed
(by the designing force of the environment) say to him, (the omnipotent reality) that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus
(unknowing, that without change in the creature, we must fail before the coming change in the environment)?
Rom. 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Rom. 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels
of wrath, (that previous humanoid stages of evolution were) fitted to destruction (and to be discarded in extinction):
Rom. 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory (to be bestowed) on the vessels of (his) mercy, (we who are
sons of Reallity, evolving into Homoiousian sapiens), which he had afore prepared unto glory (of eternal life in this new
species to come),
Rom. 9:24 (Show) even (to) us, (Homoiousian sapiens, new creatures in God), whom he hath called (to change), not of the
Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Rom. 9:25 As he saith also in Hosea, "I will call them, (those saved of the Gentile nations), my people, which were not
my (chosen) people, (the Jews); and her, (Christianity), beloved, which was not beloved, (in former paganism)."
Rom. 9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in (Israel), the place where, (in Hosea), it was said unto them, "Ye are not my
people;" there shall they be called (Christian Hebrews), the children, (Homoiousian sapiens), of the living God.
Rom. 9:27 Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though, (the Jews, as a people, long among the nations), the number of the
children of Israel (ought) be as the sand of the sea, (too), (but only) a remnant shall be saved (from total Holocaust):
Rom. 9:28 For he will finish the work (of changing the innate selfish philosophical disposition in man), and cut it, (it's
self centerness), short in righteousness: because a short work (of a few thousand years of social education) will the Lord
make upon the earth.
Rom. 9:29 And as Isaiah (Rev 19) said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed (from Holocaust), we had been
as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Rom. 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles (understood first, those people) which followed not after righteousness
(in their selfish paganisms), have attained to righteousness (of attitude), even the righteousness which is of faith (that
Christ exemplified in the great truth of men serving one another).
Rom. 9:31 But Israel (long preaching salvation in Torah), which followed after the law of righteousness (in ritual practice),
hath not attained to the law of righteousness, (which is Altruism).
Rom. 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith (that unselfish behavior and altruistic interest in team play actually
works), but as it were by the works (of talk that pretend to the actual practice) of the law. For they stumbled, (and talked
the talk), at that stumblingstone (of walking the walk exemplified by Jesus);
Rom. 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumblingstone, (an example of the right behavior, even unto sacrifice
of one's life), and rock (that will focus on the error) of offence, (which is selfish personal interests): and whosoever believeth
on him, (in his example set before us), shall not be ashamed (of his behavior among other men).
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