I know full well what you meant Civic.
I know you are familiar with the Gospel of the Christ, "of the bible" and so was Calvin, Augustus, Arminius and all the Popes, and "many" who call Jesus Lord, Lord. As well as Gamaliel and the Pharisees, who also "professed to know God". The issue is not that you or they haven't "Heard" of the Gospel of the Christ "of the Bible", just as the rebellious Israelites "heard" the Gospel Jesus and Paul promoted, they just don't believe all that is actually written.
Instead, this world's religious system creates their own image of God, its own "New Covenant", its own "gospel", its own high days and judgments, that differs from religious sect to religious sect, that is contrary to what is actually written in the God inspired Scriptures Paul believed were trustworthy "for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works".
And you, like "many" who come in His Name, as Jesus warns, have adopted their religious philosophy.
You have adopted this Worid's version of a Christ, that is true. But I would further a warning from the God inspired Holy Scriptures, about this very thing.
2 Cor., 11: 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Remember, in the Holy Scriptures Eve had God's Word, (Which became flesh) and "another voice" in the garden God placed her in. She chose to adopt the sayings of the "other voice" in the garden God placed her in.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
According to the Jesus "of the Bible", there is no Jew or Gentile. A "Child of Abraham" is a human who does the "works" of Abraham. This would make any person, regardless of DNA, become a Jew of the heart. And the Jesus "of the bible" says Salvation" is of the Jews.
The Jesus "of the Bible" also instructed the repentant to "Live By" Every Word that proceeds from the mouth of His God and my God.
But as you yourself confess, you have adopted a religious sect that refuses to "Live by" or as you put it, "bound by" God's Word. So for sure, you are a "Hearer" of the Words of the Christ, "of the bible" but are a "Doer" of the sayings of "Another Jesus", and another gospel and another spirit that Paul didn't promote. A Jesus that created his own high days, his own judgments, his own statutes, and another gospel not taught by the Christ who fed and watered Israel on their journey out of sin (Egypt)
I believe this is why Jesus said to "come out of her My people", and "be ye not therefore like unto them". Since HE is MY Lord and Savior, sent to me from HIS God, the God and Father of all, I strive to be more than just a hearer of His Sayings. As opposed to adopting the image of God promoted by this world's religions, as a very handsome man with perfect profile, and long flowing hair, that "bypassed" God's Law in order to show me Love, Mercy or Forgiveness.
This religion you have adopted promotes the foolishness that Jesus was His Own God, who creating Laws that HE demanded men obey, that HE Himself would not live by.
I advocate that we leave the "Course of this world" that promotes such wickedness, and "Seek the Kingdom of the God and Father of the Lord's Christ, and HIS Righteousness, which can be found in the OT.
I see the Spirit of Christ from the very beginning. "And God said, Let there be Light". Our difference of belief is not because I don't "See the Christ" of the Bible, or the Gospel of Christ that was given to Israel that they rejected, in the Examples God had written for my admonition. The reason for our difference in belief is that I "believe" God (Glorify God, "As God"), in that I believe in His Christ that HE sent, and in the God who sent Him, with all my heart and soul.
Deut. 18: 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put "my" words in "his" mouth; and he shall speak unto them "all that "I" shall command "him". 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken (DO) unto my words "which he shall speak" in "my" name, I will require it of him.
Whereas you have adopted a religious sect of this world that has "changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man". And live in a religious philosophy that "Full well Transgresses the Commandments of God, "that ye may keep your own traditions".
Remember Civic, there is not one warning in the entire bible about men who have "Yielded themselves" servants to obey God, and their bodies as instruments of righteousness unto God. NOT one. In fact, the Jesus of the Bible commanded us to "Live by" the Words of His Father who sent Him.
But there are warnings all over the Bible about men who "Profess to know God" but are obedient to His Commandments, who call Jesus Lord, Lord, but "Work iniquity". Who "Come in His Name" but are deceivers. Who "Transform themselves into apostles of Christ to be like Paul but are actually children of the devil.
Because I Love you with God's Love, and not my own, I want to make these Biblical Truths known to you. Who knows that you might consider these things, and as Paul teaches both Jew and Gentile, "repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance".
And even if you don't, these are still good things to discuss among men who call Jesus their Lord and savior.
