And I cannot reconcile mainstream “Christianity” with the simple teachings of Jesus.
Jesus’ teachings about putting new wine into old wineskins is pretty simple, and clear. And Jesus’ teachings about sewing a new patch onto old torn cloth is pretty simple, and clear. And Jesus’ teachings about His New Covenant…the very one prophesied by Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible…is pretty simple, and clear.
Maybe so. But the return of the Jewish people to their land after an almost 2000 year exile, their domination of world finance, and becoming a military super power within 75 years is the clearest and simplest vindication and ratification of the truth of the Jewish Covenant and the prophets from Moses to Jesus.
The ultimate fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant…the unilateral and unconditional and everlasting covenant that applies to
ALL of Jesus’ followers…comes in Jesus Himself.