HI Shelter, you said:

“Oh I don't feel the need love-n-grace for raising issues over "The Clear Word."

Isaiah 8:20 tells us..If they speak not according to this Word..there is no light in them.

Thus far Jack.J Blanco speaks according to His Word.
But with the help of the Holy Spirit one can discern what is counterfeit or not.�?

I agree that the Holy Spirit will show us counterfeit, if we remain humbly open to Him. I can only assume that you have just begun reading the “clear word�? As you continue to compare it to a real Bible, the many errors will pop right up. Just continue to trust the Holy Spirit. You may feel the need to raise issues about the errors when you begin to find them.

Yes, let’s get back to Galatians. Any more discussion on the ‘clear word�?should be in a new thread.

God bless !

Love-n-Grace

Ga 3:15 Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man`s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

Ga 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn`t say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

Ga 3:17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Ga 3:18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

Ga 3:19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Verse 15:

Covenants, according to Paul, are stable once made. No modifications can be made to them nor can they be annulled.

Verse 16:

According to Paul, the particular promises spoken to Abraham were exclusive to Abraham and to his seed, singular, Jesus Christ.

Verse 17:

Paul is connecting the particular promises to a particular covenant.

That covenant was confirmed beforehand in Jesus, and was made 430 years before the "law" was given, the law has no effect on that covenant one way or another. That covenant remains in effect independent of the "law" that was given 430 years later.

There are two places where God mentions the word covenant to Abraham, Gen 15 and Gen 17. But there are many promises that God made to Abram/Abraham. The first one was in Gen 12:7, "Unto thy seed will I give this land:"

In Gen 15 God’s promises that Abram would have an heir from his own flesh and that His descendants would be as the stars of heaven for multitude. Abram believed and was declared righteous for believing, verses 1-6 (technically a covenant only because God covenants Himself in all His promises), and the covenant to deliver the Promised Land from Egypt to the Euphrates (essentially the same as the promise made in Gen 12:7) to Abram’s descendants after being afflicted 400 years in a land in which they would be strangers, see Gen 15:18.

Gen 17 speaks of another covenant God makes with Abram. God then says Abram would be the father of many nations and changes his name to Abraham. In this chapter God mentions that He would make His covenant with Abraham and his seed after him for an everlasting covenant again mentioning the land (essentially a repetition of the promise in Gen 12:7 and Gen 13:15, etc.) and establishes circumcision as Abraham’s and his descendants part of that covenant. God then changes Sarai’s name to Sarah and promises that she would be the one to give Abram the promised son.

Later God makes another promise to Abraham after nearly offering Isaac in sacrifice.

Ge 22:15 - ¶ And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

Ge 22:16 - And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

Ge 22:17 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Ge 22:18 - And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

This is a reiteration of previous promises that we all can rejoice in since we, non ethnic Jews, are included in these promises. In fact, in what is literally referred to as a covenant, there are only a few promises that are mentioned; inheritance of the land, the multitude of Abrahams descendents, and Abraham becoming the father of many nations, and the blessing of all the nations of the earth through his seed.

So which covenant was Paul talking about? What is the inheritance Paul was talking about?

Our clue:

Ro 4:13 - For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Is it the one that Abraham believed and was declared righteous for believing?

Ge 15:4 - And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

Ge 15:5 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Ge 15:6 - And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Well, it seems that this is not speaking specifically of the one seed except in the promise of having a son out of his own flesh. I should say though that the promise of the multitude of descendents is certainly part of the promises and covenants Paul is referring to.

I personally think we should understand that all the promises made to Abraham are involved in the covenants Paul is referring to; inheritance of the land, the multitude of Abraham’s descendents, and Abraham becoming the father of many nations, and the blessing of all the nations of the earth through his seed.

Verse 18:

Verse 18 helps us to see that the reference in Paul’s thought is concerning the inheritance which Paul, in Rom 4:13, interestingly amplifies beyond the Middle East to the whole world.

This inheritance is the promise and the covenant that exists apart from the law given 430 later.

Verse 19:

The law was added because of transgression. Transgression of what? Paul says that where no law is, there is no transgression, Rom 4:15.

In a previous post, Hero made the suggestion, to which I agree, that a law existed before Sinai which forbade killing, adultery, and may have included the Sabbath. God made it clear that Abraham kept such a law.

Ge 26:5 - Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

The law that was introduced was instituted because of the transgression of an already existing law to deal with the transgression. That law Paul alludes to is the sacrificial system.