From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Friday, May 30, 1997 6:55 AM
To: 	 Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: What is a Gentile ??


From:          "JJ Parsons" <vmax@goldengate.net>
To:            <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
Subject:       Re: Should HaGoyim eat Biblicly Kosher?


Rav Eddie,

>
>A related question.  As a believer in Y'shua I do not need to consider
>myself one of the goyim, even though I was not born to a Jewish mother, do
>I? 
>

              Biblically, a "Goyim" or Gentile has a meaning 
applicable to being a pagan and having no covenant with the G-d of 
Israel.  In today's society, it means that you are not a Jew.

              As a believer in Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah and a 
follower of the G-d of Israel, by being a member of the family of G-d 
you are really a Biblical spiritual Israelite  (Romans 2:28-29) 
because you have been GRAFTED into the Olive Tree by accepting 
Yeshua / Jesus as Messiah through the covenant that G-d made with 
Avraham (Galations 3:16, 29). Spiritually, we are not "Goyim / 
Gentiles".

>
> As one who accepts Y'shua, I am part of the mishpakah of God, and one
>of Avraham's seed.  I no longer should identify with the goyim, but rather
>with the Lord Yeshua and His people. I have been adopted into the family of
>God -- regardless of my fleshly lineage.  Am I off target here?
>

           John,  you are absolutely correct.

>
>Sincerely,
>
>John Parsons
>