There is great significance to the theme of a new man drawn out in the New Testament. The bringing together of the Jew and Gentile under one body is a proclamation that the Church is Israel. In Romans 11, Paul masterfully demonstrates how the gentiles are grafted into the covenant promises contrary to nature. In line with this theme, Paul teaches that distinctions between Jew and Gentile, ethnicity and social standing are subsumed by the new man’s identity in Christ (Col 3:11). This doesn’t indicate that these distinctions are wiped out in the present age but that they are not categories of eternal significance and we shouldn’t be consumed by them, even while accepting their existence for a time (Eph 6:1-9, 1 Pet 2:18).
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A Vet Visit and Thoughts on the Sad State of Society
Today I took my dog to his first visit to the vet to get his rabies vaccine. It was an interesting experience to say the least and one that showed me how much the world has changed in how we view animals since my childhood. Ever since I was a child I've always wanted a dog and tended to read about dog ownership or follow things dog owners did. Back then it was quite common that the only visit to a vet was a few weeks after getting a puppy to get it vaccinated. It was also quite rare for dogs to be vaccinated often, it was pretty much that initial vaccination and perhaps rabies boosters every few years. This has changed quite a bit and from what I've read, vets in India pretty much recommend the same schedules of vaccinations and drugs for dogs as they do here in the US.
Deo Vicit Mundum 