“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

The point Jesus was making in Matthew 6 is that worrying about food or clothing equals not trusting God. God wants us to trust Him with our whole heart.

Eph 2:15 is not dealing with SALVATION. Paul has already dealt with that issue earlier on in chapter 2. Eph 2:8;9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Now take note of what he says in verse 10.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Thus the The Law, Commandments etc. before ordained in the Old Testament (Torah) have not been abolished. There are simply not the means by which ones attains salvation. Turning from breaking God’s Laws and Commandments to keeping them SHOULD be the result of one who has attained salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. This perfectly corresponds to Romans 3:31.

What Paul is talking about from Eph 2:10-19, is the act of RECONCILIATION. In essence what Paul is saying is a gentile no longer has to go through the full conversion process including circumcision etc. (and trust me there was then and is today a lot more to it) to be reconciled to God, and have communal fellowship with Jewish believers. He/she does not have to go through the legal process of full conversion which was a type of wall (symbolically and actually) for converts. There was even a wall in the outer court of the temple in Jerusalem which kept uncircumcised gentiles, who wanted to partake of temple activities, separate from Jews and Gentiles that had gone through the full conversion process to be accepted into Judaism.

Going beyond that wall for an uncirmcised non-converted gentile was a death sentence, enforced by the Romans themselves even against a Roman citizen. In 1871 an excavation found one of the stones of this outer wall with the inscription on it written in Greek, “NO FOREIGNER IS TO GO BEYOND THE BALUSTRADE AND THE PLAZA OF THE TEMPLE ZONE WHOEVER IS CAUGHT DOING SO WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME FOR HIS DEATH WHICH WILL FOLLOW” Josephus says it was also written in latin.

The first non-Jews to hear the gospel and believe were given the same gift (Acts 10:46)as the apostles received in the upper room on the day of Shavuot (Pentecost)Acts 2:1-4. Peter along with James and the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15:13-21), determined that this was a sign from God that gentiles were now to be welcomed into the community (commonwealth)of Israel, without first having to go through a legalistic and often lengthy conversion process as was required prior to the death of the Christ Jesus (The Anointed One, God’s Salvation). Gentiles who heard and believed the Gospel, should now be welcomed as fellow citizens in the Kingdom of God, after which the Holy Spirit would guide them how to walk (Eph. 2:10)as befitting those who love and worship the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

There is no contradiction if one follows the whole teaching of St. Paul in Ephesians chapter 2, keeping the context of WHAT he uses the term “prescriptions” (works or LAW contained in commandments) in relation to, in verses 10 (and Romans 3:31) and 15. In the first instance he is using it as to how it applies to a believer after he/she obtains SALVATION through GRACE, while in the latter case St. Paul is using it relative to Gentile obligatory requirements for fellowship into the community of God. Prior to Christ’s death and resurrection, Gentile acceptance by the Jewish community (see Acts 10:28) was connected to a legal conversion process of adoption into Israel. The translators actually did a very good job in their chapter division of Ephesians 2, as they do through most of the Bible. Paul’s letters are hard to understand as even St. Peter acknowledges (2Peter 3:16). Yet there is no contradiction, when one rightly understand how to rightly divide the word of truth.

Reading carefully the whole context, we see that God has been giving Moses a whole series of instructions, in addition to the ten laws, including those in the verses that immediately precede Ex. 34:27. These are among the many words, which God refers to here, that He asks Moses to write, in a book, the book of the covenant (Ex. 24:4, 7). That’s just a start. I recommend that you take it much further, with some good Bible study helps. Let me just add that it’s vital to study all the related scriptures on a given topic before you come to a conclusion as to what a difficult verse means.

The Bible in its original language is inerrant. This is what the Bible claims, directly and indirectly, over and over again. If it is not the inspired word of our Maker, which it claims to be, in no uncertain terms, over and over, then we might as well throw it away. Its Author challenges us unequivocally to prove Him, to put to the test His promises, and the authenticity of His Authorship of the Bible.

By the way, anyone, especially a so-called theologian, who claims that the Bible does not claim what I have just said it does claim, simply does not know what he is talking about. Always keep in mind the astonishment of the “theologians” in Jesus’ day who were astonished at the knowledge of His disciples whom they took as “unlearned and ignorant men” (Acts 4:13, KJV)

Over time, with His help, I have found that the list of so-called errors just keeps dwindling away. Not that we can expect to answer every last one of them in this life. However, as you persevere in prayerful study of His Instruction Book, the right, clear, beautifully sound, and inspiring answers will mount up higher and higher, and you’ll find the evidence overwhelming that indeed the Bible was “God-breathed” (2 Tim. 3:15-17), and be confident that your Maker didn’t contradict Himself anywhere when He set about preserving His message for you and me, and all mankind.

Just wait on Him, for, as the old saying goes, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

God created man physically before the animals but he ‘called forth’ the animals first. God was in some shape or form trying to physically replicate the kingdom of heaven and the order of things. In heaven God has authority over all things, God wanted the same for us. Our mandate from him is to subdue the earth (subdue means to dominate with the consent/power/permission of a higher authority). that should be left for another…I digress.
Out of nothing God called the earth and our heaven(sky) into being. In earth was water, He created the firmament to divide the waters of the earth (seas) and the waters of the heavens(sky:rain/snow). Notice he also made the 2 lights (sun and moon), that,s where physical creation stopped. HE then started to call things ‘forth’ from their ‘kind’ (in here lies the magic of thought/command’…he was calling the from the supernatural into the natural…however they were not yet manifest unlike the earth, waters, sky, sun and moon. He now jumped to man and created him from dust and breathe in him. After this the work of manifesting these things began…it was at this point man named all things. This was my first real time gift from the HOLY GHOST. Read genesis millions of times and never saw this until I prayed for guidance and I trust this is the real order of things.God bless.