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| Forever | | Date Created: Nov 18, 2004, 02:06 PM |
| I believe that in certain quarters of the Reformed church we have failed to emphasize the fact that Jesus is the last faithful Jew and therefore the inheritor of all the promises made to the sons of Abraham in the Old Testament. Some of this may be because we spend so much time arguing for the deity of Christ we forget that he is also fully human--even now at the Father's right hand! And if human, Jesus has a history and genealogy. In other words, he is an Israelite, a Jew. That's why there's no need to "spiritualize" the Old Testament promises and prophecies originally made to Abraham or Israel. That's also why the presence or absence of genealogical Jewry has no religious significance after A.D. 70. I've written an essay about this called Forever Means Forever: God's Promises to the Jews. |
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