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To: quadrant
None, not one, of the passages you cite revokes the Abrahamic covenant.

Revoke is not a word I would use. Plainly the NT teaches how the Abrahamic covenant was truly intended to be understood; in terms of the whole world coming under the dominion of Jesus Christ and His followers, both Jews and gentiles, the true children of Abraham in the divine commonwealth (Eph. 2:11-13).

The race-based theology that sees a rather stunted future for ethnic Israel is not what is portrayed on the pages of Scripture.

23 posted on 11/07/2008 6:41:48 PM PST by topcat54 ("The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.")
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To: topcat54
Much of the OT is a warning (either directly or indirectly) to the Jews about the dangers of marriage outside the Hebrew community. Even to this day Orthodox Jews do not recognize a person as a Jew unless he or she has a Jewish mother - or has converted to Judaism under the auspices of an Orthodox rabbi. A race based covenant is the only way Judaism could have survived from antiquity to the current day, and if Israel is to survive this system must be maintained - at least in some form - despite the hardship such a policy imposes on some or the disapproval of those who believe in diversity or tolerance.
24 posted on 11/07/2008 7:53:21 PM PST by quadrant (1o)
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