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To: topcat54; Lee N. Field; Blogger; raynearhood

“The bottom line is that you have absolutely no basis for dividing the promises to Abraham/the Seed along the categories dictated by The System®.”
I’m beginning to think that your ORS has a lot in common with Marcion’s view of the Old Testament and Israel.

God gave a specific promise to Abraham concerning the land, to the point of showing it to him and telling him to walk through it. He even went so far as to perform the covenant binding ritual saying, “And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates”.

He punished the children of Israel for not believing His promise of the land. I think I will go along what the scriptures say rather than what the ORS wants it to say.


300 posted on 03/27/2009 9:50:29 AM PDT by enat
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To: enat; Lee N. Field; Blogger; raynearhood
He punished the children of Israel for not believing His promise of the land.

Well, you can choose to live in the OT as if the NT does not exist, or you can read Paul’s infallible explanation of all the promises given to Abraham and the Seed with their typological importance, pointing, as they do, to the heavenly reality.

It’s odd that none of the NT writers take you carnal view of the land promise. In fact, they even confuse the issue with language like we find in Hebrews 11, spiritualizing the land promises for the OT saints. Hardly the dispensational approach to the OT.

304 posted on 03/27/2009 11:13:24 AM PDT by topcat54 ("Naysayers" laughing at a futurist is not scoffing at God.)
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