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To: kosta50; stfassisi; Forest Keeper
I think a better case could be made that the Calvinist God is a throwback to a tribal god (as I suppose you could say the Muslim God is).
How does either differ from the OT God?

It differs in being retrograde, so to speak: the OT God is the God of Israel, but always, with hints, glimpses, promises, moving toward a day when all the nations would worship Him. From the earliest days, the Church understood itself as being meant for all men -- it was just a question of reaching them.

Islam is retrograde too -- in its own way, though it at least allows for conversion into the "tribe," even if it's enforced by the sword.

5,639 posted on 12/20/2010 2:47:52 AM PST by maryz
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To: maryz
It differs in being retrograde, so to speak:

That's one way to look at it. But not the only way.

From the earliest days, the Church understood itself as being meant for all men

So is Judaism. The difference is that the Jews are the ordained clergy-nation, while the Gentiles are the Noachide congregation.

When St. Peter tells his audience "you are a priestly nation" who is he addressing, given that he was an apostle to the circumcision?

5,641 posted on 12/20/2010 5:10:11 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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