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To: Lee N. Field; topcat54; metmom
When Religion Forum posters take the view that Israel is no longer God's chosen people or particularly blessed of God then I ask the posters to state their views towards Jews and races or genealogies because that particular belief is held by Christian Identity and other white supremacist groups, none of which are tolerated at all on Free Republic.

Another "red flag" is when the poster claims that the word "Adam" means white.

119 posted on 01/15/2011 9:58:23 AM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator; Lee N. Field; topcat54; metmom
When Religion Forum posters take the view that Israel is no longer God's chosen people or particularly blessed of God then I ask the posters to state their views towards Jews and races or genealogies because that particular belief is held by Christian Identity and other white supremacist groups, none of which are tolerated at all on Free Republic.

It is no secret that my views are essentially those of the vast majority of non-dispensational Christians for 2000 years, and that is how I have represented them on this forum for the last decade.

The “God's chosen people or particularly blessed of God” wrt modern Israel view is the new kid on the block, in my opinion.

See Not Replacement...Expansion!

121 posted on 01/15/2011 10:06:34 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
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To: Religion Moderator; topcat54; metmom
When Religion Forum posters take the view that Israel is no longer God's chosen people or particularly blessed of God then I ask the posters to state their views towards Jews and races or genealogies because that particular belief is held by Christian Identity and other white supremacist groups, none of which are tolerated at all on Free Republic.

What I hold:

God's plan, from the beginning, was to redeem "a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages".

Paul tells us that "Israel according to the flesh" has many advantages:

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

And, again

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

All great advantages, all things that point to God's work in Christ. (And I note, parenthetically, that the concrete land promise that a certain eschatological school obsesses about, hardly seems to matter to the New Testament writers. Curious, that.)

I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Those that eat at the eschatological banquet come from all nations.

Are there physical descendants of the patriarch Israel who are now part of God's people through faith in Christ? Yes. Are there physical descendants of the patriarch Israel who are cut off through unbelief? Unfortunately, yes.

I find Christian Identity to be, just, weird. A crackpot racist sect.

Clear enough?

Another "red flag" is when the poster claims that the word "Adam" means white.

I've honestly never heard that one before.

161 posted on 01/15/2011 2:56:18 PM PST by Lee N. Field (Dispensational exegesis not supported by an a-, post- or historic pre-mil scholar will be ignored.)
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