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Clear searchElection within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
What Does "They Are Not All Israel, Which Are of Israel" Mean? Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation Romans 9:6 is often used as a definition of spiritual Israel: "For they are not all Israel, which are of…
Read article →Dave Hunt · Biblical polemic · 2002
…s carefully as he tests Calvinism. The love of God Character of God Calvinism Sovereignty Election Grace Atonement Gospel invitation
View recommendation →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…e saving work described as "all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11:25-27). Nor is Israel's election evidence that God is a respecter of persons. Divine impartiality means that God judges justly and saves no one on the basis of human merit (Romans 2:11; Ephesians 2:8-9). It does no…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…stians not to claim that the accounts are four identical transcripts. But differences in selection and arrangement do not create uncertainty about whether a crucifixion occurred. All four agree upon the controlling framework: Jesus was condemned by Pilate, crucified by Roman sold…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…(Romans 9:6). God distinguished Isaac from Ishmael and Jacob from Esau. This establishes election within Israel, not the disappearance of Israel. Paul has just defined the people under discussion as his physical kinsmen and named the privileges which belong to them. Romans 11 ma…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…to mourning and cleansing. Paul distinguishes Israel's present enmity from its continuing election "for the fathers' sakes". The identity remains stable across sin, judgement, and promised mercy. The texts do not begin with national Israel under judgement and silently change to t…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…promised grafting in of the natural branches shows that it is not final. The patriarchal election explains why Israel remains "beloved for the fathers' sakes" even while opposing the gospel (Romans 11:28). Then comes the covenantal verdict: "For the gifts and calling of God are…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
….” —Romans 11:25–26 Israel remains beloved on account of the patriarchs: “As touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” —Romans 11:28–29 Romans 11 does not restate the geographical boundaries of the la…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…. If the rule is chosen after the numbers are inspected, the pattern partly reflects the selection process. Include the forms which produce the attractive result; exclude those which disturb it. This does not prove dishonesty. Human beings are exceptionally good at noticing corre…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…have no reason to erase what Scripture affirms. But blessing is not the same as covenant election. God named the covenant heir before he was born. He repeated that choice after his birth. He identified the son Abraham was commanded to offer. The rest of Scripture traces the prom…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…r who comes out of Sion and turns away ungodliness from Jacob (Romans 11:26-27). National election never removes the need for personal faith. A future turning of Israel to Christ would be an exhibition of the one gospel's power, not an exception to it. Our treatment of Jewish peo…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…circular. The Qur'an is used to decide which sayings belong to the Injeel. The resulting selection is then said to confirm the Qur'an. Nothing could count against the conclusion because disagreement is automatically classified as corruption. The method also borrows from the very…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…t age as being, with respect to the gospel, "enemies for your sakes," but with respect to election, "beloved for the fathers' sakes" (Romans 11:28). Both statements must be allowed to stand. The Jewish people are not reconciled to God merely by returning to the land or possessing…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ed him, blessed him and promised to make him a great nation. But blessing is not covenant election. God says: “But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year” (Genesis 17:21). When Abraham is tested, the command nam…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…clarity: "As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes." —Romans 11:28 Both halves must be believed. The Jewish people do not possess saving righteousness through covenant ancestry. Rabbinic fait…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…t is evidence of an open historical process of reception and discernment—not an imperial selection committee. In AD 367, forty-two years after Nicaea, Athanasius's Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter supplied the earliest surviving list which names precisely the twenty-seven New Testament…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…ion? Many readers assume the answer is obvious. The New Testament applies the language of election to Christians, so the elect in Matthew 24 must be the Church. If they are gathered after the Tribulation, the passage appears to place the rapture there as well. The first premise i…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…his own day: "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." —Romans 11:5 The earliest Church was born from that believing remnant. Jesus, the apostles, the women who followed Him, the believers gathered before Pentecost, and the t…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…ifies the problem because it does not present a neutral sample of reality. It presents a selection shaped by whom we follow, what attracts engagement, what our contacts share and what a platform predicts will hold our attention. A feed can create the impression that everybody is…
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