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Clear searchIsrael's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
The New Testament Is a Very Jewish Story Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world To many Jewish people, Christianity appears thoroughly foreign. Its historic centres became Rome, Constantinopl…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
Why Did Jesus Choose Twelve Apostles? A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance Jesus did not choose twelve apostles because twelve happened to be a convenient number. He could have appointed seven, sevent…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…r true meaning in Christ and now belong to the multinational Church. Others maintain that Jewish and Gentile believers are one in Christ while national Israel still has an appointed future under the covenants. This is not a contest over which group matters more. Jewish people hav…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…eologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly Gentile, separated socially from Jewish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resultin…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…an did not emerge in a cultural vacuum. It appeared in a world alive with biblical names, Jewish interpretation, Christian preaching, sectarian disagreement, devotional legend and stories carried across languages by travellers, merchants, clergy and ordinary believers. That obser…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…ent teaches a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ, Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled to God in one body. Both possess the same Spirit, approach the same Father, and inherit salvation on the same basis. It also continues to speak of…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…ur Lord." —Ephesians 3:11 The mystery was hidden in earlier ages and revealed through the apostles, but hidden does not mean unplanned (Ephesians 3:3–10). Christ's death occurred according to God's determinate counsel and foreknowledge (Acts 2:23). The Church is therefore neither…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…the movement, not as a disputed Christian invention. Josephus must be used carefully The Jewish historian Josephus is frequently cited as though his evidence were entirely straightforward. It is not. The surviving text of Jewish Antiquities 18.63-64 describes Jesus and says that…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…e an enduring royal house, that Mary would conceive and bear the Son, and that the twelve apostles would sit upon thrones judging Israel's twelve tribes. Every promise depends finally upon Christ and glorifies God through Him. Yet union with Christ does not make every Christian S…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…s” behind the faith of the Church. The familiar suggestion is that Jesus was originally a Jewish teacher, prophet or failed Messiah and that belief in His deity emerged only gradually as later Christians elevated Him. The same account may be encountered in schools and universitie…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…bes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). The symbolism joins the Messiah's future rule, the twelve apostles, and the twelve tribes. As examined earlier in this series, the choice of twelve does not suggest that Israel has vanished; it anticipates Israel put in order under Messiah. Jerusal…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…translation. It begins with Muhammad's circumstances. He was not formed in the recognised Jewish or Christian schools of scriptural learning, yet over approximately twenty-three years he recited a work possessing a distinctive Arabic voice, sustained theological purpose and extra…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…eans for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the strongest opposing arguments, concede what they genuinely…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…this account, the Qur'an confirms the original divine revelations, not every word in the Jewish and Christian books now bearing their names. Surah 5:48 calls the Qur'an muhaymin over previous Scripture - variously understood as guardian, witness, overseer or criterion. Whatever…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…t to stand together. There is one God, one Messiah, one gospel, and one way of salvation. Jewish ancestry does not justify anyone before God. Gentile ancestry excludes no one who comes to Christ by faith. Every sinner must be reconciled through the blood of Jesus, and every belie…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…, convict the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgement (John 16:8–11), guide the apostles into truth and glorify Christ (John 16:13–14). Muhammad came approximately six centuries after those disciples died. He did not dwell within them, bring Christ's teaching to their r…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…rd placed under faithful care. The judgement is not therefore an abstract denunciation of Jewish ethnicity. Nor is it a declaration that God's promises had always belonged spiritually to a different people. It is a polemic against identifiable rulers at a decisive moment in Israe…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Church; any future conversion of Jewish people is their entrance into the Church, not the restoration of Israel as a nation with a distinctive covenant role. That definition identifies the central claim without pretending t…
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