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Clear searchHow the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
Christ, the End of the Law? What Paul Meant in Romans 10:4 How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ Few sentences have carried more weight in Christian discussions of the Law than Romans 10:4: "For…
Read article →Seth D. Postell, Eitan Bar & Erez Soref · Messianic biblical theology · 2017
…makes the discussion especially valuable, while the book's clarity opens questions about law, grace, Messiah, and Christian obedience to readers without specialist training. The relationship between the Mosaic Law and believers in Christ is deeply disputed among Christians and M…
View recommendation →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…y? Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ Israel broke God's law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, the temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations. Does covenant unfaithf…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…conditional, that the promise was fulfilled in Joshua's generation, and that the obsolete Mosaic covenant has given way to an international people of God in Christ. Several parts of this argument are sound. Israel's life in the land was conditioned upon covenant obedience. Gentil…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…tile believers in Galatia were being pressured to receive circumcision and come under the Mosaic law. Paul treats that demand as a denial of the sufficiency of Christ. The Spirit had been received by the hearing of faith, not by works of the law (Galatians 3:1-5). Paul appeals to…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…accomplish what He had spoken (Genesis 17:7-8, 19; 22:15-18). Paul later insists that the Mosaic law, given centuries afterwards, could not disannul this earlier promise or make it of none effect (Galatians 3:17). Israel's transgression under the later law cannot logically become…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ssion. Gentiles were entering the people of God without circumcision or submission to the Mosaic law. James recognised this as the work of God and appealed to Amos: "God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…il Israel's history presents a severe test of theology. God chose the nation, gave it His law, sent it prophets, and brought the Messiah through its line. Israel repeatedly rebelled and, when Messiah came, the nation did not receive Him. What happens to divine promises when their…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…g. Some early Christian writers defended essential truths: Jesus is Israel's Messiah, the law cannot justify, Gentiles are full heirs in Christ, and the Old Testament finds its goal in Him. Yet those truths were sometimes joined to a further conclusion which the apostles had not…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…sus proclaims the kingdom, expounds Scripture, speaks with His own authority, fulfils the Law and prophets, and commissions witnesses. His words and deeds are then proclaimed and written. Islam appears to place Jesus within its own repeated model of a prophet receiving a book. Th…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…r, circumcised on the eighth day, presented at the temple, and raised in obedience to the law of Moses (Luke 2:21-24). Paul summarises His historical setting: "God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law." —Galatians 4:4 He attended the synagogue, went up to Jerus…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…ween two saving programmes. When Israel is restored, the nation will not return to God by law, ancestry, temple sacrifice, or a separate covenantal path. Israel will look upon the One whom it pierced, receive cleansing, and know the same Jesus whom the Church proclaims (Zechariah…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ment, vindication, and the establishment of justice. Israel's judges did more than decide lawsuits. God raised them to deliver and govern His people. Moses heard disputes and made God's statutes known, while appointed rulers dealt with ordinary cases (Exodus 18:13-26). The promis…
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