Continuing from part 6….
I hope this post concludes my arguments, responses, and all other considerations of the matter – warning: this is a lengthy post! I plan to follow up with a concluding post which explains the ramifications for holding my position.
Conditionality of the Land (follow up)
Before I begin, let me share [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Part 7
As is frequently the case, when publishing a series of posts on my blog, I encounter a lot of comments and counterpoints. This can sidetrack me and lead toward my leaving a series unfinished. Of course there are other reasons for my nack for leaving series unfinished…. I do want to interact with some of [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Part 6
Before continuing with a couple points related more directly to the land promise, and then going on to finish this series, I thought it would be good to address an important side issue. In the comments of part 5, it was again stated that I am wrong for going backward from the New Testament [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Excursus
–continuing from part 4.
I thought that the fifth post would be the last, but Will Dudding brought up some objections in the comments of the last post. This has caused me to dig a little deeper, and in the end has only increased my confidence in this understanding of the land promise. So [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Part 5 (Answering Objections)
–continuing from yesterday’s post.
The Land Promise Fulfilled?
But was the actual promise fulfilled? Were the boundaries of the land promised in Gen. 15:18-21 ever completely owned by Israel? The dispensationalists say no, and they point to history and the Biblical record of what land Israel possessed. The Philistines and other groups remained in the land such [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Part 2
Some of you probably know that I am a former dispensationlist. I have since embraced Covenant Theology, at least in a broad sense. One of the key factors in my change concerning this position centered on the promise of the land.
In my experience, the promise concerning a land for Abraham’s descendants plays a [...]
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