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
–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 part 3.
Here is a fourth, and most definitive basis for “spiritualizing” the land promise….
4) The connection between land and rest
To start, read these verses in Hebrews 4.
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Part 4
–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 [...]
Continue reading about Understanding the Land Promise: Part 1
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Thanks Matt. Good thoughts.
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