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To: sr4402
The convenient theological argument is to spiritual[ize] these writings and dismiss them as being fulfilled in the current New Testament Church.

Well, fully, what it does is: (A) spiritualize unfulfilled prophecies of blessing and take them for the Jew/Gentile Christian Church; but (B) leave the cursings all as literal, and all as applying to ethnic Israel only.

Neat, huh?

It is, I say seriously, the sort of "interpretation" we used to do in the New Age cult of Religious Science -- except, thankfully, they almost only do it on prophetic and Israel-related passages. When it comes to soteriological, theological passages, Reformed exegetes are as good as it gets.

Dan
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49 posted on 09/30/2005 12:51:49 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr; sr4402; HarleyD; Frumanchu
When it comes to soteriological, theological passages, Reformed exegetes are as good as it gets.

Well, better to be right on the major issues and wrong on minor ones, than to be majoring on the puzzlement regarding the secular state of Israel and prophecy and allowing wacky theology and soteriology. (Not that reformed folk are wrong on eschatology. We just aren't drinking Scofield's kool aid and seeing the same thing.)

57 posted on 09/30/2005 1:13:27 PM PDT by topcat54
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