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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Why don’t you tell me what the promises that were made to Abraham were? What exactly did the Abrahamic Covenant consist of? Your answer will answer your own question.


64 posted on 10/15/2011 6:33:55 PM PDT by smvoice (The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
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To: smvoice

LOL, didn’t your mother ever tell you, you can’t answer a question with a question?

i think we all understand why you won’t answer who the heirs are, it doesn’t quite fit the “dispensational” fantasies.


65 posted on 10/15/2011 6:43:28 PM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: smvoice
What exactly did the Abrahamic Covenant consist of?

It ain't what you think.

Heb 11:8-10 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Now it would seem mighty strange for Abraham, the guy who was actually there and wrestled with God, to be wrong in understanding the Covenant that God made with him. That is what Dispensationalists claim. They claim that Abraham had no idea about the meaning of the Covenant, and neither has thousands of years of people "of like faith of Abraham" (Gal 3). Instead, beginning in the middle 19th century from the same place, time and culture as the birth of Marxism and Evolution comes this idea that Abraham was gravely mistaken and foolish in looking at the Heavenly Kingdom when in fact he should have been thinking of 21st century Israel.

Judging by the rest of Hebrews 11, the Futurists must also think all the Patriarchs were crazy lunatics desiring "a better, heavenly country" and had no clue to the real deal God was talking about - modern Tel Aviv.

117 posted on 10/15/2011 10:00:28 PM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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