quietthinker
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The purpose of OT writings was to give people a record of God's dealings with them and to point to a greater hope, the embodiment which was in the promises made to the Patriarchs from Adam and in particular Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.Sorry, but your reply does not give enough details as to what you are trying to present. For me it is just meaningless gibberish on your part. I need a properly fleshed out explanation so as to understand what it is you are claiming. It seems to me that you are complicating the Biblical story and how we can come to understand both the Old and New Testaments and how they are intertwined.
Your answer is too cryptic to make much sense at all for me. Can you please provide an expanded explanation so that everybody can understand what you are trying to say.
Ultimately these promises were fulfilled in Jesus as Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 1:20 'For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.'
The understanding of this seems to elude most believers because they do not see how the promises and Jesus, relate. They then for the most part see the Jesus story as largely seperate from OT history. They then cobble selective prophecies and create scenario's which major on present day geographical Israel. ......and then, when they can't or don't want to see the connections they assume my statements are cryptic.
I am not cryptic at all. They have constructed a paradigm which disables them from seeing....just as the Jews did with their Messiah they refused to recognise.
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