Whose Promised Land by Colin Chapman

Author:Colin Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lion Hudson
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 4:13

Kenneth Bailey has pointed out that Paul is referring here to the promise in Genesis that Abraham and his descendants would inherit the land, but that in referring to this promise he substitutes ‘the world’ (Greek kosmos) for ‘the land’. He explains Paul’s thinking as follows:

For Paul, the ‘children of Abraham’ are those Jews and Gentiles who through faith in Christ have been made righteous. The ‘land’ becomes the ‘world’ (kosmos), which is the inheritance of the righteous.24

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