I draw an example from common human life: grace

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~'into the cool of the morning strolls the pretender
{to change pretense into grace}'~


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{GALATIANS 3:10-18}




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IN
THESE
'myDiVERSES',
PAUL
sets up
his opposition
between physical descent
& genealogy
- which are equal
to the literal,
to Israel according
to the flesh,
which also
corresponds as well
to the historical
Yehoshua -
AND
descent according to
the promise,
Israel according to
the spirit,
which THUS
corresponds to the
'risen'
Christ.


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NTW
has recently contributed
what I take to be
a new and correct interpretation
of this passage.
"SEED" here
does not mean Christ
per se
but rather 'family,'
as its Hebrew original
often does
as well.


IN order
for the traditional Jewish
theological conviction
that in the end
ALL will be saved
through the covenant
to be true,
the promise
must devolve
on ALL
in the
end.


NOW
it does NOT say
'seeds,', families,
but 'seed,'
family,
SO it follows
that for the covenantal promise
to come true,
ALL of humanity
MUST be constituted
through Christ
into a single
seed.


THE Law,
which came later
and serves a temporary function,
could not be the means
by which THIS
will come about,
since IT divides humanity
into families
and does NOT join them
into ONE
seed.


IN
ANY CASE,
"G*d's" promise
is a 'gift of Grace,'
a term which certainly echoes
the Hebrew 'matanat chinam',
where the Hebrew root for grace
is used adverbially
to mean a free,
unconditional
gift.

~verliefd~
engel

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