THESIS 31: THE PROMISED LAND

A parcel of land was promised to Abraham as a place where "the seed of the woman"[99] could multiply and eventually produce a Messiah, the Savior of the World.[100] The land functioned as a kind of geographical incubator for the genetic line leading to Christ.[101] In the New Covenant, neither the land nor the raising of seed[102] has any prophetic or moral importance, the Seed having come.[103] Christians, as the true heirs of Abraham,[104] are promised the entire world.[105]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

99. Genesis 3:15

100. Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 15:18; 17:8; 22:17-18; Hebrews 2:16

101. Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38

102. Genesis 3:15; 16:2; 19:32; 38:8ff.; Leviticus 12; 15:16-32

103. Galatians 3:16; 1 Timothy 3:2; Luke 20:35; Galatians 3:19

104. Galatians 3:7,9,14,28-29; Romans 4:13,16; 9:8; 1 Peter 1:23

105. Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Psalm 2:8; #93

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