Posts Tagged "church and israel"
There are two essential questions which this article will seek to address: one political and one theological. They are multifaceted and interwoven. The political question is this: How should Christians view the situation in Israel/Palestine today, where two peoples claim the same territory? How should they regard the State...
Join host Jerry Johnson for this week’s edition of “Against the World”, as Jerry discusses how he noticed that the monikers, names, and labels God used for Israel in the Old Testament were applied to the Church in the New Testament. SEE VIDEO HERE Related Blogs
Gaining a proper understanding of the Greek word ekklēsia, most often translated “church” in the New Testament,[1] is the key in answering the charge that non-dispensationalists teach that the church replaces Israel. The church is not a new thing. The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament defines the Greek...
THE NAME GAME “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” [2:2:43]). Despite Shakespeare names are important. They serve as labels to help quickly identify someone or something. When used of systems of thought, names...
