Posted by admin at May 2nd, 2006
The passage in question is often used as a prooftext that the law was abolished in order to establish the new covenant. If it was so, what we call “new covenant” is not the new covenant of Jeremiah, which is the law in the heart, not the absence of the law. (more…)
Posted by admin at April 3rd, 2006
Reading Rabbi Schulman’s commetary we realise that the servant of God spoken of by Isaiah is the righteous remnant of Israel in the messianic times.
How can that be still applied to Jesus? How did he fulfill these prophecies? Are the gospel writers at fault when they claim he did fulfil these prophecies? (more…)
Posted by admin at April 1st, 2006
This theology has been held by various churches right from the early centuries. It says that God changed his mind and now all promises and blessings made to Israel go to the Church. Israel totally lost God’s favour and they have no place in God’s future plan as a nation, except as part of the Church.
This theology, however, totally ignores the nature of covenants. (more…)
Posted by admin at March 15th, 2006
Jeremiah 16:19 “LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.” (more…)
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