And I just showed you that Abraham understood "the land promise" as the new Jerusalem,
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. Heb.11:16
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Heb.13:14
No. You showed what Abraham considered of most value. Not what God gave him and his family.
Gen 15:
17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day
the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying:
“
To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Gen 17:
8 Also I
give to you and your descendants after you the land in[f] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as
an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Sorry man. But this is NOT new jerusalem.
Once again. You have to put things in Context.
It certainly does, or Paul wouldn't have mentioned it.
It certainly Does not. It is Paul answering the argument did God make a mistake choosing Israel. It has nothing to do with Land. Otherwise he contradicts himself in Chapter 11. And we might as well through romans out of the bible
The covenant between Christ and Abraham isn't my bias.
No, Its how you interpret the covenant.
[quote}No it isn't, because the contrast is between the covenant God made with Abraham in Christ vs. the law through Moses,[/quote]
The law of moses was given to one of His children.
The covenant, about blessing is given to all his seed. and all the world.
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, Gal.3:17
What does this have to do with the abrahamic covenant. ? Get off the law. that is not what we are discussing
And to thy seed, which is Christ. Gal.3:16
THE SEED IS CHRIST. WAKE UP.
Christ was not promised the land of canaan. The land was promised to him, Isaac and Jacob .
YOU WAKE UP!
The argument is being one in Christ vs not being one in Christ,
There is neither Jewnor Greek...for ye who are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal.3:28
Here's your problem,
they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Rom.10:2
That is not my argument at all.
My argument is about the land given to Abraham Isaac and Jacob as an eternal possession.
Your trying to replace that covenant with the church. YOUR WRONG.