“Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
This idea was always one of the hardest things for first century Jews to get their minds and hearts around and it still isn’t widely appreciated today. The Jews of Paul’s day understood the designation “the children of Abraham,” the thing that most gave them their identity, to be a genetic one. Now, no, they didn’t think of it in exactly those terms as they hadn’t been invented yet, but the observation is true nonetheless. Read the rest…
The Nexus 