What Are the Gifts Without Repentance?

Gifts Without Repentance
August 3rd, 2011 | Speaking in Tongues | No Comment  
Gifts Without Repentance What are the gifts without repentance in Romans 11:29? In an attempt to find passages that support an ongoing charismata, i.e. spiritual gifts in operation beyond 70AD, Romans 11:17 is cited to show that God would never end spiritual gifts until we arrived in heaven.  However, the statement has to be taken in context. It appears to be a reference to Numbers 23:19-20: God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will  He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it goood? ...
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Romans 11 and Israel, Has God Cast Away His People...

March 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | 4 Comments  
We are responding to Dr. Edward Hinson’s attack on Preterism. Among questions entertained already, he submits yet another one which he believes refutes Preterism. Paul asks in “Romans 11, Has God Cast Away His People, Israel?” Dr. Hinson teaches Preterism implies such. We deny the charge. He asks, “If God is finished with ethnic Israel, why did Paul ask: “Has God cast away his people?”  “And why did he respond so emphatically, “ God forbid!” (Rom. 11:1) First we must note that this text is written prior to A.D. 70. At that time God had not cast off the Old Covenant nation. However, today, since that ...
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