2006-07-25 06:12:50 · 21 answers · asked by ma_2st 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've been studying the word promise in the bible and i believe that the promise it speaks of to Abraham's seed is refering to Chriatians // Take you concordance and see if that is correct/ So would that mean that Christians are the spirtual Jews of Israel?
2006-07-25 06:19:08 · update #1
The Seed of Abraham are the Jews.. they are his descendants, however, Christians become "engrafted" and adopted into God's family.
2006-07-25 06:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it nothing wrong with the Jews. Jews are God chosen people. However there are some who is waiting for the Messiah (jesus) and didn't believe that He had already came 2000 years ago...
The seed refers to all those who believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ . God used abraham decendent until Joseph (jesus 's earthly father) so that God's plan may be fulfill .
Read John 3:16
"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life."
John 3:17
God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.
Joh 3:18 Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
When u read the bible ask God to speak to you and give you wisdom
jocelyn
2006-07-25 13:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by jocelyn y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acts 7:4 "That having gone out, out of the land of the Chaldaeans (this is Abraham) he resided in Charran and thence after his father died off he re-settled into this land to which you yourselfs are residing now and he gave not to him inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set foot on it, and he promised to give it to him with reference to a holding it down and to his seed after him while not being to him a child". So this is a promise that God intends to keep, is he going to keep it? Well look what Jesus said in Luke 13:28--"There will be the wheeping and the gnashing of the teeth at the time that you might see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the phophets and the kingdom of the God, but you being cast out without".
He is going to give the land to Abraham, he promised it and he will keep the promise, Jesus verified it verse 29--"They will be present from sunrisings and sunsettings from north and south they will be reclined again in the kingdom of the God".
2006-07-25 13:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by J. P. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham according to the Quran had many descendants out of which were Bani Israel as well. They were cursed by God because they betrayed him and his prophets. God mad the promise to Abraham which is true so then the children of Ismail who are in Arabia are the blessed ones.
2006-07-25 13:18:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was promised a son that would populate the earth, the number of the grains of the sand in the desert. Sarah, however, was almost 80 years old. So, when Sarah was told that Abraham would have another son, she knew she was barren. So, she sent her handmaiden, Hagar, into Abraham and "she laid with him." From that encounter, a son was born---Ishmael.
After Ishmael was born, God kept his promise and Sarah became pregnant with Isaac. Isaac was born---and Isaac was the son that God had promised.
Sarah and Hagar were quarreling all the time, because Hagar believed Ishmael was the son foretold by God. Sarah then kicked out Hagar and her son, Ishmael, and sent them into the desert to make their way as best they could.
From Ishmael, we have Islam. From Isaac, we have the Children of Israel--God's chosen people.
Because of Sarah's lack of faith, she sinned. Because of Hagar having relations with Abraham, she sinned. So, both of the children were born into a feud situation. Islam perpetuated as well as Judaism. But God's prophecy was fulfilled. Their numbers multiplied "as the grains of sand in the desert."
2006-07-25 13:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of the Old Testament ONLY the Israelites.
And most still apply ONLY to the Israelites
After Christ it opened many to gentiles.
I did not say Jews because the Jews are only the tribe of
Juda, Benjamin, and part of levite
2006-07-25 13:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Abraham's descendants are the Jewish people (except the converts, who become descendants in spirit). If you mean to say that the Jews became the Christians, the majority of us are descended from the pagans who became Gentile converts to Christianity.
2006-07-25 13:20:23 · answer #7 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is referring both to the physical seed of Abraham AND to Christians, who claim Abraham as their father according to faith.
If we are "grafted" into the Hebrew olive tree, that doesn't mean that the tree will not keep on growing.
2006-07-25 13:21:39 · answer #8 · answered by freelancenut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Muslims think it belongs to them. They also see Ishmael, the child of the slave girl as the child of promise. The Old Testament says that Isaac is the child of promise. Their Koran is different that our Bible.
2006-07-25 13:18:05 · answer #9 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol..There were no christians before christ..and since abraham was b4 christ..i would say, No. Christianity was created by the roman empire to control the people, I know its hard to believe but look at your current government, do you think people in power were any different back then.
2006-07-25 13:19:04 · answer #10 · answered by batai_68 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋