https://mysteryofisrael.org/articles/why-the-jew/ Reflections on the Mystery of Israel and the Church – – – by Reggie Kelly Sat, 17 Jul 2021 04:42:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mysteryofisrael.org/articles/why-the-jew/#comment-26 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:17:24 +0000 http://the.mysteryofisrael.org/?page_id=155#comment-26 […] based on merit (Ro 9:11; see my articles: “The Key of the Mystery in the Reign of Grace” and “Why the Jew?”). As Christ is a calculated offense to test the hearts of Jews, just so, Jewish election is a […]

]]> https://mysteryofisrael.org/articles/why-the-jew/#comment-25 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:34:17 +0000 http://the.mysteryofisrael.org/?page_id=155#comment-25 […] While I’ve read many writers such as Spurgeon and others from what is usually called the Reformed tradition, I’ve never made a sustained study of “Calvinism” as a system of theology, nor have I read anything by Calvin. But over time, I came to find that all that God revealed to me in my early years concerning Israel seemed always to get me identified in some way with Calvinism. Why? Well, it is because one cannot wade too deep into the subject of Israel without raising all the old questions of predestination, and from that must follow a number of other difficult questions and issues that are notoriously controversial. We see that Paul could not approach the question concerning God’s faithfulness towards Israel without first passing through the deep waters of predestination theology in Ro 9. It would be otherwise impossible to give any satisfaction to the great issues of the faith that Israel is divinely intended to raise and to press (see my article “Why the Jew”). […]

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