tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post416762375514653347..comments2023-10-15T02:05:39.935-06:00Comments on As it is Written: neglect of electionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-84697872027987533462010-05-09T06:14:19.625-06:002010-05-09T06:14:19.625-06:00His focus isn't at all on the NT. He has one c...His focus isn't at all on the NT. He has one chapter at the end. <br /><br />I would suggest that with most things Paul does with the OT there is both continuity and discontinuity. Election may be modified, but to be properly described as "Jewish" it has to resemble the election of the OT. As I see it, Paul sees most of his Jewish assumptions being re-centered around the significance of the resurrection. As J.L. Martyn suggests, a whole new age has begun and that changes everything, or at least it changes everything to some degree or another.<br /><br />My theological convictions lead me to suggest that election becomes more conditional in the NT and almost entirely instrumental. In the OT, however, there are more cases of election seeming like unfair favoritism. Within this paradigm I have to be careful not to devalue Judaism as the foil for superior Christianity. Still, I am in fact a Christian and not a Jew so . . .<br /><br />One issue that crops up in all this is the whole concept of fair and justice. What in the ANE and Greco-Roman world can be described as "fair" is not necessarily the same as the contemporary Western mind.<br /><br />Good question Eric. I don't know that I've done much in the way of answering so much as clarifying how to move forward. What are your thoughts on the same questions?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14412247474926594732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588016437086497122.post-15714956032595304632010-05-07T17:06:38.839-06:002010-05-07T17:06:38.839-06:00Does he, and would you, argue that election in the...Does he, and would you, argue that election in the OT and NT should function in exactly the same way? Are there any ways in which the concept has been redefined by Paul?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com