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November 6, 2017
An Anglican View of the Balfour Declaration
If God’s promise to give the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob can be canceled, the salvation promised by Christianity “is nullified in a plethora of meaningless metaphors.”
A persistent question in Christianity is how to understand God’s promises to Israel in the Hebrew Bible. Did the Church replace (or “supersede”) Israel, thus voiding the Sinaitic covenant? Or do the Jews remain God’s chosen people? And if the latter, must Christians believe that His promise to give the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob remains in effect? The answers given to these questions affect Christian attitudes not just toward Jews but also toward Zionism. Reflecting on last week’s centenary of the Balfour Declaration, an Anglican theologian writing under the pseudonym Archbishop Cranmer addresses them through the lens of the Church of England’s theology:
November 6, 2017
An Anglican View of the Balfour Declaration
If God’s promise to give the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob can be canceled, the salvation promised by Christianity “is nullified in a plethora of meaningless metaphors.”
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