Open Access“Guds Israel” i Gal 6,16 og “hele Israel” i Rom 11,26
Author(s) -
Mogens Müller
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
dansk teologisk tidsskrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1902-3898
pISSN - 0105-3191
DOI - 10.7146/dtt.v78i3.105761
Subject(s) - faith , judaism , destiny (iss module) , nobody , theology , interpreter , philosophy , religious studies , physics , astronomy , computer science , programming language , operating system
Earlier interpreters claimed two possibilities with respect to the expression “God’s Israel” in Galatians 6,16: Either it was the Christians irrespective of their ethnical descendence, or it was the Jewish Christians. In the later years a third possibility has made its appearance, namely that it is the real Israel which Paul then has not forgotten and the destiny of which he returns to in Romans 9-11. This article argues that only the first solution corresponds to Paul’s thinking where nobody reach salvation without a faith in Christ working through love. Thus there is only one candidate to the title “God’s Israel” and that is the church.