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"Even if stoicheic institutions had not been abused, they would become useless once the promise of the Spirit was realized, once the Abrahamic promise came to fruition. Once the gate of Eden is opened again, there is no need for sacrifice; the cherubim lay down their flaming swords and let those who are in Christ enter freely."
— Feb 05, 2025 05:47AM
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Andrew Meredith
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In Chapter 7, Leithart (1) enters the pistis Christou debate on the side of subjective genitive, (2) enters the penal substitutionary debate on the affirmative side, and then (3) skillfully and imo convincingly brings the two together.
Jesus, the faithful High King (David’s greater Son) is the penal substitution for Israel, taking the wrath she deserves as her one-flesh Husband. His faithfulness unto death saves us.
— Aug 24, 2025 07:50AM
Jesus, the faithful High King (David’s greater Son) is the penal substitution for Israel, taking the wrath she deserves as her one-flesh Husband. His faithfulness unto death saves us.
Andrew Meredith
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Leithart provides in chapter 4 one of the most useful systematic treatments on the biblical understanding of "flesh" I have ever encountered.
Too briefly put, "flesh" is (now) godless mortality driven by the fear of death into protectiveness, segregation, violence, and virility to both guard and extend itself.
Thus illuminating circumcision: the removal of flesh by the deliberate cutting of its most potent symbol.
— Aug 22, 2025 05:55AM
Too briefly put, "flesh" is (now) godless mortality driven by the fear of death into protectiveness, segregation, violence, and virility to both guard and extend itself.
Thus illuminating circumcision: the removal of flesh by the deliberate cutting of its most potent symbol.
Andrew Meredith
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A successful theory of the atonement:
1. Historically plausible: a meaningful interpretation of all events
2. Inevitable: end of an obvious trajectory with strong explanatory power for what came before
3. Levitical: fulfillment of ritual, especially sacrifice
4. Evangelical: arises from within Gospels
5. Epistolary: makes sense of words, sentences, arguments in Apostles' letters
6. Fruitful: leads to church history
— Aug 20, 2025 06:39AM
1. Historically plausible: a meaningful interpretation of all events
2. Inevitable: end of an obvious trajectory with strong explanatory power for what came before
3. Levitical: fulfillment of ritual, especially sacrifice
4. Evangelical: arises from within Gospels
5. Epistolary: makes sense of words, sentences, arguments in Apostles' letters
6. Fruitful: leads to church history
Andrew Meredith
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"The common contemporary rhetoric of conflicts between religion and politics obscures the reality. Conflicts are never between politics and religion. Conflicts are always between rivals that are both religious and both political."
— Aug 19, 2025 03:03PM
Andrew Meredith
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"Justification," being declared/proven right, must be placed within the ongoing war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, on which depends the destiny of the cosmos over which mankind has been placed.
Jesus and all who are "in Him" were justified by His resurrection, and with it, a cosmological regeneration began in which the curse of death and the power of Satan is being turned back day by day.
— Aug 19, 2025 05:59AM
Jesus and all who are "in Him" were justified by His resurrection, and with it, a cosmological regeneration began in which the curse of death and the power of Satan is being turned back day by day.
Andrew Meredith
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Leithart spends the last few chapters providing a taxonomy of today's socio-religious landscape outside the Church. He has three designations:
1.) Those still living under the elements (e.g., tribal and more ancestral religions)
2.) Those "on the boundary" whose religion has been Christianized (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, etc.)
3.) Galatianists who were once Christian but have slid back into a world under the elements
— Feb 13, 2025 06:35AM
1.) Those still living under the elements (e.g., tribal and more ancestral religions)
2.) Those "on the boundary" whose religion has been Christianized (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, etc.)
3.) Galatianists who were once Christian but have slid back into a world under the elements
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"Once Jesus has borne the curse for Israel and opened up the flood of the Spirit to the Gentiles, thus creating "the one" that Moses did not mediate, the structures that distinguish Jew from Gentile are pointless. Maintaining such structures is, by Paul's lights, worse than pointless. Anyone who sets up barriers at Eden's gate is trying to reverse the work of Jesus. Anyone who reerects stoicheic barriers between Jew and Gentile is trying to split "the one" that was formed by the Son and Spirit, and implicitly denying the Shema, denying that God is one by denying that his people is one. Galatianism is the heresy of heresies because it is denying the fundamental truth of the gospel: that in the fullness of time God sent his Son to die and rise to justify humanity from sin, to redeem from stoicheia, to bring children to maturity."
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