Regaining my focus...
Scratched at the bottom of an ashtray:
"How would a Christian tell a Jew that he/she was lost, but Abraham (and other believing Jews) were saved? IOWs, how would you differentiate between the faith of two Jews, one Abraham, one now?"
Now you've stepped into the TR territory of Federal Theology, Mr. iMonk. Either you're very lost...or...you're beginning to acquire some inkling of understanding of biblical doctrine...
You tell him Abraham had faith in the coming Messiah. Do you, generic Jew, have faith in that same Messiah Who has now come and will come again to consumate the end of the age and inaugurate a new Heaven and Earth? No? Then you don't have the faith Abraham had. Yes, there's no getting around John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
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Well put. I think of it as, if Abraham could have been transported to Moses' time, he wouldn't have said, "I don't have to obey the law given on Sinai, I was born in a different Dispensation." As a regenerate person, he would have wanted to obey God's revelation at whatever level it had reached at that point.
Thank you.
Abraham would have seen the types and shadows of Christ the coming Messiah in the ceremonial and various other laws and it would have meshed with the revelation he'd already been given in his own time, and it would have strengthened his faith, which would already have been present. The moral laws would just have reminded him he couldn't perform them perfectly and that he needed a Saviour.
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