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Acts 4&5 line up perfectly with Hebrews 11, and the actual words of the covenant made in Gen 15.
I do not remember going through all this with you, but I will accept your response on that.
While I believe the covenant of the promise of a resurrection (unto an eternal inheritance) was established in Isaac, It was fulfilled in Christ.
The covenant made in Genesis 17 is that which gives God as the God of all his seed, Royal seed, and the hope of the resurrection to an etrnal inheritance to all the seed upon whom the promise comes (by faith).
The Church of the firstborn were the circumcision in the flesh which entered into the new birth by the spirit which the uncircumcision share.
We are saved the same way...…...circumcision made without hands and heirs of the promise....
Lu 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Mt 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Mr 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
It may have been somone else and you are just asking identical questions
Acts 7:4 & 5 - No problem with Hebrews. But you run into problems. Example: Gen 11:26 has Terach being 70 when Abraham was born. Gen 12:4 says Abraham was 75 when he left Charan, and so Terach must have been 145. Gen 11:32 tells us that Terach died at 205, 60 years later.
It is not a world stopping problem, but it throws some confusion on Stephen's comments at this point, which are understandable given what was happening to him. We all make genuine mistakes at times!
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