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At the outset of the central argument in the Letter to the Galatians, Paul asks his readers the question: "This alone I want to know from you: was it from works of the law that you received the Spirit, or from the proclamation of faith?" (Gal 3:2). The tone of the question, in a…

This dissertation argues that in recent new creation conceptions of the final state there is a logical inconsistency between the use of Old Testament texts to inform a renewed earth and the exclusion of the territory of Israel from that renewed earth. By examining a select group…