Eschatology and Soteriology are not separate in Scripture, in contrast with our Modernistic tendency to try to divide things into neat, distinct categories. Rather, eschatology is the consummation of God’s plan to save the world.
If the Church up until now had more consistently taken seriously Paul’s references to “the Jew first, and also to the Greek”, then it wouldn’t have struggled over why it appeared he took a drastic turn in subject matter in Romans 9-11. We would have understood Romans rather as having a singular, flowing argument about God’s plan for the world.
Our ignorance of the Old Testament hasn’t helped matters any.
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