Davidpt
Well-Known Member
You lost me here. I don't know what you're trying to say. Sometimes you are impossible to follow and this is one of those times.' Can you try again?
What I'm trying to get to the bottom of here, this land in question, what is meant by it? IOW, how does God Himself want us to understand this land meant? In the literal sense or some other sense? Why this matters is because this very same land meant is the same land wherein their fathers have dwelt in the past. And that it is this very same land where they shall dwell in in the future, meaning these---even they, and their children, and their children's children.
And for how long shall they dwell therein? The text tells us that, right? It says this--for ever.
What must be asked now, why this particular piece of land, and why for forever? How can this land where their father's have dwelt not be meaning in the literal sense, but is to be understood in another sense, anything but the literal sense? And once we determine what sense it is meaning in, where we should be able to easily determine that via this--wherein their fathers have dwelt---we then have to apply 'for ever' to this land meant since it is this same land where, even they, and their children, and their children's children, shall be dwelling therein.
IOW, how can they dwell in this land forever unless this same land in question exists forever and that they remain in it forever? Obviously, you can't do something forever unless what you are trying to do forever, that it exists forever. Who has ever heard of such a thing, for example, once someone is in a land, and that they are in this land forever, that if at some point they are no longer in this land ever again for whatever reason, this still equals them being in and remaining in this land forever?
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