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The Church of Scotland: The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/inheritance-of-abraham-with-track-changes.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n “The ‘promised land’ in the Bible is not a place, so much as a metaphor of how things ought to be among the people of God. This ‘promised land’ can be found \u2013 or built \u2013 anywhere.”<\/em><\/p>\n “From this examination of the various views in the Bible about the relation of land to the people of God, it can be concluded that Christians should not be supporting any claims by Jewish or any other people, to an exclusive or even privileged divine right to possess particular territory.” HATS OFF to The Church of Scotland,<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam ———————————————————————–<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ePalestine Blog:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.epalestine.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ———————————————————————–<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don’t miss this one: May 2013 The Church of Scotland: The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’ https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/inheritance-of-abraham-with-track-changes.pdf “The ‘promised land’ in the Bible is not a place, so much as a metaphor of how things ought to be among the people of God. This ‘promised land’ can be found \u2013 or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":" Don't miss this one:\n May 2013<\/p>\n The Church of Scotland: The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the 'promised land'<\/span>\n\n\n\nhttp:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0010\/14050\/Inheritance_of_Abraham_.pdf<\/a>\n\n\n\n\"The 'promised land' in the Bible is not a place, so much as a metaphor of how things ought to be among the people of God. This 'promised land' can be found \u2013 or built \u2013 anywhere.\"<\/em>\n\n\n\n\"From this examination of the various views in the Bible about the relation of land to the people of God, it can be concluded that Christians should not be supporting any claims by Jewish or any other people, to an exclusive or even privileged divine right to possess particular territory.\"\n <\/em>\n<\/strong><\/p>\nHATS OFF to The Church of Scotland,<\/strong><\/p>\nSam\n<\/strong>\n\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ePalestine Blog:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.epalestine.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,88,811,812,117,1387,433],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-church-of-scotland","tag-god","tag-israeli-settlements-settlers-and-settler-colonialism","tag-jews-and-judaism","tag-kairos-palestine"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10219,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/10219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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