@Ash_Kvetchum @Omega_Variant @Xenophon >if is the case that we can refuse salvation, it is a necessary extension that Christ will not have saved all of Israel if salvation (again, if it is dependent upon any belief/action on our part). That is contrary to God’s proclamation that all of Israel will be saved—a proclamation even reiterated in the NT by Paul.
I find this more valid as evidence that Israel is not a birthright but a description of The Church— the people who have chosen to serve Him are Israel, and they are saved because He saves Israel. I won't deny that what you are saying is logically consistent within the paradigm, but I still do not accept the paradigm.
>dispensationalists declare “The Church is now Israel.”
Usually they declare "the church needs to give more money to Israel" but jokes aside, that's more of an amillennialist view is it not? My dispensationalist friends mostly view Israel and the people who call themselves jews as equivalent to the Israel of the NT, despite that being silly and borderline heresy do to Christ's own words.
>‘generation’ is awkwardly placed in the NT wherever the Koine Greek says ‘race’ very, very clearly.
That is very interesting. The first I've heard of this, honestly.