05-26-2008, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by py3ak  Well, in the interests of full disclosure, when I prepared a sermon on the cities of refuge I also neglected to mention any civil application, taking those passages in their redemptive-historical application. That was where I particularly appreciated Schaeffer's remarks about how the cities of refuge though typifying Christ very remarkably, nonetheless fall far short of exhausting the reality. | I think Greg Bahnsen and Ken Gentry argue that cities of refugee are not for today. Don't know why though? I think they would argue that the law just grants protection to manslayers nowadays.
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Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
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