Neville Goddard on Romans 9:6-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 9 in context

Scripture Focus

6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Romans 9:6-8

Biblical Context

Not all who are descended from Abraham are truly Israel; the true children are those born of the promise, not merely of the flesh.

Neville's Inner Vision

Romans 9:6-8 shows me that not all who claim Abraham as father are truly Israel; the seed is counted by the promise, not by flesh. In my practice this means the outer lineages and efforts do not determine who is God’s; the true Israel is a state of consciousness, the inner seed Isaac that awakens when faith is kept alive in imagination. The 'children of the flesh' are the habits and identifications born of external lineage; the 'children of the promise' are inner thought-forms that arise from trust in I AM. When I acknowledge the promise as already fulfilled in my own awareness, I am counting myself among the seed. The kingdom, then, arrives not by genealogy or effort but by a leap of faith: the felt reality that imagination creates reality and that God is the I AM within. If I cling to outward conditions, I am counting the flesh; if I dwell in the inner certainty of the promise, I become the seed counted for the seed. This reading frees me to rest in present consciousness rather than future attainment.