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To: Judith Anne

Did the church replace Israel?


100 posted on 08/30/2009 4:06:19 PM PDT by marbren
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To: marbren

The New Covenant fulfilled the Old.


102 posted on 08/30/2009 4:29:10 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Drill here! Drill NOW! Defund the EPA!)
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Did the church replace Israel?

Do you also believe in replacement theology?

Christ's church is the continuation of the people of God in the era after Christ's resurrection and ascension.

"Replacement Theology" is a category that doesn't even make sense in a Christian context outside of dispensationalism. Dispensationalism's fundamental error about Israel and the church prevents it's holders from seeing the continuity and proper distinction between the old covenant and the new.

"Q:What believest thou concerning the 'holy catholic church' of Christ? A: That the Son of God from the beginning to the end of the world, gathers, defends, and preserves to himself by his Spirit and word, out of the whole human race, a church chosen to everlasting life, agreeing in true faith; and that I am and forever shall remain, a living member thereof. "

" 39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. " Hebrews 11

115 posted on 08/30/2009 4:53:59 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ( "Dispensationalists say the darndest things!")
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To: marbren; Judith Anne
Did the church replace Israel?

What do you think Peter, Paul, James and John, Matthew, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon would all say?

"Replace" is the wrong word. The question demonstrates a fundamentally errant view of the relationship between the old covenant and the new covenant, between the old covenant people of God and the new covenant people of God, who are one and the same.

"Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands-- that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone," (Ephesians 2:11-20)

"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy." (1 Peter 2:9,10)

126 posted on 08/30/2009 5:22:30 PM PDT by topcat54 ("If Israel is 'God's prophetic clock,' then dispensationalists do not know how to tell time.")
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