Then you must not be Catholic. Because that is what it is taught you are: spiritual Israel. Cynical Bear has already given you proof from your own church that the RCC believes and teaches she is spiritual Israel.
Then you must not be Catholic.Well there you go jvette, you must be something else, another "church of one with the one opinion that matters" has been heard from!
The Church teaches that the promises of Christ to Israel are no longer limited to a “race” of people but to ALL people who are now one in Christ. One is no longer born into the promises by their physical birth, but through their spiritual birth at baptism.
Israel is no longer just a physical place, but a spiritual one as well.
That is what the new Israel is, not a replacement of the old, but a fulfillment of the old through the new and everlasting Jesus.
It is just like Jesus, He existed from all time as the Second Person of the Trinity, but not as a human.
In the Incarnation, we have the Ancient united with the new(man). Jesus made humanity into a new creation. Did humans not exist before Jesus?
Geesh, get back to me on this when protestants can agree on it themselves. They are all over the map on this one.