"replacement theology" - what is it?

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But I think dispensationalism says the Jews are under a separate covenant, and are saved outside the Cross...
I think they believe that Israel is saved by grace through faith but they have to keep the law in order to please God or stay saved. But apparently God gives them a pass on perfectly keeping the law.
 
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God gave Ninevah 40 days to repent. Likewise Judah had 40 years to repent of their sins.
That is why the John the Baptist started his ministry of repentence in AD27.

Ad27 to AD 67 = 40 years.

In AD67 the guillotine came down on Judah and Jerusalem.

No biblical proof Just more trying to make things which which have no proof.

Nice theory. But I will stick to the word.


Daniel was told Israel would have 70 years to repent from a preset time.. But during that time certain things would happen. Jesus said when he entered jerusalem the DAY he was introduced as messiah, If Isreal only knew this hour of her calliing, But now it was hidden from her. because she was unwilling. So the other OT prophesies concerning the gentiles who would be given what Isreal lost. are fulfilled.

It is ALL part of the mystery.. You do not get the doctrine of the mystery from a small passage, it takes the whole book.
 
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Galatians 4:22-31
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.


Don't these verses close the case?

Jews are in bondage with Jerusalem which now is, and was 2000 yrs ago.

The children who receive the promises of Abraham are the children of faith. Not a race of people born in the flesh.

Is God finished with these children of the flesh? No, He is still bringing them to Christ.

Is this considered replacement theology? Not really. Spiritual Israel was always a different thing than physical Israel. Same with right now. We are part of Spiritual Israel and have not, nor ever could, replace Spiritual Israel. Spiritual Israel was always the Real, the Truth, that the shadow, the flesh, was pointing to.





This true and amen.

But we are not talking about Spiritual Israel. And eternal life through christ.

we are talking about Physical Israel. and their role in the history, present and future of the world as the bible tells it through the OT record of events which occurred, and prophetic word which says what things have not yet occurred, but we can be assured they will..

The divide seems to be people want to make it one issue concerning one context, when it is not.
 
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This true and amen.

But we are not talking about Spiritual Israel. And eternal life through christ.

we are talking about Physical Israel. and their role in the history, present and future of the world as the bible tells it through the OT record of events which occurred, and prophetic word which says what things have not yet occurred, but we can be assured they will..

The divide seems to be people want to make it one issue concerning one context, when it is not.
What promise or covenant was given to Israel that didn't require them to keep 100% of the covenant in order for the covenant to be valid?
 

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No biblical proof Just more trying to make things which which have no proof.

Nice theory. But I will stick to the word.


Daniel was told Israel would have 70 years to repent from a preset time.. But during that time certain things would happen. Jesus said when he entered jerusalem the DAY he was introduced as messiah, If Isreal only knew this hour of her calliing, But now it was hidden from her. because she was unwilling. So the other OT prophesies concerning the gentiles who would be given what Isreal lost. are fulfilled.

It is ALL part of the mystery.. You do not get the doctrine of the mystery from a small passage, it takes the whole book.
A day = a year

Jesus gave the false religious nuts the sign of Jonah

Do you want me to wet nurse you through it all?
 
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Where does I give this land as a gift forever come from?
Gen 17: [SUP]8 [/SUP]Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

When God says forever, I think we need to take God at his word. And we have the following known facts to adhere too.

1. No condition was given to keep this land, at the time God gave the covenant. So it is not a conditional covenant, it is a grace gift,
2. God (in Lev 26 and a few other passages) Gave Israel the requirement of living in peace in the land God gave to their them through their father.

.....If they obeyed God and lived righteousnely, God would bless them


......If they sinned against God, God would punish them, If they continued God would punish them 7 times more, Up to the point, where God would have an enemy attack them, Destroy their city and sanctuary and make it desolate. Take them as slaves and scatter them all of the earth.


...... If they repented, God would remember the promise, and remember the land. The promise which says the land belongs to them, through the father, as romans 11 says, The gift of God are irrevocable. IF, (that is a bug if) they repent (prophesy says they will) then they will be restored.

Until then God will keep their line in tact, by always keeping a "remant" of jews who will not only be saved, but keep the law given to THEM (Not taint their bloodline by taking foreign wife) because once the bloodline is destroyed, there can be no more remnant, Isreal as a nation is gone forever
 
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What promise or covenant was given to Israel that didn't require them to keep 100% of the covenant in order for the covenant to be valid?


why did God initiate a system of sacrifices if He thought they would keep His covennt

do you not know that as the initiator, God chooses whether or not to cancel it?

where is the bill of divorcement He says...

if we are unfaithful, God remains faithful

your answers simply reflect a poor understanding of scripture

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Isaiah 50:1
 
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God doesnt make mistakes. The idea that when the Jews rejected Jesus as Messiah he had to cobble together the Church as Plan B is ridiculous and blasphemous but this is a key part of the dispensationalist belief that Scofield and others promoted.

oh??

I am a dispensationalist. And I do not believe this, God prophesied in the OT Isreal would reject.. I do nto believe scofield did either, he gets a bad rep.. (people think he tought Jews were saved by law. and the church by grace, which is also not true)
 
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Well you probably understand Dispensationalism much better than I do Tanakh.

But yes, it is a ridiculous idea.
Yes it is, which is why all people dispensationalist or whatever, need to reject the notion.

I have never heard that taught before, so I am not sure it is even true.
 

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A covenant is like a contract.

If you break it you
reap certain undesirable outcomes.

In the case of Abraham's covenant, anybody who broke the covenant was expelled from the covenantal agreement.
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i agree Dispensationalism is ridiculous
A man made theory that twists scriptures to make it believable for those that want to believe the lies.
wow. such wisdom and knowledge here, I think based on this, I should rethink my position.

Yeh this really helps dude, The same thing can be said about preterism and ammilenialism..

instead of ttacking people. lets try to discuss, or is that something we should not do?
 
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Jacob had major trouble in AD 70, is something coming worse than them be annihilated back then?

Jacob had major trouble in daniels day And never realy got out of trouble that is why from the time babylon took over cannan, until today, Gentiles have trampled on that land (of course daniel was told this would happen with the statue and gentile beast prophecy)

So this line of reasoning is extremely flawed. Jacob just did not mess up in AD 70 if nothing else, they crucified christ when?)
 
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The bottom line is that the Church is Israel, and therefore it is an oxymoron to say that the Church has replaced Israel, and I don't think anyone in their right mind would or could say that.

I guess that false doctrine must have been floated for those who want a state in the Middle East to have a straw man to bash. Sorry, I can't see it any other way.

Regarding the Jews and their special use, maybe that is something dealt with in the Davidic covenant.

But yet replacement theology is rampant,

It states the promises given to Isreal are ot given the to the church. Which is error
 
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But I think dispensationalism says the Jews are under a separate covenant, and are saved outside the Cross...
NO, THEY DO NOT. PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY BELIEVE, and not the SLANDER and LIES which are brought against us.

Yes, some do believe this, but that does not make the whole doctrine wrong

Dispensationalsim is not about how people Got saved when, It tried to break history down into different area where God dealt with mankind on earth different ways, or make history alittle easier to understand.

They do that in history books, it is called chapters, or era's.

A dispensation is a unit of time, nothing more nothing less.
 
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that's where it started, and that's where it always ends up (stated or not).
total anti-Semitism.
No it is not, and I am sick of this lie.

I am not going to go the antisemitism rout, It got us both in trouble before and you know it, (which is why I am trying not to discuss this with you) and I am amazed you feel safe enough to do it yet again
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I think they believe that Israel is saved by grace through faith but they have to keep the law in order to please God or stay saved. But apparently God gives them a pass on perfectly keeping the law.
Again no Most do not believe this, so please. lets stop..

You do not tear down a whole belief system just because a few people may add things which most do not believe.

 
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What promise or covenant was given to Israel that didn't require them to keep 100% of the covenant in order for the covenant to be valid?

None,, No one could keep the law 100% so it would be rediculous to ask someone to do something they could not do.

Thats why the abrahamic covenant, which consisted of a FEW promises, not just one, was unconditional. Because no one could keep the condition.

That is where grace comes in, and we can see Gods grace in how he dealt with Isreal. How many years of sin did they live in before God destroyed them the first time.
 
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A covenant is like a contract.

If you break it you
reap certain undesirable outcomes.

In the case of Abraham's covenant, anybody who broke the covenant was expelled from the covenantal agreement.

Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant
Abrahams covenant was not conditional. God made the promise, after he put abraham to sleep Abraham did not say, I promise to do this in return, if you do that, He could not, because he was asleep.

God walked down the middle. And God said "I WILL"

It is not a conditional covenant (if you do this, I will do that) it is a non conditional covenant (I will do this, no matter what you do)
 
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Gen 17: [SUP]8 [/SUP]Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

When God says forever, I think we need to take God at his word. And we have the following known facts to adhere too.

1. No condition was given to keep this land, at the time God gave the covenant. So it is not a conditional covenant, it is a grace gift,
2. God (in Lev 26 and a few other passages) Gave Israel the requirement of living in peace in the land God gave to their them through their father.

.....If they obeyed God and lived righteousnely, God would bless them


......If they sinned against God, God would punish them, If they continued God would punish them 7 times more, Up to the point, where God would have an enemy attack them, Destroy their city and sanctuary and make it desolate. Take them as slaves and scatter them all of the earth.


...... If they repented, God would remember the promise, and remember the land. The promise which says the land belongs to them, through the father, as romans 11 says, The gift of God are irrevocable. IF, (that is a bug if) they repent (prophesy says they will) then they will be restored.

Until then God will keep their line in tact, by always keeping a "remant" of jews who will not only be saved, but keep the law given to THEM (Not taint their bloodline by taking foreign wife) because once the bloodline is destroyed, there can be no more remnant, Isreal as a nation is gone forever
The covenant in Genesis 17 is to Abraham and his seed. Who is that seed, flesh descendants or Christ?
 
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why did God initiate a system of sacrifices if He thought they would keep His covennt

do you not know that as the initiator, God chooses whether or not to cancel it?

where is the bill of divorcement He says...

if we are unfaithful, God remains faithful

your answers simply reflect a poor understanding of scripture

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Isaiah 50:1
Here's why God initiated a sacrificial system.

Hebrews 10:1-4 KJV
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. [2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. [4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.