Here is the verse . . . "As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes."
Abiding, that simple conjunction is the problem with your position. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies. . . but . . ." Though "de" can be translated in different ways, in this passage "de" is translated "but" by all major authorities.
That but shows opposing thoughts: " enemies of the Gospel, but . . ."
But what? ". . . but "elect . . ." in Greek "ekloge," defined by every major authority as "divine selection, choice," referring everywhere else in the New Testament to the Gentile believers.
Now you can't have election working for Gentile believers everywhere else in the New Testament and say, "Oh no, that word means something different for the Jews and I'll use other verses to show why that can't be true."
It is faulty exegesis to proclaim one verse of scripture subordinate to another, each is the Word of God. Romans 11:28 can be believed as stated, even if it were the only verse in the Bible! This is not to imply that all Jews of the Christian era are saved, but the Bible tells us who is . . .
"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
Notice that the Lord is not speaking about the Gentile church, but about the Jews of the Christian era, and whether it goes along with our doctrine or not, their "praise is of God." Why do you think Preterists are so in love with Replacement Theology? If God is still dealing with the Jewish people during the Christian era, then the verses above and many like it are the death-knell of their view.
there it is...
Replacement Theology.
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"There is no such thing as "Replacement Theology." Critics of historic Reformed theology misrepresent their position by asserting the Church has replaced Israel.
There is one people of God. This singular “People of God” is comprised of people from both Jewish and Gentile descent.
The common factor is that they are “saved by grace through faith.”
This theme of Jew / Gentile unity is replayed so many times in the New Testament.
To reject the premise of one people of God is almost to reject the message of Christianity."
as for
the death knell?
explain this Ellis:
Galatians 4
Sons and Heirs
1I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,a though he is the owner of everything, 2but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principlesb of the world. 4But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
12Brothers,c I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. 13You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first, 14and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. 15What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. 16Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?d 17They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. 18It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, 19my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! 20I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
Example of Hagar and Sarah
21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24Now this may be interpreted allegorically:
these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;e she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27For it is written,
“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
28Now you,f brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
either Paul is wrong, or
you are.
2 Peter 3:16
He
[Paul] writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Dual-covenant theology is a Christian view of the Old Covenant which holds that Jews may simply keep the Law of Moses, because of the "everlasting covenant" (Genesis 17:13) between Abraham and God expressed in the Hebrew Bible, whereas Gentiles (those not Jews or Jewish proselytes) must convert to Christianity or alternatively accept the Seven Laws of Noah to be assured of a place in the World to Come.
Many forms of Christianity, especially Conservative Protestants,
consider this view to be heresy.
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