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the fact there is a remnant proves God is still keeping his promise to Israel. For he has not let them die as a nation, but promised to never let them die.
what reason is there to be a remnant, if Gods dealing with the nation of Israel is done. Is there a remnant of any other nation on earth God promised things to?? why not??
what reason is there to be a remnant, if Gods dealing with the nation of Israel is done. Is there a remnant of any other nation on earth God promised things to?? why not??
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2000 years ago the people who most stressed the law should be obeyed were those furthest away from obeying the heart of it/thw higher points of the law. I don't think anything has changed in that regard
Oooh, so plan A was not perfect and God needed plan B. The perfect non-changing God needed plan B?
This makes perfect sense thank you for enlightening me. I will accept it because James57 said so... and if God ask me about it I will tell him James57 made me do it
This makes perfect sense thank you for enlightening me. I will accept it because James57 said so... and if God ask me about it I will tell him James57 made me do it
The Christian church did not 'replace' Israel. IT IS Israel. Jesus founded the Messianic congregation on Peter's statement concerning Him. Jesus initially 'built His congregation' among the Jews, and a large minority (the believing remnant that was the true Israel - Rom 11.1 ff)) of Jews turned to Him and became believers in the Messiah. So Judaism was divided into two parts. Believing Israel and unbelieving, rejected, cut off Jews. Which was the true Israel? Unquestionably the answer is, 'believing Israel. They were the true olive tree of Israel.
When Gentiles began to become part of that congregation as proselytes they BECAME ISRAEL (as had always happened). Thus the believers in the Messiah were the true Israel and the same is true today.
The nation of Israel may claim to be Israel but it is NOT Biblical Israel. It can become so by believing in Jesus as the Messiah and becoming members of the church. Until then it is NOT Israel (Rom 9.6). The true Israel is still being blessed by God and it is represented by those who truly belong to the Messiah.
To suggest that this teaching is responsible for Jewish persecution is illogical. They are not persecuted by true Christians.
Of course the Old Covenant has been replaced by the new. That was the purpose of the new covenant. The old was done away that the new might come (Heb 8.7, 13). Unbelieving Israel has no claims on God.
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rom 11: [SUP]5 [/SUP]For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
[SUP]26 [/SUP]and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
[SUP]27 [/SUP]“This is [SUP][i][/SUP]My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
Jacob is Israel. Not the church. This is where replacement theology stinks.
