Amen Phil, nailed it. Sadly many US Christians have been taught otherwise and even worse have been taught that this view (the one believed by Christians for 1900 years) is 'replacement theology' which is a euphimism for 'racist' or 'anti-semite'.
Amen Phil, nailed it. Sadly many US Christians have been taught otherwise and even worse have been taught that this view (the one believed by Christians for 1900 years) is 'replacement theology' which is a euphimism for 'racist' or 'anti-semite'.
Right?! There is no such thing as "replacement". There has ever been only one covenant and we see it from Genesis to Revelation. In fact, the Bible is the text of that covenant. When the Son of God came to His own, those that received Him inherited the blessings of the covenant and upon those that rejected Him were poured out the judgement of the covenant as Paul went to great lengths to explain that they were the branches that were cut out of the good olive tree at the same time that the wild olive branches, the Gentiles, were grafted in by their faith in the Messiah.
After reviewing the other comments of today, it became obvious that I should have stated something that I just ASSUMED (you know how that goes) was a given. Apparently, it's not, ie, the Trinity. God is three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Second Person of the Trinity, the one and the many. Without that Biblical starting point, there can be no agreement with anything else. That'll teach me to assume.
Amen Phil, nailed it. Sadly many US Christians have been taught otherwise and even worse have been taught that this view (the one believed by Christians for 1900 years) is 'replacement theology' which is a euphimism for 'racist' or 'anti-semite'.
Right?! There is no such thing as "replacement". There has ever been only one covenant and we see it from Genesis to Revelation. In fact, the Bible is the text of that covenant. When the Son of God came to His own, those that received Him inherited the blessings of the covenant and upon those that rejected Him were poured out the judgement of the covenant as Paul went to great lengths to explain that they were the branches that were cut out of the good olive tree at the same time that the wild olive branches, the Gentiles, were grafted in by their faith in the Messiah.
After reviewing the other comments of today, it became obvious that I should have stated something that I just ASSUMED (you know how that goes) was a given. Apparently, it's not, ie, the Trinity. God is three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Second Person of the Trinity, the one and the many. Without that Biblical starting point, there can be no agreement with anything else. That'll teach me to assume.