Replacement theology? Yes or No.
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Replacement theology is the belief that the NT Church replaced Israel (Jews) as God's chosen people.
Scripture does not support this idea. Consider what the Apostle Paul had to say about it:
"I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear
unto this day.9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in."
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" Rom 11:1-33
National corporate repentance was a fact under the old covenant because that covenant was about an earthly people, but there's not a single example under the new covenant because it's about a spiritual, heavenly people.
Dispys are stuck in the old covenant and can't see new covenant realities because they believe what the pharisees did/do. It's impossible to believe what they believe and believe the faith of Christ.
Dispys are stuck in the old covenant and can't see new covenant realities because they believe what the pharisees did/do. It's impossible to believe what they believe and believe the faith of Christ.
Replacement theology is straw man because no one really believes Israel has been replaced. It's a false characterization dispys use to portray what non-dispys believe so that it can be easily knocked down. All Israel has not been replaced; only disbelieving branches have been.
One way to explain why the dispy fixation on land and geopolitical boundaries is a farcical pharisaical belief is the fact that the old order of nations being divided according to the numbers of rebellious angels ended with Christ because he inherited dominion over the whole earth. Before Christ every nation had its own God; but now Jesus is lord and God over the whole earth.
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. Deuteronomy 32:8
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. John 3:35
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Matthew 28:18
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. Deuteronomy 32:8
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. John 3:35
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Matthew 28:18
Michael Heiser talks about this a lot. Don't know how true it is, I don't understand why God would give nations over to false gods. I don't find many verses on this, do you have some?
I do agree of course that Christ is king over all
Why not? They were man's rightful rulers because Adam forfeited his dominion over the earth to satan when he obeyed him.
As far as scriptures pointing to that, there are the ones in Daniel that mention the princes of Persia and Greece.
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Daniel 10:13
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come. Daniel 10:20