Christian Zionism

knee-v said:

"Replacement Theology" is a misnomer. Orthodox Christianity maintains that all believers in the Incarnate God are Israel. There is no replacement of one group by another. Rather, there is a continuum of saints from the creation of mankind to the present. Even in the OT period of time, it was the true believers who were considered to truly be Israel. When there were only found a few thousand Israelites who had not bent the knee to Baal, there were at that time a sum total of a few thousand Israelites. Those who rejected God ceased being Israel. When God became incarnate, those Israelites who rejected Him ceased being Israelites, and those Gentiles who embraced Him became Israelites.

Although there may be a few people who mistakenly believe that there was some kind of "replacement" that went on, and although that is the stereotype that is fed by dispensationalists, that is not the historic orthodox Christian belief. It might be more accurate to call it "Continuum Theology", as that more accurately describes the belief.

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I agree with everything you've said. Bravo!

PaladinValer said:

I agree with everything you've said. Bravo!

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Please pardon the split infinitive. I just noticed it. I try to not do that.

knee-v said:

Please pardon the split infinitive. I just noticed it. I try to not do that.

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Either way, I get the spirit of what you said, and I agree with it. Again, bravo!

child of Jesus said:

can Christian Zionism rightly be said to be a denomination?

what specific doctrines would identify it as a sect?

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Zionisim is not a denomination or a doctrine. It is supporting what God promised to Israel throughout the Old Testiment. The jewish state of Israel is a miracle given that only happened because God wanted it to happen to fufill his word.

Do some research and study about Palestine from a non-Islamic scholar and see what the truth is about it. And while your at it read about the wars in 1948 and 1967 between Israel and all its enemies coming from every direction. They were litterally numbered 100 to 1 and yet they some how defeated their enemies.

As far as palestine it does not want peace and if it got the 1967 borders back there would be a bloodbath. Search out what the palestinian leaders really say about Jews and Israel. Last year about 700 rockets, mortars and Grad missiles were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel and yet hardly any deaths occured dont you find that strange. The people launching these missiles are not trying to miss, it really makes you think. And one more thing there are hunderds of thousands of Christian Jews in Israel.

mathetes123 said:

Upon what scriptures do you base your understanding that the church has replaced Israel?

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Matthew 21:43, the kingdom was taken away from Israel and given to nations (the true children of Abraham) bearing the fruit thereof.