Which ones are you asking about? Wise or foolish?
Both. For the purpose of point I am making, there is no delineation between wise and foolish ones. The question remains then.... who are the virgins of Matthew 25?
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Which ones are you asking about? Wise or foolish?
The OC Mosaic Jewish Priesthood is cursed forever.........Call it what it is..."replacement theology". Because when it is all said and done that is exactly what it accomplishes. Interesting to note that those who embrace covenant theology never tire of calling the dispies names.
How are "names" avoided? There's at least four "Mid-Acts" flavors of Dispensationalism, and that's also called "Full" Dispensationalism or "Hyper" Dispensationalism. I have no ideal how many flavors of "Partial" Dispensationalism really exist as these are divided over minutia. I don't think it's fair to the other posters if one's particular view of Dispensationalism is not noted. For example, the New Jerusalem is commonly believed to refer to the Church who return the Earth after the rapture. Les Feldick, a Full Dispensational, of the C.R. Stam camp, believes that the New Jerusalem is a planet filled with the Body of Christ who were raptured but never return to Earth. He states that only the Jews will be on the Earth because the Earth is not the destination of the Body of Christ. Feldick also states that the New Jerusalem will be planetary to the Earth and will never actually come down onto the Earth. If we simply say that Les Feldick is a Dispensational, then that's not being accurate and it is misleading.Call it what it is..."replacement theology". Because when it is all said and done that is exactly what it accomplishes. Interesting to note that those who embrace covenant theology never tire of calling the dispies names.
Yes. Supersessionism is the more appropriate term.
Supersessionism describes the theological conviction that the Christian Church has superseded the Jewish people, assuming their role as God’s covenanted people, Israel. At first glance, supersessionism seems to be a core Christian belief, making any fruitful dialogue between Jews and Christians impossible since it seems to entail the Christian replacement of the Jewish people as God’s covenant partner. But on closer examination, there are two kinds of supersessionism: one “hard,” and the other “soft.” The former does indeed prevent dialogue. The latter, however, does not.
Hard or maximal supersessionism asserts that God has elected Christians to displace the Jews in the covenant between God and His people. Christianity is taken to be Judaism’s necessarily total successor or “fulfillment.” For hard supersessionists, the only option for Jews is conversion to Christianity. This means an abandonment of Judaism. Hard supersessionism of this sort kills Jewish-Christian dialogue before it even starts. Jews faithful to the Jewish tradition cannot accept this categorical dismissal of Judaism’s theological validity.