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It's a term dispensationalist Protestants invented for the traditional / patristic understanding of the Church as the Israel of God.
It's a term generally used to refer that the Christian Church has effectively "replaced" the Jews as God's chosen people, right?
yeah, I think you are right. God's chosen are those who follow Him, which today would be the Church. Christ saying that God could raise up stones as children of Abraham, and the Scripture saying that the city Christ was crucified in is as to Sodom and Egypt kinda dashes the thought that the Jews are still Israel.
yeah, I think you are right. God's chosen are those who follow Him, which today would be the Church. Christ saying that God could raise up stones as children of Abraham, and the Scripture saying that the city Christ was crucified in is as to Sodom and Egypt kinda dashes the thought that the Jews are still Israel.
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During my time in spiritual limbo in the woebegone days of old, that obsession is the exact reason why (among others) that I could not allow myself to become a Protestant.It's a term generally used to refer that the Christian Church has effectively "replaced" the Jews as God's chosen people, right?
As a Pentecostal I never understood the "separation" of today, and that modern Israel is somehow special and holy, and deserving of Christian defense.
The obsession has always annoyed me, and my pastor doesn't ever neglect to refer to it.
During my time in spiritual limbo in the woebegone days of old, that obsession is the exact reason why (among others) that I could not allow myself to become a Protestant.
I mean if the modern-day State of Israel is supposed to be the same Israel of David and Solomon and so forth; than why are non-Israelis being treated in a similar fashion as the blacks during Apartheid in South Africa and the Jews in Hitler's time? Kind of a bad fruit of someone's labor if you ask me.
Galatians 3:27-29 (New King James Version)
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
As many as have been, baptized into Christ, have put on Christ! Alleluia!
-Paschal Hymn
The Church is the new "Israel." It is not our race, nationality, or allegiance to a flag that marks us as part of "Israel" but rather our baptismal gown.
This is what makes us heirs to the kingdom; not our passport.
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