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Submitted by admin on Thu, 29/10/2009 - 15:06

Replacement Theology and God's Faithfulness

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A Most Fundamental Question

Here's one of the most fundamental questions we can ever ask ourselves, especially if we advocate any aspect of Replacement Theology: 

If God has changed His mind concerning Israel, then how can we be sure He hasn't changed His mind regarding us? 

The Jews, your Majesty - proof of God's love and faithfulnessThe 'us' here can mean 'us' as individuals, 'us' as Christians, or 'us' as the Church. At any level, if we suggest that God has in any way changed His mind, His plan, His commitment to His promises concerning Israel then we also fundamentally undermine our own security.

Let me say it again... if He changed His mind for them, He can also change His mind for us. He is no longer the reliable God who is "the same yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

In fact, God becomes fickle, unreliable and as such surely ceases to be God.

Was Mohammed Right? 

If this is your God, then how do you know that Mohammed was not in fact right when he asserted that yes, Yeshua was a great Prophet but that God gave a later revelation of Himself that superceded Judaism and Christianity - namely, Islam. 

Let Scripture Speak For Itself

It has already been mentioned in the section on Replacement Theology in Church History that it soon became the practice of the Church to take all God's blessings for Israel and reinterpret them for itself, whilst leaving all the judgements and curses for the 'old' people of God. 

You know what? One of the reasons it has taken me so long to post this article is that I wanted to get time to write out all of God's promises to Israel from the Hebrew Scriptures. Every time I looked at it, I set it to one side again. Do you know why? Because there are SO many of them it would take me a huge amount of time - more time than I have to spare, I'm afraid. 

So, why not read any part of the Bible - yes, any part. There you will see a mix of instruction, reprimand, disobedience, and punishment for God's people - all normal elements of any active and developing relationship (just ask my kids). But you will also see the promise, and reality, of His unfailing love. You'll see His faithfulness towards and restoration of that same people He chose: Israel. 

And Let History Speak of God's Faithfulness

Over three hundred years ago King Louis XIV of France asked the French philosopher of his day, Blaise Pascal, to give him proof of the existence of God. Without hesitation, Pascal answered, "Why, the Jews, your Majesty-the Jews".
 
We don't have to speculate what Pascal meant when he gave this answer, because he took the trouble to spell it out. In his masterwork, Pensees, he explained that the fact that the Jewish people had survived until the seventeenth century (the time period in which he lived) was nothing short of a supernatural phenomenon.
 
Now, nearly 400 more years on, and following that most outrageous atrocity - the Holocaust - how much more should it be cause for us to celebrate the faithfulness of our God when we see the thriving existence of His Covenant People: Israel and the Jewish people.
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Comments

Coolh, are you saying that

Submitted by Andy, UK on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 14:20.

Coolh, are you saying that Replacement Theology finds its roots in Paul's teachings, but that Paul's words are not credible as there was no independent witness to who, or what, he saw on the Damascus Road? So, you are agreeing that Replacement Theology is wrong, but raising some prety BIG issues to do with Paul and his writings?

I don't understand your

Submitted by Ady on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 14:04.

I don't understand your comment 'there is no empirical (regarding sense-data as valid information) proof of this'. What exactly do you mean by this? From your comments about Saul/Paul, do you not believe his writing to be Holy Writ?

Replacement theology is one

Submitted by Coolh on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 14:03.

Replacement theology is one hundred percent Pauline in origin. Saul/Paul claimed a divine revelation - like many others subsequently who claim that God has spoken to them etc. There is no empirical proof of this. How would Saul/Paul even know if the apparition he 'saw' was whom he claimed to be? Jesus did not choose Saul/Paul. Saul/Paul knows nothing of Jesus and never quotes him. Yet his 'revelations' are given great credence than those disciples whom Jesus personally taught and selected. Jesus is obviously a bad judge of character if the ones he taught for years were a bunch of turnips. Let mankind formulate whatever schemes and plans it chooses and adds God's name to them but nothing will divert the Divine from His course.

We have short memories, to be

Submitted by Andy, UK on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 14:02.

We have short memories, to be sure, and it is convenient to look the other way and allow there to be a scapegoat for our own guilt. The Jewish people will be blamed again, for something, somewhere. It's just a matter of the time and the place... maybe a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities that will send the world spinning out on an economic meltdown, which is in an already fragile state...?

from the above article I

Submitted by john white on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 14:02.

from the above article I write; and even the holocaust has been denied by some-it makes one wonder on the power of blindness, and who would have us blind......the enemy who would 'steal,kill and then destroy'