32) In God's faithfulness to Israel and not in Replacement Theology. The Church is not the New Israel.
Believing Gentiles have not become Jews. We are still Gentiles, by our faith in Jesus we have been grafted into Israel's cultivated olive tree which has grown out of the New Covenant that the Lord God made with Israel and Judah. Jeremiah 31 vs 40. Romans 11 vs 1-36. Paul the apostle did not teach that the believing Gentiles had become Jews. Paul made a clear difference between Jews and Gentiles who had become one through their faith in Jesus.
We see
this again in Galatians 2 vs 11-21. Vs 15 shows Jewish Paul saying to Jewish Peter. We who are Jews by nature. Many people misunderstand Romans 2 vs 28-29. For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly;and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. When Jews read Romans 2 vs 28-29 they know that the Scripture is speaking about them. They would be right. But when a Gentile reads Romans 2 vs 28-29 some wrongly believe that the Scripture is speaking about them. Those Christian Gentiles who believe Romans 2 vs 28-29 is speaking about them, go on to wrongly believe that they are now Jews, and that the Church has replaced Israel concerning all the promises of God to Israel. This is what's known as replacement theology. There are more study notes to follow
Question 115. Do you agree with the whole of the above section ?
As part of your Christian fundamentalist course work, you will need to answer this question.
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