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14 results for “Replacement theology”
Clear searchDefining the position before testing it
What Is Supersessionism, and Why Does It Matter? Defining the position before testing it "Replacement theology" is a useful popular label, but it can also conceal important differences. Many Christians accused of teaching that the Church replaced Israel would reject that wording.…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…tic pattern of judgement followed by restoration was shortened into judgement followed by replacement. Third, conflict hardened identities. Christians and Jews disputed Messiah, Scripture, law, worship, and authority. Polemical writing tends to emphasise discontinuity and portray…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…he one gospel's power, not an exception to it. Our treatment of Jewish people matters Bad theology is not the sole cause of anti-Jewish hostility, and disagreement over Israel's future does not make a person antisemitic. History nevertheless warns us that contemptuous theology ca…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…rather than assumed in advance. The resulting picture is richer than either separation or replacement. Gentiles really do enter blessings rooted in Israel's covenant history. They do so by grace and faith, alongside the believing remnant of Israel. Yet Paul continues to distingui…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…ture should minimise the seriousness of that judgement. These affirmations give permanent replacement its strongest possible foundation. They also show why permanent replacement is unnecessary. One gospel does not require one historical calling. Equality in salvation does not mak…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…ael's failure cannot make the word of God fail Israel's history presents a severe test of theology. God chose the nation, gave it His law, sent it prophets, and brought the Messiah through its line. Israel repeatedly rebelled and, when Messiah came, the nation did not receive Him…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
The Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Revelation examined to ask whether fulfilment in Christ confirms or cancels God's promises to Israel.
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
The Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and new covenants examined to distinguish Israel's judgement from the irrevocable purpose of God's promises.
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ntial historical content. The Assyrian threat was real, and its defeat was real. Isaiah’s theology does not hover above history. But divine intervention creates another crisis. The inhabitants of Zion must reckon with the holiness of the God who has arisen. Who can dwell with eve…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…proclamation of a supposedly false religion. That is not a correction of history. It is a replacement of history without evidence. The fourth question: how can God forgive justly? The difference between Islam and Christianity is not simply that Muslims believe in works while Chri…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…proclamation with rescue from the cross. But the historical evidence will not permit that replacement. Jesus was not saved from crucifixion. He willingly went to it. His opponents did not frustrate God's purpose; they fulfilled what God had purposed to accomplish through the suff…
Read article →Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
…cerning hardening in Romans 9 and 11. This is an interpretive principle, not an automatic replacement of every active verb with “allow.” The surrounding argument must justify its use. In Ezekiel 20, the movement from rejected commands to destructive judgement provides that justif…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…th use Allah. A common noun does not guarantee a common referent, still less an identical theology. Israel did not need to invent a previously unknown noun before it could confess the true God. Revelation ordinarily speaks through existing human language, correcting its content a…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…Claim on the Middle East?”, presents a concise Reformed case against dispensational land theology. Horton argues that Israel's possession of Canaan was conditional, that the promise was fulfilled in Joshua's generation, and that the obsolete Mosaic covenant has given way to an i…
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