Have you heard of the term Replacement Theology? I’m sure you are familiar with this term, but it is the idea that the Christian Church has replaced the nation of Israel in God’s plan.
Replacement Covenantology
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Genesis
Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It…
Abraham and Sarah lived their lives in response to a call from God. They abandoned everything that they knew, to go to an unknown destination where they would be strangers. They had the faith to believe that by doing so, they would be establishing a nation and that...
Thank You for Steadfastly Walking the Walk, Not Just Talking the Talk
“Feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving; my warrant is the Word of God—naught else is worth believing.” So wrote Martin Luther way back in the 16th century—and how true are those words. We all of course have feelings, but in our Christian lives we...
Augustine’s use of the Cain and Abel story…
…and his doctrine of Jewish witness By exploring early Church Fathers’ understandings of the identity of Israel, we can deepen our understanding of the strained history of our relationship with the Jews. St Augustine (354 – 430) is widely viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity. He understood the Jews as being charged with an eternal purpose of witnessing to the glory of God. This mission was to be undertaken by the practice of divinely appointed ordinances which are recorded in the Torah. Augustine’s understanding of the role of witness is similar to that of being the “light of the world”. In Matthew 5:14, following the delivery of the beatitudes, Jesus charges the crowds below—which would come to form the Church (i.e. spiritual body of Christian believers)—with the missional identity, “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden,” meaning that the Church’s mission is to witness Christ to the world. Likewise, Augustine’s understanding of the Jewish nation is to be “the light of the world”: to be a witness of the true light (God) to the world. In his Writings Against the Manichaeans, Augustine uses the story […]