[CCWoody]

Yes, I was saying: did you have any passages, of all the tens of thousands in Scripture, that call the church of Christ "Israel"?

• Act 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Counter question: Do you have any passage where Christ claims to have come to establish the church?

Woody.

[BibChr]

You've adduced ZERO passages where the church of Christ is called "Israel." There is a simple reason for that: in the 66 books of the Bible, the church of Christ is NOWHERE called "Israel."

Now, the assembly in the desert is called ekklesia in the Acts passage. How long have you studied NT Greek? For me, it's nearing 30 years. Luke uses the word ekklesia MORE TIMES to describe a SECULAR POLITICAL ASSEMBLY than he does Israel.

That makes it statistically likelier that the church is a SECULAR POLITICAL ASSEMBLY than it is Israel.

In point of fact, as I demonstrated above, Paul always and everywhere distinguishes between the church of Christ and Israel.

A Reformed approach to exegesis demands a distinction between the church of Christ and the nation of Israel.

Dan