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To: topcat54
It’s impossible for them to imagine that Peter’s words in 1 Peter 2:9,10 were intended to communicate that the Church made up of both Jews and gentiles is the inheritor of the place formerly help by national Israel.

Completely inaccurate statement and understanding...

We did not replace Israel...There are three positions here, not two...

Israel we can say is on the left...The Gentiles are on the right...Christians are in the center...

Gentiles come from the right to the center to become Christians...Israel comes from the left to the center to become Christians...

That why there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, AS CHRISTIANS...

Shortly God will be done calling the Gentiles on the right...He will again focus his attention on his chosen on the left...

We do not become Isreal any more than Israel becomes Gentiles...

802 posted on 11/01/2007 12:06:01 PM PDT by Iscool (What if Jesus meant everything that He said...)
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To: Iscool; topcat54

***Shortly God will be done calling the Gentiles on the right...He will again focus his attention on his chosen on the left...***

I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. ~ Paul, the Apostle.

Paul uses the fact that he and countless others of the seed of Abraham were coming to the Lord as proof that God has not cast away his people. The Deliver has come.

***We do not become Isreal any more than Israel becomes Gentiles...***

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.

There is only one root; Christ. There is only one vine; Israel. We are grafted into her. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.


813 posted on 11/01/2007 12:30:35 PM PDT by Lord_Calvinus
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