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For those who ascribe to “replacement theology” - that the Church has replaced completely the Jews (and Israel).

1) Read Romans 11
2) If the Church has replaced the Jews, and gets all the positive promises, then why not all the negative promises too? Do you want those as well? If you know your old testament, you would not want to live under that.

It’s called separating the wheat from the tares.

Tares believe in “replacement theology”.

Bkmk

The community of Jesus movement Jews i.e. the Christian church is the expanded Israel - where the gentiles have been grafted on to the roots of 2nd temple Judaism into ONE Church where there is "no more Jew nor gentile but ONE".

By His cross Chris reconciled Jews and Gentiles, making both ONE in Himself (Eph. 2:14-16)

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

As Paul wrote "theirs is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the law and the worship and the promises; theirs are the fathers and from them is the Christ according to the flesh" (Rom. 9:4-5).

The Church rejects the idea that the covenant with Israel has been nullified or revoked. The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.

While the role of preparing the world for the arrival of the messiah has been fulfilled by the Jewish people, they still are God’s chosen people whose fidelity to God remains a light to the nations. The Jewish people were called to a unique and special relationship to God that included preparing for the messiah but was not limited to that one role.

The two extremes of replacement theology and dispensationalism are both wrong in their extremes - both Jews and Christians as complimentary and overlapping peoples of God. We are both elect. Those Jewish individuals who are also Christians might be regarded as doubly elect, or elect on two grounds. While the Church is the New Israel, this does not obliterate the identity of the Old Israel, nor deprive it from playing any role in God’s plan of the ages. In particular, it does not remove the prophesied conversion of the Jewish people in the last days.