Posted on 09/25/2025 4:17:45 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Replacement theology teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s prophetic and redemptive plan. If this theology is correct, the implications are massive:
God would be a liar God’s Word would be untrue Israel would not be in God’s plans God’s love would not be unconditional These statements beg for biblical explanation.
God Is Not A Liar
Why would God be a liar if replacement theology is correct? Genesis 12:1-3 records God’s covenant with Abraham. God reiterated this covenant with Abraham in Gen. 13:14-18, 15:4-5, 17:1-22. God reminded Abraham’s descendants of this unconditional promise (Gen. 35:10-12; 1 Chron. 16:15-18).
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:1-3).
In Volume 4 of his Systematic Theology, Dr. Norman Geisler notes that this covenant is:
Unconditional (“I will bless thee”)
National (“I will make of thee a great nation”)
Geographical (“unto a land that I will shew thee”)
Perpetual (“to you and your offspring”)
International (“In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”)
Hundreds of years after Abraham’s death, the kingdom divided and the Northern Kingdom became grossly immoral. God sent prophets to warn them, including Amos. God delivered a powerful promise to the ten tribes through Amos.
“And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God” (Amos 9:14-15).
God promised that once Israel was restored to the promised land, they would never again be removed from it. The promises God made to Abraham were not merely spiritual. The promises extended to the land and the people who will dwell in that land. If God broke these promises to fulfill them allegorically in the church, He is a liar. If God is a liar, His Word cannot be trusted.
God’s Word Is True
There are two kinds of covenants – conditional and unconditional. A conditional covenant depends on both parties holding up their end of the bargain. A dad could promise his son, “If you clean your room, we will go get ice cream.” The ice cream trip depends on the son’s effort to clean his room. However, the father could promise, “Son, we will go get ice cream tonight.” The ice cream trip does not require any effort from the son. It is solely based on the father.
God’s covenant with Abraham was an unconditional promise. God could have required effort from Abraham but He did not. Its fulfillment is solely based upon God the Father.
If God neglects to uphold His promise, He is a liar and His Word means nothing. But this statement flies in the face of what the Bible reveals about God’s character.
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Num. 23:19).
“Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant” (1 Kings 8:56).
“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:2).
“That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us” (Heb. 6:18).
If God lied to Israel, what would keep Him from lying to the church? Why should anyone believe His Word or trust Him for salvation? How could any Bible prophecy be trusted? Replacement theology undermines the credibility of Scripture and God’s character.
Israel Is In God’s Future Plans
When God gave the law to Moses, He described His blessings for obedience (Lev. 26:1-13) and consequences for disobedience (Lev. 26:14-29). Some of the consequences included the desolation and destruction of the promised land and allowing Israel’s enemies to triumph over them. It sounds as if God would allow Israel to be annihilated. Thank God, the chapter does not end there.
“And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD” (Lev. 26:44-45).
Could it be any clearer? God declared that He would not break His covenant with Israel originally made with Abraham. God still has a plan for Israel.
Further, Romans 11:1-6 destroys replacement theology. Paul uses the strongest Greek negation possible to answer his question. “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid” (Rom. 11:1a). No way! Impossible! Perish the thought! Israel is still in God’s plan.
Paul offers himself as an example of God’s continued plan for Israel then says, “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew” (Rom. 11:1b-2a). If God cast Israel aside in favor of a Gentile bride, then why was Paul saved?
Further, Paul reminds his readers that Elijah felt like he was the last faithful Israelite who hadn’t turned his back on God (Rom. 11:2b-3). “But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal” (Rom. 11:4). God always has a faithful remnant of Jewish followers. This unbroken chain has continued generation after generation from Abraham until the present day.
“Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” (Rom. 11:5-6).
Paul says there is a faithful Jewish remnant in this dispensation of God’s grace. They did not receive God’s grace by their merit because that would nullify grace. From dispensation to dispensation, God’s plan for Israel unfolds according to His grace.
God’s Love Is Unconditional
Like a loving parent, God told Israel of the blessings and consequences of their actions in Leviticus 26. Yet, the Southern Kingdom turned away from God just as their Northern brothers had. Before Judah’s judgment fell, God raised up the prophet Jeremiah to warn His people that they were about to experience those consequences in the form of the Babylonian exile.
“And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years” (Jer. 25:11).
Instead of repenting of their sins, the Israelites rejected Jeremiah’s messages and trusted in false prophets (Jer. 26-28). When the people tried to kill Jeremiah, God preserved His prophet and destroyed a false prophet named Hananiah.
Just as God exposed the fakes and preserved the faithful, Jeremiah prophesied true hope for the righteous remnant (Jer. 29). God reminds them that they will be exiles in Babylon for seventy years. “For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place” (Jer. 29:10).
God follows this promise with a powerful reminder: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” (Jer. 29:11). This “expected end” speaks to the future God planned for His chosen people.
This hope-filled future is based on God’s unconditional love for Israel, as Jeremiah reveals. “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” (Jer. 31:3).
Israel’s exile might have felt like God was pushing them away but in reality, God was drawing their hearts back to His. Just as a loving parent allows their children to experience the natural consequences of their choices, God allowed Israel to experience His promised consequences. Just as a loving parent still loves their children, even when they rebel, God still loved Israel through the exile.
In a beautiful expression of His divine love, God told the children of Israel that He would love them as long as the sun, moon and stars were in the sky.
“Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever” (Jer. 31:35-36).
God’s character and Word repudiate replacement theology. God has a glorious future for Israel’s people and land.
Israel is of the Lineage of Jacob. I have no problem with it at all as a Christian.
Israel is of the Lineage of Abraham. I have no problem with it at all as a Christian.
AMEN!!!
Thank you. One thought I have proposed to those who believe they have replaced Jews as God’s chosen people is that if God can break a covenant, then what makes you think he won’t break the one you think you have? The simple truth is that he chose Jews for their purposes, just as he chose you for yours.
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Yes AMEN!
God will never change His mind.
Anybody who suggests otherwise is cherry picking verses at best and at worst lying with malicious theological intentions.
Malachi 3:6
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.”
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”
I was just telling mr mm this evening that the current events in the news and world political stage are just screaming *END TIMES FULFILLMENT*!
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Yes they are!
The Bible is true every bit of it.
Matthew 21:33-46
Romans 11:29:
“For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable”
Zechariah 8:23 says:
“So said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” “
“Those days” refer to messianic times - and how could the words of this biblical prophet be true if God had lied about the Jewish people being eternal and carrying out their mission of being “a light unto the nations?”
There really is no choice: either God is a liar (which I do not believe for one microsecond), or the human-invented claim that Christianity is a/the replacement theology for Judaism is a lie. There simply can be no other answer other than one of these two possibilities.
Excellent point. But I just want to clarify one important thing. God didn't "choose" the Jews so much as He chose Abram/Abraham who sought God and it would be his descendants who received the promises. Some people think when they hear the Jews are God's chosen people it means God picked them out of all the other peoples of the earth - which would mean God picked favorites. But God says He is not a respecter of persons. The Jews are blessed because they are Abraham's seed/descendants and God made an unconditional promise to them through Abraham.
“Replacement theology teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s prophetic and redemptive plan.”
Who pulled that out of his ass, and when?
So throwing out a random Bible reference is supposed to prove what?
Do you think everyone has the entire Bible memorized by reference number?
True, as a Christian, you are spiritually of the lineage of Abraham too.
God doesn’t break covenants, he extends the Abrahamic covenant to the world. Christianity is really a 2nd temple Judaism sect just as were the Pharisees, Sadducees etc.
Rabbinical Judaism was created around 70 to 90 AD by Rabbi Yohannan bin Zakkai and the council of jamnia
God didn’t reject Israel, most of them rejected Him in rejecting Jesus Christ. He will graft some of them back in but most of them have broken their covenant with Him and are in darkness for the time being. This is covered in Romans 9-11.
Actually “most” did not.
Christianity is a 2nd temple Judaic sect.
Sadduccee, Pharisee etc Jews were becoming Jesus movement Hrw (ie Christian) in such great numbers that the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees went in full persecution mode to stop them
Actually “most” did not.
Christianity is a 2nd temple Judaic sect.
Sadduccee, Pharisee etc Jews were becoming Jesus movement Hrw (ie Christian) in such great numbers that the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees went in full persecution mode to stop them.
It got so crazy that in AD 70 after the DESTRUCTION of the temple, the Pharisees created a new religion, Rabbinical Judaism and at the same time removed the Deuterocanonical books that supported the Messianic nature of Jesus
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