Simplification of New Testament On Israel - 11:29 AM, 1/7/2012 |
Simplification of the New Testament On Israel Bernard Pyron The Catholic church did not replace Israel. And the dispensationalist church is not some kind of lesser body of Christ which exists as a people of God alongside of Israel. The "church" in the New Testament, the ekklesia, is not a body of Christ different from Israel; it is a meeting or congregation of the body of Christ as Israel transformed. The Tyndale English Bible of 1524-1526 was consistent in translating ekklesia as congregation rather than as "church." God divorced physical Israel and transformed it into that spiritual house mentioned in I Peter 2:5. That part of physical Israel which was transformed into a spiritual house was the Remnant that Paul talks about in Romans 11: 5. People who were formerly Gentiles without God were grafted into Israel reborn in Christ (Romans 11: 17), so that in that spiritual house as Israel reborn there is now neither Jew nor Gentile (Galatians 3: 28-29). The Jew who is only a Jew outwardly is no longer a true Jew, but all who are Jews inwardly are true Jews (Romans 2: 28-29) and they which are the children of the flesh (physical descendants of Abraham) but not born again in Christ are not the children of God (Romans 9: 8). " Any one, Jew or otherwise, can still come into that spiritual house of Israel transformed by beginning a relationship with Christ. |
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