Read Jeremiah again.
- 31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
Who does the LORD say that He will make a new covenant with? With the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Who did the LORD personally bring out of Egypt? The house of Israel and the house of Judah.
I am not in or of the house of Israel or the house of Judah. Jesus of Nazareth was. Are you?
- “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
What is "new" about the new covenant that He intends to make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah? That the LORD will put His law in each and write it on their hearts, and that they will not have to teach the law to each other or remind each other that the LORD is their God, because each--from the least to the greatest--will know it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And that their iniquity will be forgiven and their past sins will be forgotten.
If that's a covenant offered to me, it's not one I'm going to enjoy in this world. I'm ill-prepared and unable to claim that I am a walking, talking, breathing Torah-bearer in this world. Besides, I'm not a Jew, by blood or by conversion. So, what do I, a Gentile, get? The harvest gleaning. And that is what Jesus is. an unwanted leftover. There is no other worth chasing after.
The reason for this thread, posted by a Baha'i, is to find some Christian who can and will explain to InvestigateTruth why, if Christianity says that it replaced Judaism, Baha'i can't say that it replaces Islam (in another thread) AND Christianity.
The incorrect assumption is that Christianity replaced/replaces Judaism. It doesn't. If someone thinks it does, they're going to have to do some fancy dancing to show that replacements stopped with Christianity. Me? I don't believe it does. IMO, during his life on earth, Jesus was a "Reviver" of Judaism, but not a "Replacer". After his death and resurrection, he proclaimed a Second and New Covenant.