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Who are the heirs of Israel?

Teritos

Active Member
I believe the Bible and the Bible says that the true heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the Christians who have become children of Israel through faith in the gospel, they are now kings, priests and even gods. The fleshly Israel who reject the gospel have lost this blessing, they and all other gospel rejecters will be wiped out by Jesus, so says the Bible. And the only inhabitants of the new earth will be the Christians.

Do you agree with me? If not, who do you think are the true heirs of this blessing?

Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
I believe the Bible and the Bible says that the true heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the Christians who have become children of Israel through faith in the gospel, they are now kings, priests and even gods. The fleshly Israel who reject the gospel have lost this blessing, they and all other gospel rejecters will be wiped out by Jesus, so says the Bible. And the only inhabitants of the new earth will be the Christians.

Do you agree with me? If not, who do you think are the true heirs of this blessing?

Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

You need non-believers to be wiped out to validate your beliefs? And you want to be a god? Seems a little self-centered to me.
 

Teritos

Active Member
The Jews.
Amen. And the true Jews are the Christians.

But there are also people who are not Christians and claim to be Jews, about these people Jesus says in Revelation 3:9, "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie..."
 

Rival

Si m'ait Dieus
Staff member
Premium Member
Amen. And the true Jews are the Christians.

But there are also people who are not Christians and claim to be Jews, about these people Jesus says in Revelation 3:9, "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie..."
No they're not, they're Jews. Nothing to do with Jesus, the Christian Testament, or the Church.

Just Jews. Real ones.
 

rosends

Well-Known Member
Amen. And the true Jews are the Christians.

But there are also people who are not Christians and claim to be Jews, about these people Jesus says in Revelation 3:9, "Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie..."
So you need a book from outside the Jewish canon to make the proclamation that the people who are Jews aren't Jews but another group are now Jews instead.

And if the Jedis came out with a movie saying that those who call themselves Christian aren't Christian, but the Jedis are the true Christians, would that argument have any value to you? What if the Russians decided that they are the true Americans. Or the left-handed people saying that according to their books, they are the true right-handed people?

That's flat out insane.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
God sacrificed His only Son so that everyone could be saved from the curse of death. If someone does not want to accept this sacrifice, it is his own fault. He must accept his punishment. The punishment of sin is death, God tries to save, and then there are even people who reject this gift, Paul says: "If a man who sins must be punished with death, how much more will he who rejects the blood of the cross be punished, it is terrible to fall into the hands of God!"
Hey, if that's your belief; so be it. But why are you celebrating the destruction?

I'm also still curious about the desire to be a god; see below.

I believe the Bible and the Bible says that the true heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the Christians who have become children of Israel through faith in the gospel, they are now kings, priests and even gods. The fleshly Israel who reject the gospel have lost this blessing

It's like you're spiking the football, and dancing in the endzone.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Religiously...I do believe that Christians believe in a spiritual Jerusalem. In a heavenly Jerusalem.
 

Vouthon

Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est
Staff member
Premium Member
I believe the Bible and the Bible says that the true heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the Christians who have become children of Israel through faith in the gospel, they are now kings, priests and even gods. The fleshly Israel who reject the gospel have lost this blessing

It deserves to be noted that your 'replacement theology' is not actually taught in the New Testament.

Paul makes it clear in his epistle to the Romans that: "my kindred according to the flesh [...] are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Messiah...I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew." (Romans 9:3-5; 11:1-2).

There was no doubt for Paul that he was an Israelite and a Jew by birth, and that Jews of his time remained the heirs of the patriarchal 'promises' and the Sinai covenant.

Replacement theology arose later than the time of the NT. So far as the Pauline doctrine of election evidenced in the actual NT is concerned, 'Christianized' Gentiles are grafted into the Abrahamic covenant through baptism, which becomes a spiritual circumcision for them analogous to physical circumcision for Jews, and by faith in Jesus as the Messiah, which Paul understood through his exegesis as being in fulfilment of the verse in the Torah: "your name shall be Abraham (father of a multitude); For I will make you the father of many nations" (Genesis 17:5). This meant, for him, that the entire moral law of the Torah was binding on these converted Gentiles as interpreted and expanded by the NT (i.e. the Ten Words being the basis today still of the arrangement of catechetical teaching, the ancient first century Didache beginning with Deuteronomy's life/death choice) but not the ceremonial, cultic or other 'mitzvah'. Thus, he thought they would attain to salvation/share in the world to come, because: "For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him" (Romans 10:12).

That was really as far as Paul himself went.

For our part, the contemporary Catholic Church recognizes the enduring validity of Rabbinic exegesis:


“The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable” (Rom 11:29)


"While affirming salvation through an explicit or even implicit faith in Christ, the Church does not question the continued love of God for the chosen people of Israel. A replacement or supersession theology which sets against one another two separate entities, a Church of the Gentiles and the rejected Synagogue whose place it takes, is deprived of its foundations...

As a consequence there were two responses to this situation, or more precisely, two new ways of reading Scripture, namely the Christological exegesis of the Christians and the rabbinical exegesis of that form of Judaism that developed historically...

The document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission “The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible” in 2001 therefore stated that Christians can and must admit “that the Jewish reading of the Bible is a possible one, in continuity with the Jewish Scriptures from the Second Temple period, a reading analogous to the Christian reading which developed in parallel fashion”. It then draws the conclusion: “Both readings are bound up with the vision of their respective faiths, of which the readings are the result and expression. Consequently, both are irreducible” (No.22)."


Granted, it's not the exegetical path which the New Testament authors and their immediate successors the Apostolic and Church Fathers (late 1st century CE - sixth century CE) adopted, however we recognize the Talmudic (tannaitic and amoraic) scriptural hermeneutic as being an interpretative tradition that is both in continuity with ancient (biblical) Israelite religion and represents a textually legitimate development of it, just not the particular path of development that the early Jesus sect and the Church took because of our distinctive theology.
 
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thomas t

non-denominational Christian
I believe the Bible and the Bible says that the true heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the Christians who have become children of Israel through faith in the gospel, they are now kings, priests and even gods. The fleshly Israel who reject the gospel have lost this blessing, they and all other gospel rejecters will be wiped out by Jesus, so says the Bible. And the only inhabitants of the new earth will be the Christians.

Do you agree with me? If not, who do you think are the true heirs of this blessing?

Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
oh that's the old story called replacement theology.
Galatians 3:29 is about Abrahams descendants.
Israel is about Jacob's descendants.
See?
Abraham has as many as 8 sons, and Jacob was his grandson.

All Israel is saved according to Romans 11:26. Even though they reject the Gospel, as is made clear in verse 28, same chapter.
Don't count out the Jew, I suggest.

I stick to the following rule: Even in the New Testament, Israel is still Israel.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Amen. And the true Jews are the Christians.
Only a relatively small handful.

BTW, "Jew" is a reference to nationality, whereas "Judaism" is a reference to a religion. Thus, the only way to "inherit" being a Jew is to be born one or to convert to Judaism.
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
I believe the Bible and the Bible says that the true heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the Christians who have become children of Israel through faith in the gospel, they are now kings, priests and even gods. The fleshly Israel who reject the gospel have lost this blessing, they and all other gospel rejecters will be wiped out by Jesus, so says the Bible. And the only inhabitants of the new earth will be the Christians.

Do you agree with me? If not, who do you think are the true heirs of this blessing?

Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
Israel doesn't need heirs, we are still going strong. We have a covenant that God said was everlasting. God doesn't lie, nor does he break his covenants.

Thankfully, our theology is more generous and gracious. All the righteous have a share in the world to come, not just Jews.
 

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
they and all other gospel rejecters will be wiped out by Jesus, so says the Bible.
The Bible was written by people who dreamed that in the end times kings would meet to battle Jesus in a field on horseback.

They had no idea how powerful men would become.

If Jesus where to return to start killing non-believers today He would be easily defeated.

It is merely a sick fantasy that you have, motivated by your bigotry towards and hatred of non-believers in my opinion.

Not believing in Jesus given the complete lack of evidence is not a crime.
 

Teritos

Active Member
oh that's the old story called replacement theology.
Galatians 3:29 is about Abrahams descendants.
Israel is about Jacob's descendants.
See?
Abraham has as many as 8 sons, and Jacob was his grandson.
If not Jacob, then who? Jacob is the child with the covenant, no one else. It is obvious that this refers to the lineage of Isaac and Jacob. Christians are the true children of them.(Galatians 4:21-31)
All Israel is saved according to Romans 11:26. Even though they reject the Gospel, as is made clear in verse 28, same chapter.
Don't count out the Jew, I suggest.
No, no one, also not Jews, can be saved without having faith in the gospel. This would make the whole Bible illogical. In the same chapter, only three verses further back, Paul says if they leave their unbelief, then they will be grafted onto the tree of life and so also participate in eternal life.(Romans 11:23)
Other passages also make it clear that Jews are not an exception, see Romans 11:26 Will all Israel be saved? - Ryan Rufus
According to the Bible, a Jew without Jesus has lost his soul forever.
I stick to the following rule: Even in the New Testament, Israel is still Israel.
Matthew 21:43
Therefore I say to you: The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will bear its fruits.

There is no longer a carnal Israel, but the spiritual one. This consists of all the people of the world, the new Israel.
 

Teritos

Active Member
Millions of Jews disagree.
But God doesn't care. God does not need anyone, if Moses had not interceded, God would have already wiped out all the Jews because of their disobedience. Already in the desert he killed many thousands of Jews because of their behavior. He is not interested in who you are, but whether you follow his word.
 
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