Complete 14 pages APA formatted article: Arguments for Replacement Theology.
Complete 14 pages APA formatted article: Arguments for Replacement Theology. The origin of Judaism can be traced back to Abraham, who existed roughly four thousand years ago in Mesopotamia and with whom God crafted a covenant to all of Abrahams’s descendents promising to make them (Israel) “as numerous as the sands of the seashore2”. These divine assurances further implicated that Israel would forever be sustained through God’s pledge to provide Abrahams’s descendants with authority and eternal prosperity. above all other peoples. However, with the emergence of Jesus Christ, as illustrated in the New Testament, God alludes to a division between Himself and Israel in favor of sustaining divine relationships with Christians, thus offering a new covenant by which all peoples should abide. The result: A growing lack of recognition of Israel as God’s chosen people sustaining the supposition that contemporary Christianity has replaced Judaism, or that God has fulfilled the prophecies and covenants of the Old Testament, thus indicating that those who accept Christ as the accepted Messiah shall supersede traditional Israel. In contrast, under this assumption, Jews who deny Christ as their savior are removed from their position as God’s chosen elect. This replacement ideology is referred to as Supersessionism, or Replacement Theology, and is the basis for this works examination into the validity of existing evidence used to support this hypothesis.
Before delving into the New Testament interpretations supporting Replacement Theology, it is important to illustrate that indication toward a future separation between post-established Christianity and that of Israel exists in the Old Testament scriptures. Later in the text, Hosea prophesied that Israel would suffer the loss of its status as Gods elect and be substituted by another group with, “I will pity those who are not pitied and I will say to those who .are NOT my people, ‘Now you are my people’. .
