Controversial question for Christians: do you believe in supersessionism?

Question

Supersessionism is the idea that modern day Christians are the true children of Israel. They are the inheritors of all of God's promises in the Old Testament. This idea says that Christians today are in fact the Jews.

What do you think of this idea?

Do you have any problems with this idea on a biblical, historical, social, political level?

Do you believe in it? Does it matter?

Just wondering what people think.

Answer 1

I believe that Israel will always be God's special, chosen people, although the Bible says that we can be "fostered in" as it were, to receive the same benefits and spiritual inheritance. However, I don't believe that Christians "take over" the position of the Jews. I do believe it is very important on all levels, especially political.

Answer 2

I can tell you what the manuscripts say:
Ten of the tribes went North over the Caucus Mountains, settling Europe and eventually the USA, Canada, and the other free Nations of the world. They became known as "caucasions" for that reason.
God said that He scattered and sowed them.
Some think that because God said those tribes will come to an end, that they're gone. No, they aren't gone, they just don't know who they are.
They are the ones to become as numerous as the sands of the sea, and the stars of the sky.
And, they are.
When Scripture speaks of the "children of Israel" he is talking to us, yes.
The Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and the Levit.
Priestline were the only ones that remained.
All other ten scattered.
People put all the tribes into one, and call them "jews". That couldn't be further from whats written in Gods Word.

Answer 3

Roman 11:24 -25 seems to refute Supersessionism:

24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

It means that right now, we the Gentiles are grafted into a tree whose original roots are Israel. Paul says that Israel is blinded in part right now, but in the future will be grafted back in.

Paul even tells us not to be ignorant concerning this mystery.

Answer 4

Us Gentiles are not Jews, nor the Children Of Israel, By Faith we become a heir to the promises of God. By faith we are the body of Christ. The Children of Israel will come from the 12 tribes of Israel. And will be in their holy land, Not every jew will be there, But a part of each tribe will be there in Israel.

Answer 5

Replacement theology is in error. Although the Jews rejected Him and the Gospel was then offered to the Gentiles, we share in the inheritance. The Jews are still His chosen people and the Gentiles are, theologically, cousins, if you will.

Acts 13:46-47 (NLT)
46 Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, "It was necessary that this Good News from God be given first to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life-well, we will offer it to Gentiles.
47 For this is as the Lord commanded us when he said, `I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.' "

And yes, I'm fine with that.

Answer 6

There are names for all types of ideas and there ideas for any possible thought in our imaginations. Whatever happens happens, whatever we think we think, but if you can drive around for five years and not get a speeding ticket from the police?, now thats the real question and where the rubber meets the road! Good luck on your supersesssssism whatever, but don't pay too many fines for breaking the law, believe me the fines aren't usually worth it!!!

Answer 7

I believe when we make covenants with God (like baptism) we are in a way "adopted in" a tribe of Israel (not necessarily Judah) in a spiritual sense in that we can qualify for the blessings promised to Abraham's seed. But no, I don't feel like I've become a Jew.

hope I made sense there.

Answer 8

considering there are no longer any 'eye witness' bills of the Crucifixion, in basic terms 2d hand comments, your question is moot. IF Christ existed and grow to be crucified interior the Roman way, he carried the pass-bar to the situation of execution, the place an upright beam grow to be already in place...he grow to be then nailed to the crossbeam which grow to be then related to the upright beam. Jehovah's Witnesses have self assurance he grow to be impaled on a 'stauros' or stake...Early Jewish rabbis wrote that he grow to be 'hung from a tree'. that's tricky to think of how everyone would desire to be nailed to "2 parallel products of wood" (meaning they might must be a undeniable distance aside). it style of feels they might ought to intersect in some unspecified time interior the destiny???

Answer 9

Well the next step is to say that Christians are then the chosen people and the jews are not. Any attempt to make one group of humans the chosen people of God too make all others inferior is phycotic and evil. That is the cause of all wars in the name of God.
I think it is just plain Sick.It is not the will of god it is the will of warriors to jusify murder.

Answer 10

No! Revelations is about them.

Read all of Romans 11

Here is a sample of it.

25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
"The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27And this is[f] my covenant with them
when I take away their sins."[g]