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the new covenant replaced the mosaic covenant!
ower (binding and loosing) and with His authority (keys) matt 16:18 matt 18:18
Teaching authority of the Apostles and their successors in the church founded in the one true founded by Jesus Christ!
Jesus Christ is the head of the church, (eph 5:23) the body of Christ,
(col 1:18) the new and eternal covenant, (pre-figured Jer 31:31) (Heb 8:8) new covenant replaces the Mosaic covenant, (Heb 8:13) Christ replaces David as king, (Lk 1:32-33) Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and men, (1 Tim 2:5 & Heb 12:24) but a mediator remains on earth mediating between God and His people, but Christ ascended to heaven, (acts 1) before He did He founded His church, on Peter, and the apostles, and their successors!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 2:42 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 16:13
Jn 20:21-22 eph 2:20
We must be taught by Peter, the apostles, and their successors! Lk 10:16 Matt 28:19 Jn 21:17
Just sounds like your typical Catholic Gospel, that Christ started a chain of succession, a professional Church that requires the submission of all who claim to belong to this nominal Church.
Christianity is not encapsulated by a humanistic organization, controlled by men. God doesn't just assign men posts, and then expect them to exercise control over other men to make them Christians.
The Church does have ministers, but they are not to lead in the way the world does, as men exercising authority over others as in a kind of political command structure. The Church as an organization may have these posts, and God may honor these posts. But they can be corrupted just as men in any organization can be corrupted, the Church not excepted. If Israel could go corrupt as God's Chosen People so can the organized Church go corrupt.
Leadership is spiritual, and not political in spiritual matters. Organizations require political rule to maintain their organization. But it should never be confused with the spiritual authority only God exercises.
I don't know why all of this is being claimed under the heading of Replacement Theology? I don't adhere to RT, and believe all nations can have their time in the sun. Just as Israel had its time under the Law, so now many nations in the NT era have become Christian nations.
But all of them ultimately go corrupt, just as the Catholic Church and many Protestant Churches have gone corrupt. No organization is exempted from this trend towards corruption, because people everywhere are susceptible to it. Our allegiance is to God alone, if we are to remain faithful and spiritual people.
Lk 10:16
He who hears you hears me...
John 13:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Jesus Christ continues HIS ministry in His new covenant church thru Peter, the apostles, and their successors with the same mission, power, and authority!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 15:5 Jn 16:13 Jn 20:21-22 acts 9 eph 2:20
Really?
Jesus Christ continues HIS ministry in His new covenant church thru Peter, the apostles, and their successors with the same mission, power, and authority!
Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Acts 1:17 acts 8:31 & 35 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 15:5 Jn 16:13 Jn 20:21-22 acts 9 eph 2:20
Lk 10:16
He who hears you hears me...
John 13:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Yes really. If you get your guidance only from the Catholic hierarchy, and not from God Himself, you will go down whenever the leadership has a problem. You need to trust in the Lord, and not in man. People will let you down.
Your spiritual life comes from God, from the Holy Spirit, and not from people. The fellowship we have with God's People can be wonderful. But it cannot and must not take the place of God. First God, and then people.
Can you imagine needing an intermediary, or agent, every time you wish to communicate or interact with your spouse? Neither do we need intermediaries between God and ourselves to enjoy the spiritual life God wants to directly have with us.
The Church can indeed help us in our relationship with God. And they can certainly be our spiritual family. But the Church is not the source of our spiritual life. Only God is.
Yes really. If you get your guidance only from the Catholic hierarchy, and not from God Himself, you will go down whenever the leadership has a problem. You need to trust in the Lord, and not in man. People will let you down.
Your spiritual life comes from God, from the Holy Spirit, and not from people. The fellowship we have with God's People can be wonderful. But it cannot and must not take the place of God. First God, and then people.
Can you imagine needing an intermediary, or agent, every time you wish to communicate or interact with your spouse? Neither do we need intermediaries between God and ourselves to enjoy the spiritual life God wants to directly have with us.
The Church can indeed help us in our relationship with God. And they can certainly be our spiritual family. But the Church is not the source of our spiritual life. Only God is.
one church! Matt 16:18 Jn 10:16
All people! Lk 2:10
One fold! Jn 10:16
Universal
Suit yourself, but in no way is the "New Testament" a Catholic or religious hierarchy. The New Testament is Christ's life and death and resurrection, in which we participate through the Holy Spirit. It is the revitalization of our spiritual lives, a spiritual regeneration.that’s spiritual anarchy outside the new covenant church founded by Christ on Peter and the apostles with the grace from the sacraments
Universal? That rings a bell, like a one world religion.
Suit yourself, but in no way is the "New Testament" a Catholic or religious hierarchy. The New Testament is Christ's life and death and resurrection, in which we participate through the Holy Spirit. It is the revitalization of our spiritual lives, a spiritual regeneration.
Mixing our "rebirth" with belonging to a religious organization corrupts spiritual truth, and defeats the whole purpose of the Church, which is to serve the cause of spiritual life in Christ. That can be had with or without the Church. To have it in the Church is still a spiritual matter, and not an organizational matter. Organizations are only designed to serve the cause of ministry--it is not itself the source of spiritual life. Jesus alone is that!
Sadly, many Catholics serve the Pope first, and not Jesus. By listening to the Pope and to his message of an exclusive Catholic Church, people are hindered in their spiritual relationship with Christ. They think they have to go through a Catholic Father to find spiritual truth, whereas ministers are designed only to confirm and to aid in this--they are not the source of spiritual life itself.
But worst of all, Catholic people are misled into a divisive attitude with other Christians outside of that communion. I find that to be inconsistent with Christian teaching, which says that Christ himself is the spiritual source of unity among Christians--not the Catholic Church!
1 John 2.27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
This mountain destroyed the medieval catholic church (the ten nations). Stopping at the two legs is your error. The medieval 10 nation catholic rule was what this mountain destroyed and built a kingdom of individual believers that would fill the earth.44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Jn 10:16 one fold
Gal 4:26 mother of us all
Major covenants!
Adam
(Marriage covenant)
Noah
(Family covenant)
Abraham
(Tribal covenant)
Moses:
(National covenant)
Jesus Christ:
(Universal covenant)
New and eternal covenant founded by Jesus Christ! Matt 16:18
Universal (Catholic)
World universal
Lk 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ( catholic universal)
Lk 2:31 prepared before the face of all (catholic) people
Jn 1:29 lamb of God who takes way the sins of the world
Jn 3:16 for God so loved the world
1 Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
No it is Christ and His church (Catholic) destroying the Roman Empire, refer to the: in the days of these kings? Rome still in power! Jn 10:16 one foldThis mountain destroyed the medieval catholic church (the ten nations). Stopping at the two legs is your error. The medieval 10 nation catholic rule was what this mountain destroyed and built a kingdom of individual believers that would fill the earth.
42 Just as the toes of the feet were part iron and part clay, this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.No it is Christ and His church (Catholic) destroying the Roman Empire, refer to the: in the days of these kings? Rome still in power! Jn 10:16 one fold
42 Just as the toes of the feet were part iron and part clay, this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
43 You saw the iron mixed with clay; that means that they will cement their alliances by intermarriages; but they won’t stick together any more than iron blends with clay.
This kingdom, not the Roman kingdom of the 2 legs. The 10 toes.
It is Christ and believers. Not an established religion.
The New Jerusalem is NOT the Catholic Church!! To answer the OP question, the Church (meaning all believers in Jesus Christ) did not replace Israel. This is evident by God reinstating Israel as a nation in 1948.The new Jerusalem is our mother? Holy mother church the new covenant new creation in Christ gal 4