"Note the word "elect" always refers to his chosen people Israel and not the "replacement theology" Church."
Angelina.
Here are some examples where the Word Elect refers directly to the Church...even the Gentile church.
Romans:
"What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded."
To Collasae: Highly Pagan city...& the church there.
"Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Put on therefore, as the ELECT of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."....Not just the Jews...
To Thessalonica: & directly to the Gentile Church there:
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Knowing, brethren beloved, your ELECTION of God.
Peter, speaking of the Gentile church at Rome:
"The church that is at Babylon, ELECTED together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son."
The Elect::
"Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Put on therefore, as the ELECT of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another.
Christ is all & in all....not just a blood-line.
[SIZE=.75em]" [/SIZE]I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]They answered and said unto him, "Abraham is our father!"
Jesus saith unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
[SIZE=.75em] "[/SIZE]Ye do the deeds of your father."
Then said they to him, "We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God."
[SIZE=.75em]42 [/SIZE]Jesus said unto them,
" If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not!"
The Elect are not a bloodline, but in Isaac your seed shall be. The Elect are children of the Promise. They become ONE TREE!...One Lord, One Faith, one Baptism .
For 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?
[SIZE=.75em] [/SIZE]For 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."
[SIZE=.75em]" [/SIZE]For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
[SIZE=.75em] .............[/SIZE]Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect.
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
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Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called."
There is such a thing as the Israel of God..This is not "Replacement Theology"....but sound Theology. There is no elite Jewish Class...but One body...& if any thing, this represents a Replacement of sorts from the simple truth that being born again from above is enough for one to become a child of God...period...& an elected one.