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Originally Posted by Jared104 I am still trying to work my way through all of this btw. I think the main thing that's difficult for me is replacement theology. I don't reject it entirely, I'm just not sure that the Bible carries it as far as covenant theologians do. Could someone help me out here? I believe that Old Testament saints and New Testament saints are one group who are both justified by faith in Christ. I also believe that Jewish and gentile believers are united as one man in Christ.
My thing is, it seems that God is still working with ethnic Jews in a special way to some extent. I don't mean that there are Jews who are saved apart from Christ, but that for instance God is using the predominantly gentile church to provoke the Jews to jealousy. It also seems like a literal reading of Revelation would suggest that there will be a great number of ethnic Jews who will be saved in the end-times.
I think I am probably the closest to NCT right now. I reject the idea of dispensations. | Reformed Covenent theology believes that the gentiles are grafted into Israel, the gentile church did not replace it but joined it.
The Church is Isreal, it did not replace it but neither is it seperate from Israel. | This sounds like NCT to me. What's the difference? Perhaps I got the wrong idea about covenant theology. | I am afraid that I have never really looked into NCT and cannot really offer a view on (or indeed if there are any) differences between my post and NCT.
I would welcome the views of those better educated than me on this subject.
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Mike
London City Presbyterian Church
London
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"Surely, we wish to be orthodox, but we must first learn what real orthodoxy is. Surely, we wish to be progressive, but we must first have a basis to progress from."
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