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Fulfillment or Replacement Theology

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Is Fulfillment Theology the Same as Replacement Theology? Fulfillment Theology is a new form of Replacement Theology that in effect replaces the Jewish people in God’s plan, not with the Christian church but with Jesus. This theology gives literal, ethnic Israel  some  recognition for God choosing them for His redemptive purposes but sees that calling as already “fulfilled” in Jesus’ first coming and the church’s birth (Acts 2). However, in his article “ Israel and Fulfillment Theology ,” ICEJ’s David Parsons writes that adherents to Fulfillment Theology “are generally uncomfortable with being identified with classical Replacement Theology, due to its malevolent fruit—namely the pogroms, inquisitions, expulsions, and the Holocaust.” [24]   So to scripturally back their “theology,” Parsons says they emphasize the “ever-expanding ‘inclusiveness’ of God’s salvation plan as it culminated in the gospel being preached to all nations.” [25]  However, Fulfillment Theology en...
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The Church is the Pillar and Foundation of Truth

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  The universal Christian religion; also known as the Catholic faith can be proven by historical evidence as the true faith of Jesus Christ who founded the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church . Since it’s inception on the day of Pentecost , it’s founder, Jesus Christ, has been it’s center.  The story of Sacred Scripture is that of Jesus Christ, the Word Incarnate .        “  In the beginning [ b ]   was the Word,                and the Word was with God,               and the Word was God. 2  He was in the beginning with God. 3  [ c ] All things came to be through him,      and without him nothing came to be. What came to be  through him was life,      and this life was the light of the human race; 5  [ d ] the light shines in the darkness,      and the darkness has not overcome it.” (Jo...
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