Supersessionism

[Joseph Patrick]

From Joseph Patrick...aka Gerry Milligan

As I was trying to understand what I saw in Jerusalem at a Messianic congregation I came upon the following from Wikipedia, "Supersessionism (replacement theology), which implies or outright states that Christianity has superseded Judaism, and that the Mosaic Covenant of the Hebrew Bible has been superseded by the New Covenant of Jesus, wherein salvation is brought about by the grace of God, and not by obedience to the Torah.[109] This is generally complemented with the concept of God having transferred the status of "God's people" from the Jews to the Christian Church."

It goes on to say that among evangelicals this has been reversing ever since the holocaust. I get the impression that the corporate guilt arising from the holocaust is responsible for this change. In fact I met a Southern Baptist missionary in Israel who believed that all Jews were going to heaven. Can some of you Biblical scholars enlighten me?

[Sandy]

I'm not sure that I would use the word "supercedes" with regard to Christianity and Judaism. Judaism pointed to Jesus as Messiah, the savior , who fulfilled all the OT prophecy and requirements of the law. To continue to practice Judaism is to deny Christ, and to have missed his fulfillment of prophecy. Christianity is just th continued forward movement of belief and faith in God.

[Haruo]

That is certainly not the only way to read the Tanakh, and it is also an anachronistic use of the term "Judaism", Sandy.

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

In the period when the New Testament books were being written, the controversy was more over whether you could be a Christian without be(com)ing a Jew, than over whether you could remain a Jew (in terms of religious law observance) and still be a Christian.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]