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The "Church has Replaced Israel" is a Heresy?

The "Church has Replaced Israel" is a Heresy?

Tov Rose
Nov 01, 2016
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The Primary Reason Paul wrote the Book of Romans: Antisemitism

Background

The historian Suetonius records that Roman Emperor Claudius banished Jews from Rome in AD 49 because there had been rioting at the instigation of one called Chrestus (“Claudius ‘Iudaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantes Roma expulit” [Claudius 25])  See Guthrie, NTI, p. 393; Cranfield, p. 16. The decree from Claudius was against Jews living in Rome and is referenced in the New Testament (Acts 18:2).

During the period of Jewish believers being absent from the Roman Church, a new and virulent false teaching, known as a heresy, began. This false teaching is known today as Supersessionism by its adherents, although there are many pastors of churches and whole denominations who practice some form of Supersessionism and do not realize their error.

Supersessionism was the first Anti-Semitic teaching of Non-Jewish followers of Jesus.

The initial form Supersessionism took was stating that Israel as a physical nation no l…

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