Sure, and kitchen knives have been used for murder. Just because something has been misused doesn’t mean the thing is bad or wrong. Only pre-existing anti-Semitism can find a logical connection between “the covenant has been replaced” and “they all gotta die.”
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Replying to @thomaslhorrocks
Why "replaced" rather than fulfilled and expanded to include non-Jews?
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Replying to @joshmrowley @thomaslhorrocks
That would be my point
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Replying to @summeroflove85 @joshmrowley
I don’t know anyone who would deny that statement. I certainly don’t. But the Abrahamic covenant preceded the Mosaic covenant and was always universal in scope.
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Replying to @thomaslhorrocks @joshmrowley
Don't tempt the internet crazies. I'm sure there are folk somewhere who would contest that!
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Replying to @summeroflove85 @joshmrowley
Ha! That’s probably true. My point is supersessionism does not traditionally make that claim. It just to views the Mosaic covenant as a temporary placeholder until Christ. This was Paul’s position.
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Replying to @thomaslhorrocks @summeroflove85
Ah. I think I've identified the main reason for our disagreement. You seem to equate God's covenant and the Mosaic law. I'm talking about God's covenant of grace with humankind (Gen 12)--larger than the law, fulfilled by Christ and still in place.
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Replying to @joshmrowley @summeroflove85
Ah. Yes. Typically "old covenant" applies to the covenant established at Sinai. That covenant, synonymous with "the law," was temporary and has come to an end in Christ. The Abrahamic covenant was always universal.
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Replying to @thomaslhorrocks @summeroflove85
If we're talking narrowly about the Mosaic law, then I can understand thinking of it as "replaced" by the law of Christ (which itself includes parts of the Mosaic law). More sweeping claims, however, are dangerous.
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Replying to @joshmrowley @thomaslhorrocks
I agree. It is not merely a "new" thing possessing similarities with the old, Xistians are called to live in continuity with many moral norms of Torah. This is what a great deal of Paul's letter to the Corinthians is about. Paul's norms are those of Torah.
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Except for circumcision, diet, ritual sacrifice, civil law codes, not to mention the tota rejection of violence. There’s at least as much discontinuity as continuity.
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