Question:
Do Christians believe Genesis 12:3?
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2013-10-02 09:24:40 UTC
It reads: I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Do Christians say they believe in this and yet take part or say nothing about anti-Semitism and also ascribe belief to replacement theology? The verse refers to Israel and all other peoples who would curse Israel.
Seventeen answers:
Yorkshire Lass
2013-10-02 09:53:39 UTC
II am one of those who believes that this scripture is as powerful as ever. God has given me a passion for the Jewish people, I regret their suffering is not yet over!



We live in the Age of the Gentiles but we Gentiles live in the second layer era of a three layered history concerning Jews and us the Gentiles. One day God is going to justify the Jews, after all, Jesus was a Jew.



Someone (can't remember his name) has written a book after carefully watching natural disasters for many years and how disaster has hit the USA - either the president, government or country of the whenever a summit meeting involving Israel and adjacent nations,makes a decision that compromises the safety or trade of Israel. He has recorded 20 such calamities which have occurred, sometimes within hours of a bad decision being made! God still uses nature to show his anger. Maybe the UK has suffered likewise. The big monetary collapse came quickly on the heels of a bad decision being made against the Jews in Israel.



Both the Israelis and the Palestinians are suffering from the action of extremist regimes in that area, both are victims.



Israel is flanked by 9 hostile, or potentially hostile, nations that are becoming controlled by radical Islam. They must feel like rats in a trap, but they report miracle protection incidents from the continual stream of rockets that threaten them regularly - still! It did not stop! The media are silent on this!
2013-10-02 10:37:09 UTC
Yes, this verse is the basis for the 2nd commandment and all missions throughout the world.



The verse specifically refers, like so many other commandments, to 'all peoples of the earth'



Salvation is through the Jews and there is no covenant for Christians or even spiritual gates in a spiritual Jerusalem through which to enter if we are not grafted into one the 12 Tribes of Israel - Dan excluded.



Thus if any Christian is anti-semetic they are not Christians. If they are not Holy Spirit baptised, they are either not Christians or still only on their way to becoming a Christian.



You know that Replacement Theology is a curse from the Pit. As for this verse it shows His love and protection for all His children, not just His chosen because we are all invited, as per during the Exodus, to join Him.
2013-10-02 09:35:04 UTC
Are you truly unaware of how many millions of Christians are adamantly opposed to anti-Semitism and continue to support Israel (both philosophically and financially) just because of this verse and others like it? This is why the US has played "big brother" to Israel for as long as it has, and it's why Christians are raising a stink over the current administration's support of Israel's enemies. It's why we continue to preach Christ, the prophesied Messiah. According to the book of Romans, we as Gentile believers have been included in Israel's spiritual inheritance, but that doesn't mean we have replaced them.



There will always be people who claim to believe the Bible who don't even know what it says. But there will always be a remnant who do.
who goes there?
2013-10-02 10:08:46 UTC
It is kinda obvious to the seeing eye that all the families of the earth have been blessed in that 'God bless America', that once Christian nation and that those who curse Israel live in squalor under oppression whether they be sons of Abraham or not.-Ps83:18
2013-10-02 09:32:43 UTC
I believe it and history right up to the present time bears it out. Those who bless Israel are blessed and those who curse them are cursed. Whenever the U.S. gets Israel to give up land for peace we lose a chunk of our land to some kind of disaster. Pity the Muslim nations. They are really cruisin for a bruisin.



Replacement theology is heresy and those who teach it will suffer the consequenses.
Secret Sauce
2013-10-09 16:55:19 UTC
Yes - a lot of the new testament was falsified to change our view of the Father into an all loving god - even the messiah teaches that while we are to be all loving, the father loves those that love Him.



Israel is not the land of the rothschilds nor the messiah rejectors but those that follow the laws of our God AND glorify His son as messiah - we cannot atone without a sacrifice at the temple and the messiah is that for us now.
M S
2013-10-02 10:08:12 UTC
12 Now the Lord had said to Abram:



“Get out of your country,

From your family

And from your father’s house,

To a land that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation;

I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 12:1 to 3

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its not to Israel, but to Ishmael & Isaac and their off springs

Semitics are mostly Arabs [over to 200 millions+ while Jews are 15millions]

And (remember) when his Lord tried Abraham with (His) commands, and he fulfilled them, He said: Lo! I have appointed thee a leader for mankind. (Abraham) said: And of my offspring (will there be leaders)? He said: My covenant includeth not wrong-doers. (124)

Quran 2:124,

a blessing can not be covering any criminal or an unjust. I can give you details
Johnny Mac
2013-10-02 09:38:25 UTC
First, antisemitism or hatred toward any people in not supported by what scripture teaches us.



That said, the Lord was speaking to Abram.As Christians we are heir to the promise of Abraham and not the law through Moses. Galatians 3.



Peace be with you.
shahidameen
2013-10-02 09:57:08 UTC
Although God had purpose in Israel and no power can destroy them. yet according to the N/T, Israel means every one who accepted the Lord Jesus, the eternal Son of God. such is the New Spiritual Israel
kaganate
2013-10-02 09:33:15 UTC
But the fun of "replacement theology" is that

they simply say that they replaced Israel

(actualy - they use the words "grafted" for themselves and "fell away" for Jews) --

so they can be quite comfortible with their hatred of Jews applying to Jews the nifty New Testament title of "synagogue of Satan"
2013-10-02 09:33:09 UTC
Of course we believe it - it is God's Word inspired by the Holy Spirit.



Either we believe the whole of the Bible or none of it. Nobody should pick and choose as I said, it's all or nothing
?
2013-10-02 09:38:08 UTC
Yes. Jesus was born through the tribe of Judah the king line (Luke 3 KJV) and the tribe of Levi, the priest line (Luke 1 KJV) through Mary's lineage. He was sent to the lost house of Israel (Matthew 15:24) who broke their end of the covenant with God. They needed an intercessor and God kept His end of the agreement and at the crucifixion fulfillment of Scripture, Jesus (God saves) opened up the offer of salvation to all individuals whosoever believeth in Him, (John 3:14-21 KJV)regardless of birthlines or nationality, even kenites. King of kings and Lord of lords both through the king/priest lines of Israel and the world.



Who are the "semites"? From an article written for DESTINY Magazine by Christina R Dickey several decades ago. http://rosethistleartworks.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-backward-look-cr-dickey-destiny.html





" Nothing would do more at this moment to clear the atmosphere of mental fog than for citizens of this country to take a look into the past and find out the actual meaning of anti-Semitism. What a bugaboo it has become through deceptive use! When all the camouflage is removed, the term "anti-Semitism" simply means "against Semites." Who, then, are Semites? Semites are the descendants of Noah's son Shem. Therefore, anti-Semitism, meaning literally antagonism toward all the descendants of Shem, cannot be applied honestly to a small segment of people called Jews, many of whom are not even of Semitic origin, as we shall see. It is true that Abraham was a Semite, being in the direct line of Shem; but there were ten generations from Shem to Abraham --- all of them Semites.



Furthermore, Abraham himself was the progenitor of several distinct racial strains besides the Israelites. First, there was Ishmael, son of Abraham by Sarah's maid Hagar, whose descendants have been identified as the Arabs of today. Next there was Esau, Jacob's twin brother, who became the father of the Edomites, known also as Idumeans. Then another separate line resulted from Abraham's six sons by Keturah. All these Abrahamic peoples and their descendants to this day are Semites, although they are not Israelites."



John 3:14 KJV And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish , but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.



Israel is both a land (terra firma) and a people (tribes of the man named Israel). Most of the people of the tribes of Israel do not know who they are and call themselves "gentiles", as God stated He would let happen.

Deuteronomy 32:26 KJV I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Attention! TESTICLES that is all.
2013-10-02 09:28:43 UTC
read gal 4... abraham's seed = Jesus.



here's another atom bomb for your post...



by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, (Eph 2:15)
Gregory
2013-10-02 09:26:27 UTC
yes



most christians do not believe in replacement theology
?
2013-10-02 09:26:35 UTC
But doesn't YOU mean YOU?



http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2 THESS ALONIANS 1:4-10&version=NIV
Simon
2013-10-02 15:01:51 UTC
I believe it.
Polytheist
2013-10-02 09:26:00 UTC
Christian will believe anything and everything that is in the bible.


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