Replacement View

• The Bible (pick the best answer).
• Old Testament was written to ethnic Israel.
• Contains some things for Christians, some things for the Jewish people.
• Says the New Covenant replaces Israel with the Church.
• Is written to God’s people, all of it. 

• The apocryphal book 2 Esdras (2:10-11) says: 
• God is going to give ______________________ to the Church.
• True or False: Pastor Winans is advocating for the above view.

• Read Ephesians 2:11-22. How does the replacement view (The Church replaces Israel as the people of God) diminish what Jesus has accomplished for Israel?  

Separated View

• The separated view believes some sections of the Bible are written only to the   ______________ and others are only written to the nation of _______________.

• True or False: The Separated View takes the Bible the most literally.

• The Separated View believes the following (pick the one that is false).
• We are in the Church Age.
• There is no difference between a Jew and a Gentile in how a person becomes a child

             of God.

• The age of the church is also known as the great parenthesis.
• The Bible is written to two distinct peoples. The nation of Israel and the Church.

• Read Ephesians 2:11-22. How does the Separated View (The Church and Israel are distinct peoples of God) diminish what Jesus has accomplished for the Church? 

Fulfillment View

• Dr. J Ligon Duncan III expresses the following Fulfillment View:
• The promises of God are ________________ in the Gentiles.
• God ____________ the Gentiles into the people of God.
• Therefore, the Gentiles and Israel are ____________ people.

• Read John 15:5-6 (pick the best one).
• Jesus describes a child of God as one who is a part of the vine. 
• Jesus describes a child of God who is born of the nation of Israel.

• Read Romans 9:6  (pick the best one).
• All people who are descended from Israel are not true Israel.
• All people who are descended from Israel are true Israel.

• Read Matthew 3:7-10 (pick the best one).
• Jesus warned the Pharisees and Sadducees that they were not necessarily Abraham’s children. 
• Jesus assured the Pharisees and Sadducees that because they were descended from Abraham that they would bear good fruit.

• Read Hebrews 3:16-4:2.
• Of all the people who left Egypt only ____________ and ______________ entered into the Promised Land.
• Entering into the rest of God depends upon _____________.

• Read Galatians 6:14-16.
• Describe what these verses mean.
• How does the Bible describe how a person becomes a new creation?

• If we believe that Replacement or the Separated Views are correct, then the ______________ and __________________God made to Israel cannot be fulfilled by the _____________________. 

• Read Acts 15:13-18 and Amos 9:11-12.
• Acts 15:16 quotes the _______________ passage and in verse 17 gives the reason that the ______________ are to be made into  _______________ people.

• How does a person know they are a child of God? 
• Are you? 
• How does this impact the way you approach the Scriptures and apply them to your life?  

Apologetics: Why some books/letters are included, and not others? 

• How should we view writings like 2 Esdras and early epistles (letters) like the “Epistle of Barnabas” that was mentioned in the sermon, yet not in our bibles?
• Are there others?
• Why are they not part of the Bible?  

Doctrine:

• “What is the visible church?”