Danger of Replacement Theology

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)



Biblical untruth:
“Replacement Theology”
Of “Old Testament”
With “New Testament” Scriptures
Is patently incorrect.

Misleading schism
Of the Bible’s unity,
Written as a whole
With Divine Authority —
And with all of it God-breathed.

Absolutely false,
“Replacement Theology”
Is quite misleading.
It’s poor interpretation
Of all the sixty six books.

The Hebrew Bible,
Known to us as the Tanach,
Twenty seven books —
Is prologue to what follows:
The Gospels and Epistles.

It forms the basis
Of the entire Bible
As “The Beginning.”
The “Bereshit” of God’s Word —
That ends with “Revelation.”

To underscore this:
“Replacement Theology”
Is without wisdom.
It’s utterly misleading,
Deceptively dangerous,
Spiritually unsound.

Truth is never old
When divinely inspired.
Every stroke of it,
Contained in sixty six books,
Is messaged by the Spirit.

About this poem

It is reported that fewer and fewer believers of the Abrahamic Faith are turning to the Holy Bible as “God’s Word” that is divinely inspired, largely because of the false doctrine of “Replacement Theology” that pits the Bible’s 27 books against its remaining 39 books, naming one “old” and the other “new” in such a manner that believers of the Abrahamic Faith, as practicing Jews and Christians, feel that they are obliged to choose one set of books over the other or, what is even worse, to not choose either. This results in a schism of religious faith and practice, which often spills over into a psychological schism of the human personality, divided and lost in the endeavor to obtain spiritual unity and wholeness. This poem is written in the form of an extended 5-line unrhymed Tanka to bring to light and underscore the “uncomfortable truth” that few people like to discuss. 

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Written on June 28, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on June 28, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on June 28, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xAxbx caxax xAdef gxfxb hgdie xAcdhx xixfx
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 891
Words 159
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5

Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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  • karlcfolkes
    A resounding Amen!
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • dougb.21370
    As if to say God revokes promises. Makes mistakes and has to resort to a Plan B or Plan C. Balderdash. Jews are not being replaced in God’s partiality with a strange Race. At the end of Galations we read that the true Israel of God encompasses Jew and Gentile, bond and free. The process has been a brilliant refining. Not a replacing…Doug Blair. 
    LikeReply1 year ago

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