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I am covenant theology and NIFB. The church has replaced Israel because of the historical context of the law ending in 33 AD with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and 70 AD with the destruction of the 2nd temple in Jerusalem by Titus Flavius. James says to break one law is to be guilty of all. And what is the wages of sin? DEATH! That's why people sacrificed chickens, goats and oxes for burnt offerings. It covered sins but the blood of sheeps and bulls cannot remove sin. Only the blood, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ can do that. However, I do believe that in the Old Testament, salvation worked differently. The holy spirit wasn't required and when people did receive it, they could lose it. King David even wrote in one of the Psalms take not your holy spirit from me. But in the NT, the holy spirit is required for salvation and once you receive it by believing in the blood, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you are sealed to the day of redemption. The Bible says they have eternal life. That's PRESENT-TENSE, not future. There is no backsliding. You can still sin, but no one born of God commits sin. That's because they have the holy ghost. Paul even said it is not I that sin but the spirit of sin that lives within me. Your flesh still sins. But some people who make it to Heaven are gonna be left with no rewards after the judgment seat of Christ. That's why you continue in belief and not apostatize so you can be given the crown of life. The Bible says that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for all are one in Christ Jesus. Obviously, unsaved Israel is not blessed by God. The answer to Genesis 12:5 is Galatians 3:16. It didn't mean God will bless those that bless Israel, it said ABRAHAM'S SEED! Jews butcher the NT. Rabbi Tovias Singer cannot read his own book.
Steven Anderson is NIFB and he's covenant theology. Adam Fannin is NIFB and he's covenant theology. Gene Kim is old IFB and he's a dispensationalist. Robert Breaker is old IFB and he's a dispensationalist. Bryan Dunlinger is old IFB and he's a dispensationalist. The thing about old IFB is that they accuse the new IFB of being Catholic church sympathizers for their covenant theology frameworks, post-tribulation rapture and so on.
I also believe in premillennialism. Steven Anderson does also. I reject Christian Identity and Black Hebrew Israelism and believe that contemporary Jews are the Jews of the Bible. No we wuzzing. However I don't believe that they are chosen in that all of them are saved. That's only true for the church. Salvation has always been through faith and NEVER about works. The law only existed to convict the world of sin.
I'm NIFB, non-reformed, premillennial, post-tribulation rapture, free grace/hypergrace, antinomianism, pro-OSAS/eternal security, sola fide, evangelical soulwinning baptist. All other doctrines (including the Lutherans who believe you can lose your salvation) are heresies. Including the Catholic and Orthodox faiths who believe you have to repent of every sin you commit in order to be saved, called theosis, when Christ's sacrifice was once for all. It's not like the blood of chickens or goats. The blood of Jesus washes away sin (blessed is he whose iniquity is not imputed upon him). Christ cannot die a second time just because you sinned. Also, gentiles were never bound by the law.
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I would say only old IFB (dispensational, pre-tribulation rapture) and new IFB (covenant theology, post-tribulation rapture) are truly saved. All other faiths teach either you can lose your salvation, salvation is through works and obeying God's law/not sinning or not sinning + faith, deny the resurrection like the Jehovah's witnesses, deny the blood (like John MacArthur), teach arianism/semi-arianism instead of the trinity (John 1:1 and Proverbs 8), teach simony for salvation (prosperity gospel, NAR and the word of faith movement), teach soul sleep until the 2nd resurrection, completely ignoring the first and when Jesus said he is God of the living, not the dead, teach baptism or anything besides faith for salvation (like communion/eucharist), teach limited atonement (like the calvinists believe), don't distinguish old covenant from new covenant and get their doctrine extremely mixed up like the primitive baptists/southern baptists, or are seriously wrong doctrinally on other counts.