'''SupersessionismReplacement theology''' (sometimes referred to as '''replacement theologysupersessionism''' by its criticsadherents) is a belief that [[Christianity]] or [[Elagabalism]] or [[Islam]] is the fulfillment true and rightful and continuation of the [[Old Testament]]Jewish Scriptures, and that [[Jews]] who deny that [[Jesus]] is the [[Messiah]] (or the Muhammed is the final Prophet, superseding Moses) are not being faithful to the revelation that [[Tetragrammaton|God]] has given them, and they therefore fall short of their calling as his [[chosen people]]. This view holds that [[race|racial]] and [[ethnicity|ethnic]] divisions and boundaries are ended in Jesus Christno longer exist, and faith in Jesus (or Muhammed) unites all peoples into one new body, which is God’s new chosen people.
==The doctrine==
The first view holds that Jews are no longer chosen based on ethnicity, but that God sent is working to reconcile sinful people irrespective of Jews and Gentiles.
The second and more common form of supersessionism does not on its own terms theorize a replacement. Instead it argues that unbelieving Israel has been superseded only in the sense that the church or ''Ummah'' has been entrusted with the fulfillment of the promises of which Israel has been the trustee. The Jews have been and are forever the chosen trustee of the [[covenant (biblical)|covenants]], the [[Torah|Law]], and the promises of blessing and salvation, and the lineage of the Messiah, and yet many of the Jews have rejected Jesus as the Messiah. On the other hand, the church receives the promised Messiah faithful are defined not on the basis of ethnicity but through faith in identity of the Christ or final Prophet, and thus consists of any Jews and any Gentiles who profess that faith.
This belief has served as the explanation for why Christians need not adhere to some laws that are seen as only for the people of God before Christ (for instance, [[circumcision]] and adherence to the Jewish dietary laws, which were addressed at the [[Council of Jerusalem]]), and it is also the rationale for urging the conversion of Jews to Christianity.
