Whenever someone says, “the Jews rejected Jesus,” (past tense) or, “the Jews reject Jesus” (present tense), to justify whatever theological/political position they are advocating, I always want to ask them: Can you show me any ethnic people group that has accepted Jesus 100%? Do all the people in your white American town believe in Jesus and obey him? In other words, it is fundamentally antisemitic (and unbiblical) to argue that a lack of 100% acceptance of the Gospel among the Jewish people is a justifiable reason to denigrate them, or to mark them out for special curses and judgment, because this is holding the Jewish people as a whole to a standard that is not being applied to anyone else. You’re turning the Jews into some kind of special villian just because they have Jewish blood, rather than including them as part of the rest of humanity, which is textbook racism and antisemitism. Not to mention that thousands of Jewish people in the first century did follow Jesus and more follow him now than ever before. - Travis M. Snow
Friday, December 06, 2024
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