1d • General Discussion
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the New Testament has anti-Jewish material baked into its foundation — not footnotes, the core narrative. Collective guilt for the death of Jesus pinned on the Jewish people across all generations (1). Replacement theology — the claim that Jews are no longer God's people and the church has taken their place (2). Jews portrayed throughout the gospels as betrayers, liars, children of the devil (3). This is the text itself, not a minority reading. I judge the doctrine, not the individual Christian. Today's generation can be kind, and often is. But people change, cultures change, politics change — the text does not. It sits there waiting for whoever decides to actually follow it. That is exactly why the text is the subject worth discussing, not the mood of the current generation.
(1) Collective guilt:
Matthew 27:25 — "And all the people answered, 'His blood be on us and on our children!'"
Matthew 23:35-36 — "that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah... Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation."
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 — "the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind... But wrath has come upon them at last!"
See also: Matthew 23:31-32; Acts 7:51-52.
(2) Replacement theology:
Matthew 21:43 — "the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits."
Galatians 4:30 — "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." (Paul's own allegory: the "slave woman" = the Sinai covenant.)
Hebrews 8:13 — "In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
See also: Galatians 6:16; Philippians 3:3; Hebrews 10:9.
(3) Betrayers, liars, children of the devil:
John 8:44 — "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires... he is a liar and the father of lies."
Matthew 23:33 — "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Philippians 3:2 — "Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh."
Revelation 2:9 — "the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan."
Revelation 3:9 — "those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie."
See also: Matthew 23:15, 23:27; the recurring pattern throughout John (5:16-18, 7:1, 10:31) where "the Jews" collectively seek to kill Jesus.
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