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Yes, hatred of the Jews is irrational. Anti-Semitism, and anti-Semites, should be repudiated by all of us.
"On the one side, a generation of evangelical Christians have been taught that the Bible requires them to give unqualified support for the nation of Israel, politically, financially, and militarily. They do this because they believe Israel is God’s chosen people. In order to stand with God, you must also stand with Israel. Period. Any criticism of Israel is the same as antisemitism. . . .
"On the other side, a growing number of Christians, many of them reacting directly to the first group, have swung hard in the opposite direction. They’ve discovered that the theological case for Christian Zionism is biblically weaker than they were told, and they’ve watched evangelical leaders embarrass themselves by fawning over and pandering to Israeli foreign policy interests. They’ve read things about how much the Jews control media, finance, and pop culture in harmful ways, and they are eager to oppose them for it. . . .
"Antisemitism is partiality against the Jews, whether it be towards individual Jews or the nation of Israel. Same principle, opposite posture, also wicked. . . .
"In Romans 9-11, for example, Paul is not writing a foreign policy manual. He is not telling Gentile Christians to write checks to the Israeli government or vote for politicians who promise to defend Israel. He is also not dismissing the Jewish people as just another ethnic group with no particular significance in God’s redemptive purposes.
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"On the one side, a generation of evangelical Christians have been taught that the Bible requires them to give unqualified support for the nation of Israel, politically, financially, and militarily. They do this because they believe Israel is God’s chosen people. In order to stand with God, you must also stand with Israel. Period. Any criticism of Israel is the same as antisemitism. . . .
"On the other side, a growing number of Christians, many of them reacting directly to the first group, have swung hard in the opposite direction. They’ve discovered that the theological case for Christian Zionism is biblically weaker than they were told, and they’ve watched evangelical leaders embarrass themselves by fawning over and pandering to Israeli foreign policy interests. They’ve read things about how much the Jews control media, finance, and pop culture in harmful ways, and they are eager to oppose them for it. . . .
"Antisemitism is partiality against the Jews, whether it be towards individual Jews or the nation of Israel. Same principle, opposite posture, also wicked. . . .
"In Romans 9-11, for example, Paul is not writing a foreign policy manual. He is not telling Gentile Christians to write checks to the Israeli government or vote for politicians who promise to defend Israel. He is also not dismissing the Jewish people as just another ethnic group with no particular significance in God’s redemptive purposes.
The Jews, the Church, and Two Ditches to Avoid
What do Gentile Christians actually owe the Jewish people?
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By definition, anti-Zionism rejects the foundational belief that Israel has a legitimate right to exist as a Jewish state. Christians are divided on God’s plan for Israel and even Reformed Christians don’t have a perfect agreement on this subject. There are nuances in Reformed theology just as there are among Dispensationalists. Basically, the question comes down to whether the prophecies of the regathering of the Jews to their homeland never to be driven out again can be spiritualized or taken literally. The miraculous regathering after more than 2,000 years of being scattered around the world is proof in my eyes and in the eyes of many other Christians that the prophecies are to be taken literally.Yes, hatred of the Jews is irrational. Anti-Semitism, and anti-Semites, should be repudiated by all of us.
"On the one side, a generation of evangelical Christians have been taught that the Bible requires them to give unqualified support for the nation of Israel, politically, financially, and militarily. They do this because they believe Israel is God’s chosen people. In order to stand with God, you must also stand with Israel. Period. Any criticism of Israel is the same as antisemitism. . . .
"On the other side, a growing number of Christians, many of them reacting directly to the first group, have swung hard in the opposite direction. They’ve discovered that the theological case for Christian Zionism is biblically weaker than they were told, and they’ve watched evangelical leaders embarrass themselves by fawning over and pandering to Israeli foreign policy interests. They’ve read things about how much the Jews control media, finance, and pop culture in harmful ways, and they are eager to oppose them for it. . . .
"Antisemitism is partiality against the Jews, whether it be towards individual Jews or the nation of Israel. Same principle, opposite posture, also wicked. . . .
"In Romans 9-11, for example, Paul is not writing a foreign policy manual. He is not telling Gentile Christians to write checks to the Israeli government or vote for politicians who promise to defend Israel. He is also not dismissing the Jewish people as just another ethnic group with no particular significance in God’s redemptive purposes.
The Jews, the Church, and Two Ditches to Avoid
What do Gentile Christians actually owe the Jewish people?
The way I look at it is the New Testament Church could not be the fulfillment of the unconditional promises to Abraham’s descendants because Paul not only spoke of the nation of Israel being cut off, but of their being “grafted in again” and being saved (Rom 11:23, 26) which is yet future. Nonetheless, I agree with the article that Jew hatred is wrong no matter what side of the fence one may take.
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You'll have to define "Israel" and "Jewish," and the doctrine of the "right to exist."
The tree is Israel. The natural branches are the Hebrews. And there is no promise of anyone being grafted in again once they're cut off. Paul said attachment to the Root is by faith, whether the branch be natural or wild, and said only that God is able to graft them in again.
There is no promise of restoral any more than there was any promise of God raising children of Abraham from stones when the Baptist said, "God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."
Did those stones become children of Abraham?
Do you expect to see Caiaphas in Glory?
3000 Jews were addes to the Church on the Day of Pentecost. That is the regathering.