I apologize if my tone was too harsh. I believe we can disagree without being disagreeable. I get caught up with emotions sometimes. I grew up seeing Jew hatred and it bothers me a great deal.
It wasn't. I appreciate what you're doing there, but it's not necessary. I'm not worried about a harsh tone.
As did I. I grew up in a town known as a "Sundown" town. The KKK had a great foothold there, and I had many friends and acquaintances that were in the "Shrouded $#!$." They hated the Jews in our town and blamed them for their lot in life. Sadly one killed a man who had survived the Holocaust and in the 90's burned a cross in the front yard of a black family that had moved to our town after the federal prison had been built there. It bothers me a great deal more now because I have a brother-in-law and nephew who are Jewish.
I don't think I've ever heard a Christian denigrate the Jews.
Genesis 12:3 would back you up in that.
Augustine of Hippo argued that the Jews should be left alive and suffering as a perpetual reminder of their murder of Christ.
And he would be in good company with St. John ... well ... with Christ actually.
Yes, they were acting like lost men but the apostle Paul was willing to go to hell for his own people. The fact that the Jews were responsible for crucifying their own Messiah (Acts 2:22-23) doesn't make them more worthy of hell than you or me. How is denigrating them in very demeaning ways any different than how many have described Black people or how Caitlin Clark has been attacked for being White by some of the Black WNBA players? Lost people will act like lost people and we should see all lost people as in need of a Savior.
Yes, yes...Christ's indictment, 'twice the child of hell ' was just one way of saying they were just like any other lost person.
My neighbor is a Church of Christ minister who claims his church has replaced Israel (that in itself doesn't make him an anti-semite) but when theYes, yes...Christ's indictment, 'twice the child of hell ' was just one way of saying they were just like any other lost person.
And luther, (and likely the others whose quotes were undoubtedly cherry-picked by your sources), was not 'denigrating' the Jews any more than he was denigrating the Pope or Rome, and neither were they less worthy than Rome of Luther's indictments.
You know darn good and well that indictment was directed solely at the legalistic religious leadership who were laying heavy burdens on the people and not lifting a finger to help them then turning around and prohibiting them from finding life in the Savior.
Replacement theology, though not inherently anti- semitic, (as you astutely point out) often gives rise to anti-Semitic thought. This CofC pastor is a perfect example of this.
In other words, Judaism. And that's of whom Luther spoke as well.
for decades teachers in public schools have been teaching the same things about communism - - that it is a great idea which has unfortunately never implemented properly.... ...(i never heard them use the phrase bad execution to explain it;s failures.... they probably knew a lot of us in the class would have argued back and said... "no.... bad executions are the end result of communism... and they execute everybody who disagreed with them... " ...
Not sure we have the same definition of denigrating.
Again, not sure we have the same definition of denigrating.
This one I'll give you as I don't want to look into the context.
How is this denigrating?
Yes. Your copied and pasted proof assumes that the millenium is a literal 1000 year reign of Christ on the earth. That assumes a pre-millenial view of eschatology. If I disagree with that, I disagree with your assumptions, and therefore your conclusion. I am not saying I do one way or another, but a lot of good men disagree with premillenialism.
One reason Jews today don’t trust Christians is the history of their persecution by supposedly Christian nations. The history of the “Wandering Jew” for the past 2000 years is heartbreaking. In 1020 A.D. all Jews were banished from England. In that century there was an attempt to murder all Jews who refused to be baptized as part of the Holy Wars and there were also riots with many Jews being murdered.
I don't disagree with you. I believe many things about Calvinism have been distorted just as many things about Dispensationalism have been distorted by some like Peter Ruckman and others. Revelation is progressive and a "dispensation" is a dispensing of divine revelation. God gave Adam instructions for a period of time that was later changed after he sinned and later on changed again with the revelation given Moses. Whether one calls that a "dispensation" or something else is moot. There were also more than two covenants. Some were temporary covenants and others were everlasting covenants. I believe Christians can disagree on these subjects. I see no reason to reject the prophecies concerning the regathering of the Jews to their homeland. Spurgeon was a Reformed Baptist but he also predicted the literal return of the Jews to their homeland which was a miracle. For 2500 years the Jew had no sovereign nation until 1948. I used to have a cheap set of encyclopedias published in the 1930's. I looked up Israel and all it said was that it was an ancient nation mentioned in the Bible. How did Spurgeon and other theologians predict God would once again restore the nation of Israel? Because that is exactly what was prophesied in the Bible.