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The term "Jews" can refer to two groups: the civil and religious leadership or more generally the Jewish populace. It serves one well to keep a mind of that when reading the Besorim and letters. Though the examples that show the distinction between the two are numerous, I will only offer one pertinent and clear example for the sake of brevity. Quote:Mt 23.37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing." - the difference between the leadership ("you") and the people ("your children"). Now, it's a commonly held view, especially among the Yahudim and "progressive" churches that the "New Testament" is anti-semitic. Did they ever consider the feelings of the poor gentiles? Quote:“And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? (Mt 5.45, Yahushua) And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. (Mt 6.7, Yahushua) “Do not be anxious then, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘With what shall we clothe ourselves?’ 32 “For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek; (Matt 6.31, Yahushua) And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer. (Mt 18.17, Yahushua) But Yahushua called them to Himself, and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. 26 “It is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, (Matt 20.25, Yahushua) For He will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon, (Lk 18.32) It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles (1 Cor 5.1, Paul) No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God (1 Cor 10.20, Paul) We are Jews by nature, and not sinners from among the Gentiles; (Gal 2.15) This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, (Eph 4.7, Paul) that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God (1 Thess 4.4, Paul) For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. (1 Pet 4.3, Peter) If you wanna pick a fit about the Besorim's treatment of Yahudim, if you choose to ignore the fact that the vast preponderance of negative statements about "Jews" are actually talking about leadership, then you are going to have to deal with it's statements about the Goyim. It is not hating on Yahudim or encouraging hatred of them by the believing community. It does not lift up one group at the expense of the other. Christianity has no accomplice in the "NT" when it comes to it's own sins against the Jewish people. To say so, is to do the same thing that the religious establishment of Romish Christianity did...to take the words and intents of Yahushua and his Talmidim grossly out of context. |
YHWH's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
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