JESUS WAS NOT "JEWISH". By:
Arnold Kennedy.
A key deception that has diffused throughout most denominations relates to the following areas:
1. That
Jesus was "
Jewish".
2. That "The
Jews" are
God's chosen people.
3. The Jews are always
Israelites, and the word "Jews" is a synonym for
Israel.
4. "The Jew" and "The Jews" means the same thing.
5. That the racial term for 'Jews' [Judah] is the same as the territorial term for 'Jews' [
Judean].
6. That "
Jewish Law" means the Law given through
Moses.
7. That
Christianity and Judaism are complementary.
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These ideas have "crept in unawares" into churches, and not one of them is valid. To look at this as a subject, we will make a comparison between what is claimed from a Zionist
Internet source [
http://www.zionist/christa
.htm] and what the
Bible says. We will break the Zionist paper up into sections for this purpose.
ZIONIST CLAIM ONE: "Are Christianity and Judaism different religions? I am here to tell you absolutely not. Because of thousands of years of teaching to the contrary, it is widely believed that the two are different faiths. There is much evidence to show that these beliefs are indeed false, and are the direct result of two thousand years of anti-Semitic teachings. I will keep this as simple as possible, as to get any deeper into this matter would require
a greater understanding of Judaism for Christians, or a greater understanding of true
Christianity for Jews."
ANSWER: Jesus did not believe this. There are seven references in the Gospels similar to
Matthew 15:3,
"Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" which show that the 'commandments of God' were at variance with the teachings or laws of the Jews. In regard to the use of the word, "anti-Semitic", we will see that many "The Jews" were not of the same origin as Jesus and eleven of His disciples. The two thousand years of so-called anti-Semitic teaching must then have carried on by Jesus from the past. Jesus was always in conflict with "The Jews".
Martin Luther is often quoted as being anti-
Semitic, but his words on this subject are very much in line with those of Jesus, and so Jesus and
Luther were in agreement about "The Jews". A current
Court case is in process in
Australia where "Jewish" interests are accusing the
Anglican Church of anti-Semitism because the Anglicans use the Bible, a supposedly anti-Semitic book to "The Jews". There is a Zionist contradiction in claim three below where we will see Jewish praise for the Bible.
ZIONIST CLAIM TWO: "
First of all, let's clear one thing up. Jesus was a Jew, is still a Jew, and will always be a Jew.
Remember when God said someone of
David's line would always be on the throne of Israel?
Guess who that someone has been for the last two thousand years.
People like to argue that Jesus is God, how could He also be part of the human culture?
True, Jesus is God, but He chose to become man too
. Now He lives in a glorified human body, just like we will. Jesus was born to a Jew, making Him also a Jew. Not only this, but Jesus followed Jewish Law, or the Torah, which is a whole other subject on why Gentile believers should do the same."
ANSWER: To respond to this it is necessary to distinguish between the following:
[a] The "Jew" as a descendant of Judah or the
House of Judah. These are "Judahites" and are all Israelites.
[b] The Jews as residents of
Judea. These are "
Judeans" and may include proselytes of any race, most of these being non-Judaites, that is, not Israelites by race. To say that Jesus was a Jew then is meaningless nonsense as a generality. We read in
Hebrews 7:14, "For it is evident that our
Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood". Here Jesus determines an
Israelite tribe amongst whom he appeared
.. He was "born" of a woman of the tribe of Judah but "begotten" [from the past] of the
Father. So as far as racial descent is concerned, He was, "having neither beginning of days, nor end of life"-[Heb 7:3], and so Jesus did not descend from any human male. We cannot say biblically, "Jesus was a Jew, is still a Jew, and will always be
a Jew". Jewish Talmudic teaching is that a Jew is a person who has a
Jewish mother, but the both Testaments show that genealogies are reckoned through the male side, i.e. a male begets a male down the line. Thus saying, "Jesus was born to a Jew making Him also a Jew" is totally false. We do not ascribe racial origin to
God the Father and thus do not to
God the Son. Where we read, "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto ["homoioo"] his brethren", this is how Jesus associates Himself those also
born from above from an original sowing. Jesus became as one of Israelites. "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren"-Heb 2:11
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-- From Arnold Kennedy's Jesus Was Not 'Jewish'
@ http://israelitewatchmen.com/archive/reference/ArnoldKennedy/
- published: 14 Sep 2013
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