Discussion»Questions»Current Events and News» Hmmm...White supremists hate Jews...Jesus was head honcho of the Jews. Does that mean the anti-Semites can't worship Jesus?
The New Testament is fairly condemnatory of Jews. Even the writers of the New Testament struggled to balance the fact that Jesus came out of a Jewish tradition, that he was the Jewish messiah, with the fact that the Jews ultimately rejected him and caused his death. So white supremacists probably cite lines like Matthew 27:25, where the Jews cry, "His blood be upon us and our descendants!" as justification for their anti-Semitism. Yet it seems to me a massive denial of history, considering that Christianity is ultimately an off-shoot of Judaism. White supremacy has little justification in Christianity in general, though. Claiming to be a Christian doesn't make you one.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at August 17, 2017 10:35 PM MDT
Not condemnatory of Jews, just the high priests, scribes and Pharisees - the Republicans of the day. Smug, self-serving, greedy and self-righteous. Only one NT writer was not himself a Jew - the evangelist Luke. Paul (aka Saul of Tarsus) was a member of the Sanhedrin, one of those groups Jesus had roundly criticized, until his conversion. Jesus referred to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel as "Daddy" (Aramaic "Abba"), almost all of his disciples were Jewish, most of those who initially turned to Christianity outside Judaea in the early years were diaspora Jews until the preaching of Paul began to take hold in Greece.
Benedict Arnold 