I found this on a disreputable site:
Judaism is not “people who practice the religion of the Israelites in the way they did before Jesus came.” That is a lie and a stupid lie. That religion can’t be practiced anymore because the Romans – shoutout to my Romans – burned the Jew temple in the first century. Also, even if you didn’t know that, because you’re a boomer and you basically don’t know shit, why would you believe people were special for rejecting Christ? But it isn’t even about the religion for the Christian Zionists, it’s a bloodline thing, and that has all kinds of problems, because most of the decedents of the Abrahamic tribes became Christians (and later some of them Moslems). If it’s about a bloodline thing, we should really be sending infinity money and weapons to the Lebanese Christians, who, due to high levels of endogamy, have something like over a 90% genetic overlap with the people of the Old Testament.I tried to say something similar in Jesus was a Roman. I don't think it makes much sense to think of Old Testament Israel as early Judaism. Judaism was created later. The Bible Old Testament is pre-Christian as much as pre-Judaism.Aside from the Mizrahi Jews (who are nowhere near as genetically similar to ancient Levantine peoples as Lebanese and Syrian Christians, having well over 50% Arab/Turkic DNA), the Jews of the state of Israel have only minor trace DNA connections to the people of the Old Testament.
This is without even mentioning the fact that Saint Paul said, explicitly, that the “Old Covenant” doesn’t exist anymore, and that the Jews are the enemies of all mankind, meaning that any form of Christian support for the State of Israel is a heresy.
And yes, I think that Christian Zionism is a heresy.
But no, this does not have much relevance to current Middle East wars.
1 comment:
It's a thought provoking model but, in the end, the idea that Christ was worshipped before he was born, died, and rose again is far fetched at best. Christianity began with and is premised on Christ's teachings and his death on the cross, neither of which occurred before his birth.
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