Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: uflorida!novavax!gowj@gatech.edu (James Gow) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Of Christians and Jews (was Re: Questions about the Messiah) Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 09:15:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lines: 33 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article rjb@akgua.att.com (Robert J Brown) writes: >In article , YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Yaakov Kayman) writes: >> >> This said, I should like to express my curiosity about the evident >> preoccupation by some/many/most Christians, in this newsgroup at least, >> with the Jews, and what we do and do not believe. As Jews spend virtually >> no time whatsoever mulling over what Christians do or do not believe, or >> do or do not practice except when it causes adverse results to Jews, >> I'd like to ask "Haven't you got things more germane to your own faith >> to discuss, rather than spending so much time discussing a people that >> has made it eminently clear throughout two thousand years that it is >> just not interested in Christianity and wants nothing of Christians other >> than to be left alone? Why not just give it a rest?" >> >> Yaakov K. >> -------- What Yaakov may not realize is that we christians consider ourselves Jewish. When Paul refers to the ingrafted branch he is refering to us. We have been in grafted into Judiasm because of our belief in Yeshua of Nazareth. Since salvation is of the Jews our saviour and God is Jewish. Perhpas Yaakov should read the New Testament a little more carefully for content and meaning. Doesn't the 22nd Psalm sound a little familiar when compared to Jesus' words on the cross? "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" "All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him, let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." linc james [Part of a transformed Israel, yes, based on Paul's discussion in Romans. But using the term "Jewish" in this context seems so likely to result in confusion and ill will that I strongly recommend avoiding it. --clh]