2.07.2005 | I am a Jew

An important post on anti-Semitism by Meryl Yourish at Yourish.com. From that post, this rather sums it up:

The [late] Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim says that Jew hatred has three stages:

You cannot live among us as Jews.
You cannot live among us.
You cannot live.

My theory on why anti-Semitism is an evil weed that will not die is that the world hates those who have brought God's word to the world. Call it shame, call it revenge. Nobody likes to have to be told that their pagan ways are wrong and will bring judgment against them by the Almighty. Yet that is what the Jews had to do to maintain the covenant. Sure didn't win any popularity contests.

The Jews did not invent God, of course -- the other way 'round. But they took upon themselves the awful burden of following His law. The Jews chose God; chose His yoke to bear. Or not. And have suffered the consequences throughout history.

Both Old and New Testaments were written by and about Jews and their interactions with God. One in particular Jew being God's only Son, a nice Jewish boy from Nazareth. Christians who hate Jews hate their own Savior. And are not Christians. Jews rejected Jesus? Some did; some did not. Just like the rest of the world.

I am a Christian. I am a Jew. A Jew who knows that my Savior, Jesus who became Christ, lives and will return. And, most importantly, that it is solely my faith in Jesus as Lord that will save me. All by its mighty self. It really is that simple.

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