Since coming to Christ, I have attended various Christian Bible studies.
But, I often become uncomfortable when the class reads the
New Testament; there is just so much about 'the Jews' in It. And,
most of it isn't very positive......?
Since coming to Christ, I have attended various Christian Bible studies.
But, I often become uncomfortable when the class reads the
New Testament; there is just so much about 'the Jews' in It. And,
most of it isn't very positive......?
joganderson,
I do hope you do not see "anti-semitism" in the NT, but rather an honest account by men who were Jews themselves (except for Luke) and whose loyalties were with our Lord rather than with men.
How could the NT accounts be positive when “men” did what they did to our Lord and to His followers? What we need to do is look past these men’s Jewish ethnicity and realize that any other ethnic group of men would have done the same evil things they did.
The Jews were representative of all men during our Lord’s visitation to this earth. They were a “sampling” of all mankind, but only a small remnant which included the apostles chose to follow the Lord. In the majority of the Jews though, God chose to reveal to the rest of us the extent of our sinful nature and our inability to save ourselves.
But thanks be to our Lord who took the sins of
all men to the Cross and reconciled us to God!