THEOLOGICAL BUTCHERS CONSTANTINE, THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS
Kelleigh Nelson concludes her history of Replacement Theology. It underlines to this monkey the fact that no man ever has a full grasp of the entirety of God’s Word. Perhaps it is to keep you humans humble and aware of your own failings? Chimps like me do not have that problem. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley THEOLOGICAL BUTCHERS CONSTANTINE, THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS PART SIX Kelleigh Nelson You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will He forsake his inheritance. Psalm 94:14 Behold, I have engraven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. Isaiah 49:16 Wherever replacement theology has flourished, the Jews have had to run for cover. Biblical scholar, Thomas Ice The relationship between Gentiles and Jews thrived in the early Church and they viewed one another as brothers and sisters. Gentiles adopted Jewish traditions as Sabbath rest, Biblical feasts, Holy Days, et al. As Christianity spread and more Gentiles were converted, the Church began to estrange itself from its Jewish Roots. Soon, the Church consisted more of Gentiles than Jews causing the church to deviate from its Biblical roots. Since those early days, there has been a two-thousand-year Church battle against Judaism. The dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization with its fault lines reaching deep into our own culture. The ugly hostility and contempt of God’s people has slithered out from under rocks and is raising its poisonous fangs once again. These imperial measures were the fruits of replacement theology from the early church fathers, and their allegorical translations of the Word. As noted in this series, replacement theology increasingly became mainstream within the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant communions. The germination of this repugnant and…