Throughout all of history Jews have been persecuted, tortured and murdered at the hands anti-Semites. And why has this happened? When it comes right down to it, it’s because (Christians say) ‘the Jews refuse to accept Jesus as the Messiah.’ And all through the ages the Jews have been blamed for the killing of Jesus.
I don’t see why anyone can think his blood is on their heads for what their ancestors did. According to the everyone’s bible (including the Christians’ Bible):
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. (Eze 18:20)
If fact, Christology holds that Christ died for the sins of the world and that by the shedding of his blood all sins are forgiven by God because of the sacrifice Christ made on the cross. This is basically the doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement which is contradictory to the Jewish Scriptures.
Why do the Jews not accept Jesus as the Messiah?
Don’t the Jews believe that Jesus was a prophet and a Rabbi sent from God? They do. Don’t they believe in doing good works? They do. According to Jesus those who do this “go into life eternal”. If you don’t believe me read it for yourself: Mat 25:34-46.
However, there is really no requirement that one has to believe that Jesus was the Messiah to be ‘saved’. This thing about believing was something that Paul invented. The truth is that there is no solid evidence in the bible that Jesus was the Messiah, in the way that it has been corrupted and the way that the church insists on interpreting it.
According to how the bible is written and how many in the church interpret it, Jesus is disqualified from being the Messiah. Jesus was sent to the Jews and was a Jew himself, born under the Jewish Law. Consequently, to qualify as their Messiah he had to have all of the attributes of all of the Old Testament messianic prophecies as the Jewish Messiah, not to mention the things that were to occur at his coming.
The fact is that many Jews have accepted him
This testifies to the fact that in the early days of the church, the Jews knew that Jesus did meet (at least some of) the requirements to be their Messiah. For Jesus to meet the qualifications as the Messiah, the following are a few:
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- Be a descendant of King David
- Be of the lineage of David through Solomon
- Be a first born son, not an adopted son
- With physical lineage through the father, not the mother.
- Joseph had to be Jesus’ biological father in this case for him to qualify.
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If you believe Jesus was the Messiah, then these things should have been true of him. However, there are many other things churchmen insisted on adding such as: the myth that Mary was a virgin, Jesus’ father was the Holy Ghost and Mary was of the lineage of David through Nathan — all of which disqualify Jesus as being the Jewish Messiah.
One huge thing that really turns off the Jews to Jesus as the true Messiah is the fact that Christians consider Jesus to be God.
The way they see it is that the Jewish Scriptures say that “God is not a man”, therefore since Jesus had a flesh and blood body, there is no way that he could be God. Besides, how is it that God let his enemies execute him? Moreover, God being executed by hanging on a tree was to the Jews what was done to people who were cursed! This would never happen to God in the mind of a Jew.
A brief history of how the church converted Jesus from Messiah to God.
Technically there is no way that the messiah could be God and the messiah at the same time. The only way they could make it look that way was to alter the manuscripts and impose their own interpretation of their customized bible.
So why did some churchmen alter the original writings of the disciples? The Roman church consisting of mainly Greek Christians were interested in winning over the Greek, Roman and other pagans. The Roman empire was interested in uniting the empire and conquering new territory.
Belief is a very powerful tool in the hands of the government and religion for the control and manipulation of the masses for power, prestige and wealth. To make a long story short, the solution was to make Jesus the God of Christianity — officially. This is what stopped all the bickering and brought unity to the church, helped win the pagan population, got the support from the powers that be and gained new ground for the roman empire.
This was advantageous for the Roman church and advantageous for the Roman empire, but the Jewish Christians became outraged. In a nutshell, how they did it was by making Jesus the only Son of God (making Jesus for their religion ‘God the Son’, second person of the godhead).
To do this they needed Mary to be a virgin, something that the pagans could easily relate to, in addition to a triune god. To the pagans a son of a god was a god. Jesus being the son of God not only made him a god, but according to the interpretation of the powerful Roman church backed by the Roman empire, “The one and only” true God.
But Jesus being the physical son of Joseph as the family of Jesus and his disciples knew him to be, just would not make him look like a god at all. Their solution was to modify the original writings they received from the Jewish Christians and destroy the originals so that no one would know the real truth. (See my article on The Davidic Lineage through Solomon)
There is no proof in the Christian bible, the way that they re-wrote it and interpret it, that Jesus truly qualified to be the Jewish Messiah. Moreover, there is no requirement in the bible, contrary to popular opinion, that one must accept that Jesus was the Messiah to inherit everlasting life.
In fact, it’s not even true that you have to believe that God raised Jesus from the dead, as Christians teach. This was a false teaching of Paul. (See also ‘Paul Teaches Contrary to Jesus’)
The early believers, most of whom were Hebrew, rejected the corrupted manuscripts of the Roman church and refused to accept them as legitimate. They only recognized the Gospel of the Hebrews written by Matthew as the pure unadulterated gospel truth. For this they were persecuted, murdered and labeled as heretics by the Roman church.
All throughout history, the Jews have been persecuted and murdered by anti-Semite Christians for not accepting Jesus as the Messiah and for having killed Christ. One of the worst examples of this was WWII in which Hitler tried to exterminate the Jews.
It wasn’t only for political reasons. Few people realize that Hitler was a Christian and a Catholic and felt that he was doing the will of God by killing Jews. Hitler was also ready to discuss with the Bishop his views on the Jews.
The following are quotes from Hitler:
“As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like.”
“I don’t put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.”
“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were, and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter.”
“In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. “How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison.”
“To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross.”
As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people” — Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922
“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the **will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.**” Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Is there any wonder that most Jews reject Christianity? From everything that I’ve read and heard about the Jews is that they accept Jesus as a righteous man and a prophet sent from God, they even accept most of his teachings. What most of them reject is not Jesus, but the falsehoods of Christianity.
After all, Jesus was a Jew!
If the roman church had just left the gospel the way it was and had not altered the teachings of Jesus and his disciples, the world would be a much better place today, many Jews would have not died in vain and millions of Jews may have even accepted Jesus as their Messiah (whether he actually was or not is a completely different story).
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