My view of the Jews
Saturday, June 9th, 2007
***Again, this post is a work in progress, I’m posting it now for any initial feedback & to think it over as I go***
As a Reformed Baptist much of my theology comes from the Protestant Reformers, which I believe to be a faithful rendition of what is actually contained in the Word of God.
However, the Reformers weren’t always right. This can be seen in the book pictured above by Martin Luther.
Abraham was given the land of Israel as early as the book of Genesis, which entitles them to that land forever. Since the God of the Old Testament and the New Testament are the same God, there is no contradiction or need to change our view on this if we are Christians. What happened in 1947 is good news for all Jews and Christians. This needn’t have anything to do with our view of prophecy at all, in fact I don’t personally hold to any premillennialist or dispensationalist views.
Jews are a benign people. They won’t try to evangelise to your children. They won’t force conversion on anybody. They don’t infiltrate a country and eventually say “to be Australian (for example) is to be Jewish”. They just don’t think and behave like that.
Modern Judaism in particular is particularly compatible with democracy and human rights. Did you know that the only Middle Eastern state to have a gay pride parade is Israel? (Not that I’m endorsing such activity).
In our own small way, we make a statement to support the Jews by always buying Kosher Nuttelex brand margarine.
Most of the Reformers, other than the “Anabaptists” were also incorrect in their view of baptism, but we’ll save that for another post.
