The only Church to be found worthy in the eyes of Christ was: The Church at Philadelphia...
The Key of David (Revelation 3:7-13)
The church that kept the faith
The letter to the church in Philadelphia begins with Christ identifying himself as “holy and true” (3:7). The Holy One is a common Old Testament title for God (Isaiah 40:25; 43:15). He is also true in the sense that he is faithful and trustworthy. God can always be counted on to keep his promises (Titus 1:2)
That is nonsense. Plenty of reformed protestants (which would exlude all the largest mainline confessional denominations) believe in covenant theology without supporting the Palestinian political cause vis-a-via Israel.
Good grief, *semites* are anti-semitic. Look at the recent election.
And yet, he has room to judge?
The only people who call them selves Christians and are anti-israel are the Liberal Presbyterians. But then again, they believe Calvin more than the bible, so there you go.
True Bible believers realize the place of the older brother in the family of God, and that they are only adopted younger sons.
And yet, he has room to judge?
So, not only will these people come under the Genesis 12:3 curse, they will answer to God for their hatred and contempt for His chosen people, their attempt to harm His people and rob the Jews of their covenant land and give the land to Arab squatters.
This is what the Jewish people think of when they hear the word "Christian". This is the face of Christianity to the Jews - hatred, contempt, and aiding Israel's enemies in harming the Jews. These people will have all eternity separated from God to contemplate the choices they made.
The anti-Israel movement in the mainline Protestant denominations has nothing to do with so-called “Replacement Theology”. It comes from Marxism.
Unless I'm quite mistaken, "Replacement Theology" was the standard Christian doctrine for most of church history, with little evidence of the alternative, dual-covenant theology, prior to recent decades, and even then it has been limited primarily to American evangelical groups.
In particular, AFAIK there is no DCT in Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Knox, etc.
I have no beef with those who choose to disbelieve in RT, but it really shouldn't be passed off as some sort of recent heresy, which I have seen done.
Most of the mainline Protestant churches are neither Protestant nor churches.
“many of the mainline Protestant churches have been actively boycotting Israel, encouraging pro-Palestinian activism and demanding that Western governments stop sending aid to Jerusalem. “
In other words, the hip “churches” that promote homosexual pastors and marriage/women clergy/abortion rights/social justice, etc.
Brilliant......their Messiah is a Jew and they can’t stand Jews!........go figure.
How can so many people forget that Jesus is Jewish?
Personally,I’d hate to have Him remind me of that fact when the time comes.
The Church is not hopelessly anti-Semitic (although some of recent statements of a few denominational leaders are most obviously anti-Semitic in the extreme).
The Church that follows Christ (and Paul) is grafted onto the Jewish people and salvation is of the Jews. God blesses those that bless the Jewish people, and God curses those that curse them. Any sincere Christian knows this from reading the Holy Bible, it is only a “leadership” problem in some denominations (mostly those that have pretty clearly “gone off the rail,” abandoning other Christian teachings, too)...
What members of those errant churches need to do is replace their sinful “leaders” — or, if that is not possible, then to just walk out the door and find a much more genuinely Christian place of worship (and consider ways we can make up for the damage these bigots are causing the true Church, Israel, and the Jewish people). Fortunately, we still have the ability to do these things in USA (for how long, under our current regime, nobody can say...but that’s a whole other discussion so I will sign off for now).....
Blessings,
fhc
Brilliant......their Messiah is a Jew and they can’t stand Jews!........go figure.
This isn’t a complicated issue.Simply put,there are many, many,many people (mainly in Western nations) who are,at heart,Unitarian/Universalists but masquerade as Christians.Of course it must be noted that there are many in the West who *claim* to be Jews but have utter contempt for Israel.