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To: Dr. Brian Kopp
Most evangelical Christians are not Supercessionist. Those that are, see everything in Scripture through the lense of a decidedly anti-Semitic theology. One of the earliest writings of Supercessionism is Justin Martyr's "Dialog With Trypho The Jew" - it is plainly anti-Semitic and promotes a theology that makes Jews the ENEMY of "true believers."

Yad Vashem is the Israeli holocaust museum. The first room is dedicated to the root cause of anti-Semitism in Europe in the Twentieth Century. They correctly identify some Christian groups' Supercessionist theology as the most dominate cause. Have you read John Chystostom's filth from the 5th Century? Or Luther's "Jews and Their Lies" from the 16th Century? Martyr, Augustine, Origen, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin all contributed to the anti-Semitic theology if Supercessionism. Modern evangelicalism largely (and correctly) rejected this fundamentally anti-Semitic theology.
15 posted on 01/10/2012 8:01:21 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat
Modern evangelicalism largely (and correctly) rejected this fundamentally anti-Semitic theology.

Christianity has taught from day one that the Church is the New Israel. It has not ceased to teach this, even if since Vatican II it has chosen not to emphasize this teaching.

This does not make the Church anti-semitic.

And neither is modern evangelicalism correct in its views on the New Israel.

Here's an Eastern Orthodox explanation:

Who Is The New Israel

17 posted on 01/10/2012 8:55:40 AM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: Tzfat

I don’t read “Typho” that way. The Jews in Justin’s time were different from those of Jesus’ time. They were also different from the Jews in the time of Constantine, after man years of rabbinical influence , The Talmud of the east gradually extended west to the Roman Empire from its base in Iraq. But they had become anti-Christian, not only rejecting Jesus but other expectations of a messianic kingdom. What Justin was rejecting was a Judaism, which no longer reached out to the nations as before, but withdrew into itself. This could not last, as the centuries would show. But anti-semiticism is the wrong word to use against Justin. Anti-judaism is better, if only because anti-semitism is an anachronism, a product of the 19th century and its anthropological notions of racism.


44 posted on 01/10/2012 8:29:56 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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