The orthodox Christian explanation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is that Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism, because Jesus is the Messiah promised in the Hebrew Bible. Jews don’t accept that, but these traditional Christians believe that the Covenant of the Jews and their history as told in the Hebrew Bible is true. And that the Christian God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
A heterodox varition of that is supersessionism. Christian supersessionists believe that God’s Covenant with the Jews was replaced by the New Covenant and that God basically discarded the Jews. This is NOT the orthodox explanation, and it contradicts numerous passages in the Bible, including one in Paul’s epistles, that God’s Covenant with the Jews is forever.
This black power Christianity goes way beyond supersessionism. It’s as if the Jews never really existed. And, I would add, it’s as if white Christianity through 2000 years never existed. It’s Christianity for blacks and ONLY blacks, and everyone else is wiped off the slate of history as if they never existed. According to this black supremacists version of “Christianity,” God is not good unless he hates and destroys Jews and Whites. Perhaps there is room for white people to join this church if they repudiate their families and their people and become spiritually black.
In this regard, there is an obvious kinship with Islam, which doesn’t claim to fulfill Judaism and the Bible but to supersede them and revise them. There is no way to reconcilel the Muslim versions of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the Bible. For one thing, Ishmael takes Isaac’s place, and Bible history is completely re-written, as Abraham and Ishmael perform the sacrifice and find the Kabaa.
Well, in fact, we know that Rev. Wright based his church on the Black Muslim movement, only he called it Christian. In reality, however, it is NOT Christian. It not only loves abortion, and replaces love of others with hatred of others, but it rewrites the Bible in its own image, just as Mohammed did.
Dude, will you pull-eeze try and develop a better ear for PC Speech?
It's NOT Black Power Christianity OK? My NPR newsette informs me it's
It has deep Biblical ROOTS. It's the accumulated wisdom of black men like Martin Luther, St. Francis of Assisi, Jesus of Nazareth, Moses, and all the great black African prophets going back to the time of Abraham, who was also black.
It is painfully obvious that when Moses, a black man, begged the pharaoh (another black dude, apparently) to "set his people free" he did not mean the Jews or descendants of wild barbaric European tribes. Non capisci?
The black Hebrew Israelite sects also incorporate Jesus and the New Testament into their black supremacist beliefs.
IOW, Black Liberation Theology is essentially no different than Black Muslimism.
Very well stated, good post.