I wonder when they’re going to put warning labels on the Old Testament for teaching things that could be construed as anti-Semitic?
The Prophet Isaiah, when writing from the perspective of those Jews living under Messiah, had them look back at their former religion, which would be the Rabbinical Judaism of our times, and say of it that they gave birth to wind, that the world wasn’t saved by them or through them.
And lest any should boast he also spoke of those shown Grace who would in the last days turn away from it ... with the world looking very much like it’s in a Romans 1:18-32 spiral, when the falling away is happening all around us and people are being turned over to reprobate minds, I’d say that the prophet wasn’t giving anyone slack.
As for us, cling to the Lord if you know Him. Repent if you do not. Friendship with the world is enmity towards God.
When Jesus said some hard things and many stopped following Him, He turned to the twelve and asked if they too would stop following Him. Their response should be ours: to whom shall we go, you have the words of eternal life. This is no less true in our times when saying what should be obvious from Scripture, that homosexuality is sin or that there is a Hell for two examples, is now somehow deemed scandalous by a society overrun with haters of God.
Two decades ago I remember a liberal Protestant national church body expressing concern about "anti-Semitic passages in the Old and New Testament".
I asked a Rabbi what that meant so far as the Old Testament.
His reply was priceless:
"Every now and then G-d gets pizzed at the Jews"