How can a true Christian accept that?
Abe is distorting what the Pope said.
Actually, it’s a bit of a distortion, but the words are correct.
Christianity did not SUPERSEDE or replace Judaism, it fulfilled it. There is an enormous difference. The Christian God is the same as the God of the Jewish Bible. The Christian God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah promised by the prophets. Jews do not. But that doesn’t mean that Judaism is a false religion, or has been superseded.
(This is completely unlike Judaism’s relation to Islam, I might add, which does NOT accord with the Hebrew Bible but differs with biblical history and biblical teachings on numerous points. Muslims say that they respect the People of the Book, but their Abraham is not our Abraham, and their Allah is not our God.)
You wrote:
“How can a true Christian accept that?”
What makes you think Foxman is trustworthy?
“How can a true Christian accept that?”
Jesus says those who do not believe will be judged under the Law. The Jews study the Law. Many try very hard to live by it.
It’s a tough row to hoe. They worship the same God we do. Their Torah study sessions sounds a lot like my Bible study sessions and they study most of the same Bible we do. Their kids learn about David and Goliath, Obindigo and the writing on the wall.
But they are really tough on themselves by not accepting the Christ’s gift. I pray that the 144,000 Jews in Revelation means all of them.
There cannot be two parallel covenants.
“Dual covenant theology” is deadly to Christianity and to the Western Civilization built by Christianity.
Christ is the universal Savior: necessary for everyone.
No religion, including Judaism, gets a “Christ-free” path to salvation.
Nor does any member of any religion get a free pass for thousands of years, as the dispensationalists contend.
If salvation came by the laws of the old testament, than the salvation sacrifice of Christ would have, as Paul wrote, been in vain.