Israel has no better friends than Protestants. And no worse enemy than those who would usurp Israel's covenants with God and try to make them their own. As if God can be fooled.
Israel has no better friends than Protestants. And no worse enemy than those who would usurp Israel's covenants with God and try to make them their own. As if God can be fooled.
Actually, classical Protestantism, like Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the so-called Lesser Eastern Churches (Non-Chalcaedonians and Nestorians) also believe the church is "spiritual Israel," and this is exactly what the main Protestant reformers taught. The discarding of this belief came later during what is called the "radical reformation." Even today it is not all Protestants, but only a certain kind of Protestant who supports Israel. My theory is that new churches with no history of their own had nowhere to go but the Hebrew Bible, and thus for them the Jews again were important.
Fundamentalist Protestant support of Israel and the Jews is long and historic, extending back to the seventeenth century. It is most unfortunate that Fundamentalist Protestantism has been almost universally branded as "anti-Semitic" and that Jews who engage in ecumenical activities insist on limiting those activities to the liturgical churches and liberal Protestants. My own personal opinion as to why they shun the one community that supports them is simple--social snobbery. Catholics and liberal Protestants are intellectuals and play all sorts of word games which Fundamentalist Protestants will not play.
Of course Fundamentalist Protestants aren't perfect either. They don't seem to understand that Jews don't share their beliefs in the "new testament" or in a single "Judaeo-chr*stian religion" (in fact, Jews have the same attitude towards Hebraicized chr*stianity that chr*stians do towards "chrislam"). They still believe they know the meaning of the Jewish Bible better than the Jews do (which is nonsense), and their belief in chr*stianity is completely unexamined. They believe in chr*stianity because their bibles have a "new testament" but they never think to wonder if it is supposed to be there. They regard their religious beliefs as self-evident and self-authenticating when they are not.
But then, all sincere religious believers reject other religions as false. For all their maddening deficiencies, I'll still pick them over more traditional (and more liberal) chr*stians. But then, I'm a Noachide who used to be a Fundamentalist Protestant, so I suppose my attitude can't help but be a bit idiosyncratic.