“Actually since several of God’s covenants with His Jewish people are unconditional, yes the Church fathers who taught otherwise were mistaken...”
What?!
Did Jesus Christ our Lord not convert twelve Jews, (including one who later became an apostate) from Judaism to Christianity?
Are you not familiar at all with this part of Catholicism?
Please stop now before I read you like “Francis” lecturing Jesus and Mary on how to be a good Catholic!
Jesus Christ was himself a Jew, as were at least 11 (and in my understanding) all 12 of his followers.
Jesus was born a Jew, lived a Jew, prayed as a Jew praying Jewish prayers to the Jewish God, and taught his followers to pray Jewish prayers to the Jewish God (and not to pray to Jesus himself). Jesus also was executed by the Roman occupiers of the Jewish homeland, as a Jew.
Jesus was not a Christian, Jesus was a Jew. A Christian is someone who follows what became the Christian church’s teachings, including obviously its teachings about Jesus.
Jesus did not follow himself, he followed the one true God of his, Jesus’ own Jewish people.
The later falling apart, I will leave to history. Regrettably, I have mundane secular work to attend to today.
Sorry but must sign off now.
Thanks for your note.
Keep faith (and we do not have to agree on all doctrinal issues, obviously)
fhc