100% agree with you.
Christian Zionists are incredible support, so it’s sad when people like this validate the fears some Jews have about their motives.
I know, guys like this stick out like sore thumbs. People point to guys like this and say, “see I told you so”, when in reality this kind of attitude is not normative. Makes our job harder though.
It is natural that members of a group instinctively defend each other. And it is natural that American Christians would have little specific knowledge about social interactions in Israel, much less the actual motivations behind those interactions.
Christianity is not Judaism with a Messiah, it’s a completely different religion with a completely different understanding of God and indeed of creation. There’s no mystery why Christians and Jews talk completely past each other.
Can you see that no other faith or belief system can impact the people of the earth like Jesus Christ...
People do not fear Muslims who try to convert them, although they fear the violence of conversion through Jihad but not Islam’s doctrines, no one fears Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Wiccan, Scientology, just Jesus Christ..
IMHO and I mean this resepctfully, if the Orthodox Jews were truly comfortable with what they believe, they would not fear Messianic Jews, or Christians at all...They would not fear there motives, they would not feel threatened in thier heart, soul and mind...But somehow *Jesus Christ* does affect them even if it is in the negative....
"Christian Zionists are incredible support, so it’s sad when people like this validate the fears some Jews have about their motives."Christian Zionism is a relatively new thing, a little more than 100 years old and it has manifested mostly in America. The rest of the world's Christian thought is much closer to what circlecity says as it has been for the last 2000 years. You can't just discount the cultural history of millenia and its implication. The best thing that we and Christians can do here is agree to disagree and move on, if possible. In the end our paths are separate, in spite of whatever common purpose we may currently share.