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[RobbyS]

Jesus himself said that salvation is from the Jews. God is faithful and does not abandon his people no matter how faithless they are to him. Would he punish those who try to be faithful?

[Theresa]

"The Jewish Messianic wait is not in vain," the statement says. " Right because:

St. Paul looks forward to the day when the same words will be applied to the Jews who rejected their Messiah (Rom 11:25): "A blindness in part has fallen upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles enter" the People of God. Then, Paul adds "all Israel will be saved" - will enter the kingdom of their Messiah.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Some additional comments: Vatican Says Jews' Wait For Messiah Is Validated by Old Testament

[RnMomof7]

Two Covenants? Darrell Bock, professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, noted that the new statement seems to imply belief in a two-covenant view of salvation. "This would undercut evangelism to Jews and does not make sense of the efforts of the earliest church to reach out to Jews as seen in the New Testament," Bock told Christianity Today. "On the key question of whether Judaism can save, the document is very unclear."

John Pawlikowski, director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at the University of Chicago, said the statement raises questions about the way the church understands Jews and salvation. "It demands some kind of further reflection on the significance of the universality of Christ's redemptive action," he said. "To what extent, then, does their salvation depend primarily on their own covenant rather than, say, on the universal work of Christ?"

This touches at the heart of Christian evangelism. I agree with the two writers above

A FYI bump