It depends who you ask

The term “Jew” is derived from either Judah or Judaea, I am not sure, but it doesn’t really mat­ter. What mat­ters is how it was used. In the first cen­tury it was used of those who belonged to the reli­gion of the covenant peo­ple. The race is referred to as Israelites, but the reli­gion was Jew­ish. Thus, Paul can argue that those who were of the faith of Abra­ham were true Jews. (more…)

In Ch. 1 and 2 Paul estab­lishes that the gen­eral con­di­tion of mankind — both Jews and Gen­tiles — is pretty bleak. There is a hor­ri­ble sin prob­lem in both camps (we have seen ear­lier that the lan­guage of the Bible is not all-inclusive). He then concludes:

Rom 3:19 Now we know that what­ever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law [i.e. Jews], so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held account­able to God. 20 For no human being will be jus­ti­fied in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowl­edge of sin. (more…)

In Joshua 2 we read about the har­lot of Jerico, Rahab. She secretly receives two Israelite spies into her house and when the sol­diers of the city come to search for them she lies to save their lives. (more…)

These writ­ings are from Rabbi Moshe Schul­man. Just take a deep breath and read it, for there is much we can learn from it. I will make notes within the text in [*** … ***] brack­ets, except where I expand J. to J[esus]. Hope this writ­ing doesn’t frighten you too much, just be patient, there is much gold here. The arti­cle is quite long, it will take some time to read through and check the rel­e­vant verses.

As expected, the author attacks Chris­t­ian doc­trine. If you are not mature enough to han­dle oppo­si­tion, then don’t read these. (more…)

This is the sec­ond part of the post. Here Rabbi Moshe Schul­man gives his own com­men­tary on the pas­sage in ques­tion. Hope you are mature enough to read it, for there is much gold in it. The Jews know their Scrip­tures very well. In the third post I will show you how Jesus could still ful­fill it. (more…)