Where Does Antisemitism Come From?




Where does Antisemitism come from? The Jews say it comes from “Christians”. I have studied this for many years, and as a born again believer, I can tell you that it comes from the pit of hell and not from believers in Jesus Christ!

https://www.ajc.org/news/understanding-the-origins-of-antisemitism


Jesus was Jewish, in fact, Jesus himself said: “I did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it.” (Matthew 5:17) True Christians believe that we are also Jewish, being “Grafted in” to the line of Abraham (Romans 11:17) as Paul said. We know that it was God’s plan to send his Son to die!

The Jews misunderstand God’s plan of salvation for the human race. They still have “Blinders on” when it comes to these things. “Christ’s death and resurrection was part of God’s perfect plan to eternally redeem all who would believe in Him. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross provides salvation for all who trust in Him.”

https://www.gotquestions.org/responsible-Christ-death.html

If antisemitism doesn’t come from Christianity then, where does it come from? As I said above, I believe it come from the pit of hell! We are taught in Christianity that our God is a God of order, not of chaos. He is a God of love and truth. His will was to choose a people for himself, a nation that he created from Abraham and his offspring. That nation was to be “Set apart” (Holy) and received the Law, both the Ten Commandments as well as the rest of the Torah (Law and Prophets).

After Jesus’s death and resurrection, he gave his disciples the Holy Spirit (John 20:22) when he breathed on them. Following that moment, which we are to understand came either at the same time as, or very closely after the two disciples walked and talked with the risen Savior on the “Road to Emmaus” (Luke 24:13-35). Prior to receiving the Holy Spirit, and having the “Scriptures” explained to them, how they all were written ABOUT him (Jesus), the disciples did not truly understand why Jesus had to come and die!

God wrote it all down beforehand, so that, as Paul said, “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law.” (Galatians 4:4) and “the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.” (Colossians 1:26). God didn’t keep it all a secret, in other words. It was written ahead of time, and kept in records by the Jews, for the proper time when God would fully reveal his plan of salvation for all mankind.

The “God of order” then, fulfilled both his promises and plan in Jesus Christ. But this still leads us to that question as to where the hatred of the Jews and antisemitism comes from?

What I have been hinting at and leading up to is the fact that since God is not the God of hatred, or discord, or even of chaos and confusion, then our enemy the Devil is the one who has sown this hatred and irrational fear of Jews and Jewish culture. By taking a half truth that “The Jews killed the Savior” and using that to foster enmity and fear, he takes it to the next level turning that hatred into full blown violence.

The gospels, and Jesus do not espouse violence as any sort of solution to the problems of this world. Christ and Christianity are not opposed to violence as a way to defend oneself, or even one’s people (family, culture, nation), but it doesn’t condone violence as a means to fulfilling one’s goals, or the goals of a group. Love is the way of the gospels. Love for fellow believers, expressed in actions of caring and sharing with one another, and love for the lost expressed in both sharing the gospel and helping to meet basic needs of the poor and so on.

Christianity, true Christianity practiced by born again believers will never express itself in violence or hatred for any reason. While there have been wars, and many brutal events during those wars, Christians and Christianity cannot be found to be the cause for any of these wars, no matter how hard the enemy tries to press the case. True Christianity doesn’t result in jealousy of those who do not believe, but rather compassion. True Christianity doesn’t result in envy of those who have great wealth, but rather pity for their ultimate denial of faith.

Faith in Christ produces fruit in keeping with that faith: Reliance on both God’s provision in our lives and his protection from ultimate evil. It doesn’t mean we won’t suffer, but rather that his provision of needs and protection of our souls is enough to guarantee our entry into Heaven / Paradise to be with him when we die. Reliance on anything in this world is not taught in the Bible, but rather the contrary. This world is not the end, but rather the beginning of a new and better life with Christ, forever.

Modern Judaism is overrun with those who both deny the spiritual aspects of life, as well as the reality of the enduring aspects of ourselves that we often refer to as “The soul”. The soul is a central teaching in the Old Testament, as it quite often refers to the person going to a place known to the ancient Hebrews as “Sheol”. While it may have been a place of sadness and loss, it was also a place of permanence and finality. But, as we learned earlier, Jesus was prophesied over and over in those ancient texts, and the Jews were heavily expectant at the time of his birth in 1st. C. Judea!

Only secular Jews, as represented by the Sadducee’s in the Gospels fit the bill as those who could claim that Christians are the ones who promote antisemitism. And only their limited materialistic views could be found to produce such hatred of Christians who claim a Savior that gives them eternal life. The Bible’s teachings do not lead to such a view, nor do they condone any kind of hatred or retaliation against the Jewish people.

2 thoughts on “Where Does Antisemitism Come From?

  1. I find the literature filled with this nonsense that somehow Christians – even 1st C. Christians – developed the earliest forms of antisemitism. Somehow playing up the idea that “The Jews killed Jesus!” Well, they did, but even though that is an actual historical fact in the gospels, it is never pointed to as a weapon to be used against them.

    Paul, in particular is very careful to show that “God shows no favoritism” (Romans 2:11) and expresses also in Romans that “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” (Romans 1:26). This shows clearly that early Christian thinking had no prejudice whatsoever against Jews.

    There was also the first Church Council of Jerusalem which is generally dated to c. 48–50 AD, roughly 15 to 25 years after the crucifixion of Jesus (between 26 and 36 AD). The only “Decisions” carried out in this council were that gentile converts did not have to adhere to the whole law in order to be saved. The doctrine of grace was being formulated, and it became necessary to tell the Jewish converts to Christianity that they did not have to push the laws onto their fellow gentile believers.

    This did not lead to “Two classes” of believers, as all the articles on antisemitism would have us believe. Nor did it lead Christians to think they were somehow “Better” than others, and especially arouse hatred of the Jews for having put Jesus forward for death at his trial before the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate.

    All these events took place after the resurrection of Jesus Christ! This is the single most important event in all of history, and even more so in the Christian perspective! Regardless of the human reasons for the crucifixion of Jesus, early Christians recognized that he died for our salvation, his death served as a substitutionary death for our sins. Paul makes this abundantly clear in Romans, that our salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus’s atoning death and his resurrection marks the stamp of God the Father’s approval on all that Jesus said and taught while here on this earth.

    Subsequently, Jesus was taken up to Heaven leaving his disciples with the instructions to take the gospel into all the world, teaching and making disciples. He says he will be with them, and by inference with all believers down through the ages. Paul tries desperately to convert his brother Jews in every city he visits, but meets with opposition. He recognizes the jealousy of the Jews as being the very same reason the Savior was crucified, but he doesn’t condemn them, rather feels sorrow for his lost brothers (and sisters). He takes it as a sign, instead, that his entire mission is to the gentiles.

    But he never lays blame or says anything bad about his Jewish people, or the Patriarchs, or Moses or anything of the sort. Rather, at his trial, he says clearly (several times in fact) that is on account of his belief in the resurrection that he is being held, not for any blasphemy or illegal act (broken law) which he might have committed. Many Jews agree with him, those of the Pharisee party, who also believe there will be a bodily resurrection, as well they believe there is a spiritual world with angels and demons and so on. As said above in the article, the Sadducees are the Jewish sect who do not believe in this things, and are instead strictly materialistic, believing on ly in this world and what they find here.

  2. I should also refer the readers to an article I wrote some time ago, was actually a letter to Joel C. Rosenberg, author and American-Israeli Strategist. In that letter, I proposed that in a final analysis, Antisemitism may be allowed by God himself, and it may have ultimately been the vehicle that caused the Jews to go back to the promised land, Israel.

    Letter To Joel Rosenberg

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