Stiff necked?????

Open Heart said:

Have you ever taken affront at someone's hypocrisy? The way they point a finger at you as way of not seeing their own flaws????

It really bugs me when people say "You are a sinner," instead of "we are sinners." It's perfectly okay for God to call me a sinner. But it is chutzpah for someone else to imagine they speak for God instead of as a fellow sinner across the table.

In the same respect, far be it from me to criticize the almiighty for calling us Jews stiff necked. Yet when Gentile Christians call Jews stiff necked, I can't help but feel it arises from a need to put us "back into our place" (meaning reduce us from our status as a priestly nation, God's chosen people). It is not spoken in love. It is anger, even if it is unconscious, with the Bible used as an excuse. "They are the has beens, and we are now God's favorites." Io other words, it stems from a position of jealousy. It is, at the root of it, a subtle form of anti-Semitism in my book, and Christians need to knock it off.

ALL OF US, Gentile and Jew, have a Yetzer Hara. ALL OF US have problems with pride, Gentile and Jew. We are in the same boat when it comes to sin.

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Open Heart said:

Have you ever taken affront at someone's hypocrisy? The way they point a finger at you as way of not seeing their own flaws????

It really bugs me when people say "You are a sinner," instead of "we are sinners." It's perfectly okay for God to call me a sinner. But it is chutzpah for someone else to imagine they speak for God instead of as a fellow sinner across the table.

In the same respect, far be it from me to criticize the almiighty for calling us Jews stiff necked. Yet when Gentile Christians call Jews stiff necked, I can't help but feel it arises from a need to put us "back into our place" (meaning reduce us from our status as a priestly nation, God's chosen people). It is not spoken in love. It is anger, even if it is unconscious, with the Bible used as an excuse. "They are the has beens, and we are now God's favorites." Io other words, it stems from a position of jealousy. It is, at the root of it, a subtle form of anti-Semitism in my book, and Christians need to knock it off.

ALL OF US, Gentile and Jew, have a Yetzer Hara. ALL OF US have problems with pride, Gentile and Jew. We are in the same boat when it comes to sin.

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Open Heart said:

How does it personally make you feel when Christians characterize Jews as the stiffnecked people?

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Open Heart said:

The term is referring to being a stubborn child aka not obeying God.

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Open Heart said:

Have you ever taken affront at someone's hypocrisy? The way they point a finger at you as way of not seeing their own flaws????

It really bugs me when people say "You are a sinner," instead of "we are sinners." It's perfectly okay for God to call me a sinner. But it is chutzpah for someone else to imagine they speak for God instead of as a fellow sinner across the table.

In the same respect, far be it from me to criticize the almiighty for calling us Jews stiff necked. Yet when Gentile Christians call Jews stiff necked, I can't help but feel it arises from a need to put us "back into our place" (meaning reduce us from our status as a priestly nation, God's chosen people). It is not spoken in love. It is anger, even if it is unconscious, with the Bible used as an excuse. "They are the has beens, and we are now God's favorites." Io other words, it stems from a position of jealousy. It is, at the root of it, a subtle form of anti-Semitism in my book, and Christians need to knock it off.

ALL OF US, Gentile and Jew, have a Yetzer Hara. ALL OF US have problems with pride, Gentile and Jew. We are in the same boat when it comes to sin.

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Chris V++ said:

I''m grateful as a gentile to have had the opportunity to be 'grafted in.' and that the promises are extended 'first to the Jew.' I agree about the jealousy comment, and in some cases contempt for 'betraying our savior.'

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