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It is possible to be ethnically Jewish and a Christian at the same time.OnTheWay said:Sorry, but I will take the word of the Apostle St. Paul and the early Church fathers over someone like you that is seriously confused as to whether they are Jew or a Christian. Your interptation makes no sense in light of what St. Paul says in Galatians 3:28-29:
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither slave nor freeman, there can be neither male nor female-for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And simply by being Christ's you are that progeny of Abraham, the heirs named in the promise.
It is quite clear that St. Paul is not referring to conversion to Judaism, but he is informing the former Jews within the Christian Church that is no place for Jews and a place for gentiles. There is only those who are Christ's and those who are not Christ's. Christianity is the catholic faith for all men.
As you are not free to accept what you like and reject what you do not like in Scripture it is clear from the master's own teachings, those that take up their cross and follow after Christ will sit down in the kingdom and thost that do not will be thrown out be they Jewish or not.
That's simply not reflective of what we know today. The fact of the matter is intermarriage continues to make ethnic Jews a virutally non-existant people. In pre-National Socialist Germany 3 out of 5 adult Jewish women were married to German men. Nor does it change the fact the largest group of Jews are Khazars and have NO blood ties to Semitic peoples at all.
That's why there are "Messianic" Jews
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