>>13021973Texas is correct from a Biblical perspective.
>1. The Jews are culpable for crucifying Jesus – as such they are guilty of deicide.>2. The tribulations of the Jewish people throughout history constitute God's punishment of them for killing Jesus.>3. Jesus originally came to preach only to the Jews, but when they rejected him, he abandoned them for gentiles instead.>4. The Children of Israel were God's original chosen people by virtue of an ancient covenant, but by rejecting Jesus they forfeited their chosenness - and now, by virtue of a New Covenant.>5. Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people, the Church having become the "People of God.">6. The Jewish Bible ("Old" Testament) repeatedly portrays the opaqueness and stubbornness of the Jewish people and their disloyalty to God.>7. The Jewish Bible contains many predictions of the coming of Jesus as the Messiah (or "Christ"), yet the Jews are blind to the meaning of their own Bible.>8. By the time of Jesus' ministry, Judaism had ceased to be a living faith.>9. Judaism's essence is a restrictive and burdensome legalism.>10. Christianity emphasizes love, while Judaism stands for justice and a God of wrath.>11. Judaism's oppressiveness reflects the disposition of Jesus' opponents called "Pharisees" (predecessors of the "rabbis"), who in their teachings and behavior were hypocrites (see Woes of the Pharisees). 
