“Jesus is a Jewish savior that died for all our sins and rose again.” Writing the Republic on X
JD on X
Fun Fact: Despite being the Seed of Abraham and being born in the lineage of David, Jesus routinely under-emphasized His “Jewishness,” and instead, self-identified as “Son of Man,” which He called Himself in Scripture 88 times.
The term is from Daniel 7:13-14 and Isaiah 53, which His audience would’ve immediately recognized the prophetic context as referring to the Messiah’s dominion over all peoples, nations, and languages, and His atonement for many different kinds of people.
His chosen identity was always universal, and He clearly did not want to be pigeonholed as a Savior primarily of the Jews, but everyone.
In fact, a significant part of the New Testament is focused on dismissing the idea that Jesus is some kind of tribal deity or primarily a savior of Jews.
His global Messiahship is the entire “Mystery of the Gospel” spoken of so frequently, and is why He was very careful to avoid the framing you just gave.
So, when you insist on referring to Jesus the way you just did, for what is (let’s be honest) purely *geo-political* reasons and to invoke sympathy for modern Israel or Jewish interests, you’re actually undermining His global mission. It’s disrespectful.
Stop using my Savior as a cudgel to exploit Christians’s love of Jesus as rhetorical tool. His bio is not a weapon to accomplish your agenda. You’re not trying to teach people about Jesus with this biological detail, you’re trying to get something from them.
If you really believe that Jesus died and rose again, then you need to be delivering this message to the Jews, instead of lecturing the people who already believe it. The folks who need to hear this most are the ones whose ancestors screamed, “May His blood be on us and His children,” and whose descendants still reject Him.
If you cared half as much about the eternal souls of the Jewish people as you do about their real estate holdings, or shielding them from every criticism, you’d be telling them to repent instead of trying to turn Jesus into a Semitic mascot or an ancestral PR asset.
This is an excellent observation – that Jesus wasn’t presenting Himself as Jewish but rather as a Son of Man(kind): True God and True Man. I wish I’d thought of that.
And that some Jews are still bent on misappropriating Him to serve their own purposes.
Their purpose is in consigning Him to Hell, where they say He boils in human excrement–their excrement. They hate Him for telling them they are no longer the chosen people and that if they wish to enter the Kingdom of God they must follow Gentile Christians–His Chosen people, His Bride.
Yes. Apparently, God chose the Hebrews, Semites, Jews, whichever, as the vehicle to disclose Himself and His Holy Will to all mankind.
But many Jews whose pride made them think they were exclusive turned against Him toward false, wicked idols for including the Gentiles. The ones you mention above are the most hateful Satanically depraved ones.
Today they call themselves the Chosen (instead of Christs Bride) and maintain they have divine souls. Yes, they are evil.
Divine souls?! Not hardly. That’s what Satan tells their pride-filled hearts and minds to lead them astray.
They still need Christ’s Saving Grace like we all do. If they reject Him, there will be Hell to pay.
Please allow me to amend my last comment to say, “…vain hearts and minds…”.