spoke to me in every way, but particularly through this paragraph below. It often seems that we who call ourselves Christians want to deny the full and permanent Jewishness of Jesus, who we have named Christ, the anointed one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/opinion/sunday/can-i-stay-with-the-church.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
"Chief among these is the way in which the full and permanent Jewishness of Jesus was forgotten, so much so that his story is told in the Gospels themselves as a story of Jesus against the Jews, as if he were not one of them. Against the way Christians often remember it, Jesus did not proclaim a New Testament God of love against an Old Testament God of judgment (which girds the anti-Jewish bipolarity of grace versus law; generosity versus greed; mercy versus revenge). Rather, as a Shema-reciting son of Israel, he proclaimed the one God, whose judgment comes as love."
MaryAnn
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