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IOW humbling oneself before Almighty God in acknowledging oneself as the greatest of sinners, and repenting of one’s own sinfulness instead of making a lucrative professional career of going around always pointing the finger at others. | IOW humbling oneself before Almighty God in acknowledging oneself as the greatest of sinners, and repenting of one’s own sinfulness instead of making a lucrative professional career of going around always pointing the finger at others. | ||
[https://archive.org/details/jewishrevolution0000jone ''The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit''] : ''And Its Impact on World History'' | Archive.org, [https://ia601709.us.archive.org/0/items/the-jewish-revolutionary-spirit-and-its-impact-on-world-history-e.-michael-jones/The%20Jewish%20Revolutionary%20Spirit%20and%20its%20Impact%20on%20World%20History%20-%20E.%20Michael%20Jones.pdf Download pp.34-35 | [https://archive.org/details/jewishrevolution0000jone ''The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit''] : ''And Its Impact on World History'' | Archive.org, [https://ia601709.us.archive.org/0/items/the-jewish-revolutionary-spirit-and-its-impact-on-world-history-e.-michael-jones/The%20Jewish%20Revolutionary%20Spirit%20and%20its%20Impact%20on%20World%20History%20-%20E.%20Michael%20Jones.pdf Download] pp.34-35<br> | ||
— To hold onto their “identity,” the “Jews” had to reject Christ. The “Jews” (as opposed to the entire ethnic group, some of which accepted Christ as the Messiah) created a new identity for themselves, one that is essentially negative [in relation to Christians].<br> | — To hold onto their “identity,” the “Jews” had to reject Christ. The “Jews” (as opposed to the entire ethnic group, some of which accepted Christ as the Messiah) created a new identity for themselves, one that is essentially negative [in relation to Christians].<br> | ||
St. John brings readers to this understanding gradually as the Jews define themselves in encounters with Christ in his gospel. Jew, in the context of the Gospel of St. John, cannot mean all Jews in an ethnic or racial sense, since Jesus himself was a Jew, as were his disciples....<br> | St. John brings readers to this understanding gradually as the Jews define themselves in encounters with Christ in his gospel. Jew, in the context of the Gospel of St. John, cannot mean all Jews in an ethnic or racial sense, since Jesus himself was a Jew, as were his disciples....<br> | ||