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The meaning of “Jew” in this context is clear: a Jew is openly hostile to Christ and willing to persecute those Jews who accept Him as the Messiah. John's mention of “fear of the Jews” indicates that Jews were then afraid of “Jews.” The well-being of the Jews who accepted Christ was threatened by the Jews who rejected him.... The parents of the man born blind exhibit “fear of the Jews” because the “Jews” threaten to expel followers of Jesus, also Jews, from the synagogue. The <mark>identity</mark> of both groups was essentially religious, not ethnic; both <mark>identities</mark> were a function of Christ. The Jews who acknowledged Christ were expelled from the synagogue. The Jews who rejected Him, the people John calls “the Jews,” defined themselves by that rejection.” | The meaning of “Jew” in this context is clear: a Jew is openly hostile to Christ and willing to persecute those Jews who accept Him as the Messiah. John's mention of “fear of the Jews” indicates that Jews were then afraid of “Jews.” The well-being of the Jews who accepted Christ was threatened by the Jews who rejected him.... The parents of the man born blind exhibit “fear of the Jews” because the “Jews” threaten to expel followers of Jesus, also Jews, from the synagogue. The <mark>identity</mark> of both groups was essentially religious, not ethnic; both <mark>identities</mark> were a function of Christ. The Jews who acknowledged Christ were expelled from the synagogue. The Jews who rejected Him, the people John calls “the Jews,” defined themselves by that rejection.” | ||
Therefore, <mark>Christian identification</mark> is in <mark>Divine image and likeness</mark> as visibly manifested in the Jewish Mashiach (Messiah, Christos, Christ) —Y’shua Ha-Nozri (Jesus of Nazareth), Y’shua Ha-Mashiach (Jesus the Messiah, <mark>Jesus Christ</mark>)— not with Palestine, Jerusalem, Temple, and “the Jews”. | Therefore, <mark>Christian identification</mark> is in <mark>Divine image and likeness</mark> as visibly manifested in the Jewish Mashiach (Messiah, Christos, Christ) —Y’shua Ha-Nozri (Jesus of Nazareth), Y’shua Ha-Mashiach (Jesus the Messiah, <mark>Jesus Christ</mark>)— not with Palestine, Jerusalem, Temple, and “the Jews”. Christian <mark>identification</mark> in spiritual Divine image and likeness is why Jews blame Christianity as source of all their woes. Jews find such spiritual identity threatening to their <mark>identity</mark> based in material DNA (sperm of Abraham), ethnic history, land of Palestine, Jerusalem and Temple — the reason Jews must continually seek to quash Christianity as anti-semitic in order to maintain their well-being rooted in <mark>Jewish identity</mark>. | ||
''See'' — [[Identity]] | ''See'' — [[Identity]] | ||