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:You make another excellent point, LT.  The [[Gospel of John]], if written afresh today, could be considered anti-Semitic by some.  Perhaps some of its harsh language might be due to how it is translated.  I'll look at the Greek and welcome further suggestions about this.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:24, December 24, 2022 (EST)

:You make another excellent point, LT.  The [[Gospel of John]], if written afresh today, could be considered anti-Semitic by some.  Perhaps some of its harsh language might be due to how it is translated.  I'll look at the Greek and welcome further suggestions about this.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:24, December 24, 2022 (EST)

::I think the context regarding who Jesus was referring to in the Gospel of John was magnitudes more obvious back in His day, since not all Jews followed him (many still did, and comprised much of the earliest church, from my understanding), and therefore it might've been simpler to just write "the Jews" instead of fully elaborating "the Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees, etc. who denied Jesus." In the generation that experienced the heavenly exhortations of Christ, obviously they would've been aware of the fact that not all Jews rejected Him. After all, the apostate antisemitism that occurred in later generations was by the point when the early church became comprised increasingly of Gentiles who ignored Jesus and the Apostles' message of compassion, and having chosen to harden their hearts in not associating with Jewish Christians and/or knowing them well enough, failed to understand the true meaning of the Gospel of John's references to "the Jews," naively and dangerously thinking it refers to Jewish people ''en masse''.

::I think the context regarding who Jesus was referring to in the Gospel of John was magnitudes more obvious back in His day, since not all Jews followed him (many still did, and comprised much of the earliest church, from my understanding), and therefore it might've been simpler to just write "the Jews" instead of fully elaborating "the Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees, etc. who denied Jesus." In the generation that experienced the heavenly exhortations of Christ, obviously they would've been aware of the fact that not all Jews rejected Him. After all, the apostate antisemitism that occurred in later generations was by the point when the early church became comprised increasingly of Gentiles who ignored Jesus and the Apostles' message of compassion, and having chosen to harden their hearts in not associating with Jewish Christians and/or knowing them well enough, failed to understand the true meaning of the Gospel of John's references to "the Jews," naively and dangerously thinking it refers to Jewish people ''en masse''.

 

:To sort of summarize, given that Messianic Judaism, the earliest form of Christianity ([https://biblehub.com/romans/1-16.htm per Romans 1:16], "to the Jew first and also to the Greek"), lost traction as a movement due to traditional rabbinical Jews repudiating and defeating them, it's likely that the Gentiles who comprised the early church, lacking association with Jewish Christians and blinded by their own increasing prejudices, failed to grasp the true nature of the Gospel of John, and thus paved the way for atrocious antisemitic tragedies that have since occurred. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|^{(Exodus 23:2)}]]''''' Sunday, 21:36, December 24, 2022 (EST)

To sort of summarize, given that Messianic Judaism, the earliest form of Christianity ([https://biblehub.com/romans/1-16.htm per Romans 1:16], "to the Jew first and also to the Greek"), lost traction as a movement due to traditional rabbinical Jews repudiating and defeating them, it's likely that the Gentiles who comprised the early church, lacking association with Jewish Christians and blinded by their own increasing prejudices, failed to grasp the true nature of the Gospel of John, and thus paved the way for atrocious antisemitic tragedies that have since occurred. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|^{(Exodus 23:2)}]]''''' Sunday, 21:36, December 24, 2022 (EST)