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See if you can name the problems. There are many.
Religion = a thing that used to have God& #39;s "participation and approval" but doesn& #39;t anymore (if it ever did)
Old covenant = a poor/worse way of relating to God and our neighbor
Old covenant = a poor/worse way of relating to God and our neighbor
A thing is past, called "religion," and now there is a "new covenant." It& #39;s not too hard to put together that the religion of the old covenant is something we want to avoid, and that God was never that fond of. We& #39;re doing something new.
That old thing is called Judaism. The new thing is Christianity. I know, i know. This author is talking about legalistic, spiritless, "dead" churches. Well, guess what? That& #39;s also how Christianity has portrayed Judaism - a religion - for thousands of years.
If you want to talk about how, within the church God& #39;s spirit is breathing into new places - you go Glen Coco! But that& #39;s not where the language of covenant enters into a tradition (Christianity) steeped in deadly anti-Judaism.
I& #39;m being a little sensitive here amiright? Surely no harm was meant. I have little doubt this is true. And that& #39;s actually how we got to this place. Christians have been careless as well as blatantly anti-Semitic.
If it does seem like I& #39;m a little "over the top" in my criticism of this ONE QUOTE it& #39;s because we& #39;ve been warned against "relationship not religion" language as anti-Jewish for decades. Literally for decades.
Also, we have a conspiracy theory called Q*non, one in the vast history of Jewish conspiracy theories, that is violently anti-Semitic. Rates of anti-Jewish violence escalated 400% under the Trump administration.
