"INWARDLY A JEW!"
The purpose of this page is to not be offensive in any manner. As Christians, we need to know our place in scripture and in the body of Christ. I pray the content on this page will help us to better understand who we are according to our Christian belief system from the Bible. May you have a blessed day!
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The Jews (Hebrew: éÀäåÌãÄéí, Yehudim), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation.[5][6][7] Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within the Jewish ethnos is equal to those born into it, have been absorbed into the Jewish people throughout the millennia.
In Jewish tradition, Jewish ancestry is traced to the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the second millennium BCE. The Jews have enjoyed three periods of political autonomy in their national homeland, the Land of Israel, twice during ancient history, and currently once again, since 1948, with the establishment of the modern State of Israel. The first of the two ancient eras spanned from 1350 to 586 BCE, and encompassed the periods of the Judges, the United Monarchy, and the Divided Monarchy of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, ending with the destruction of the First Temple. The second era was the period of the Hasmonean Kingdom spanning from 140 to 37 BCE. Since the destruction of the First Temple, the diaspora has been the home of most of the world's Jews.[8] Except in the modern State of Israel, Jews are a minority in every country in which they live, and they have frequently experienced persecution throughout history, resulting in a population that fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries.
According to the Jewish Agency for Israel, as of 2007 there were 13.2 million Jews worldwide, 5.4 million of whom lived in Israel, 5.3 million in the United States, and the remainder distributed in communities of varying sizes around the world; this represents 0.2% of the current estimated world population.[1] (Other sources cite higher estimates. For example, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics estimates the number of Israeli Jews to be 5.6 million and the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the American Jewish population to be as many as 6.4 million.[2][3]) These numbers include all those who consider themselves Jews whether or not affiliated with a Jewish organization.[9] The total world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure. In addition to halakhic considerations, there are secular, political, and ancestral identification factors in defining who is a Jew that increase the figure considerably.[9]
MY NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS THE JEW AS CONSIDERED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE!
| For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: |
| But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. |
| Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
The book of Romans deals precisely with this matter; especially chapters 1-5. May I recommend the reading of the whole book of Romans. There is much insight in this book concerning our Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord of glory! Paul addresses this issue in Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel. This takes us into the story of Jacob who is later renamed Israel and the 'spiritual' seed of promise comes through him.
Romans 1
| Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God, |
| (Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) |
| Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh. |
| And declared to be the Son of God, with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: |
| By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name: |
| Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: |
| To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. |
| For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, |
| Making request (if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God) to come to you. |
| For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; |
| That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me. |
| Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you (but have been hitherto hindered) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. |
| I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians, both to the wise, and to the unwise. |
| So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. |
| For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. |
| For in this is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. |
| For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. |
| Because that which may be known of God, is manifest in them; for God hath shown it to them. |
| For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: |
| Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. |
| Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools: |
| And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping animals. |
| Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: |
| Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. |
| For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: |
| And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. |
| And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; |
| Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, |
| Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents, |
| Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: |
| Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. |
Romans 2
| Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, doest the same things. |
| But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them who commit such things. |
| And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? |
| Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? |
| But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; |
| Who will render to every man according to his deeds: |
| To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life: |
| But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath: |
| Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; |
| But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; |
| For there is no respect of persons with God. |
| For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law, |
| (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. |
| For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law to themselves. |
| Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another) |
| In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. |
| Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, |
| And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law, |
| And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness, |
| An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who hast the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law: |
| Thou therefore who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? |
| Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? |
| Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest thou God? |
| For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written. |
| For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. |
| Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? |
| And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfilleth the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? |
| For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: |
| But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. |
Romans 3
| What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? |
| Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God. |
| For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
| By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged. |
| But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.) |
| By no means: for then how shall God judge the world? |
| For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
| And not rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. |
| What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; |
| As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: |
| There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God. |
| They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
| Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: |
| Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. |
| Their feet are swift to shed blood. |
| Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
| And the way of peace have they not known. |
| There is no fear of God before their eyes. |
| Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. |
| Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. |
| But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets; |
| Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: |
| For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; |
| Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: |
| Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; |
| To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. |
| Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith. |
| Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
| Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
| Seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. |
| Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law. |
Romans 4
| What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? |
| For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. |
| For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. |
| Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. |
| But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. |
| Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works, |
| Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. |
| Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. |
| Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. |
| How then was it reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. |
| And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they are not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also; |
| And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised. |
| For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. |
| For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect. |
| Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. |
| Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all; |
| (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he believed, even God, who reviveth the dead, and calleth those things which are not, as though they were. |
| Who against hope believed with hope, that he should become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. |
| And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. |
| He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; |
| And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. |
| And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. |
| Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; |
| But for us also, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, |
| Who was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. |
Romans 5
| Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: |
| By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. |
| And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; |
| And patience, experience; and experience, hope: |
| And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us. |
| For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. |
| For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die. |
| But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
| Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. |
| For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. |
| And not only so, but we also joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. |
| Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. |
| For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. |
| Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. |
| But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many. |
| And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses to justification. |
| For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they who receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. |
| Therefore, as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. |
| For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. |
| Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: |
| That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. |
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