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Christianity broke with Judaism and the New Testament is replacing alot of the old testament.
The catholic catechism is not recognizing Jews as chosen people.
782 The People of God is marked by characteristics that clearly distinguish it from all other religious, ethnic, political, or cultural groups found in history:
- It is the People of God: God is not the property of any one people. But he acquired a people for himself from those who previously were not a people: "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation."202
- One becomes a member of this people not by a physical birth, but by being "born anew," a birth "of water and the Spirit,"203 that is, by faith in Christ, and Baptism.
- This People has for its Head Jesus the Christ (the anointed, the Messiah). Because the same anointing, the Holy Spirit, flows from the head into the body, this is "the messianic people."
- "The status of this people is that of the dignity and freedom of the sons of God, in whose hearts the Holy Spirit dwells as in a temple."
- "Its law is the new commandment to love as Christ loved us."204 This is the "new" law of the Holy Spirit.205
- Its mission is to be salt of the earth and light of the world.206 This people is "a most sure seed of unity, hope, and salvation for the whole human race."
- Its destiny, finally, "is the Kingdom of God which has been begun by God himself on earth and which must be further extended until it has been brought to perfection by him at the end of time."207
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Christianity fulfilled Judaism; it didn't break with it. The whole Old Testament is the foreshadowing of Christ. I tend to agree that the New Testament indicates Jews have (at least for the time being) forfeited their chosen status in their apostasy. I was not implying that today's Jews are no different than Christians or that Christianity and contemporary Judaism are somehow kindred religions. But to view the Old and New Testaments as two separate religions only undermines Christianity. It destroys the very foundation upon which Christianity is built.
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Surely, it is neither European, nor Semitic? Neither Jew, nor Greek? It is a universal religion, the religion of the Creator of every people group on Earth and free to any person on Earth, if we are to believe the Bible.
But I would definitely agree that it is so ingrained in European culture that it cannot be characterized as Semitic from a cultural perspective.
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The Talmud is simply a collection of rabbinic sayings of prominent rabbis of the old and so on similar to 7adiths in Islam. Judaism is primarily based on the Torah and so on. Jews strictly believe in monotheism which is why they reject Jesus as their messiah. For Muslims, they simply believe Jesus as a man created by god since they too believe strictly in monotheism as well. Islam and Judaism are more similar to one another than to Christianity really.
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