Ari Shayn and others on the forum who find derogatory comments about Jews in the New Testament to be a personal affront,
I believe you are viewing this situation with 'myopic' vision, and here's why:
All of the quotes in your list are indeed found in the NT, but if a new religious offshoot is to become founded and break away from an established mother faith, how else can such be accomplished without its founder or founders insisting that the earlier faith is wrong, it's followers misled, and its' rites and rituals outdated? This pattern of development has been the same throughout history. Abraham decried those who bowed before idols. There are more than a few passages in Jewish Scriptures such as those describing Philistines as "uncircumcised dogs", proscriptions against non-Jews joining in Shabbos, prohibitions against non-Jews participating in Temple rites, etc... . Gautama Buddha began a new way of life and thought rejecting the Hindu Vedas and the Hindu faith of his native India, teaching his followers that nothing of value could be gained by following the Brahmin Priests or practicing asceticism. Islam denounces any and all thoughts or philosophies which came before it or appeared after it. The 20th Century Religion called Marxism denounces all religion other than that worshipping the State and its Leader, and considers itself the World To Come already on Earth. Now, with Marxism mostly discredited, we see the Green and Global mindset denouncing all which opposes its views on mankind's relations to our planet. This has always gone on and always will, as it reflects the human condition.
Jews should view Christianity as it exists today -- in terms of the spiritual and material condition of the millions of Gentiles prior to their acceptance of the Christian faith. They were for the most part unschooled and unwashed pagans and heathens lost in a world of total spiritual darkness. They worshipped everything from the Sun to trees, bowed before numerous amoral gods carved in stone, had no regard for human life, and lived in tribal groups at war with each other. Homosexuality was widely accepted and practiced, and women gave birth out of wedlock with no guilt or sense of sin. Intelligent non-Jews in ancient times who became exposed to Torah and The Temple in Jerusalem while on their travels very often were attracted to the Jewish faith, but most found the Law difficult to observe, and were often confounded by the complex nature of Jewish metaphysics.
Regardless of doctrinal differences with its Jewish parent faith, the Christian faith started as a Jewish cult which believed the Moshiach had arrived. All of its early disciples and most of its earliest adherents were Jews, and only Jews were allowed to join the group. Even the disciple Luke first converted to Judaism in order to then be allowed to follow Jesus. The Apostle Paul, originally known as Saul of Tarsus, was affiliated with the Temple in Jerusalem until his sudden conversion to become a follower of Jesus, and the Church of Rome was founded by the Jew Peter, now known as St. Peter the first Pope. All of the first disciples demanded the Kosher Laws be kept, and continued to worship at the Temple. Paul was told by the other disciples that if he was going to ignore the Kosher Laws and Temple worship and accept "any version" of Christian faith from gentiles throughout the world, that he would have to do so far away from the Land of Israel, for the actual disciples insisted on keeping almost all of Judaism.
Eventually the two divided sects split permanently from each other, the "non-Kosher version of Jesus" taught by Paul spread throughout the world and succeeded; the original Jewish followers of Jesus became outnumbered by later converts to "Paulism" vanished - lost to antiquity and forgotten.
Even so, the Christian world today still considers itself as the "fulfillment" of the Jewish Covenant, and as such it claims the Jewish Torah, the Abrahamic Covenant, and the Law of Moses as the foundation of its faith. Jewish objections to the Church Leaders' misinterpretation and mistranslation of the Jewish Scriptures are well known, and it is true that there are verses in the New Testament which are in large part responsible for "Anti-Semitism" and its pogroms, persecutions, and Holocaust. But educated and intelligent modern Christians acknowledge that they would still be lost in pagan darkness without their Christian teachings of G-d and salvation, for they believe that G-d Chose the Jewish People to receive His Law and to give the world its Saviour.
It is a truly disheartening thing to admit, but were it not for Christian Zionists today throughout all branches and denominations of Christendom, Israel and the Jews would have little support. Christians far outnumber Jews in the percentage of Zionist supporters among them.
Yes, it's true that these same Christians prefer everyone become Christian, but they believe that the creation of the State of Israel is a fulfillment of the Torah prophecies which were reiterated by Jesus and taught to his followers as the signs to watch for which would herald Moshiach's appearance.
If one removes the doctrinal differences separating believing Jews from believing Christians, it becomes apparent that the two faiths are closer than they are apart.
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