Any distinctly Christian position on this subject should have the enlivening effect of angering both the tradition-bound religious right, and the morally untethered socialist left. Most people find this subject too onerous and complicated to even take very basic principled stances on. Here are ten statements that I stand by, which both safely distance me from the Zionist establishment, and the Socialist revolutionaries, both of whom are no use to the actual Palestinians they argue over.
- All human beings share the same dignity and value as God’s Image-bearers, whether of semitic heritage or not. (Gen 1:27)
- God has only one chosen people. (Rom 11:17-24, John 10:16)
- God’s people (True Jews) are defined by having Circumcised hearts (Rom 2:28-29, fulfilling Deut 10:16 and Jer 31:33)
- A circumcised heart is given to a sinner unilaterally by God, and that heart will not fail to place faith in Christ as Lord and Saviour. (Jer 31:31-34)
- True Jews (those with circumcised hearts) are therefore Christians. (Col 2:11-12)
- The Promised Land for God’s people is all of the Heavens and Earth. (Matthew 5:5, Psalm 37:29, Rev 21:1-4)
- Christians can expect to inherit all of the Earth, which means that Greater Palestine will one day be a Christian city. (see 6)
- A Palestinian Christian is therefore more of a Jew than a biological Jew who does not trust in Jesus as Messiah. (see 3, 5)
- The ‘on us and on our children’ curse (Matthew 27:25) was satisfied by the judgement of that generation and siege of A.D. 70, so no modern Jew should be burdened with blood guilt from the 1st century.
- All human beings will one day bow before Jesus, a Jew who lived in Palestine.
Distilled Orthopraxy 