My Take On The Jews

I'm not afraid to talk about it

Turner Newberg

Jun 14, 2025

Why Am I Talking About The Jews?

Because it’s a hot-button issue, that’s why.

But like, an unusually hot one.

Within the conservative community, you can say that men and women are different and not get flak for it.

If you say that white men are being persecuted, many people will nod in agreement.

If you say that America should have Christian rulers and not pagan ones, you wouldn’t get much pushback.

But if you say that maybe the holocaust numbers were exaggerated, all hell breaks loose.

Jews As An Ethnicity

There’s a difference between ‘Jews’ as an ethnicity and ‘Jews’ as a religious group. I don’t have any ‘problems’ with Jews as an ethnicity. They’re made in the image of God just like everyone else.

There are a lot of topics I can’t touch on because I haven’t studied Jewish history, but I can at least say that I believe the holocaust happened. However, I don’t commit to any figure because, again, I haven’t studied it. All I know is that a whole lot of people died and it was a horrible tragedy that we need to move on from.

If what I just said filled you with boiling rage, then may I ask you to stop reading this post because you’re clearly not a rational person. This post is for people who are able to control their knee-jerks and reason through things objectively.

Jews As A Religious Group

Jews as a religious group are a much different issue. ‘Jews’ as in ‘followers of Judaism’. The Talmud people.

I’ve never read the Talmud and I’m not here to argue all the fine details. All I care about is that Jews don’t believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and man’s only way to heaven.

Which means they’re going to hell. Deal with it.

They’re just as pagan as muslims and atheists, and that’s how I think of them.

And in case you forgot, Jews are also one of the fiercest persecutors of Christians today.

Are the Jews ‘God’s Chosen People’?

I’m talking about ethnic Jews now, but this is ultimately a religious question.

Even though the Bible makes it very clear that today there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile (Acts 10, Rom 10:12, Col 3:11), many people still insist God plays favorites among races.

The conversation inevitably leads to Romans 11, specifically verse 17: “But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,” (NASB95).

The logic goes that Gentiles were ‘grafted into’ Israel, thus God’s people are the Jews, and the Gentiles were added to Israel. Saved Gentiles are in a sense ‘spiritual Jews’.

But it’s like they didn’t even read the verse. It says the Jews were “broken off”. The Jews are the branches, not the tree. The tree represents God’s covenant people, from which the (ethnic) Jews were broken off, and those who come to God through Christ (of which the majority are Gentiles) were grafted in.

The church replaced Israel. Forever. The Jews need Jesus just as much as everyone else, and are just as separated from God without Him.

Messianic Jews

This refers to Jews (as a religious group) who put their faith in Christ, but still eat kosher and keep the feasts and stuff.

Of course that’s an oversimplification, but I obviously can’t argue through each and every Mosaic law. I’m only gonna focus on the food and feasts to give you a general idea that you can apply across the board.

The main passages on food laws are Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Deu 14:2 opens saying “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth” (NASB95). ‘Holy’ means ‘set apart’. The entire purpose of the food laws was to to set Israel apart from the Gentiles. This is the principle that applies to us as new covenant Christians. In addition, Christ declared that all foods were clean in Mark 7:19.

1 Corinthians 8 says not to bang this issue, so I won’t. If you eat kosher because it’s your ethnic heritage, I got no problem. But if you say that you have to eat kosher, then Paul says you’re weak.

For feasts I’d say the same thing. The feasts are a shadow and not the substance. If you want to celebrate them because your family’s been doing it forever, fine. But Christians are not required to foreshadow Christ when they have Christ.

All this is to say that my take on Messianic Jews depends on how seriously they take the traditions. Christ first, tradition second. Flip the two and we have a problem.

And as a side note, please stop calling Jesus ‘Yeshua’. You don’t get any special holiness points for saying it in Hebrew. Be an American and say it in English, just like you do with every other Bible name.

Antisemitism

Going ethnic and geopolitical now, you’d have to be an idiot to not see that some people have a demonic hatred for Jews. But if the Jews aren’t God’s chosen people, why would Satan be targeting them??

Good question.

Maybe that’s exactly what Satan wants you to think.

He’s not stupid. He’s capable of multilayered deception.

Of course, there has to be a Why. Why would Satan want to lead people to think ethnic Jews are God’s chosen people?

The answer is simple - because it is a core tenet of dispensationalism. That leads people to dispensational premillennialism (think Left Behind). It makes Christians think the world will end next week and we lose down here. So they have no logical reason to build anything that lasts.

In other words, Satan’s attack on Jews is one of many steps in his strategy to incapacitate the church.

And this doesn’t mean I support all the antisemitic acts. It’s as horrible a sin as all other forms of racism.

But it’s not evil to say that Jews are normal instead of special.

The Nation of Israel

Having already laid down the fact that the ethnic Jews are no longer God’s chosen people, it shouldn’t surprise you that I believe the nation of Israel is kind of illegitimate. Kind of.

Let me explain. When God scattered the Jews in the Diaspora and rejected them as His covenant people, that wasn’t like a temporary thing. God didn’t scatter them with a promise that someday they’d return to being His chosen people.

And honestly, can you think of a more stupid move than slapping a nation of Jews in the middle of Muslims’R’Us?

But that’s exactly what happened. And because they’re there, as image bearers of God they have a right to defend themselves.

This issue gets into the whole Sovereign Will vs Revealed Will thing. It’s like when Israel made Saul king over them - God was ‘against’ it, but it happened. It wasn’t ideal, but it was what it was, and God and Israel worked with it.

History is complicated. It’s the story of imperfect humans doing stupid things. In that light, I think Israel shouldn’t have been formed in the first place. But because it was, it has the right to not get bombed to the ground.