The following is response to those who criticize Christianity based on their European ancestry, like the guy in this short video clip here. As someone of Germanic and Swedish descent, I understand this reaction to feeling like Christianity is attempting to replace your ethnic heritage.
There's also a biblical scholar named Matthew Thiessen who argues that Paul was teaching a literal Gene Replacement Therapy: where the Gentile's genetic code is literally replaced with the Jewish genes of Jesus. But is this true? Upon reflection, it seems to me that Matthew Thiessen is engaging in a lot of speculation when the actual New Testament does not seem to support what he argues.
Let's start with Romans 2:27-30 (Amplified Bible):
27 Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps [the spirit of] the Law will judge you who, [a]even though you have the written code and circumcision, break the Law. 28 For he is not a [real] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something external and physical. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and [true] circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by [the fulfillment of] the letter [of the Law]. His praise is not from men, but from God.
Ephesians 2:12-19 (EXB):
12 Remember that ·in the past [at that time/season] you were without ·Christ [the Messiah]. You were ·not citizens [L excluded from the citizenship] of Israel, and you ·had no part in [L were aliens/strangers to] the ·agreements with the promise that God made to his people [L covenants of promise; C the Abrahamic (Gen. 12:1–3), Mosaic (Ex. 19—24), and Davidic (2 Sam. 7) covenants.] You had no hope, and you did not know God. 13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away from God are brought near through the blood of ·Christ’s death [L Christ; C blood symbolizing his sacrificial death]. 14 Christ himself is our peace. He made ·both Jews and Gentiles one people [L both one], and broke down the wall of ·hate [hostility; enmity] that divided them [C the wall beyond which Gentiles could not pass in the Jerusalem temple, or the law of Moses that distinguished Jew from Gentile (see v. 15)] ·by giving his own body [L in his flesh; C this phrase may go with the following sentence]. 15 He did this by ·ending [setting aside; nullifying] the law of commands and rules ·by giving his own body [L in his flesh; C this phrase may go with the previous sentence]. His purpose was to make the two groups of people become one new ·people [humanity; person; man] in him and in this way make peace. 16 It was also Christ’s purpose to ·end [L put to death; kill] the ·hatred [hostility; enmity] between the two groups, to make them into one body, and to ·bring them back [reconcile them] to God. ·Christ did all this with his death on the cross [L …through the cross]. 17 Christ came and ·preached [proclaimed the Good News of] peace [Is. 52:7] to you who were ·far away from God [L far away/off], and to those who were ·near to God [L near; Is. 57:19]. 18 ·Yes, it is [For; or So that] through Christ we all have ·the right to come [free access] to the Father ·in [by] one Spirit.
19 Now you Gentiles are not foreigners or strangers any longer, but are citizens together with ·God’s holy people [T the saints]. You belong to God’s ·family [household].
Verse 14 is clear that in Christ to receive a new pneumatic body is the creation of a new people not the Gentiles becoming Jews supernaturally through Gene replacement therapy but Gentiles and Jews becoming something else a new type of body a post-ethnic Divine pneumatic body the corporate Body of Christ as the pneuma of Christ creates a new separate category beyond ethnicity where the Christian inherits the divine nature of the divine beings in God's Divine Council.
Ephesians 2:18 on Bible Hub explains that been of one spirit in this verse means:
Spirit.
Πνεύματι (Pneumati)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4151: Wind, breath, spirit.
Bible Hub also offers this commentary for Ephesians 2:18:
... The unity of the Spirit [Pneuma] is a key theme in Ephesians, as seen in Ephesians 4:4, which speaks of one body and one Spirit [Pneuma]. The Spirit's role in uniting believers is also evident in 1 Corinthians 12:13, where Paul writes about all being baptized by one Spirit into one body. ...
... we both
• Paul is writing to a mixed church of Jewish and Gentile believers. “Both” means these two previously alienated groups now form one new humanity in Christ (Ephesians 2:14-16).
• The gospel levels every cultural, ethnic, and religious barrier (Galatians 3:28).
• Practical outflow: unity in worship, fellowship, and mission (Romans 15:5-7). ...
... by one Spirit
• The Holy Spirit applies Christ’s work, bringing us near and keeping us there (1 Corinthians 12:13).
• He indwells every believer—Jew and Gentile alike—forming a single temple (Ephesians 2:22).
• The Spirit assures, guides, and empowers our fellowship with the Father (Romans 8:26-27; Galatians 4:6).
Bible Hub goes on to provide these other related New Testament verses:
Galatians 3:28:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 12:13:
For in one Spirit [Pneuma] we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
Romans 8:15-16:
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” / The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Acts 2:18:
Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
Matthew 28:19:
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ...
John 4:21-23:
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father…
We can just see that it is the spirit numa that is creating a new post ethnic people that receive the literal seed of divinity.
We then have the Gospel of John again repeating this idea that it's not about an ethnic transformation where a Jew literally becomes a gentile literally becomes ethnically jewish, but instead it is about Christ donating basically the DNA of the Divine family in the heavens which are not composed of human genes and an ethnicity but instead of a separate Divine genus of divine beings. This Christ receives the numa spirit which further transforms him into a new kind of body, a resurrection body and Divine Life donating numa so that the gentle is not receiving a new ethnic identity but I knew Divine identity as they join the Divine family of the Divine beings in the Divine Council. See the Naked Bible Podcast Episode 226 on Colossians 1:1-13 (July 28, 2018) with Dr. Michael S. Heiser (MH podcast on the meaning of the term Saints and most New Testament translations which eyes are explains actually means holy ones and it refers to Christians literally and joining the Divine being in God's divine family in the heavens. Obviously, the Divine beings in God's Divine family are not any particular ethnicity or a post-ethnic Divine species.
So this is the core message of christianity, Christ is donating the new genus of the Divine species which breaks down ethnic barriers when Christians are transformed from their mortal bodies into becoming divanized pneumatic bodies as holy ones." This turns Christian's gentle Christians not into ethnic Jews but literal children of god, children of a Divine being not an ethnic group. Thus we read in John 1:12-15, 29-34 (EXB):
12 But to all who did ·accept [receive] him and believe ·in him [L in his name; C the name indicating the character of the person] he gave the ·right [power; authority] to become children of God. 13 They did not become his children ·in any human way [by natural descent; by physical birth; L by blood]—by ·any human parents [human passion/decision; L desire/will of the flesh] or ·human desire [a husband’s decision; L desire/will of a man/husband]. They were born of God.
14 The Word became ·a human [T flesh] and ·lived [made his home; pitched his tabernacle; C God’s glorious presence dwelt in Israel’s tabernacle in the wilderness] among us. We saw his ·glory [majesty]—the glory that belongs to the ·only Son [one and only; T only begotten] ·of [who came from] the Father—and he was full of ·grace and truth [God’s gracious love and faithfulness; Ex. 34:5–7]. 15 John ·tells the truth about [testifies concerning; witnesses about] him and cries out, saying, “This is the One I told you about: ‘The One who comes after me [C in time] is greater than I am, because he ·was living [existed] before me [C a reference to Christ’s preexistence; 1:1–2].’”
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him. John said, “Look, the Lamb of God [C lambs were used for sacrifice; Gen. 22:8], who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the One I was talking about [1:15] when I said, ‘A man will come after me, but he is greater than I am, because he ·was living [existed] before me.’ 31 Even I did not ·know [recognize] who he was, although I came baptizing with water so that ·the people of Israel would know who he is [he might be revealed to Israel].”
Then John ·said [testified; bore witness], “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven in the form of a dove and ·rest [remain] on him. Until then I did not know ·who the Christ was [or he was the one; L him]. But the God who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and ·rest [remain] on a man; he is the One who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 I have seen this happen, and I ·tell you the truth [testify; bear witness]: This man is the Son of God.”[a]
This is why Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that basically through his death and resurrection, a new life giving spirit (pneuma) would break down The Walls of separation between all ethnic groups. You see the Samaritan woman was considered by Jews outside the boundaries of judaism. So you had the Samaritans worshiping in their own ethnic boundary locations separated from the jews. Who had their own ethnic boundary worshiping locations. So Jesus basically says to her that when he soon dies and resurrects God's how many present fluid Spirit numa would replace all ethnic boundaries which separates Gentiles from Jews and Jews from Samaritans and so that instead everyone will worship out in the open as one "pneumatic people" beyond ethnic boundary walls. So Jesus says to the Samaritan woman in John 4:23-24 (EXB):
23 [L But] The ·time [L hour; see 4:21] is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in ·spirit [or the Spirit] and truth, and that time ·is here already [has now come; is now here]. You see, the Father too is actively seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is ·spirit [Spirit], and those who worship him must worship in ·spirit [Spirit] and truth".
Remember not the word Spirit here means Pneuma, a divinity donating fluid air-like omnipresent substance as the mind and power of God emanating from his divine nature.
John 4:23-24 (Amplified Bible):
23 But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers. 24 God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
So it is clearly not about ethnicity at all but what is going on is the concept of theosis or deification which had become popular during this time, was being utilized by Paul and New Testament writers to break down ethnic boundary walls and religious divisions in order to create a new separate identity as the literal children of God by having Christians join the heavenly realm of the Holy ones in the heavens which are not a human species or ethnicity at all but a Divine species.
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