Christ, Faith, And The Holocaust

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A Catholic convert from Judaism believes that the Jews are not only our "elder brothers" in the faith, but that their prayers and actions prepared the way for Jesus Christ and the salvation of mankind.

At the same time, though, there are still Christians embodying counternarratives to this. The fact that Christianity is growing in developing nations and stagnating in numbers in Western Europe and North America testifies to the growth of a Christianity that empowers those whose lives are not marked by material wealth and status and who are often victimized by the very power that other forms of Christianity support. Christians around the world and in our own nation, motivated by their faith, are risking their own well-being for social justice in a number of different regards. We have strong participation in the interfaith movements of liberation and postcolonial theologies, and this makes me hopeful. I am also encouraged by the strong trend towards interreligious collaboration rather than just ecumenical.

Science and religion are based on different aspects of humanexperience. In science, explanations must be based on evidence drawnfrom examining the natural world. Scientifically based observations orexperiments that conflict with an explanation eventually must lead tomodification or even abandonment of that explanation. Religious faith,in contrast, does not depend only on empirical evidence, is notnecessarily modified in the face of conflicting evidence, andtypically involves supernatural forces or entities. Because they arenot a part of nature, supernatural entities cannot be investigated byscience. In this sense, science and religion are separate and addressaspects of human understanding in different ways. Attempts to pitscience and religion against each other create controversy where noneneeds to exist. (NASIM 2008: 12)

Muslim leaders were less clear about where Pope Benedict stood with regard to their faith, although he repeatedly reached out to open lines of communication and promote cooperation on social issues of concern to both Catholics and Muslims.

God is moving powerfully among the Jewish community in Israel. From the perspective of a Bible professor in Israel, Dr. Mishkin shares how the Jewish Messianic movement in Israel is growing and thriving. He shares his personal story of coming to the Christian faith, his assessment of Jewish-Christian relations, and how to lovingly talk about Jesus with Jews.

David Mishkin: Now, the way we usually respond to this is first of all to say, well, wait a minute. Just because people did things in the name of Jesus, that doesn't mean that Jesus is the problem. Oh, these people weren't real Christians. That's a good argument to some extent, but there's also a problem with it. Because when we look throughout church history, even the good guys, the people that most evangelicals would affirm as heroes of the faith, for the most part they said and did horrible things against the Jewish people as well. The obvious examples would be John Chrysostom and even Martin Luther. 2b1af7f3a8