The most-read book on earth opens in a Jewish world: a Jewish teacher, Jewish disciples, the Hebrew Scriptures on every page. Then a great deal was built from it against the Jews, and much of it has since been taken back.
This page is not a statement of faith, and it takes no side between religions. It reads the New Testament the way the rest of this site reads every text: honestly, with the light and the hard parts both named.
Three things matter here for the story of the Jewish people. Where this book came from (a Jewish root). What was made of it (a long inheritance of contempt, and its repair). And where the church stands now toward Israel.
Before Christianity was a separate religion, it was a movement of Jews, inside Judaism, reading the Jewish Scriptures. The text never stops showing it.
The honest part. From this Jewish book, Christendom built nineteen centuries of contempt. Naming it is not an attack on Christianity; the repair came from within Christianity itself.
The turn has been real. The church that once taught contempt now contains Israel's largest body of support in the world. Across the United States, tens of millions of Christians back the Jewish state on the strength of the very first promise in this story, “I will bless those who bless you” (Genesis 12:3). Catholic and mainline churches have spent sixty years unlearning the deicide charge. See Israel's allies →
And the texts themselves remain a witness against erasure. The Gospels are set in Judea, Galilee and Jerusalem, among Jews keeping Sabbaths and Passovers in the Land of Israel in the first century. To deny the Jewish connection to that land, you would have to delete the setting of the Christian scripture itself. The case for the land →