December 25, 2023
On Christmas, ostensibly Christian leftists launch a diversity attack on Christ
By Andrea Widburg
The New Testament is remarkably clear about Christ’s heritage. He was Jewish. Nevertheless, Christianity Today, a leftist magazine that is busy reworking Christianity to conform to cultural Marxism, chose Christmas to announce that, rather than being Jewish (which is a bad thing on the left), Christ is “Asian.” There’s nothing wrong with being Asian, of course, but there is something very wrong with lying about the Bible’s clear and religiously relevant history.
According to the Gospels, Jesus descended from the House of David. David, in turn, was the King of Israel around the 10th or 11th centuries B.C. (A reminder, yet again, of the Jews’ non-stop ties to the land of Israel.) This is a purely Jewish lineage.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which was then part of the Roman Empire, the family having been forced to travel there to fulfill Caesar Augustus’s census requirements. The family had come from Nazareth and returned there after Jesus’s birth. Bethlehem is a Hebrew word meaning “House of Bread.” Nazareth is a Hebrew word meaning a “watchtower.” Jesus spent his entire life in Judea. (The Romans didn’t name it “Palestine” until the 2nd century A.D., after crushing the Shimon Bar Kokhba revolt.)
Nothing in Jesus’s life had anything to do with any area other than the land that had been the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Judea, and then, as noted, when Jesus was born, the Roman colony of Judea.
The problem for leftists this year is that they have decided that Israel is a pariah nation and the Jews an evil people. To cope with that, the leftist minds at Christianity Today have decided to rewrite the Bible…just a little bit. According to them, and I quote, “Jesus was born in Asia. He was Asian.”
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/on_christmas_ostensibly_christian_leftists_launch_a_diversity_attack_on_christ.html
