Sadly for millions of Jewish people the idea
that Jesus could be the one to bring peace and
reconciliation seems ridiculous and offensive.
Many Jews, Jesus was 'someone who hated us and
is responsible for our misery'. When
Constantine established Christianity as the
official religion of the Roman Empire in 312,
he issued many anti-Jewish laws.
The Jewish
people who therefore were considered by the
church to be the 'anti-Christ' suffering
continual persecution. In Spain in 613, all
Jews who refused to be baptized had to leave
the country.
The first Crusade in 1096 saw
fierce persecution of Jewish communities as the
Crusaders began their journeys to the 'Holy
Land' to 'liberate' it from the Muslims. When
the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they
massacred all the Jews and Muslims they could
find.
In 1215, Pope Innocent III condemned
the Jews to eternal slavery by decreeing:
The Jews against whom the blood of Jesus Christ
calls out, although they ought not to be
killed, lest the Christian people forget the
Divine Law
In 1478, the Spanish Inquisition
was directed against heretics'Jews and non-
Catholic Christians. In 1492, Jews were given
the choice of forced baptism or expulsion from
Spain
Martin Luther hoped initially he
would attract Jews to his Protestant faith but
later turned on them and uttered words of
hatred used word for word by the Nazis in their
propaganda.
In the late 19th century, the
Russian Orthodox Church instigated the pogroms,
violent attacks on Jewish communities.
This
brief history of Jewish suffering shows the
terrible truth that most of it has been
instigated by people who claimed to be
Christians. The main accusation that has been
brought against the Jewish people by the
professing church is that 'the Jews killed
Jesus'.
hatred for the Jews demonstrates a
spirit of force, tyranny, and prejudice which
is the absolute opposite of the true spirit of
Jesus the Messiah and forms the basis for
Hitler's Genocide!
Booklet tract is 14
pages long