Comfort Ye My People: The Church's Mandate toward Israel and the Jewish People

“The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference.”
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

The predominant attitude over the past 1,700 years among Christians toward Jews has been both indifference and hatred. The decision of the First Nicaean Council to abandon the traditional Christian Passover for Roman Easter began the divorce of the church from its Jewish roots. This decree was followed by an onslaught of Jewish suffering at the han...