In the providence of God we find ourselves picking up our study of Romans in the middle of chapter 2 just 8 days after a 19 year member of an Orthodox Presbyterian Church walked into a synagogue in Poway, California (just outside San Diego) and began shooting those gathered for Jewish worship. He murdered one and injured 3 more before, by the grace of God, his gun jammed.
In a 7 pages manifesto that the shooter posted online he goes into great detail about his belief that white people of European descent are superior to other races. This ideology, known as Kinism, professes to get their views from the Bible and, while Kinists look down on all races other than whites as inferior, they have a particular hatred of Jewish people.
So the shooter's manifesto contains several Bible verses that specifically condemn the sins of Jewish leaders and people in the 1st century—like Matthew 27:25, when the Jewish people screamed for Pilate to crucify Jesus by saying, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
The terrorist who assaulted the Poway Synagogue last week used these verses and others like them to justify his hatred and murder of Jewish people. Sadly, others have done the same thing throughout history—they have used statements from the Bible about the sins of Jewish people to justify their antisemitism—their hatred of Jews.
Our study of Romans brings us to verses that can be misconstrued in just that way by people who do not fear God enough to handle the Scriptures with integrity.
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