Reject what allegation? I asked you if you believed it.
Not channeling -- N is asleep -- but I googled and got this nutjob discussion:
‘Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.'’
This is the origin of the saying that the Jews are ‘the spawn of Satan.’ This is not an obscure Old Testament verse but one of the four gospels, Jesus addressing the Hebrews in the Gospel of St. John (8:44). So God says that the Jews are ‘of the devil’, in other words, evil. Is this incitement to racial hatred? According to the Bible the Jews are evil and God abhors evil. ...
heretical.com;
"For John, the Jews -- children of the devil 8:44 -- represent an eternal principle of evil."
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MATT: Remember, you'll know who they are by what they produce. If you
make the tree choice, its fruit will be choice; if you make the tree
rotten, its fruit will be rotten. After all, the tree is known by its
fruit. You spawn of Satan, how can your speech be good when you are
corrupt? As you know, the mouth gives voice to what the heart is full of.
The good person produces good things out of a fund of good; and the evil
person produces evil things out of a fund of evil.
THOM: Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs gathered
from thistles, for they yield no fruit. Good persons produce good from
what they've stored up; bad persons produce evil from the wickedness
they've stored up in their hearts, and say evil things. For from the
overflow of the heart they produce evil.
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This is all ancient nonsense, of course, but as these exchanges show, they still have the power to wig people out. Googling, I found the most vile anti-Semitic stuff in chat rooms and blogs. I wonder if those guys will think The Passion is Lady of the Lake. Here's from a site I came across:
Question: Is it true that the New Testament criticism of the Jews is quite mild? Answer: The New Testament contains more than just a mild criticism of the Jews. In fact, it is extremely anti-Jewish. It is true that some Christians maintain that the New Testament attack on the Jews is quite mild. Yet, how mild is the "bloody commission," a statement that places upon the Jews guilt for all the righteous blood ever shed upon the earth (Matthew 23:35), or a spurious self-condemnation whereby the Jewish people supposedly take upon themselves and their offspring an eternal blame for the death of Jesus (Matthew 27:25), or a declaration that the Jews are the children of the devil (John 8:44) and that the Jews are a "synagogue of Satan" (Revelation 2:9, 3:9). Paul summed up the denunciation of the Jews with the inflammatory declaration that the Jews are "hostile to all men" (1 Thessalonians 2:15). The attitude of the New Testament authors toward the Jews is very clear.
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