Jesus acknowledged that the Jews were the descendants of Abraham, but that they weren’t the “children of Abraham” or the “children of God” anymore, but the “children of the devil”. Since Abraham is not their father, but the devil is, the promises that God gave to Abraham of those blessing Abrahams children being blessed does not apply to the Jews. They rejected Christ and are the children of the devil and not Abraham.
In John 8:37 Jesus said “I know you are Abraham’s descendants”.
in vs. 38, “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would[c] do what Abraham did.”
In vs 42, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God.
In vs 44, “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.“
Of course Jews can be saved. If they become Christian, they are no longer a Jew but a Christian. Biologically they are Jewish, but God doesn’t care about lineage anymore and so it doesn’t mean anything to him anymore
The only reason God cares about lineages is because of the promise between Him and the tribes of Israel to keep the truth of the most High God circulating throughout time. Many have been unfaithful but many have also been fatally faithful.
God existed before the Jews and promises have been handed down, through time, we may in fact be seeing the culmination of all things in real time, if we persevere and have patience.
In Jesus, there is no special lineage. The promises in the OT were to the “COA”, not to the children of the devil. Anybody can be a “COA”, so the importance of ethnicity has been completely removed by God.
I might have missed where the COA was explained, what is that? Edit: children of Abraham came to mind, is that right?
I'm saying ethnicity only mattered to keep God in the conversation, through Jesus Christ and His promises that conversation has caught fire and the harvest has many workers today!
Children of Abraham
Yeah, the Jewish nation was chosen to present Jesus to the world and start a movement. We are way beyond that point now and the Jews have stuck to being the “children of the devil”. After Jesus, there is no differentiation between race.