Prologue: The Root and the Rift

What if the greatest barrier between Jews and Christians today isn’t history, politics, or even doctrine—but something deeper, more buried, and rarely examined? What if the very theological soil in which Christianity has grown has, for nearly two thousand years, been fertilized with ideas that quietly stripped Israel of its role, Torah of its covenantal weight, and Jews of their prophetic dignity?

This series is not about religious disagreement—that is honest and expected. This is about the systemic theological structures that, generation after generation, have reimagined God in ways that sever Him from His people Israel. It is about how Christian theology, over time, cultivated not only antisemitism in the streets but anti-Judaism in the seminaries, in the pulpits, and in the unspoken assumptions of faith communities.

As an Apostolic Jew and a scholar of the New Testament, I write from within the tension. I believe in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, and I do not consider myself a convert to another religion. But I have seen how Gentile interpretations of Jesus and Paul have created not a bridge, but a barrier. I have seen how entire systems of theology—crafted with sincere intentions and even devotional piety—have led to the erasure of Jewish identity in the body of Messiah, the spiritualization of Jewish prophecy, and the outright negation of the Torah.

This series is a slow unearthing. We will uncover the roots of:

• Christian Supersessionism in its many forms: punitive, economic, structural
• Fulfillment Theology and its redefinition of covenant
• New Covenant Theology, which claims to replace Sinai with Calvary
• Triumphalism and the “teaching of contempt”
• Theologies that shaped antisemitic culture, and
• Interpretive frameworks that erased Jewish presence from their own Scriptures

But we won’t stop with Christianity alone. We will also examine how:

• Islam inherited and expanded the supersessionist narrative
• Hebrew Israelite movements reinvent supersessionism through racialized polemics

This is a reckoning. Not to shame, but to illuminate. Not to accuse, but to warn. And not to tear down bridges, but to rebuild them with the strength of truth and the courage of memory.

If Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, then the story is not finished. Israel is not finished. The Torah is not finished. And theology must be held accountable to the God who calls Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—not once, not symbolically, but forever.

Welcome to the series.

Let the unlearning begin.