Israel and Humanity - Their existence and their separation at birth of Christianity
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The two elements of the religion of Israel.
§ 1.
COEXISTENCE AND THEIR SEPARATION AT BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY
The most salient characteristics of the Mosaic law formally contradict the hypothesis of the submission of all peoples to the same law, because they all bear the imprint of Jewish particularism. That's life Jewish individual who breathes in the mosaic, reflected in its history, interests, hopes of Israel, not that this particular life is not connected to the universal life of humanity, because It is in this link instead that include the size and best aspirations of Judaism, but at least humanity is not destined to come get lost any more than the life of Israel should blend in humanity. The closest union must exist between the two, without one being sacrificed to another.
This aspect eminently Ethnic Mosaic is probably compatible with membership restricted to a small number of converts, but he opposes a way irreducible to the mass conversion of all mankind. The history of Christianity clearly demonstrates. Fault for not having seen or at least not properly appreciated the double worship, Judaism requires, worship secular Noachide, humanity and the priestly cult of Israel, what the founders of Christianity were obliged to do in their desire to see happen, despite all the promises of universal religion whose sacred books are filled? They were initially reluctant for some time between the two extreme parties, impose the Mosaic to everyone and that its abolition even for Israel. But the first attempt was bound to fail, and after noting their failure in this regard, there remained no alternative to the Christians as [1] proclaim the abolition of Judaism and deleted in some sort of history to bring all men to Noachism pure, as if an event of such crucial importance that the Mosaic should be counted for nothing. This behavior has no other cause than the ignorance of the dual aspect of divine law, according to which coexistence of the two cults is not only possible but necessary, through the organization of the human race, necessarily hierarchical like any organization, and secular priests.
This double element of Judaism appears in the very fact of its abolition as they tried to do at that time, if you will take the trouble to think carefully about the inherent contradiction contained in the formula of its abolition and to have perhaps not been so clearly perceived, does not amount to us under this memorable event. It is indeed Hebraism Hebraism which denies . For something that was possible, and we can not deny that these words portray the situation accurately, it is only in the name of Judaism to conceal a duality whereby the two components together until the particularism and universalism, the religion of Israel and that of the Gentile world, ended up splitting the point that the latter has denied the first. But the link in Judaism, connected both cults was not, we repeat, seen by the early Christians, nor does now include Christian theologians or critics also recognize that rationalists the existence of this double feature in Israel. And yet they are endowed with one another and with such vitality that it is impossible to think that no link exists between them. Hebraism, instead of this institution so homogeneous that history tells us, would appear rather as the divided kingdom which the Gospel speaks, if these two aspects of ancient religion also required for its formation was reached to compose a harmonious whole. This link, we have seen is the hierarchical organization of the human race as priests and laymen, and it's completely ignore that to write as was a Catholic author, Dr. Conti that particularism and universalism could not identify the nationality Hebrew [2], as it does not identify [3] two separate things, but to harmonize, which was essential to the very life of Judaism.
The same writer adds that, moreover, the Jews were unable to conceive the universal religion in the form of a great brotherhood of man and that this concept does not contain anything for them that the idea of an empire on which they would exercise worldwide. Such a conception is alien to Judaism. The Jews have indeed been able to feed well at times chimerical hopes of universal domination, without for that Judaism is no way held responsible for these dreams of Jewish patriotism. Instead, it is these very dreams that prove the existence of a doctrine more reasonable and even higher if it inevitably degenerated in lower spirits in images more flattering to national pride.
