Les Feldick Bible Study

What Pauline teaching are Messianic Jews turning away from?

Paul's teaching that in the Age of Grace there is no difference between Jew and Gentile. Every saved person, Jew or Gentile, enters the Body of Christ on the same level as a sinner saved by grace. The Jew has lost his identity in the church age, and all are one in Christ.

Les teaches that once the prison epistles and deeper church truths are in view, the demarcation between Jew and Gentile is no longer the issue. God now deals with the whole human race on one level. Every saved person comes into the Body of Christ equally, whether Jew or Gentile, and the Jew has lost his identity as such for the church age. This is in God's purposes: bringing Jew and Gentile together into one Body with no difference. Many Messianic Jews are beginning to turn away from this Pauline teaching, losing sight that a Jew must be saved today as a sinner, a fallen son of Adam, just like Gentiles. They try to jump back into a former place of privilege that is not there. In Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians there is no dividing between Jew and Gentile and no reference to the Old Testament.