Father Calvin Robinson is an Anglican priest from the U.K. who recently moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has an interesting story about how he ended up here. Among other things, he’s on a literal top ten hit list in the U.K. for speaking the truth.
Anyway, Father Robinson gave a master class this week on how to deal with the “Judeo-Christian” term. You’ll have to be on Twitter/X to see it, but it was great. He came back today with a video about it which of course brought about more discussion. I’ll embed the relevant tweets below, but you’ll have to be on the platform to see it all.
What makes this even more ironic is the fact that he just went to Moscow, Idaho, and recorded a couple of shows with Doug Wilson and friends. Let’s just say the Moscow Mood has gone sour and the J Question was a big factor in the meltdown that has ensued over the past two weeks on Twitter/X and YouTube. (Father Robinson was not part of the meltdown, but the fact that he’s pointing out all kinds of stuff about the Jews and Israel is sure to get Doug Wilson worked up.)
Anyway.
In case you’ve never seen this, keep this in mind as you view his tweets.
First, the tweet that started it all and then some additional ones.
He makes a good point. We should be able to ask simple, inquisitive questions without the verbal bomb of “antisemitic” being thrown around. A great question that I would like to know.
The idea that the people we call Jews are semites is false. To be a semite or semetic or shemetic you have to have descended from the son of Noah, Shem. That’s where that term of identification comes from. A guy named Heber was a descendant of Shem, thus sometimes his descendants were referred to a Hebrews. Abraham was a descendant of Shem. The people we call Jews descended from Cain and can never be called semites. Jesus called the Jews out to their face in John chapter 8. When he said to them they were not Abrahams children or they would have understood him but rather they from their father who was a murderer from the beginning. Who was he talking about? Cain. Cain was the first recorded murderer in the Bible. Much more could be said identifying the Jews from the Bible that they were not Israelites and not descended from Shem.
Food for thought…