>>24580119There are multiple fallacies going on simultaneously with regard to that statement.
Firstly, the practitioners of what we call "Judaism" today have no real connection to the Biblical Jews. The only similarity is really the name. They follow a book called the Babylonian Talmud, which wasn't even written in the 1st century AD. On this, see: >>>/his/17722420
So, based on the above, it doesn't even make sense to equivocate between the modern people who claim to be "Jews" and those mentioned in the Bible. From an ancestral perspective you could take any random person from Europe and they would have the same amount of connection to the ancient Jews as a person who follows the Babylonian Talmud or talmudic rabbis and who calls themselves a "Jew" today has. The people who were already in the middle east before the 20th century influx are on average more related to the ancient Judeans on that account. Most Ashkenazim were pagans in Lithuania and Poland who converted to talmudism in the middle ages. And to add on top of that, the talmud isn't even connected in any way to the Bible, either the Old Testament or the New Testament. There is just zero particular connections, no matter how you cut it. There are zero connections between any of these people and the actual Biblical Jews. The people claiming to be Jews today are frauds and impostors in every sense of the word, using a borrowed identity from an ancient group they have no actual connection to.
To even identify the term "Israel" to modern talmudists is thus an equivocation.
Furthermore, if you look in the Bible, you see that the people of God continues to exist among the Christians. Peter himself said it in 1 Peter 2:9-10. He said the following:
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."
(1 Peter 2:9-10)
The above passage in the book of 1 Peter quotes directly from Exodus 19:6 and Hosea 2:23. These two passages in Exodus and Hosea both foreshadow the spread of Christianity, which followed the first coming of Jesus Christ in the first century AD. Here we see that the people of God being spoken of throughout all three of these Old and New Testament passages is what we call Christianity. There is nowhere in the Bible where it speaks of there being two separate, non-overlapping people of God. Since those who claim to be Jews reject Christ, the people of God cannot be both Christians AND the explicitly non-Christian group just mentioned. It can't be both, it has to be one or the other. The Holy Bible makes it clear, in passages like Romans 11 that gentile believers were grafted into God's people, while nonbelievers were cut off, as branches are cut off a tree. Peter also described this same thing in Acts 3:22-24.