What If You Had Been Born Hitler???

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Originally Posted by GrowingPains

We tend to not remember what dispensation/time/season we are in. God handled sin with judgement, and the only thing keeping back His judgement today is the atonement.

Amen. But when it comes to Jews slaughtered by Hitler, it was atrocious in itself, aside from any inkling that Jews were God's own. God's own are not people simply who are Jews.

When Abraham had a son named Ishmael the boy was circumcised and a child of Abraham. Isaac came along and he was likewise circumcised, but the seed was reckoned through Isaac, not Ishmael. Time went by and Isaac fathered Jacob and Esau. But the seed was not counted through Esau either. Yet Esau was a descendant of Abraham and Isaac. Even circumcised!

When Jacob became Israel, his twelve sons were called the nation of Israel and her twelve tribes. But amongst them, as time went by, should they refuse the newly introduced Passover, they were cut off and not considered part of Israel despite the lineage. Meanwhile, passover allowed, for the first time, gentiles with no Israelite lineage to become part of Israel. So Israelites not circumcised or not keepers of passover were no longer considered Israelites, whereas gentiles who kept passover and were circumcised were considered as Israelitish as the best if them.

And since Christ is the Seed foretold to Abraham for the recipient of the promises, what about the Jews who rejected Him? They are outside any promises of being God's people, let alone recipients of heritage from God.

You can reject Passover and no longer be God's own, and yet reject Christ and still be God's own?

So, just to note that, in light of the chat about "God's own," we ought not even consider Jews slaughtered as God's own being slaughtered, but simply that human beings were slaughtered. Let's not confuse the truth of whom is God's people for the sake of emphasizing the wickedness of Adolph Hitler.

Anyway, carry on.