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Below, selected quotes from Adam Green’s 2026 book The Jesus Deception: A Mystical Midrashic Myth:
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What is Midrash?
Midrash is the ancient Jewish technique of interpreting, elaborating, and even rewriting scripture to uncover hidden meanings, resolve contradictions, or apply old texts to new contexts. It is not merely commentary…
This bringing together of widely separate scriptural references and deriving meaning and scenarios from their combination was the secret to creating the early Christian message… Jewish midrash was the process by which the Christian recipe was put together and baked into the doctrine of the divine Son who had been sacrificed for salvation.
Talmudic Scholar Dr. Daniel Boyarin explains in his book The Jewish Gospels how the New Testament is a product of midrashic mythmaking which was commonplace tradition in second temple Judaism:
The Gospels use perfectly traditional, midrashic ways of reasoning to develop these ideas and apply them to Jesus. Indeed, in the Gospels these ideas (Suffering and rejected Messiah and Son of Man) have been derived from the Torah by that most Jewish of exegetical styles, the way of midrash. That the Messiah would suffer and be humiliated was something Jews learned from a close reading of scripture in precisely the style of classically rabbinic interpretation known as midrash…
That Paul and the Gospels used Midrash is not contested. Even Christian authors agree Paul was incorporating Midrash…
The concept of Midrash is crucial for understanding early Christianity. The New Testament writers were themselves Jews [emphasis by Ed.], steeped in this tradition of scriptural interpretation. When they portrayed Jesus, they used midrashic techniques, re-reading the Hebrew Bible to learn of his life, death, and mission. This is why so much of the Gospel narrative appears to “fulfill” older texts: the evangelists were not simply recording biography but crafting a theological portrait using the interpretive art of midrash, just as their Jewish contemporaries did the Dead Sea Scrolls, in the Talmud and Kabbalistic and apocryphal texts.
Temple in Nymphenburg Palace Park
Setting the record straight
To say that Nietzsche did not have a profound influence on Hitler would be denying one of the core individuals within National Socialism’s ideological tradition of optimism and will-power. Many have seen the infamous photo of Hitler in the Nietzsche-Archiv, but few seem to know the official caption behind it. In Heinrich Hoffmann’s book Hitler, the original caption reads: “The Führer at the bust of the German philosopher whose ideas inspired two great popular movements: that of National Socialist Germany and that of Fascist Italy.” [1] So, already off the bat, we see a public connection between Hitler and Nietzsche in official sources. Keep in mind that Hitler endorsed the Nietzsche-Archiv by privately funding it, giving 50,000 Reichsmarks. [2]
On July 30th of 1943, the NSDAP had documented that Adolf Hitler had personally gifted Mussolini a unique edition of the collected works of Nietzsche on his birthday:
The Führer sent the Duce, as a personal gift for his 60th birthday, through Field Marshal von Kesselring, the collected works of Nietzsche in a specially produced, unique edition with a heartfelt dedication. [3]
If Hitler had not been influenced or simply had ignored Nietzsche, there would be no reason for Hitler to openly suggest the works of Nietzsche to others. The official NSDAP stance on Nietzsche was that he was: “the greatest defender and justifier of life and reality” [4]. This was then justified by Hitler when, in 1942, he appealed to Nietzsche’s words for his own rightful fanatical optimism:
Whoever thinks he can frighten me somehow or surprise me is wrong. I have always taken to heart the words of a great German philosopher: “A blow that does not knock a strong man over, only makes him stronger.” [5]
In private, Hitler had equally praised Nietzsche. According to Walther Hewel in a conversation about Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in 1941, Hitler said that Nietzsche was:
More intuitive than purely analytical. Affirmation of the laws of nature and of struggle. Positive user manual. Hence, the true philosopher of National Socialism. [6]
Goebbels corroborates this in 1943. In a conversation, he noted Hitler to have said: “Nietzsche is naturally much closer to our viewpoint than Schopenhauer.” [7]
So it appears that Hitler had approved of Friedrich Nietzsche both publicly and privately.
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Bibliography:
[1] Heinrich Hoffmann: Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt, 100 Bild-Dokumente aus dem Leben des Führers
[2] BArch R 43-II/894c Nietzsche-Institut Weimar 1935 p.63
[3] Der Führer: das Hauptorgan der NSDAP Gau Baden; der badische Staatsanzeiger 31.07.1943 p.1
[4] NSDAP Schulungsbrief 1937 #08 „Staat und Kirchen im 19. Jahrhundert“ (Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP) p.299
[5] Völkischer Beobachter, Die Rede des Führers im Berliner Sportpalast, Januar 30,1942 p.3
[6] Diaries and Papers of Botschafter Hewel. Nachlass Walther Hewel. Microfilm DJ-75. Filmed February 1971. Film No 96928, Reel 23 [EP Microform Limited] p.151
[7] NARA, RG 242, T-84, Roll 264 p.296
by Joseph Goebbels on Adolf Hitler
and the Christian Question
[Conversation] with the Führer
He also admires the courage of the Greeks in particular. Perhaps there is still a touch of the old Hellenic strain in them. The Serbs are fighting desperately. But once the first resistance has been broken, then the great retreat will begin. More detailed information on the progress of the operations is not yet available. Things must be given time to develop. Piraeus has been mined. The Führer forbids the bombing of Athens. This is right and noble of him. Rome and Athens are his Meccas [emphasis by Ed.]. He greatly regrets having to fight the Greeks. If the English had not established themselves there, he never would have gone to the Italians’ aid. It was their affair, and they should have been able to settle it alone.
The Führer is man totally attuned to antiquity. He hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity. According to Schopenhauer, Christianity and syphilis have made humanity unhappy and unfree. What a difference between the benevolent, smiling Zeus and the pain-wracked, crucified Christ. The ancient peoples’ view of God was also more noble and more humane than the Christians’. What a difference between a gloomy cathedral and a light, airy ancient temple. He describes life in ancient Rome: clarity, greatness, monumentality. The most wonderful republic in history. We would feel no disappointment, he believes, if we were now suddenly to be transported to this old, eternal city.
The Führer cannot relate to the Gothic mind. He hates gloom and brooding mysticism. He wants clarity, light, beauty. And these are the ideals of life in our time. In this respect, the Führer is a totally modern man.
To him, the Augustinian period [Augustan Age of ancient Rome (27 b.c.e. to 14 c.e.) —Ed.] is the high point of history.[1]
Thank you, Martin Kerr, for bringing the above quote to my attention. I would like to add this one I saw yesterday on Twitter:
Hitler expressed agreement with Nietzsche’s rejection of Christianity. In January 1941, Goebbels recorded in his diary that Hitler was riled up against scholars, including philosophers, but he made an exception for Nietzsche, who, he asserted: “Only Nietzsche is an exception here. He proved in detail the absurdity of Christianity. In two hundred years it will only remain a grotesque memory. We must gradually undermine it in all areas. Above all, among the younger generation.”
Thus, Hitler approved of Nietzsche’s anti-Christian stance and predicted the ultimate demise of Christianity.[2]
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[1] Source: The Goebbels Diaires: 1939-1941. Translated and edited by Fred Taylor, Penguin Books, NY, 1982. Entry for April 8, 1941, pp. 304-305.
[2] Barch N 1118/13 Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Eintrag vom 30. Januar 1941, p.64.
“And if in the end Aryan man, the supremely gifted and most masterful race known to history, should disappear from the Earth, the primary reason for it will be his having succumbed to the virus of Christianity.”
—William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?, page 89.
refutes the WN and NS paradigm
Following up on what I said last Saturday, I would like to show how we differ not only from American white nationalism but also from German National Socialism.
We believe that Christianity is the primary cause of the Aryan decline, not a secondary cause as seems to emerge from Hitler’s conversations with close friends, or from Himmler’s lectures to the SS. Both knew that Christianity was quite a problem, but not the problem to be solved (that’s why they focused on Jewry).
There are no longer any German National Socialists who can speak publicly, due to the draconian laws of Germany and Austria. But in previous years, I posed a question to American white nationalists, who have their First Amendment rights, which they never answered: If Jewry is the primary cause of white decline, why did the Spanish ruin their DNA by marrying Amerind women when the anti-Semitic Inquisition reigned in New Spain (what we now call Mexico)?
I think they didn’t respond because they don’t have a coherent answer to my argument: that New Spain’s Catholicism—not the Jews who had no real power in New Spain—was the obvious cause of mestizaje (racial mixing).
Juan Miguel Zunzunegui, who was born in the same city as me, is a Mexican writer and lecturer known for his Hispanist approach to Mexican history. Throughout his career, he has published several literary works and historical essays in which he attempts to debunk the Black Legend that has been used against Spain.
Zunzunegui recently published a book about Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of the Aztec Empire, whom he admires. I would like to use this short video in Spanish from YouTube to illustrate my point. The translation and transcription of the audio to text are mine. Zunzunegui said:
It’s quite nice when Cortés advances and signs pacts—for example, in the area that is now the state of Tabasco, where he meets the woman we now call Malinche, “Doña Marina”—Cortés is given twenty women, and they are not spoils of war.
That’s very important to clarify. From then on, it’s always the same: “We give you these women so that you may have children with them and we may be brothers” [i.e., Amerinds and Spaniards—Ed.]. What does Cortés do? He baptises them, gives them Spanish names, and marries them off to his men! And they have children with them. Where is the conquest there? Or at least it’s a different kind of conquest, right?
And when he allies himself with the Tlaxcallans—Spain’s great alliance in America—it’s the same thing, right?: “Take the daughters of the nobles so that you may have children with them and we may be brothers.” And that goes hand in hand with one of the last wishes expressed by Queen Isabella I of Castile shortly before her death in 1503: “Let Spaniards marry Indian women! Let Spanish women marry Indian men, and let us be one people!”
When you marry someone from another people and have a mestizo child, there are no longer two peoples. When Cortés and Doña Marina had their first mestizo child—note: Martín Cortés Malintzin had a Nahuatl surname—like Pedro de Alvarado, who married María Luisa Xicoténcatl, their children would bear the name Xicoténcatl. So, of course, Pedro de Alvarado’s son, one of the most savage men who came with Cortés, was married to the woman who would be called María Luisa Xicoténcatl, the daughter of the Tlaxcallan lord.
Look, the Tlaxcallans weren’t just conquered, they were also conquerors: they also took Tenochtitlan, and together they had a son. What was that son? Was he conquered or a conqueror? That’s irrelevant now. Those concepts dissolved as soon as we had children. Well, Hernán Cortés had a daughter with Moctezuma’s daughter, that is, Leonor Cortés y Moctezuma: Cortés’ daughter, granddaughter of Moctezuma. Was she conquered or a conqueror, considering that her descendants are grandees of Spain and live in Spain today?
What we have here is a migratory process, because, mind you: in three hundred years of Spanish rule in America, throughout all of America—well, all of Iberian America, from California to Patagonia; that is, from California to Argentina—, in three hundred years only 150,000 Spaniards arrived.
Unlike Jared Taylor, Zunzunegui knows nothing about the difference in IQ between the various races. But that’s not the point. What I want to get at is obvious: the cause of miscegenation throughout the part of the American continent conquered by Spaniards and Portuguese—the latter also had an Inquisition—wasn’t due to Jewish subversion but to Christian universalism.
Greetings once more Mr. Tort.
I am sending you this e-mail regarding Benjamin’s Survey and wish to display my answers. I wanted to send this earlier but I had some personal matters to attend to including the passing away of my grandmother. Despite being a devout Orthodox Christian she was a kind and good-hearted woman, maybe not always perfect, and sometimes quite stubborn, but she was a good woman nonetheless. Dunno if it was necessarily Christianity the cause of her upstanding nature or was it more her own inner character and the way her parents raised her. I have met Christians who were utter narcissistic scumbags, their belief in the Jewish god fueling their narcissism.
Now regarding Benjamin’s Survey here are my answers:
1. The Nordic Race represents the peak of White humanity and humans in general, possessing both a beautiful appearance and a noble behavior, love for trust, order, kinship and high ideals. As a Romanian I remember the first time I went to Sweden, back when it was still a decent country. I was deeply impressed by the order and cleanliness and hospitality of it’s Nordic people, a different contrast to the more bleak, cynical post-Communist Eastern Europe. As a 6 ft. tall blue eyed dark blonde man I feel a deeper resonance with Northern/Germanic Europeans rather than Balkanoids.
2. Miscegenation is indeed a crime against life and the Judeo-Christian run system is promoting this whether it’s Christians preachers talking about how all humans are children of the Hebrew god or Jewish producers who depict movies with interracial couples. In your articles Mr. Tort you have pointed several times how the Spanish Conquistadores destroyed the future of Latin America by race mixing with the Christianized natives rather than exterminating them to make room for white colonists. Miscegenation is also the cause why parts of Southern and Eastern Europe are corrupt and poor. I will use my native Romania as an example. The ancient Dacians who lived here were described as being tall, blue eyed, with blonde-red hair. After Trajan’s Dacian Wars (101-102, 105-106 AD) Roman colonists where brought here and I doubt many of them where pure Whites. Things became ever worse with the migrations of Oriental populations during the early Middle Ages and the later Orientalization and Balkanization which occurred through the Ottoman Empire, not to mention the presence of Gypsies. Many Romanians now, especially in the south, look more like Levantines than Northern Europeans. Had my country maintained it’s natural homogeneity, reinforced by the presence of migratory Germanic and Slavic populations Romania would have probably looked more like Germany or Sweden. I wouldn’t say that all non-Nordic Aryans are sub-humans, but the Nordic Human must be the ideal we strive for, even if that means forbidding some non-Nordic Whites from producing offsprings.
3. The Hebrew cult of Christianity has been the greatest disaster in Aryan history and sadly we also have a blame. Figures such as Constantine or Celto-Germanic Chieftains who thought that the acceptance of Christianity would bring them power and wealth come to my mind. Such fools failed to realize the harm such a cult would bring to us, our culture and our mental wellbeing. Our parents are also to blame because they never stopped and questioned their own Christian upbringing and proceeded to carry on the Jewish virus and mess us up. Today Christianity has metamorphosized into a secular doctrine of liberal, humanist, democratic and progressive values promoted by a crowd of guilt ridden whites, victimized envious feminists and non-white minorities, sexual freaks, and all types of fools and weirdos who act as fanatical as the Early Christians, and these Neo-Christian zealots are hellbent on destroying the White race and the West. Christianity and Liberalism/Communism have identical doctrines: vilification of the strong and beautiful, victimhood (original sin and white guilt), the exaltation of the weak, the outcast, the deviant, the simpleminded, the promotion of universal equality (“We are all Children of God” and “We are all humans”), the demonization of those who oppose such doctrines (If you disagree with me you are a Heretic/Witch/Nazi/Fascist etc.)
4. I would argue most of psychiatry is indeed a pseudoscience, fake as Christianity and many psychiatrists and therapists don’t truly understand their patients. Some exceptions exist. One time when I was still a Christian struggling with my religious anxiety and neurosis I met a therapist on a train who suggested to me to stop believing in the aspects of Christianity which caused me mental harm. Sadly I didn’t listen to her as I was too afraid of the “eternal damnation” doctrine for questioning faith. I firmly agree that parents and families are indeed the main reason why we have so many mentally messed up children and adults. My parents themselves where often overbearing and I strongly believe they had a contribution to my anxiety and self esteem issues. Parental abuse has existed since the beginning of the human race, present in every culture across the world. Recently I have been reading your Day of Wrath and the way those psychopathic murderous Aztecs treated their children is absolutely disturbing and stomach churning. Sadly in our Neo-Christian PC age you aren’t allowed to criticize indigenous populations. It’s always the fault of the “big bad colonial White man”.
5. Vegetarianism and Veganism are a good solution to prevent pain on animals. While I do enjoy meat I wish there where more ethical ways to sacrifice animals and slaughterhouses ought to be abolished. Meat should only be procured from local upstanding farmers who treat their animals well and only sacrifice them out of necessity in a painless manner. The Christian religion has warped our perception of man’s status in nature and has permitted the abuse of animals on the precept that “animals don’t have souls and don’t think and feel like humans therefore humans are masters over them”. Anyone who deliberately wants to harm an animal should be put to the wall and shot.
6. Considering the state of modern women, all thanks to Feminism and Christian slave morality, the only solution is indeed for the system to fall and re-conquer our women like how the Romans conquered the Sabines. We aren’t going to get our world back until Aryan men put their feet down and put women in their place.
7. Re-migration is the stupidest, cringiest and most effeminate solution ever. Let’s not forget that huge chunks of the Ancient World belonged to the White man. Why should we send the third world savages back to their shit countries where they will continue to live like shit when we can wipe them out and colonise their countries and turn them into a paradise. Apart from some Asian populations which in my opinion could be left alone and perhaps pressured to accept National Socialist doctrines, Sub Saharan Africans, Indians, Dark skinned Hispanics, Arabs, Gypsies, Chinese and Korean Communists, and Jews must be EXTERMINATED so we can establish a global lebensraum.
8. The British and Americans must be held accountable for the injustices and crimes they committed in WW2 and the fact that they supported the Soviet Union. My own Romanian town had been bombed by US airplanes during the war. Matter of fact, during a private conversation a university professor told me that the largest numbers of rapes on the Western front had been committed by American soldiers. And after the war the Americans had the hypocritical audacity to complain about Marxist liberals ruining their self-righteous Protestant Bourgeoisie middle class 1950s utopic dream. Well who enabled them in the first place? Saying all of this I can’t help but sympathize with the Civil War Southerners who had a culture more similar to European Aristocrats. But today, thanks to the Anglo-American betrayal, instead of having Southern Belles like in Gone with the Wind we have a generation of corrupt white girls who date negroes and many start doing OnlyFans when they turn eighteen.
9. The Jewish Holocaust is nothing but a big scam. And even if 6 million Jews died, why should we Aryans care. To be honest the whole gas chamber thing sounds more like something that was born in the sick twisted mind of a Jewish producer. In my opinion most conspiracy theories are a distraction from the elephant in the room: That Jews have gained lots of power thanks to brainwashing the White race with Christianity.
10. There is no political solution. Our enemies will not be defeated by podcasts, debates, peaceful protests and re-migration marches. Feminism won’t be abolished by nice guys who believe in gender equality. Immigrant negroe and Arab rape gangs won’t be stopped with a polite “No”. The solution is blood fire and death. Swift Aryan vengeance. Let’s just hope the system will collapse sooner before it is too late to exact the said vengeance.
Thank you once more for you time and patience Mr. Tort. Stay safe.
V.P.
Revaluing all values also means returning to classical architecture, creating new cities and destroying the old ones…
On Saturday, a commenter said:
While we aren’t ideologically identical to the German National Socialists we are their ideological descendants. We are what they had to become. Because now the enemy is not the alien. The enemy is your friend, your neighbour; every white who refuses to come to terms with our reality and instead persists in their Semitic delusion.
That is absolutely true. And no matter what I wrote in the article linked above, Hitler and his Reich will always be the paradigm from which we must form our worldview and eventual movement after the impending collapse.
I say “after the collapse” because since I recently conducted my brief survey, I have received communications from continental Europe telling me about the horrors suffered there by those who identify with National Socialism. We have discussed on this site how one of the regular commenters on The West’s Darkest Hour, Tyrone Joseph Walsh whom I visited in London in 2014, is now serving a seven-year prison sentence in the UK. But in some countries of continental Europe things seem to be even worse!
Thanks to these personal communications, I now understand those silent Europeans who don’t even dare comment on this site, much less speak on podcasts like the one where our friend Joseph expressed his opinions.
But it pains me that Americans, who have their First Amendment, don’t make full use of it as I do on this site, where I even go so far as to say that I don’t condemn the genocidal campaign committed by Himmler and Heydrich. On the contrary: I praise their Master Plan East, in which many more non-Aryans would have been genocided or at least deported to Siberia (nothing infuriates me more than the May 9th celebrations in Moscow: where the swastika should now reign, along with a race less contaminated by mudbloods than the Soviet one)!
However, the Europeans who tell me that nothing can be done, are wrong. If the government has them gagged, something can be done—internal jihad.
I speak as an expert on this matter of internal jihad because since 1976, when my parents and a psychiatrist plunged me into a downward spiral that destroyed my life (no career, no job, no partner), I’ve had to become something I never wanted to be: a philosopher. That’s why I’ve made a somewhat apocryphal use of Martin’s novels, in which the child Bran isn’t crippled by Jamie. It’s his father who pushes him from the tower, leaving him disabled. Having had all his dreams of chivalry shattered by his own dad, Bran the Broken now has no choice but to cross the Wall and be initiated by the Three-Eyed Raven to see the past retrocognitively: a sad fate, but very useful for Westeros.
Well, in real life, from the age of seventeen, I had no choice but to spend my time philosophising, trying to discover why the tragedy that happened in my family had occurred. Eventually, my two sisters lost their minds from parental abuse; one, the kindest of the whole family and the one I loved most, has already died (I now have no one in the non-white country where I live…).
By becoming a true philosopher, I eventually began to learn things I would never have known if I had lived a normal life. For example, since I had to analyse my abusive father’s Catholicism, over decades I read a lot of critical exegesis on the New Testament until culminating those studies in 2018, when I realised that there wasn’t even evidence that Jesus existed (my quote yesterday from Adam Green’s 2026 book shows what the goal of the rabbis who wrote the gospels was rather).
But that’s not all. Unable to study at university, work, have a partner, or procreate, I spent the vast amount of free time I had in the raven’s cave thinking about things like transvaluing the values that had destroyed the teenager I once was. One of the facets of this transvaluation is becoming a “Holocaust affirmer,” which completely reverses the neochristian values that prevail on the racial right. What ultimately motivates Holocaust deniers is Christian ethics, a crude form of revisionism, like saying, “Himmler and his henchmen were good Christians, and a good Christian never, ever commits genocide.”
An Aryan who practices a severe internal jihad reads the writings of National Socialist sympathisers like David Irving and Mark Weber and wonders: why, if these historians were Holocaust deniers, did they eventually become Holocaust affirmers?
It’s no use trying to psychoanalyse them: that’s precisely what Jews do to us when they can no longer argue. The point is to investigate the trajectory of these two historians sympathetic to the Third Reich and ask why, although they never ceased to sympathise with Hitler, they changed their minds regarding the historicity of the Holocaust. I repeat: it’s not enough to say they were threatened, cowered, or whatever. Those are cheap psychoanalyses unworthy of an Aryan. It is imperative to read their texts or videotaped interviews to understand why they changed their minds.
That is the internal jihad that those Europeans who cannot speak out because the State imprisons them must practice. If they cannot do anything in the real world for fear of the Thought Police, let them do what I did: cross the Wall, let them seek the Raven’s Cave and let them paranormally learn to see the past as it happened: retrocognition that contrasts drastically with the myths of Westeros.
The serious problem I see with being a denier is that it prevents us from behaving like the heroes of The Turner Diaries when the system collapses and we have our chance for revolution. Years ago, an American Twitter user put it this way—tweets that, incidentally, Joseph himself brought to my attention:
• The WN meme that the Nazis dindu nuffin and dindu mass grave killings is ridiculous and goes against the violent attitude we need to have!
• 100 Dylan Roofs and the JewSA would crumble. 100,000 peaceful whiners and enemies are still laughing at us!
• Nearly every White Nationalist info source is cleverly scripted towards re-pacifying Whites into the Christian, pro “justice system” fold.
• So sick of the whining and aggrandizement of Jews like they’re supermen! It’s White traitors and our own weakness that’s the main problem!
• There’s enough WNs right now to take down the system if they had balls, not blogs.
• White people won’t be saved by YouTube videos. It’s going to take White men who kill enemies and cause more ppl to fear them than the gov’t.
• If WNs operated more like ISIS instead of complaining about them, we’d be noteworthy, and not a pathetic bunch of politicking wannabes.
• “Wahhh, you support genocide, you’re anti-White and bad”—said the WN fag pussy. Whites won’t survive if they don’t genocide non-Whites!
Remember that for militant Islam, internal jihad is far more important than external jihad. In fact, there can be no external jihad without internal jihad: something that today’s racists should already know.
Below, selected quotes from Adam Green’s 2026 book The Jesus Deception: A Mystical Midrashic Myth:
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Judaism for Gentiles
There was a dilemma inherent in Jewish prophetic expectation: all nations were to worship the God of Israel, but they were not expected to become Jews or follow the full set of commandments given to Israel alone. God had established a covenant with His people, commanding them to keep a distinct law. Yet the scriptures also envisioned a future where Gentiles would turn to the God of Israel and be gathered into His dominion. The resolution to this theological problem ultimately manifested as Christianity, a new religious path that allowed Gentiles to honor the God of Israel without becoming Jews. This new faith evangelized to the Gentile world, but without requiring circumcision, a kosher diet, or Sabbath observance.
A pivotal turning point in legitimizing Gentile inclusion can be found in Acts 15, where James publicly approved Paul’s mission to the Gentiles. James declared that Gentile converts did not need to fully adopt Jewish law, but should instead follow a simplified set of commands: abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. This decision allowed Christianity to spread beyond ethnic Judaism while maintaining a theological link to Jewish tradition.
It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols. from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath. —Acts 15:19-21
Scholars and theologians have often noted that these requirements closely mirror the Noahide laws found in rabbinic literature. By establishing a shared moral baseline, the early church fashioned a form of Gentile adherence that echoed Jewish ethics without requiring full Torah observance.
Paul reminded the Jerusalem Council that Gentiles were turning to the God of Israel, and this had been God’s plan from the beginning:
Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. —Acts 15: 7
The apostles themselves testified that God confirmed this mission by signs and wonders among the nations:
The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. —Acts 15:12
The Gospels, too, record Gentiles praising the God of Israel directly:
The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel. —Matthew 15:31
The earliest New Testament author, Paul, made his entire identity about being the apostle to the Gentiles. He repeatedly claimed this special mission had been entrusted to him by God: “I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry” (Romans 11:13). He insists, “God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles” (Galatians 1:15-16), and again, When they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised… they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me” (Galatians 2:7, 9). Paul’s focus on the gentiles continued in the Gospels with the Great Commission: “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). The Gospels even symbolized this worldwide mission by sending out seventy disciples (Luke 10:1), echoing the traditional Jewish reckoning of seventy nations of the world (Genesis 10). In every strand of early Christian thought, the endgame was the same: to bring the Gentiles into acknowledgment of the God of Israel and his Messiah.
Judaism did not defeat Rome with armies, it subdued Rome with Jesus [emphasis by Ed.]. Jerusalem could not defeat Rome with a political Messiah in this world, but they could falsify a ‘prophecy fulfilling’ myth of a crucified messiah with a spiritual victory over Satan in the celestial world. Christianity was not the miracle of divine revelation, it was the natural product of a people oppressed, divided, and desperate. The scriptures had the ingredients. The times demanded a solution. And theology became the chosen tool.
It took three centuries of incremental theological infiltration and slow growth before the Jesus cult took root, and Constantine adopted Christianity as the religion of Rome, supposedly to unify the empire. At that point, Christians made up only about ten percent of the population, and the shift was an unpopular, top-down decision. Yet within a few decades, paganism was outlawed, Christianity was enshrined as the state religion, and the Jewish Messiah had triumphed over the pagan pantheon of Rome.
What began as a Jewish sect proclaiming a messiah went on to spread Torah based messianic Judaism across the world. Today, nearly half of humanity bows to the God of Israel. Jesus was a Jewish solution to the Pagan problem.