For native Alabamians quality of life has declined drastically. “Highly successful people” (carpetbaggers) have been pricing natives out of real estate for decades. Our culture is disappearing & we get to hear foreigners gripe about dry counties, & no lottery.
Jesus Christ is Israel.
Not a country in the Levant using that name. Not an ethnic group. And not a false religion.
Christians should not have dual religious loyalty to an ethnosectarian group holding to a post-incarnational bastardization of the true religion found in the Old Testament. That this statement is even remotely controversial is a sign at how confused Christians are today on this issue.
You obviously can have sympathy for a foreign country, its people, and especially longing for their conversion to Christ. You can have affection, respect, and goodwill for neighbors, friends, or relatives from this group.
But they are not your brothers.
To be clear, I deeply appreciate Doug Wilson and all that Moscow has done. If it weren’t for them, I would probably still be a Baptist. They have been immensely helpful in recovering a thorough understanding of what “All of Christ for all of life” looked like in parenting, marriage, business and all the other ordinary spheres humans move and operate in. For too much of the 20th century, Reformed pastors focused on high theology and neglected how becoming a Christian impacts all of life. Moscow changed that and their leadership reverberates throughout Christendom. I respect that and I will always point people to material published by them in what I consider their Golden Age (90s to 00s).
The issue of identity does not return; it simply emerges. In traditional societies, the question of identity does not even arise. It begins to arise in modern times because the landmarks are fading, and more and more people are questioning who they are and what they belong to.