I feel compelled to offer another fierce critique of CRT, especially in Christian circles. Truth in advertising, I’m going to play the Jewish card. A few months back, the seminary presidents of the SBC wrote a statement critical of CRT. Recently students and alumni of the
2/ seminaries wrote a statement against it. One of the critiques against the presidents is they are a council of six white men, as if they are incapable of mounting a valid criticism without a POC in their midst. Yet, I would be willing to bet all of you who are critical of the
3/ presidents likely have never invited a Jew to help you write your sermons on Galatians. After all, as you preach it, you are likely criticizing the threat of Judaizing the Gentiles. Well who are you, a bunch of Gentiles who have oppressed us for at least 3400 years to speak on
4/ the threat of Judaizing? Of course, you won’t blink an eye at this because you’re assuming that you are fully capable of evaluating the threat based on the objective standard of Scripture. You would assume that you don’t need a Jew present. And you most certainly would not
5/ invite help from various messianic congregations, because as you know, some of them (but not all) are prone to try to soften the threat that Paul raises in Galatians. Yet, when we are dealing with current discussions of CRT, all of a sudden this doesn’t apply anymore. White
6/ folks are apparently incapable of critiquing it and identifying its threats. Furthermore, they are entirely unreasonable since they are not seeking the perspective of those who will to try to soften this real threat. Apparently all of this is wrong until you all start trying
7/ to preach Galatians. Then these rules automatically disappear. Must be nice to be hypocritical and to apparently have an implicit bias against Jews along with a hidden, structural anti-Semitism built into the very way you think. I’m pretty sure you didn’t like that statement.
8/ But if we’re using equal weights and measures, it is entirely valid. Perhaps you try to wiggle out of this by saying the author of Galatians, Paul, was a Jew, so we have the Jewish perspective. And yet that was not the majority Jewish opinion in his time, and for the last 2000
9/ years we Jews who agree with Paul have been deemed by most other Jews to not actually be Jews. They say we are sellouts to the Gentiles. Same thing happens here. Whether it’s @VoddieBaucham, @D_B_Harrison, or @VirgilWlkrOMAHA, when they label CRT as ethic gnosticism and fully
10/ agree with what the presidents wrote, their opinion is discarded, and they are called all sorts of names that are meant to call into question their blackness. Welcome to the world of being a Jew that believes Jesus is the Messiah. We’ve been dealing with this for 2000 years.
11/ The point is the parallel is undeniable. I want some of you guys to consider your hypocrisy. If your main argument is that a council of white guys wrote about the inherent threat to CRT and somehow this is wrong and indicative of white supremacy, then all of you goyim that do
12/this every Sunday with Galatians are guilty of anti-Semitism. And for the record, I think you CAN understand Galatians without a Jew being in the room. That’s why I have no problem with what the president‘s wrote. Also one final point. Many of you keep saying that we shouldn’t
13/ pay attention to what’s happening in the mainstream with CRT, but instead we should only consider what the founding scholars wrote. Do you know who you sound like? The new perspective folks that claim the Judaism that Paul was criticizing wasn’t indicative of the official
14/ Judaism of the time. There is plenty of evidence to question the totality of their claim (though some of what they discovered is true), and yet this is irrelevant. A popular form of Judaism was hyper-legalistic, and it was a threat. Therefore, Paul dealt with THAT strain
15/ rather than the covenantal nomism that some of the experts would’ve articulated. I hope you realize the parallels are uncanny, and if you keep pushing back, you’re acting foolish.
16/ Let me add this. The fact that Galatians is Scripture does not undermine any of the points above as if this makes my point invalid. The church spent the next 700 years calling together councils to write uninspired statements against theological threats & we don’t fault them.
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