Quotes about Covenant of Abraham

Gote Hedenquist

Is the establishment of Israel in fact a manifestation of God? Has a new stage been reached in the history of salvation? Is the present occupation of Israel a religious or a secular one, and if it is secular, cannot God make use of it for His purpose?

There is biblical prophesy that the Jews shall return to the Holy Land.

John Pearson

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

Louie Gohmert

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Michael Novak

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Brad Sherman

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

Abdullah II of Jordan

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

Pope John Paul II

The Jewish religion is not extrinsic to us but in a certain way intrinsic to our own religion. With Judaism, therefore, we have a relationship which we do not have with any other religion. You are our dearly beloved brothers, and, in a certain way, it can be said that you are our elder brothers.

In another of this great Pope’s achievements, he became the first Pontiff to pray in a synagogue and reversed the centuries of Catholic anti-Semitism and the passivity of the WWII papacy in condemning the holocaust. Jesus was not only Jewish but a rabbi. Most of the earliest apostles and early Popes were themselves Jews and in the early church many of the Christians viewed themselves as a particular and inspired sect of Judaism. Early church fathers argued over whether new converts who had been pagans had to be circumcised and eat only kosher food as required by Jewish law.

Meir Soloveichik

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

Akiva ben Joseph

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Covenant of Abraham Quotes