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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people, and ancients, hear: If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole: Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by Him this man standeth here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.
The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to death, hanging him upon a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. (Acts 5:30-31)
In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions. (NA 1)
As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham’s stock. (NA 4)
Indeed, the Church believes that by His cross, Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jєωs and Gentiles, making both one in Himself. (ibid.)
For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in His flesh: Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that He might make the two in Himself into one new man, making peace; And might reconcile both to God in one body by the Cross, killing the enmities in Himself. (Ephesians 2:14-16)
It does not necessarily follow that the Jєωs are excluded from God’s salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel and the Son of God.
During the years of the council, Rabbi Heschel met Pope Paul VI and asked him to support Jєωιѕн requests against the accusation of deicide and against the mission to the Jєωs.
From the very beginning, Rabbi Heschel worked hard to remove from the teaching of the Catholic Church any anti-Semitic words and any reference to a mission of the church for the conversion of the Jєωs.
In May 1962 he [Heschel] presented a memorandum in which he asked the council fathers to eliminate once and for all any accusation of deicide on the part of the Jєωιѕн people, to acknowledge the integrity and the perpetuity of the election of Jєωs in the history of salvation and, lastly, to give up proselytizing Jєωs.
We must also accept our responsibility to prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah.
But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 10:33)
The abiding Christian conviction is that Jesus Christ is the new way of salvation. However, this does not mean that the Torah is diminished or no longer recognized as the ‘way of salvation for Jєωs.’
What happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jєωs, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jєωs of today. Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jєωs should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. (NA 4)
It is God’s will that in this aeon there should be diversity in our forms of devotion and commitment to Him. In this age, diversity of religions is the will of God.
The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. (See Docuмent on Human Fraternity, February 2019)