Looking back on Evangelli Gaudium, he says today's Jєωs are the Jєωs of the Old Covenant. How can that be true if the Old Covenent no longer exists today? ???

Today's Jєωs cannot possibly be the Jєωs of the Old Covenant since they are not longer the chosen people of God.

In the New Covenant, only Catholics are the chosen people of God. That is, God's Elect.

End of story.

It is really irrelevant whether today's Jєωs are the same Jєωs as the ones in the Old Testament.  If you deny Christ, you are denying God and that means you do not belong to God, nor Christ's Kingdom.  The Jєωs, by rejecting Christ, are lost souls on the path to total destruction at the Particular and then the General Judgement.  

Jєωs must embrace Our Lord and renounce their perfidious ways.  

We just can't play patty-cakes with this stuff and I think the post-Vatican II wishy-washyness regarding other religions is the strongest possible evidence that the post-Vatican II church is a counterfeit church.

The only "identity" Jєωs today have is cultural.

Most of them are total secularists and a few have some sentimentality and even far fewer actually try to "live" some form of "religion", which is just as man-made today, at least under rabbinical application, as it was in the time of Christ.

Various recent papal comments suffering from "Rodney King Syndrome" (i.e., "why can't we all just get along?") notwithstanding, the only honest evaluation of the forlorn state of "Jєωs" today come from people like the late Israel Shahak who had all the street cred necessary to tell it like it is-

. he was interned in a nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ and survived

. he joined the Israeli army

. he rose to professional status in Israel


http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/Jєωhis.htm


As the Church has done since Her beginning, we must continue to pray for the conversion of the Jєωs.

The Jєωs are responsible for the death of Christ and have always been enemies of Holy Mother Church.

Except for those who "knew not what they were doing," which was all the Jєωs except the Jєωιѕн leaders, who knew full well they were committing deicide.

So, it isn't as wrong to say the Jєωs' "covenant with God has never been revoked" as it is to refer to modern-day Jєωs as "the people of the Old Covenant"?

The Old Covenant was not revoked.  It was fulfilled.  Whichever term you prefer, however, it is not in force now.  

Quote from: Anthony Benedict

The only "identity" Jєωs today have is cultural.

So, St. Paul most likely means all the biological seed of Abraham will convert in the end times? Yet, this doesn't seem to agree with Romans 9:6: "all are not Israelites that are [biologically] of Israel."

How does the Church determine who is a Jєω? Is a Jєω nowadays simply whoever claims to be a Jєω?

From my understanding, only some of the Jєωs today are truly God's chosen people. These Jєωs are real descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel. God established an everlasting covenant, in the Old Testament, with these particular people. When they go to heaven they are to be judges of nearly everyone else. The reason why God granted them a higher status (if they make it to heaven) is because of all the sacrifice and persecution that the Old Testament Jєωs had to go through. Nowadays, the descendants of the Ancient Israelites must convert to Catholicism in order to maintain their status of "God's chosen people". We know they are still God's chosen people today because this particular covenant in the Old Testament was an everlasting covenant. Thus it still applies.

Furthermore, not all Jєωs today are truly descendants of the ancient Israelites. The αѕнкenαzι's claim they are, but there is no genetic correlation there. They are probably not real descendants. Rather of russian descent. Which means that less than half the Jєωs today could possibly be true descendants.

The Jєωs are going to say that you must be Jєωιѕн in order to receive the promises of the everlasting covenant. This is not true. It is more along the lines that you must be descendants of the tribes of Israel or apart of the Israelite race.

It is very possible that many people today, whether they realize it or not, are descendants of the tribes of Israel. It does say in the Old Testament that God will make all nations descendants of Abraham. Which would mean we are all related. I see that already happening. Mexicans are typically part caucasian along with South Americans and pretty much every other race of people out there. I really think that God used europeans to accomplish the task of making every nation descendants of Abraham.

Quote from: Anthony Benedict

The only "identity" Jєωs today have is cultural.

So, St. Paul most likely means all the biological seed of Abraham will convert in the end times? Yet, this doesn't seem to agree with Romans 9:6: "all are not Israelites that are [biologically] of Israel."

How does the Church determine who is a Jєω? Is a Jєω nowadays simply whoever claims to be a Jєω?

A more explicit rendition of the consideration might have been "The most common means of identification by which Jєωs are distinguished is cultural." A mea culpa for my imprecision.

I would suggest consulting Jєωιѕн sources for whom they consider to be Jєωs and under what circuмstances they accept "converts".

It's been more than 40 years since I took courses in New Testament theology under the Jesuits and I am too rusty to hanker a guess at the interpretation of the passage from Romans. So, these days, I rely on sound commentaries, like this one from Haydock:

"Ver. 6-7. Not as though the word of God hath failed in his promises made to Abraham, and the patriarchs. The Jєωs pretended that the promises were made to them only, and to those that were of their race, and that the Gentiles were not to partake of them. St. Paul shews them their mistake, by telling them who are to be esteemed the true children of Abraham, and of the patriarchs, according to the promises which God made, and who are not. (Witham) --- All are not Israelites, &c. Not all, who are the carnal seed of Israel, are true Israelites in God's account: who, as by his free grace he heretofore preferred Isaac before Ismael, and Jacob before Esau, so he could, and did by the like free grace, election, and mercy, raise up spiritual children by faith to Abraham and Israel, from among the Gentiles, and prefer them before the carnal Jєωs. (Challoner) --- Neither are all they, who are of the seed of Abraham, his true spiritual children, to whom these promises were made: nor are all they who are descended from Isaac the children of these promises nor are all they true Israelites, to whom these blessings were promised, although they are descended from Israel; but only they who are the children of the patriarchs by faith in Jesus, the Messias, in whom God promised that he would bless all nations. (Witham)

http://haydock1859.tripod.com/

I hope those responses are helpful.