Why do Christians support Israel? Is it because they need Israel to get to heaven, or do they really LIKE Jews?

"I (God) will bless those who bless you (Israel) and will curse those who curse you" (Gen 12:3) Not sure about 'government', but certainly Christians believe this.

1- There probably isn't a more complex (confused?) view that one people has of another than the views Christians have of Jews. 2- The main, central, character of Christianity, The Christ was a Jew 3- Now many Christians regard Jesus as God, so to a Christian God is a Jew 4- The deepest love a Christian has is naturally reserved for God, a Jew. 5- The people who killed the Christian God were the Jews. Something that caused Jews to suffer persecution for centuries in Christian lands. Christians were persecuting God's chosen people! 6- Paul taught the Christians that it is important for their very salvation that Jesus died. For if he died not and was not raised then they are still in their sin. So it should be good that the Jews put Jesus to death. Shouldn't it? 7- Jesus said that he was not sent except to round up the errant Jews and bring them back to become better Jews. "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" is how he is reported to have put it. 8- Paul, himself a Jew, didn't agree and took the mission to the Gentiles. 9- In the conflict between Jewish followers of Jesus and Gentile followers of Paul the latter won and Christianity became the religion of the Gentiles 10- This Pauline Christianity was adopted by the Romans who added their Pagan beliefs and holidays to it, made it the official state religion and forced it throughout their empire, wiping out indigenous Pagan beliefs throughout Europe and replacing them with Roman Catholicism. 11- Christianity in its evangelical zeal now looks at Jews as potential converts to Christianity. 12- The Zionists managed to persuade the Christian West to help them occupy Palestine, drive out the Palestinians, and take and maintain control of the "holy lands" something the Crusaders had attempted but failed to do. 13- With the Jews gathered in one place, in the "holy lands", the Christian evangelists can get to work on them and prepare the way for the second coming of Jesus. 14- Problem is if the Jews are all converted to Christianity Jesus might find himself the only Jew when he comes back

I think for SOME Evangelical ones, it's more about the desire for a new temple, in order to fullfil an "end times" prophecy. For others, what happened in Germany is still fresh.

lol , christianity is Anti-Semitic .

I would support Israel even if I wasn't a Christian and even if they weren't Jews because Israel is just trying to survive and their Arab neighbors are just trying to keep that from happening. If Israel were to stop fighting, they would be destroyed. If their enemies were to stop fighting, either nothing would happen or all would be better off including their enemies.

Jews are just christians that stopped reading.

At one time Christians hated Jews - they called them the killers of Christ and so on... The Pentecostal movement in America seems to has something to do with this change of heart. You can see a dramatic change in Christian views on Jews happened during the 20th century just by reading the literature of the period. My theory is that certain charismatic evangelists pushed for this revision on ideology - but again - I have no specifics on it.

Why do many secular progressives support what basically amounts to an oppressive theocracy in many parts of the Arab/Muslim world? To me, that seems like a far more hypocritical standpoint, and a glaring contradiction of how they present themselves in virtually every other area of politics.

LONG ANSWER (:> The “Religion” section of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (January 22, 1983, p. 5-B) reported: “Contrary to the churches’ centuries-old teachings that God had ‘cast off his people Israel’ and replaced them with a ‘new Israel,’ he [Paul M. Van Buren, theologian at Temple University in Philadelphia] says churches now affirm that ‘the covenant between God and the Jewish people is eternal. This amazing reversal has been made by Protestants and Catholics, on both sides of the Atlantic.’” So it seems that Christendom supports Israel because they now claim that the Jews are still God’s chosen people. However the Bible draws attention to the fact that there are Christians who are (Jews spiritually) and who make up “the Israel of God.” Consider: Following the Babylonian exile, when Israel was restored to its land, the people were to restore true worship in their God-given land. One of the first projects undertaken was the rebuilding of Jehovah’s temple in Jerusalem. However, since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 C.E., the temple has never been rebuilt. Instead, in the former temple area stands an Islamic shrine. If the Jews, who say they are under the Mosaic Law, were today in Jerusalem as God’s chosen people, would not the temple devoted to his worship have been rebuilt? Notice Jesus own words: “Matt. 21:42, 43: “Jesus said to them [the chief priests and the older men of the Jews in Jerusalem]: ‘Did you never read in the Scriptures, “The stone that the builders rejected is the one that has become the chief cornerstone. From Jehovah this has come to be, and it is marvelous in our eyes”? This is why I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken from you and be given to a nation producing its fruits.’” Matt. 23:37, 38: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent forth to her,—how often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks together under her wings! But you people did not want it. Look! Your house is abandoned to you.” A good related question is: Is it necessary for Jews to put faith in Jesus Christ in order to be saved? Isaiah 53:1-12 foretold the death of the Messiah ‘to bear the sins of many and to make intercession for the transgressors.’ Daniel 9:24-27 connected the coming of the Messiah and his death with ‘making an end of sin and forgiving iniquity.’ (JP) Both passages show that the Jews were in need of such intercession and forgiveness. Could they expect to reject the Messiah and have the approval of the One who sent him? Acts 4:11, 12: “[Regarding Jesus Christ, the apostle Peter (himself a natural born Jew) was moved by holy spirit to say to the Jewish rulers and older men in Jerusalem:] This is ‘the stone that was treated by you builders as of no account that has become the head of the corner.’ Furthermore, there is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not another name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must get saved.” (Although the nation of natural Israel no longer enjoys special divine favor, the way is open to individual Jews, as it is to people of all nations, to benefit from the salvation that is made possible through Jesus the Messiah.