A BRIEF HISTORY OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY IN THE CHUCH

321 CE - Constantine forbade work on the day of the sun. He worshipped the Sun god Mithras. Sunday was the “day of the Sun.”

325 CE - Council of Nicea - Easter must not coincide with the Jewish Passover. Constantine said: “We ought not then to have anything to do with the Jews, for the Saviour has shown us another way…we desire to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews.”

341 CE - Antioch - Christians may not eat Passover with Jews. Christians may not enter a synagogue.

350 CE - Council of Laodicea - No Christian may share feasts or gifts from Jews a Christian feasts.

365 CE - Council of Laodicea - Banned keeping Jewish Sabbaths with the result of martyrdoms.

380 CE - Jerome circa this time said, “God gave the Jews the Law with the deliberate intention of deceiving them and leading them to destruction…they worship in the Synagogue of Satan.”

390 CE - Ambrose says a synagogue is “home of unbelief, house of impiety, receptacle of folly.”

451 CE - Council of Chalcedon - No member of the clergy may marry a Jew.

465 CE - Council of Vannes - Christian clergy must avoid Jewish feasts.

506 CE - During Lent, Christians must fast on the Sabbath (Saturday).

538 CE - Council of Orleans III - Jews may not appear in public during Holy Week.

581 CE - Council of Macon - Jews may not converse with Nuns.

589 CE - Council of Narbonne - Jews cannot be judges, tax collectors, or work on Sundays.

614 CE - Council of Paris - Any Jew seeking public office must be baptized.

633 CE - Council of Toledo IV - Jews and Jewish Christians cannot hold public office. Jews cannot hold Christian slaves. Jewish children are to be brought up by Christians. Jews in Spain must be baptized. (Toledo VIII also agrees in 653 CE.)

655 CE - Council of Toledo IX - Jews must spend Christian festivals with ecclesiastical authorities.

692 CE - Trulanic Synod - Christians may not patronize Jewish doctors.

1078 CE - Council of Gerona - Christians may not live in Jewish homes. Jews must pay tithes to support the church.

1179 CE - Third Lateran Council - No Jew plaintiffs or witnesses against Christians in court.

1222 CE - Council of Oxford - New synagogues may not be built.

1267 CE - Synod of Breslau - Ghettos are compulsory for Jews.

1434 CE - Council of Basel - Jews may not attain academic degrees.

1870 CE- ‘Papal Infallibility’ was declared and the Church’s edits became inviolable.

Other notables:

Augustine and Jerome forbade Christians observing the Law and “Jewish” Festivals.

Chrysotom: “it is clear that God hates them (Jews)--duty of Christians to hate them too.”

Martin Luther: “Their synagogues should be set on fire…for the honor of God and Christianity. Their homes should be destroyed, no travel/business/money/education.”
Church of Constantinople degree: Jewish Christians must denounce all Hebrews.

No clergyman could enter a synagogue without being excommunicated.


As you can see the history of the church toward our Jewish brothers has been disgraceful.