The Jewish question is at heart both a racial and religious problem.

After the Jews rejected Jesus Christ they were expelled among the nations of the world, in hopes they would amalgamate with the other nations. Many have done just that, even those who never openly converted to Christianity.

Look at the many Jews in the United States and Great Britain - famous entertainers, musicians, etc. who while completely Jewish by blood did not embrace a Jewish identity (Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach to name a few..).

They chose instead to assimilate with Gentile culture. This is likely because being born here in the West and living among non-Jews made them more inclined to assimilate with Gentile culture.

Barry Goldwater who ran for the presidency was of half-Jewish descent and never exhibited any of the Jewish race characteristics.

There are some 13 million Jews living in the world today, maybe 0.3% of the whole world’s population. If every Jew suddenly intermarried with non-Jews, the Jewish problem would solve itself by eliminating nearly all of the Jewish race characteristics.

This is why many Jews are adamant about Jews not intermarrying among the Gentiles. This is not because of religion per se but because they are aware of the fact that the offspring from such marriages will not exhibit the Jewish traits they wish to perpetuate to future generations.

In the past it was this marrying in the family or tribe which engendered the selfishness, the clannishness, and the struggle and strife of the world.

To break these up, the practice must be discontinued; thus when Christ came He advocated the discontinuance of the practice when He said: “Before Abraham was, I AM.”

In effect He said: I do not care for the race father, but I glory in the I Am, the Ego that was long before he was. And He also said: “Who does not leave father and mother cannot follow Me.”

Certainly it seems Brother Nathanael is among the more precocious of Jews who was able to assimilate with Gentile culture and leave Jewishness behind, in spite of his very Jewish upbringing. And most importantly, he provides the critical religious context to the Jewish problem that is so missing from others like him.

I think it is critical to examine the issue from both a racial as well as religious perspective.