What it says of those polled is that a sizeable number of evangelical christians do not realise they are not jews. I remember speaking with a lady in my church who truly believed that 'jew' was a bible word for 'believer' and that every reference to jews could be replaced by a reference to Christians. It is sort of amusing. Be Blessed,

On the Jewish question: It boils down to whether there are some Jews who "know Father". If they know Father because he has revealed himself to them then they are saved and the prophets were able to reveal because they knew Messiah, at least in the Spirit, and so there are many instances where the eternal Son of Man has been made known. Then of course there is the uncomfortable question to Christians who know doctrine but who do not know the intimacy and voice and presence of Father like the prophets . Jesus will dismiss them at the last day with the words "depart from me for I do not know you". These evangelicals produced many signs and wonders but will be surprised because they knew power but not the still small intimate voice of Jesus personally (nor for that matter his majestic voice). So many evangelicals will be dismissed away from Jesus and at least some Jews who know Father through the prophets and through house of prayer will be saved. Ezekiel, Isaiah and Joseph will be there!

The Judaism question raises some interesting logical arguments that many "evangelical" Christians don't like to face. If you are a dispensationalist, I suppose you could argue that since God was dealing with only the Jews at that time that the religions He gave is still good, but as The G points out, Paul rejects that sort of argument strongly and often. However, if you take Paul at his word, than God must have made a mistake, creating a system for the ancient Hebrews that was bound to fail. Since it's a foundation of modern evengelicalism that God DOESN'T make mistakes, or learn, or change His mind, then how can that be? (If you are a Calvinist you could say that God KNEW the ancient Hebrews were going to fail, but not only does that not make sense, the OT is littered with passages where God is saddened or angered by their failure, not likely if he knew it was coming). I personally think the OT is a study in at least things not working out how God intender, from Adam on.

It isn't easy to imagine from Eastern Europe that 64% of American Evangelicals couldn't understand the difference the Old Testament and New Testament. The law kills us, failed, therefore Jesus had to come to bring us Salvation, and eternal life.. As for me, my salvation is through Jesus, the Christ.

It's amazing how many evangelicals chop the bible into recipes that they choose to prepare and miss the plot that the bible is not a cookbook. Just because you can cook hamburger does not mean you know fish-pie. For example did Joseph go ahead to Egypt to save the Egyptians? His own family threw him into the pit and sold him as slave yet God himself abandoned Joseph in a prison, but to save whom? To save a bunch of arrogant Egyptians? Now what about how arrogant evangelicals can be? They rattle their cages and accuse Jews of not being God's elect anymore. That's just one fictitious theology man! God has a covenant with all flesh to stop their arrogance and his covenant started with the Jews first. No Jew even though they have been God's elect from the beginning would ever claim that non-Jews cannot be saved: because they know about God's desire for justice and mercy through all the nations, if they hold to peace themselves. I see no peace in the claim that Jew, Samaritan etc are doomed