Christian, do you know that God calls you a “Jew?”

Perhaps you’ve never thought much about it, but what does it mean to be a Jew? According to Romans 2:29, being a Jew is an inward thing, and all who have trusted Christ are the true Jews in God’s sight. Take a look at the passage sometime.

Perhaps as vividly as any other verse, this teaches that God looks at the inner person, when evaluating people, rather than the outer.

In the Bible, the distinction is that the word, “Jew” eventually became a religious term, it never was an ethnic one. Originally, the word “Jew” was a corruption of “Judah.” The ethnic term isn’t “Jew,” as many think, but the ethnic word is “Hebrew.” So a Jew is one who is a Jew inwardly, Paul (himself, a Hebrew) said.