it represents the Human power of desire, which will eventually take over logic. Like many things, a lie is repeated often enough until it becomes true.
let’s face it. people WANT to be jewish, but they dont want to actually work for it.
This has been the CORE principal behind ALL anti-Jewish philosophies of ALL time.
Ppl can’t take the fact the Jews have a covenant with G-d, but instead of following the law and becoming part of the covenant, it’s too hard, so they decide instead to deny that anyone has this covenant. THIS, and ONLY this, has been the sole reason for Paul founding christianity in the first place.
The Ancient Greeks, if you read Apion, hated the jew for the same reason, so they said the jews are a made up ppl, with no real history. Josephus wrote an entire book, Contra Apion, to defend the jewish history of the Bible. Eventually, reality started sinking in, and if not for Paul, EVERYONE would have become jewish.
“if you can’t join ’em, beat ’em!!”
PEOPLE WANNA FEEL GOOD, WITHOUT WORKING FOR IT!!