Tucker Carlson could have made a much better case against Mike Huckabee’s unChristian and unbiblical Zionism. The Khazar hypothesis is no longer credible, and from a Christian standpoint, genetics is irrelevant to both the old and the new covenants. What matters has always been the faith of Abraham, not his genes or keeping the Law. Most of the Old Testament is a story of how the Hebrews/Israelites/Jews lacked the faith to keep their covenant, so a “new covenant” was made and a “new name” given to those who kept it.

Thus the prophet Jeremiah says: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord” (31:31–32 Masoretic, 38 LXX). “Which covenant they broke”—Tucker should have read that to Huckabee.

Thus also the prophet Isaiah says: “For ye shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you: but my servants shall be called by a new name, which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God; and they that swear in the earth shall swear by the true God; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes” (65:15–16). And of course that new name is “Christian.”

All this is explained in chapter 4 of my latest book Christ as Truth, Truth as Christ, which also includes a contrasting of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam in its last chapter. Please share if you dare. Christians should often dare to tell the truth.