Retirement of the Pope

Everyone is perplexed by the retirement of the Pope without seemingly a good reason. I know he has given the reason of health, but we all know that previous Popes have remained Pope regardless of health reasons. This retirement comes in the wake of the Pope being accused of being anti-semetic, only because he was born in Germany during a WWII.

However it would seem that he has left the papacy while simultaneously announcing that Jews were not responsible for the death of Christ.

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His reasoning is that not all Jews were present at his crucifixion. Using this analogy it would be true also that the Japanese did not attack Pearl Harbor.

Yashua Messiahs dealings with the people that practice Judaism (use to be called the traditions of the elders which Christ denounced), is not a pleasant one as they did everything they possibly could to stop Christianity by trying to kill him during his entire ministry.

A verse that come to mind is John 7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.  
To me this doesn't sound like they had a partnership spreading the Kingdom Message. In that same chapter, verse 30, they tried to take him, but his time was not yet at hand. If this is confusing and not really clear then maybe this verse may help.

1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 

.¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

¹⁵ Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

It is also important to understand that the Jews are not the chosen people of Father Yahweh. Without going into much detail according to Ezra their were only 3,500 Judahites that returned to the multicultural society of  Judea after the Babylonian Captivity. Both the books of Ezra and Nehemiah talk about the race mixing that went on after their return. Then the next significant event was of John Hyrcanus in 125 B.C. John Hyrcanus  practiced the religion of Judaism. He conquered the nation of Edom and assimilated Edomites into Judea, further polluting the blood line of the true Judahites. Yes, incase if you do not understand the people we call "Jews" have more Edomite blood in their veins then Israelite. 

The book called "Who is Esau-Edom" by Charles Weisman provides more information for those in question and still do not understand.

So in conclusion, from what I read in my bible, the Pope either was saying some things to try to appease the Jews on his way out, did not understand history, or he never read his bible and was ignorant to its contents. If any of this is true he shouldn't have been a Pope, or Christian leader to begin with. As with all things I encourage all to read the bible and not just listen to what the clergy say, as clergy say lots of things that are non-historical and non-biblical.

Praise the Lord for his atoning sacrifice and his written word!