The clear tradition of the Church is that the Jews hold collective guilt for the death of Jesus and will bring about the Antichrist as their preferred Messiah. But what are we to make of this? Can there be such a thing as collective or ancestral guilt? If Jesus and the apostles were all Jews, then do they also bear this guilt? What about our Orthodox Christian brothers with Jewish ancestry?

An important principle in the New Testament is that ancestry is based on faith. In Galatians and Romans, St. Paul lays out clearly that “that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham” [Galatians 3.7] and that “he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” [Romans 3.28-29]. https://orthodoxreflections.com/collective-guilt-a-theology-of-the-jewish-culture-as-continuous-deicide/