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The war in Gaza is not simply a political or humanitarian crisis — it is a theological emergency and a symbolic reckoning. For decades, sacred texts from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have been interpreted in ways that justify conquest, ethnic supremacy, and the erasure of indigenous Palestinian life. These misinterpretations have been weaponized to support military expansion, colonial settlement, apartheid policy, and mass extermination, often under the banner of divine promise or prophetic destiny.
This white paper offers a comprehensive analysis of how distorted readings of scripture — especially the Abrahamic covenant, the conquest of Canaan, and Christian apocalyptic prophecy — have fueled genocide in the name of the sacred. It demonstrates how such theologies sever covenant from ethics, transform land into entitlement, and reduce sacred belonging to nationalist idolatry.
Against this backdrop, the paper introduces a regenerative theological framework rooted in coherence, justice, and symbolic re-integration. Drawing from the prophetic traditions of all three Abrahamic faiths, it advocates for a triality-based scriptural hermeneutic — one that restores the alignment between symbol, meaning, and embodied consequence. It names Gaza not only as a site of mass atrocity but as a mirror reflecting the systemic incoherence of global religious, political, and epistemic systems.
In response, the paper proposes a set of strategic recommendations:
- Reform theological education to emphasize symbolic literacy and moral consequence.
- Establish global interfaith councils committed to life-affirming scriptural interpretation.
- Reclaim sacred language through art, ritual, and community practice.
- Embed regenerative ethics into diplomacy, peacebuilding, and cultural diplomacy.
The call is clear: no interpretation of scripture that enables genocide can be of God. To restore faith’s integrity, we must recover the grammar of the sacred as a language of coherence. Only then can we begin to heal the symbolic, social, and spiritual wounds that have made Gaza possible — and co-create a world where no people are sacrificed on the altar of misread texts again.
