Skin, ink, wood isn't profane.
Semantics. In a general sense, the terms "sacred" and "profane" relate to the "divine" versus the "tangible" or "temporal." The word "profane" often has the connotation "bad," but in the theosophical sense I'm using it, it just means the non-sacred.
The Torah scroll is both "sacred" (its divine revelation) and "profane" (the tangible wood around which the tangible lambskin and ink is wrapped).
Judaism doesn't make it into a cartoon. As I said the major distinction is praying to or through Jesus.
We're brothers so far . . . . <s>
If a Christian doesn't do that, the next aspect which makes it incompatible with Judaism is the Gospel itself. Too often its message goes against Shabbat, the Temple, revering parenthood, and being honest.
Skimming through an essay by Professor Shaul Magid, this morning, I made note of an instance seminal to your statement above. He pointed out how Jews and Judaism term a marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew "intermarriage" while Jews and Judaism don't necessarily consider a marriage between an African American and a white person "intermarriage."
Rabbi Hirsch is clear that according to the Talmud, and orthodox Judaism, Jews are not the same kind of creature as the non-Jew. Therefore a Jew marrying a non-Jew, at least so far as doctrine goes, is taboo, or worse. Taking the Talmud at its word, it's akin to bestiality.
As anyone familiar with my thinking would know, I agree with the Talmud; which merely requires a careful examination of what it is to be a Jew such that being one means the idea that a Jew could have phallic-sex with a non-Jew is preposterous, or absurd.
Everything hinges on definitions. What is God? What is a Jew. . . The Torah is perfectly willing and able to define these things so that they don't become as absurd as the idea that a Jew (under the typical understanding of what that is) performs a bestial act if he marries a non-Jew.
In truth there is no possibility of a Jew performing bestial acts since a Jew cannot, by God's design, have phallic-sex.
How ironic then, that the very sign and signifier of what it is to be a Jew, requires the ritual, symbolic (
brit milah), removal of what the non-Jew uses to produce more Genitile peoples and nations.
Therefore, the physical birth of the child is completed on the seventh day. The eighth day, the octave of birth, as it were, repeats the day of birth, but as a day of higher, spiritual birth for his Jewish mission and his Jewish destiny.
Rabbi Hirsch, Collected Writings III.
Rabbi Hirsch couldn't be more transparent nor correct: to be a Jew, in more than a ritual sense, one must be born-again. And that rebirth must occur from the blood of genital reproduction and not from the seed, or gall water (see thread,
Sotah Water II), come, so to say, from that branch.
Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling. Calling Oh Israel come home.
John