Hello,
Just because you say something doesn’t make it right. The good Rabbi has explained very clearly to this Pastor in a nutshell, what Judaism is saying about Jesus. And if I was you, I would have listened to the people that everyone agrees that they have seen God and received his word and Chosen to be he people forever. There is no disagreement on that between the faiths, all agree that the Jews are the first born.
Besides this point, it is also imperative to point out, that the entire concept of Messiah coming and redeeming and saving the Jewish people and the world from all their predicaments and brings peace , love and harmony between all peoples, is and was and still is an Original Jewish concept, mentioned by the Prophets of Israel and in the Torah.
So this is comparable to a Swiss watch manufacturer , lets say Rolex, who knows his watch the best, knows how it was made, knows all its components and the technique of what this watch can do, and then comes along someone who was not in the watch business and begins lecturing to Rolex that they got it all wrong, and they just don't know how their watch works. This is ludicrous I'm sure on all accounts.
To suggest that the Jewish people, the descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, those who walked with Moses and Joshua and Elijah and have witnessed the Kings Saul, David and all the Prophets beginning from Moses, through Samuel all the way to the last Prophets Haggai and Malachi, that they don't know the fabric and the requirements of who their own savior and redeemer will be is just about the greatest bluff in the world, for the only ones that actually do know who the Messiah will be are the Jews and non other.
One of the requirements of the Jewish Messiah is to build the Third Temple. In fact this is a major requirement, and Jesus was active while the Temple was standing, so he couldn’t have been the one to build it as is require of the Messiah, for the Temple was standing in its mighty glory.
He also had to bring peace and salvation for all people, yet he achieved the exact opposite, death, devastation and further division between all people.
The overwhelming vest majority over 99 percent of all Jews in the Time of Jesus have rejected him. The Sanhedrin, the Great Jewish Court that consisted over 120 of the leading Sages of Israel, the wisest and the greatest experts of Jewish Law have all rejected Jesus for his falsehood was extremely self evident.
Even the regular layman in the street have rejected him, because everyone knew that everything Jesus did was a total rejection of the word of God and the Torah.
One of the most pivotal tasks of the Messiah is to strengthen the dedication of Jews to Torah, to bring them to a stronger and more passionate observance of all its laws and teachings. Even Jesus ironically has said rather famously that anyone who dares to change even one letter from the Law of the Torah will be least in the Kingdom of Heaven.
In a shocking irony, Christians all throughout the ages have rejected this central teaching of Jesus, and have completely broken all the Laws of the Torah, such as refraining from eating pork, keeping the Sabbath day holy, and celebrating the Jewish holidays.
Why do Christians dont follow their own teacher Jesus when he told them not to change anything from the Torah, and that all its laws are forever binding?
I have yet to hear a straight convincing answer to this question from any member of the Christian faith.
Additionally God himself in the Torah says that he is not a man, in crystal clarity and in open verses:
Numbers Chapter 23 verse 19:
"G-d is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?"
Its an open verse in the Torah, where it is written with extreme accuracy and crystal clarity that God is not a man, for man can fall into the weakness of and temptation of lying. The verse also goes along further and says:” neither the son of man, that He should repent", Clearly he is not a man and not a son of man, he is not physical and is not mortal, and has no image and no association to anything physical or physicality.
This is further compounded in the First and second commandments in the Torah, again Crystal clear open verses:
" I am HaShem thy G-d, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; ...."
So when it comes to the Jews, belief must be based on truth and sense, and also logic, and not some fairy tales and science fiction stories that have no place in reality.
I do respect everyone's choice to believe whatever they want to believe, I just dont like it when people try to convince other people that the Jews, somehow don't know anything about their own Jewish Messiah, there is nothing more preposterous then this accusation in the world.
And I still didn’t mention any of the thousands of mistranslations, misapplications, fabrications, inventions, manipulations, errors, mistakes, contradictions and straight out blatant lies that can be found in the Christian bible, and if you do wish to hear them out loud, I will be more then happy to provide you with the gigantic list of all the shocking and amazing errors found within the Christian bible.
The main objective for any truth lover and truth seeker in this world is to find out the truth, realize it, and then accept it forever no matter how inconvenient it may be.
Regards,
Saul