Open Heart
Well-known member
Bob, I have to insist, Christians do get frustrated about certain things. One of the things that really gets under the Christian skin is that Jews are so immune to the Christian gospel. You would think that since the Jews have been given the oracles of God, that more than any other group on earth Jews would flock to Jesus (or at least this is what Christians think). But the exact opposite is true. More than any other people, Jews are resistant to missionary efforts. Even carefully crafted missionary efforts especially designed for Jews, such as the Messianic Judaism movement, have not worked to convert Jews to Jesus. What are Christians to think? Paul's theory was that God was deliberately blinding us, so that it was not an act of rebellion per se, but God himself holding us back. But Christians don't like that idea of us not being responsible for rejecting Jesus.Nope, we're not. We're going about our business in FAITH, Spreading the Gospel to the world, fully aware that the Jewish folks (like most of the pagan "nations") will reject it, which is unimportant. JEsus remains the ONLY NAME by which a human can be justified, and Jesus SIN OFFERING is the only way a human can be CLEANSED of their SIN.
That you don't agree, and "think" you have Biblical reason to, will be that which condemns you when your life is over.
The idea that perhaps being best taught in the Tanakh, we are have a better foundation in the truth, and that we rightly reject Jesus just never enters the Christian mind as a possibility.