Martin Buber (1878-1965) Celebrated Jewish Philosopher “From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great big brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has always appeared to me a fact of the highest importance which, for his sake and my own, I must endeavor to understand…I am […]
Of all the claims made by those who believe in Yeshua (Jesus), the most troubling to many is the claim that Yeshua is the only way to God. The concern might be expressed like this: “You claim that you are the only ones in the world who know God and are going to heaven. You […]
Because Jewish history is filled with persecution by many so called “Christians,” I often hear questions that presume guilt. “Isn’t the New Testament anti-Semitic? Doesn’t it teach Christians to hate Jews? What about Christian anti-semitism and the Holocaust?” The New Testament is Jewish? It’s a shock to many people when they discover just how Jewish […]
Normally, people object to the idea of “sin and sacrifice:” “I don’t need a sacrifice! I’m good enough. Besides, sin isn’t all that important anyway.” The Issue of Sin Minimized For most people “sin and sacrifice” are not very relevant issues. “Sin” for the most part, is viewed as a “moral lapse in judgment” and […]
The story goes something like this: a person considering whether Yeshua (the Jewish way of saying Jesus) is the Messiah, asks his Rabbi, “Could it be that Messiah has come and that Yeshua is His name?” The Rabbi walks over to the window, looks out, shakes his head and with a sigh exclaims: “He can’t […]
To some it appears that followers of Yeshua (the Jewish way to say Jesus) are deflecting, if not avoiding the “painful” truth by believing in “the Second Coming.” “Why would it be necessary for Messiah to come twice,” the doubtful ask, “if He had done it right the first time? And if he is the […]
It seems strange to many Jewish people that the Jewish Messiah could have come and that many Gentiles all over the world would believe in Him. It stands to reason that the Jewish Messiah should be for Jews, not Gentiles. The Jewish prophet, Isaiah, writing some 700 years B.C.E., declared that many Gentiles all over […]
It seems rather strange to many skeptical Jewish people that the Messiah could have come and comparatively so few Jews believe it. Many times the question sounds like this: “So, with all the scholars and rabbis searching to discover the Messiah, you’re the only genius to figure this out?” The number of living Jewish people […]
New Covenant Faith is Jewish! One of the great misconceptions about the faith of New Covenant believers is that “they believe in three gods.” Of course this is untrue from the clear teachings in the New Covenant: “And Jesus answered him and said ‘The first of all the commandments is: Hear O Israel, the Lord […]
It depends on who Yeshua* is! The New Covenant presents Him as the Jewish Messiah, (John 1:41, 45 49). If He’s not the Jewish Messiah, then no one should believe in Him. This is because Yeshua’s credentials as “Savior of the World” are based on His credentials as the “Messiah of Israel. If He is […]