No fair to toy around with ‘im.
It must gall ‘im to see Jewish faith completed through faith in Yeshua/Jesus. And the same favor offered to Gentile peoples. Hey God, that’s too EASY! I’ve been working to get Your favor, and that just is not FAIR!
I like that simile about the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Thanks Z, it will probably be very useful in evangelism!
The empty tomb is an integral part of the story, but the whole story makes sense.
If the Torah was given publicly at Sinai to three million people, and that Torah doesn't have an explicit expiration date, then chrstianity is unauthorized, period. No later prophet can be invoked as having a "higher" revelation.
It's not easy trying to reason with someone whose beliefs are based on absolutely nothing but that he chooses to believe it.