I’m glad that more Jews are receiving Christ, thanks to, I believe, “Jews for Jesus.”
“Jews do not have to renounce their Jewish heritage in order to accept Yeshua as their Savior.”
I wonder what that means — the Bible makes it very clear where God stands on “Christ plus.”
Well basically that means that Old Testament and New incorporates all of What God intended for the Jewish People. Not just the New Testament. I am of Jewish Heritage and I would hate to think that because I am a Christian and do believe that Jesus was the Messiah as promised, that I would have to denounce my Jewish Heritage (Old Testament). I was both trained in the Torah as well as Christian doctrine and I realize that the Bible did not end at the end of the Old Testament and the New Testament is not the only book of the Bible either. The old testament prophets as you well know told of Jesus’ coming so without the old testament how would you or anyone have known of Jesus and his heritage (family), how would any of the pieces fit, so indeed the old Testament and New of course go hand in hand. Without the Old Testament Jesus would have been just another Rabbi. No one at all would have believed HE is the Son of God. Jews at that time truly believed that Messiah would have been a lot more powerful in a different way than HE showed while on earth. At the time of His coming Israel had been in deep trouble for a long time, and believed that their Messiah would be a G-D given King who would exhibit strength against the evil Roman Empire. Only those Jews who came to truly understand the writings of the Prophets of the Scriptures (Old Testament) came to understand Jesus and why HE came. Others were wrapped up in the politics of the time blinded themselves from Messiah (some things never change). My humble opinion of those Jews who understood Jesus also understood that they were not giving up being JEWS but were embracing Messiah as promised by G-D. That our Salvation, if one truly thinks about it, came from the Jews. Jesus was a zealous Jew.