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To: JewishRighter

Excuse me; I am not Jewish, though I do know that Christian use your Old Testament Scripture.

Obviously you believe in God the Father..Correct?

Do you believe in God’s “Holy Spirit” as well?

I also know that while (if you would compare, reason, friendly with me, Isaiah, Jeremiah, I would say it clearly leads to Christ, and while I wish you to believe in Him, I can not force you..).

I know you do not belive in Jesus Christ as your Savior,

If you read Isaiah, and other Profectic books, they clearly talk about a “man of sorrow”-a future savior do they not..?


260 posted on 10/08/2007 3:29:33 PM PDT by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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To: JSDude1

Now, JSDude1 you’re a man I can talk to.

When one says “G-d the Father” as you do, I have to say no, Jews do not believe in G-d the Father if that means in relation to a specific Son who was the Messiah. We do refer to G-d as our Father in the more general sense that all of us are his children: we rely on him as a father, we hope he will have a father’s mercy on us and that he will protect us. It is never taken as literal fatherhood of a specific individual but the attributes of a father’s love, protection, mercy, etc.

A similar response must follow about G-d’s “Holy Spirit”. In any sense that this means a separate distinct entity, forming a part of G-d, there is no such thing in Judaism. There is the concept of the Shechina, which means a manifestation of G-d’s presence, but it is by no means anything separate or in derogation of his absolute Oneness.

As far as the prophets go, I respect your wish that I would see them leading to Jesus as the Messiah, as I perceive you mean it from a spirit of benevolence: you would want your fellow man to benefit from what you have found to be good in your own life. Still, with the same respect, I cannot agree. I am lucky enough to be able to read the prophets in the original Hebrew and they simply do not yield the interpretation that you prefer. We could get into a discussion of the vast topic of interpretation, but I think it would not be prophetable (pun intended).


265 posted on 10/08/2007 3:43:54 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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