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Recently, as a result of an article I posted, I was asked to comment on a recent event wherein a Hebrew teacher in a Jewish school in Israel burned a copy of the New Testament given to a 6th grade student by a Christian missionary.

Well, we can hope it was only an NIV or some other corrupt modern version. The teacher was entirely legal in burning the book if the boy who possessed it consented. Period.

As for the material actually given to the Jewish youths for the purposes of conversion, simply gather it up and return it to the entrance of the institution from whence it came.

Pretty preachy advice coming from an obvious atheist. The missionaries would merely distribute it yet again. Since the book was in their legal possession, burning it publicly was a protest and a way of preventing its return. The author is a PC Jewish liberal who doesn't understand his own religion and completely misunderstands the nature and history of Christian and Islamic belief.

To convert a Jew to another religion plainly states that the all-seeing G-d was wrong in selecting the Jewish people to serve him.

I wonder if he understands the idea that Jesus was the Messiah and that the mission of Israel was fulfilled. It has now become a light unto the nations through its (rejected) messiah, Christ. This is what a Christian is, a servant of the Jewish Messiah, the Saviour of Jew and Gentile alike.

Generally, I expect considerably better writing and analysis from the Jewish press. This is pap. But at least it isn't some judeo-christian babble which is so often preferred by these atheist poseurs.

"I wonder if he understands the idea that Jesus was the Messiah and that the mission of Israel was fulfilled. It has now become a light unto the nations through its (rejected) messiah, Christ. This is what a Christian is, a servant of the Jewish Messiah, the Saviour of Jew and Gentile alike."

Good points. The Apostle Paul tells us that the true Israel are those who believe in Christ (Rom. 9). Also, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28).