POWERSBOOTHEFAN wrote:
“I’m a convert to Judaism;the rest of my family is Christian.(Lutheran,to be exact).
I was baptized and raised as a Lutheran until my conversion in 2003.”
Interesting. I know a couple of people whose stories are very similar to yours. It is my observation - you can disagree, of course - that, in the case of the people I know, they were incompletely instructed to begin with. They did not realize that questions such as you have raised have been asked and answered many times, although, unfortunately, in languages other than in English: German, Norwegian, Danish (not much different from Norwegian), Swedish, Latin. Among Christians - real OT and NT believing Christians! - there is an enormous respect for the descendants of Abraham.
I myself took graduate level classes in Talmud and Rabbinic studies at a large midwestern state university. I took them out of simple respect for history, the people whose heritage we benefit from, and a desire to understand. I learned much.
But, in your case, for example, take the case of (Friedrich) Carl Paul Caspari, who born into a Jewish family in Germany, and later became a university professor in Norway (on this question, check the net). He became a Christian and went on to teach many future Lutheran - Norwegian! - pastors who came to America. He was utterly convinced that the OT Scriptures spoke of the Christ who was to come.
Take a breath. Read. Contemplate.
Well,there’s no going back to Christianity. Once a person converts to Judaism they are Jewish for life. And I have no desire to go back.
I made a commitment to Judaism and to the Jewish people and I can’t go back on that.
It saddens and troubles me that this professor left Judaism and abandoned the Torah.
There is nothing for me to contemplate.