I actually met one in Chicago at a continuing legal education seminar at the Chicago bar association on litigating religious rights. He was a nice guy, passionate about his faith and soft spoken and polite. I don’t see what that has to do with the history of so-called Messianic Judaism, except that perhaps if his missionaries had been more forthright about who they are he may have remained a Jew. I assume you think it is a goldfish that he did not. For me it is is tragedy.
My phone changed “good thing” to “goldfish”. Sort of funny in a nonsensical way.
I don’t see it as either one. The Lord does things in his own time at his own volition.
And I don’t think changing the label would change anything. I don’t think it was purposely deceptive, and I don’t think it is truly deceptive in fact, but in either case things like this don’t go by labels.
I wasn’t presenting the man I met as any kind of evidence, either. But there was something deep about him, different from the demeanor of the “average” Christian. He certainly didn’t seem deceived, like he was trying very hard to be both things at once. Can’t really explain it but it was very moving.