The Gap Between Church and Synagogue...Noahide error

Are you implying Mary’s (most likely Miriam, right, like Moses’ own sister’s name) Mary’s husband impregnated her? That’s how patrilineal descent works for Jews. So I disagree. (And place no credence in the NT anyway, but you knew that.)

No, I'm stating that Joseph was the legal paternal guardian of Jesus - not his biological father. Is not the matrilineal descent what determines Jewishness? According to Why Is Jewishness Matrilineal? it is:

The Code of Jewish Law clearly states that a child of a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s lineage (or whatever else may show up in a DNA test), while the child of a non-Jewish mother is not Jewish. 1 Matrilineal descent has been a fundamental principle of Torah since the Jewish people came into existence.

It's not a surprise you reject the New Testament but consider at least the fact that it was all written during the first century of the Christian era and had the lineage been recorded incorrectly or fraudulently about Jesus of Nazareth, there would have been plenty of his detractors who could have and would have disputed and disproved it. Like you said about Jewish people, "We keep track. We count.".

Joseph, at his ‘first coming’ was:
-the most loved by his father
-a God inspired prophet (the dreams)
-hated by his brethren
-almost murdered and buried (the pit) by his brethern (he wasn’t Messiah, so he couldn’t actually be murdered, or else there would be no fulfillment of the dreams)
-sold for a price and essentially vanished
-a preacher to souls in (an earthly prison)

His ‘second coming’ was unexpected
His brethern didn’t even recognize him
His power and wisdom saved all that came to him.

A few others that ‘came twice’:
Noah
Abraham
Jacob
Moses

You can’t prove a thing with the NT in this arena though. Show us your OT proofs and we’ll show you the mistranslation, out-of-context quote, or blatant lie behind it.

Okay...here are 39 (of the nearly 300) Old Testament proofs:

39 Messianic Prophecies

Please, show us your evidence these are all just mistranslations, out-of-context quotes or blatant lies. Did not the LORD provide any hints to Jews so that y'all could recognize the Messiah when he comes? What did all those Prophets do anyway???

Christianity is not explained away by bible verses. Our biblical history is told that way but Gods reach into our souls and psyche is far more than that Naysayers ...especially those who reject the Christianity they were born to more often than not is a reflection of personal issues and projection borne of problems with the denomination or clergy more than the overall general faith

I agree. Those who claim they have departed from the Christian faith they were brought up in are really revealing that they never had true faith nor a relationship with Jesus Christ in the first place. Like you stated, God reaches into our very hearts and souls and indwells us with the Holy Spirit when we come to Him in sincere faith and receive Jesus Christ. That is something so deeply within our hearts that it will not be possible for that person to reject Him later. I'm not saying there won't be doubts, testings, trials of our faith, but we will persevere. It is God working within us to perfect our faith and He will never leave us nor forsake us.

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