I’m Jewish...As an outsider....back in my schooldays it seemed to me the girls wore crosses more than the boys. This would be a good thing to bring back particularly for the females. With a cross on the neck a boy will treat her with more respect sexually. Will not think she is easy. Plus she will feel she has to live up to certain ideals and not have sex. My 2¢ worth
I’ve never worn a cross because I don’t want to speak or act in a way that would dishonor Christ. However, your words “she has to live up to certain ideals” is making me reconsider, along with all the other posts on the thread. Maybe I need to wear one, and make sure I DON’T dishonor Christ.
Oh, how I wish that were true! I think that sometimes guys consider it a challenge. If it keeps the girl remembering, I suppose that's as much as we can expect.
Shalom!
PS You are not an “outsider”. You are akin to revered grandparents. The founders of our religion were all Jews, after all, and the earliest Christians attended both Temple and Church, until the Rabbis kicked them out for talking and arguing too much. So, your tradition is ours too. Your Bible is ours — we just have more books. May God love you on this Passover.
Woah, now hold on, there. "Outsider?" To the Christian faith, yes, but look: Saul of Tarsus -- of the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee among Pharisees, a guy who KNEW The Law and the Prophets inside out -- wrote of Israel as "The cultivated Olive Tree" and of Christians as "wild olive branches" that were grafted into the cultivated tree. Jews are not outsiders that Christians seek to draw into their orbit; the Christians are outsiders who have found Eternal Life in The Stump of Jesse; salvation springing up from the ground through The Root of David; from YOUR OWN OLIVE TREE. All they want is that Jews would recognize that this is what has happened.
I am no Pharisee, nor a Hebrew scholar, but I know much that the Prophets have said, and YOU -- you and your people, the Jews -- have NOT been replaced; The Covenant AND The Promises STILL STAND, for The Righteous One yet upholds them. Messiah yet comes; as a warrior He comes to Zion; a Bridegroom King arrayed for battle riding forth to claim His Bride, to fulfill ALL that The Prophets have written, to turn away violence and shame from Jerusalem.
MARK ME WELL: HE COMES FOR YOU!
You are not an outsider AT ALL, and I, for one, welcome your comments and your participation.
You might get roasted on the fine points of the New Testament from time to time - know I do far too frequently - but these threads are open to all, from what I understand of the rules.
We are, in our fumbling way, trying to know the unknowable. Wisdom is where you find it. Truth just is.