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To: MarDav
All the New Testament converts (Jesus’s followers) had to go on were the OT scriptures.

Okay, maybe this is the problem: I am trying to get you to see the OT scriptures through the eyes of someone living in Jesus' time, but who is not yet familiar with Jesus himself. I'm pretty sure I said this before, but it's a long thread, so I'll say it again.

Imagine Jesus has not yet been born. It's still 4-5 years away. You are a Jewish man living in Jerusalem, hating the Roman occupation, dreaming of the day a Messiah will come and help unite the squabbling Jewish factions. How will you recognize him? What do the prophets say about the Messiah?

596 posted on 04/21/2014 6:04:35 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

Classic Christianity announces that Jesus came to bring a paradigm shift.

The Jewish people were an illustration of pride. They claimed to the Lord that they could keep the commandments. The Lord took them at face value knowing jolly well they couldn’t. It was a deal they could never keep.

Jesus came to tell sinners that knew they were mired in sin, that He would bring them out of their sin. And went to the cross to prove it.

You can’t expect to see the Jesus of Christianity to be projected out of Jewish “tradition” even though He did appear as hints and more in Scripture.


598 posted on 04/21/2014 6:56:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

You’ve already been directed to what the prophecies have to say about the messiah. You have also been directed to the FACT that there were Jews of Jesus day who came to understand these to be speaking of Christ. If you like, you may continue in your refusal to accept these OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES that foretell messiah just as many of the religious leaders of Christ’s day did. All this serves to show is that you are as unwilling to accept these as they were.

Many Jews of Jesus’s day came to believe. Many Jews of our day have come to believe, as well. Those who do not have missed their messiah.


601 posted on 04/21/2014 7:05:12 PM PDT by MarDav
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