I know it does no good to argue points with someone that hasn't been visited by the Holy Spirit. That was the point of my post. The Holy Spirit is your teacher and advocate when He abides in you. The Jews have longed for a new Temple ever since the old one was destroyed, but they don't realize it's not needed anymore. It is just needed for the last days to take place and the Jews to make their next mistake and follow a false messiah. The chosen people were chosen to reveal Christ through their culture, traditions, and Laws.
We are taught that man is evil and can never atone for his own sin. Blood sacrifice is a temporary fix and that isn't even possible without a Temple. A Messianic Jew is simply called a "Believer", as he/she believes the OT and the NT are harmonious, not contradictory. If you look at the Jewish Feast days, they are commanded by God in Scripture, but why, and why on specific days? Jesus fulfilled all Feast days perfectly as the purpose for the Days were spelled out a thousand years before. The Passover Lamb was killed the exact hour Jesus took His last breath on the cross. He was "Unleavened Bread" and the First Fruit of the Dead. He will call us to the Marriage Feast on Rosh Hashanah. We are told this period marks the beginning of troubles on Earth and the time will be shortened to 7 years from ten years or no one would survive to Yom Kippur, Judgement Day. To follow Jewish tradition, it would have been 10 years. Then Tabernacles comes when Jesus come to Earth to rule and reign for 1000 years. The Jews celebrate Jesus. they just can't put the days and the Book together. Just because Christians have different sects and many make mistakes, doesn't mean they are all wrong. If you ask a Catholic if they worship Mary or worship the cross, they should say no,( I know what it looks like sometimes), they worship Jesus that was on the cross. A Protestant will tell you that is why they have an empty cross in their church or maybe even no cross at all. The Catholics remind themselves of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and the Prots worship the risen Savior. I've never heard anyone say you should worship the cross or Mary. ( I know many Catholics that would dispute that.) This Jewish teacher is mistakenly saying Christians are told to worship foreign gods or idols, but that is a wrong premise. Jesus is, or should be the center of our worship and we are taught that He is God, a God with 3 parts. In Genesis, God refers to Himself as "Us" and "Our",.... plurals. The Spirit of God "brooded" over the waters to create the Earth. In John, we are taught that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Jesus explained that He was the Living Word when He was here.
I don't expect to convert you or anybody else, but let's just say, the Bible is clear and complete for me and others sometime look for some way to argue. I watched the video clip and it just looked like the guy was reaching for an excuse to justify his non belief. That's fine, that's what all non believers do. When and if you are ever visited by the Holy Spirit, you will be "Born Again" and things become clearer,......different than before. A dead person doesn't know they are dead. When you become "alive", then you know you have been dead all your life. You can go out to the center of a highway and scream at a squashed armadillo and tell him a truck is coming. He will just continue to lie there staring up at the buzzards circling, as he can't see or hear you and is unable to move even if he could hear you. Those are the "miracles" Jesus performed in His ministry. He healed the blind, deaf, and crippled from their afflictions, and suddenly, they were whole. If Jesus wanted to He could have raised all the dead, cured all the blind, deaf, and crippled, with just a Word, but He only healed a few. He was merely showing us our infirmities and that we needed a Savior, a Physician, to bring us back to life to God. We died in the Garden to God. God said we would die if we ate of that one tree and we did it anyway. Adam lived on for several hundred years and one might say God lied about the dying part, but we did die to God, we were no longer Spiritually alive to Him. He has replaced our dead Spirit with His own so we can "Tabernacle" with him. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him.
God makes the "rules", not some Jewish guy on the internet. We do not worship crosses or Mary. Jesus isn't a foreign God nor is He an Idol. Everything was created for Him and by Him and He wrote the Bible through the prophets to reveal Himself to His people.
“I was taught there was no remissions of sin without the shedding of blood”
Nope! Hebrews 9 is incorrectly quoting Leviticus 17.
“After Jesus, there was no more need for shedding blood for the remission of sin.”
Then why are sacrifices returning? Ezek 44.
“Abraham said God would provide the Ram for sacrifice......., and He did.”
We are not told that this is a sin sacrifice. When G-d stops Abraham...that is G-d telling Abraham...NO human sacrfice. Also, Dt 12, Jer 19.
“Any Jew that believed God would provide this “Ram” would receive Salvation without having to sacrifice animals.”
It never says that anywhere in the Torah, Prophets or writings.
We dont accept the transfiguration. If Elijah was standing there. How could John the Baptist be Elijah like Jsus claimed?
Your anti-christ is supposed to claim to be “God” right? We already rejected the man from Nazareth for making that claim. We are not about to accept anyone else who also makes that claim.
From what I have read in the NT and through history, the holy spirit is not effective. Shortly after the big release of the HS at pentecost, Paul has to write letters because they ALREADY had begun back sliding and getting into sin. Why? If the HS is indwelling in them? The church in the crusades, inquistion, pogroms, and the holocaust slaughtered the Jewish people. How could that happen if the HS leads the christian into truth?
Gotta run for now.