Jack, just to be clear, I - if it were within my power - would convert every single man, woman and child to Christianity. I want every human being to know, love and serve Jesus Christ. If that means Judaism as a religion were to disappear - along with Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, paganism, atheism and every other ‘ism’ - that would be just fine with me. I would not shed a single tear. I would not consider the end of those practices, beliefs and traditions to be worth even a moment’s thought.
If you don’t understand why or how I can say that, then you don’t understand who Christ is or why He matters.
Why do you want to convert everyone to a religion that Christ didn’t even practice?
If you don’t understand why or how I can say that, then you don’t understand who Christ is or why He matters.
A thousand years before J*sus, HaShem manifested Himself and spoke to two to three million people. He got out two sentences before the people, screaming that they were going to die, got Moses to convey the rest of His words to them. One doesn't experience that and then accept that the commandments there given are now abrogated just because someone a thousand years later rises from the dead or does anything else.
The very idea that chrstianity has the authority to interpret the Hebrew Bible and declare it preparatory and temporary is an assumption and no different from a mormon claim to interpret the "new testament." Unfortunately for chrstianity, HaShem came first and any claim to a "new revelation" has to meet the criteria of the Torah. A religion that comes along and declares itself a "fulfillment" of the Torah on its own authority is just a hoax and a fraud.
BTW Jack: have you noticed that if a Protestant were to horn in on a Catholic thread with a similar comment on Protestantism vis a vis Catholicism the Catholics on this forum would be screaming "bigotry" and calling for him to be permanently banned? I can think of no greater hypocrisy, can you?
I come here to read comments to a very important article on secular "Jewish" arrogance vis a vis Torah True Jews and some Notzri hijacks the thread out of nowhere. Maybe a Protestant should hijack one of his threads one day.
J.C. is not part of MY religion, which predated YOURS. I have no reason to ponder why he matters, doesn't matter, etc. He is not an element in my beliefs, nor should he be. Neither is allah, buddha, or any of the other deities that have meanings to their devotees. If you like to follow the precepts of J.C. and you don't interfere with the peaceful religious practices of others, fine. If you think you can dictate to me or others what we should believe, I laugh in your face. I would suggest some serious professional counseling, if you actually believe that your religious beliefs are the only game in town and that everyone should drop theirs and follow yours. Then yours is not a religion, it's a cult.