RE: [TruthTalk] Hyperbole

[Slade Henson]

Kay was not offended by your post, Judy, so it's ok. I am not offended by your post either. I would like to demonstrate to you where the problem lies.   Example One: The US court system made it legal to perform abortions. In recent months, it is legal for doctors to perform abortion on teenage girls and to prescribe abortifascient pills and condoms to teenagers without parental consent. This means US citizens support abortion. While you will be quick to clarify that not ALL citizens of the US support abortion, I would be just as quick to defend the Jewish people in that they HAVE historically kept the Law of Moses... That's what KEPT THEM ALIVE these millennia when Christianity has attempted to exterminate them... repeatedly! To this day the Words are true: they kept the oracles of God (Romans 3). To claim that Jewish people have not [historically] kept the Law of Moses is just as false as to say that the Jewish people keep the Law for salvation reasons. Let me ask you a question: WHY would a group of people "chosen by God" keep the Law in order to be saved? They're the chosen people... they are ALREADY saved! They place their FAITH on the fact!!! They LOVE GOD and that motivates [most of] them to keep the Torah (some keep it to be culturally correct).   Example Two: With the release of "The Passion," the question rises once again... "Did the Jews Kill Jesus?" Surprisingly, the overwhelming response to that question is "Yes." To those who answered "Yes," I ask, "Are you sinless as to not have participated in Jesus's need to die?"   Please pardon the "hyperbole," but what kind of question is "do you believe the Holy Spirit is also Jewish?" Do you believe Jesus is and the Spirit is not? Do you believe neither are? What about "The Father?"   I have another question: Do you believe the Jewish People need this special "breath from Jesus" in order to understand the Scriptures? Do Gentiles need that same breath, or are the Jewish people "so thick" that ONLY THEY need this extra help from Jesus?   You claimed the the Jewish People rejected their own Messiah? I'm sure you realize Jewish men wrote the "New" Testament and current leaders within the Messianic Jewish movement believe up to 40% of Jewish people during the Second Commonwealth believed Yeshua was the Promised Messiah. This helps explain why there was such a fervor against them by the leadership of the 60%. Can you say 40% of Gentiles accept Jesus as their Messiah and are TRUE believers? If you can't make that claim, then the Gentiles have rejected Jesus FAR MORE than the Jewish people.   We need to be careful not to box people into groups that are too broad. This can hurt people feelings and your goal (the proliferation of the Good News) will suffer from it. My goal is to see ALL of Israel saved, but that's not going to happen if we box the Jewish people in too tight. Give them the room to be individuals ('cuz they are) and allow the reality that MANY keep the Law of Moses and the love God with all their heart... just like the Gentiles are individualistic and not all Gentiles support and perform abortions on their teenage girls.   -- slade