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Hi Veteran, Yes, Orthodox Jews are still similar to the old (Phariseeic?) type. The messianics still cling to their Jewish roots and still observe Torah law and consequently do not call themselves Christians but that is really the only difference between themselves and Christians. I don`t claim my scriptual knowledge is better than yours and only quoted Romans to indicate that the cultivated Olive (Jews) had some of there branches rejected, and the branches of the wild Olive (Gentiles) are going to be grafted into the same tree!
I realize the want to retain the idea of 'Jewishness' (whatever that really means), and I have no problem with those who want to try and follow God's laws which Christ did not nail to His cross. I have two pretty close friends that are SDA, but some of the doctrines they're taught I simply cannot deal with it at all. And one of them is their Biblical views about Rome. I'm a Protestant, descended from French Huguenots, which were the first French Protestants that fought against the Catholic Church in France, and were expelled. So my ancestors should have planted the idea that the pope was the antichrist, yet my family never held to any such ideas.
How many threads are certain ones here going to keep pushing that "many antichrists" only idea from men's traditions?
John gave the idea of 'the antichrist' and then the idea of the 'many antichrists'. One is singular, the other plural, duh.
I really fail to see the advantage of teaching the falsehood that the word antichrist can only apply to many, but never just one. Teaching such a thing really doesn't show intelligence on the matter.