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Thanks. That’s what I wanted to know from you. Jesus isn’t a false god. He is a Jew.

Christianity began as a sect of Judaism.

Primitive Christianity is small and scattered but it hasn’t died off. I don’t consider the JW’s to be a remnant of it but I do think they are closer to it than Nicene Christianity is.

The tetragrammaton is the personal name of the God of Israel; the messiah’s God.

Your OP doesn’t take into account primitive Christianity. Primitive Christianity: There is only one God. YHWH. The messiah’s God. The Father.

A fool says to @Eliyahu613 : “YHWH is an idol to millions. Our God, the true God, doesn’t like it when he mentions the name of his idol. By our law, he should be beheaded; prepare to receive the wrath of our God.” What are you going to do? Make your play.

Then billions are idolaters. The billions are wrong. God has a problem with them, not with Jesus. They aren’t prepared and I’ll leave that in God’s hands.

It does sound like a done deal (and it is for many) but the reason I asked the question was to find out why a person has rejected Jesus with an eye toward addressing those issues, potentially resulting in a new deal for the person - one of acceptance, no longer rejection, of the Nazarene.

That’s a misperception. His God is YHWH and no other.

Jesus is an idol to some, not an idol to all. There is no God besides YHWH. Everything else is idols. Billions of people have misperceptions about YHWH and Jesus. Their misperceptions, their idolatry, wouldn’t cause me to cease speaking about YHWH and Jesus in Israel, even if the government...

There is only one true God -> YHWH. Jesus isn’t him. Now can I talk about Jesus in Israel?

Saul was a Jew who didn’t believe a fellow Jew was the messiah promised and raised up by YHWH and persecuted followers of the Jewish man who some Jews and gentiles believed is the messiah promised and raised up by YHWH.

I’m not. Now can I talk about the man in Israel?

@Eliyah13 are you familiar with the New Testament story about a Pharisee named Saul of Tarsus? It strikes me that you and I are a modern day version of that story.

So you would behead me for speaking about Jesus, a Jew, a human person, the messiah, the son of God, in Israel? Thanks.

You went for the majority and ignored the minority.

Judaism is the religion of Jesus.

They can’t stop you until after you knock off - or attempt to - the first one, but that’s beside the point. You have the desire to in your heart. I’m not a JW. They believe he was / is an archangel. I believe Jesus, a Jewish human being, is the Messiah. You wouldn’t stone, whiplash, or...

You’re siding with billions against thousands.