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He was critical of them. Nevertheless, what did he tell people to do (Matthew 23:3)?

“The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will declare all things to us.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who speak to you am he.’” (John 4:25-26) What Jesus said - “I am he; I am the Messiah.” What trinitarians hear - “I AM He; I am God; I am...

That’s trinitarian theology 101. Yes. That’s right. You, apparently, think he told them from the beginning that he is the second person of a deity which is not their God. I believe he was telling them from the beginning that he is the one whom his God and their God promised to raise up...

Moses was the mediator of the old covenant. The Messiah is the mediator of the new covenant. Both covenants required the shedding of blood. How far back do you want to go? What do you think of Joshua?

Judaism says that it is. Christianity says that it isn’t. As Christians, we are not under the Mosaic covenant. We are under the new covenant, which has been established by the Messiah’s shed blood. Having rejected Jesus as the promised Messiah, Judaism has not come under the new covenant. It...

A valid covenant of the God of Israel is true religion. Yes. Judaism had a problem when the Temple was destroyed. It had to adapt to its circumstance. (It wasn’t the first time that it happened in their history.) Synagogues existed in the 1st century. Jesus attended them, worshipped his God...

The God of the Jews cannot die. That’s non-negotiable. When trinitarians tell the Jews (as well as non-Jews) that God died, it opens the door for me to tell them that God didn’t die; the Messiah, himself a Jew, died, was buried and then three days later resurrected to life by their God. That is...

But religions nevertheless. Why does Judaism fall into the category of “not a religion” while the others (Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism) fall into the category of “false religions” in your thinking? In other words, why do you not consider Judaism to (also) be a false religion?

“We should shrink in horror from the idea that God actually died on the Cross.” (R.C.Sproul, “Did God Die on the cross?”) Did God Die on the Cross? I don’t share Dr. Sproul’s trinitarian belief but I would have agreed with the sentiment he expressed when I did. My position as a Jewish...

You’re focusing on Judaism but it appears to me that you also don’t, or may not, consider Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism to be religions. Is that correct?

My God is a distinct person, the Father. Jesus is a human person. “Jesus is God” only in a secondary sense, as the Father’s unique and supreme human agent / representative. Modalists believe “Jesus is God” in a primary sense; that he literally is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I’m not a...

So a human person didn’t die on the cross; a divine person’s human nature did. When Jesus died he remained alive. Why? Because he is a divine person - the second person of the Trinity. What, if anything, do you say to those trinitarians who say “God died” or “The second person of the Trinity...

I agree with everything you said in this post, except for the last line.

“The most widely recognized world religions are Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.” Take a Tour of the Global Religious Landscape There are other religions but, this article points out, approximately 95% who identify with a religious group are found in one of these five.

@theefaith some trinitarians - most, in my experience - believe Jesus was a human person. The historical orthodox doctrine of the Trinity teaches us that Jesus wasn’t a human person. (You would have learned that in the RCC, as my wife did. I learned it in the SBC, though it was not taught from...

As a group, they will accept the anti-Christ, for a while. I wouldn’t say they are ignorant of their prophets. Interpretation of the prophets is diverse. Most of the Jews I’ve interacted with were focused on the five Books of Moses and not very interested in discussing the prophets. Those who...

What to do with unbelievers, whether they be Jew or gentile? Acts 8:12 answers that question for me. Do what Philip (who wasn’t a loose cannon or lone wolf) did.

They aren’t expecting Jesus of Nazareth to return. They (mistakenly) believe Jesus of Nazareth is still dead, that he wasn’t resurrected to life, that he isn’t the Messiah. They’re looking for another, and they’re going to fall for an imposter before finally turning to Jesus of Nazareth. I...

That’s the ticket! That’s precisely what the earliest Christians - who were themselves Jews who believed that a particular fellow Jew is the Messiah promised by their God - did. The issue in scripture is this: Is Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah promised by his God and their God or is he not? The...

Would Jesus have prayed to a deity which wasn’t his God? I don’t think the question ever crossed his mind. Such a thing, I suggest, would have been unthinkable to him. The only deities besides his God were the idols of the nations. Jesus offering prayer to an idol? Preposterous. He offered...