Lambano
Well-Known Member
Well, we've beaten the ancestry issue into the ground. What about some of the other issues?
Regarding reason #6 – Universal Knowledge of God - Jewish theology prof Pamela Eisenbaum argues in her book provocatively titled St. Paul Was Not a Christian that Paul saw his mission to the Gentiles in terms of the Messianic "ingathering of the nations". As a Christian, I would see this mission as still in progress, but I would say that Jesus through His followers has been quite successful in bringing knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to the ends of the world.
However, the Jewish counter-argument (as Matthias and Johann noted above) would be that the Christian triune god is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's the real issue, and I don't see any way around it.
Regarding reason #6 – Universal Knowledge of God - Jewish theology prof Pamela Eisenbaum argues in her book provocatively titled St. Paul Was Not a Christian that Paul saw his mission to the Gentiles in terms of the Messianic "ingathering of the nations". As a Christian, I would see this mission as still in progress, but I would say that Jesus through His followers has been quite successful in bringing knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to the ends of the world.
However, the Jewish counter-argument (as Matthias and Johann noted above) would be that the Christian triune god is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's the real issue, and I don't see any way around it.
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