Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, vol. 1: General and Historical Objections (Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus)
by Michael L. Brown
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Author: Michael L. BrownEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-01
ISBN: 080106063X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Baker Books
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Book Review: THE FALLACY OF THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY
Summary: 3 Stars
Christians have been trying to shoehorn Jesus into the Torah for almost 2000 years, and no matter how they try, the bottom line is that all their "proofs" are painful and transparent contortions of the facts, mistranslations from the original Hebrew (into Greek, the language of the New Testament), out-of-context misunderstandings, or outright falsehoods. Two excellent sources of this are to be found in the books "Twenty-Six Reasons Why Jews Don't Believe in Jesus" by Asher Norman, and "Why the Jews Rejected Jesus" by David Klinghoffer. In these books, one will find concrete and convincing examples of why Jesus could not have been the Messiah, and why Jews, most pointedly the Jews who lived with and knew Jesus personally, rejected his claims. The reader will find that in the Torah there are six absolute requirements for Messiahship, none of which Jesus fulfilled. To be the Messiah, one must fulfill these requirements. For example, the Messiah MUST be a direct descendant of King David. Since Christians claim that Jesus had no Earthly father (as in Matthew, first page), this eliminates him from consideration as Messiah. When reading the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, one will find that the two are totally different and contradictory; in fact, they differ by 15 generations. This eliminates Jesus from consideration. Another Messianic criterion is that the Messiah will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Jesus did not do that, since the Temple had not yet been destroyed during Jesus' lifetime; this eliminates him from Messianic consideration. Another requirement is that the Messiah will be annointed King of Israel, and oversee the "gathering of the exiles back into Israel." Since Jesus was not annointed King of Israel, and in fact soon after his death Israel was destroyed by the Romans and the people exiled into the Diaspora, it eliminates Jesus from consideration as Messiah. There are many other examples that provide absolute and incontrovertible proof that Jesus could not possibly have been the Messiah. The reason why Christians are generally not aware of these facts is that their religious education STARTS with the New Testament, and their knowledge of the Torah is only through "the lens of a Christian," which by definition includes all the errors, misunderstandings, and lack of fundamental knowledge inherent in that religion. It turns out that the story of Jesus became entwined with the local pagan mystery cults of the time, including the mythical men-gods Baal, who was killed and resurrected "on the third day," and had a supposed virgin mother; Attis, who also had a virgin mother, was resurrected after three days, and whose birthday was December 25th; Isis, whose religion included sin being forgiven through immersion in water, and whose birthday was also December 25th; and Mithras, who was regarded as a "mediator between God and man, who performed miracles, whose birthday was also on December 25th, and who killed the "sacred bull," which provided life by consuming its body and blood. Mithras held a "last supper" with his disciples, who all had to be "purified by baptism." One can start to see that, at the time of Jesus, it was very unlikely that Judaism, with its commandments for circumcision and kosher laws, could spread to the pagans without some "tweaking," which included the elimination of laws of ethics and morality, and a certain blending with their comfortable beliefs.
For all Christians who genuinely want to understand their own religion, and especially for any Jews who have sadly fallen for the convoluted manipulations of the Jews for Jesus movement, the two books cited above are a must. I believe that anyone who sincerely reads these two books will come away with a much clearer picture of Judaism and Christianity, and why Jesus was and will always be rejected by the Jewish people.
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