When a believer is finally convinced in what they believe, it would require a New York moving company to get them to budge on their beliefs. While I find steadfast faith inspiring, such unwillingness to be open to new teaching is what keeps some people from missing out on all that G-d has for them.
For the Jewish people, two thousand years of anti-messianic teaching has created a blind spot for the possibility that Yeshua was indeed the promised messiah. Some have even abandoned the messianic hope altogether, which is a shame. Yet that is relatively minor compared to the error of the Christians.
Mainstream Christianity long ago abandoned the Jewish roots of their faith, and it shows up not only in the big issues, but in the details. They exchanged the true name of Yeshua for the less-Hebraic-sounding Jesus. They exchanged Adonai’s own feasts and festivals, declared and established in the Torah itself, for shame pagan holidays like Easter and Christmas. They celebrate most of their holidays with a feast of ham, rather than a kosher menu that Yeshua himself could have joined them in.
Any Christian who says Jewish people are “too stubborn” to recognize the truth of Adonai and his messiah, Yeshua, needs to take a good long look in the mirror; what they see reflected there could easily be found in Webster’s Dictionary as the very definition of the word “stubborn.”
Believe it.
Tags: Adonai, faith, Jesus, New York moving company, Torah, Yeshua
Yes, I agree we are often quick to label and judge other believers or non-believers. It becomes easy. We take what God and shown and done in our lives and do not see others walking in it, and wish they would. Unfortunately what often happens, is pride arises. Pride and judgement go hand in hand. Where you have pride, you have judgement of others not at that same level. And where you have pride and judgement soon you have arrogance and criticism.
The way of Yeshua involves neither. G-d meets people where they are at and it is the Holy Spirit that is to draw others to where God wants them. Unfortunately, the church has too often gotten drawn into pride and judgement all in the name of orthodoxy and discernment. We get to the point where we feel a need to show others where they are wrong. We each need to focus on where we are wrong, where the sins are in our life and let God move to change. We need to focus and draw near to God, be changed from the inside out by the prompting of the Holy Spirit and coming to the changing of mind that is repentence. As I am writing this response, I think I actually have a sense that in God’s scheme of things, those he has awakened with the truth of the Torah and the foundations of the Gospel have a priestly function within the Body. I am not sure what the means, but the words Standing in the Gap come to mind. This is basically what a priest does. Perhaps, there is some intercessary role that those called to a deeper understanding of the messanic and foundations of the faith serve the church of as a whole.