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Summary: Not just for Messianics
Review: I think this book, and the comments about it, highlights the struggle Messianic Jews have struggled with for 1800 years from their Rabbinic brothers, for despite what self-proclaimed anti-missionaries may say, there has always been a remnant of Jews who "kept the commandments of G-d and kept faith in Mashiach, Yeshua." Obviously, as the comments above show, those that practice Rabbinic Judaism have a complete ignorance of what Messianic Jews believe or they misunderstood Moshe himself, for Messianic Jews keep the Torah of Moshe---they just may not necessarily keep the so-called "Oral" Torah of the Rabbis. Ignorance spread by a confusion with Christian theology, which stood in opposition to Messianic theology since the Council of Nicea and Constatine's "converstion" to "Christianity," perpetuates hatred amongst the children of Avraham... amongst brothers. Even if you don't have an interest in the plight of Messianic Jews (Jews that keep the Torah, discard man-made law that contradict Torah, and believe that Yeshua was the Jewish Messiah who never broke the Torah or taught others to do the same despite Christian theology to the contrary), this book is an interesting account of hatred, discrimination, and hyprocracy in the modern world.
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Summary: Brings truth to light
Review: It is amazing the treatment that the Beresfords got while attempting to immigrate to Isreal. How the Jewish could be so cold and willing to cannibalize their own simply for embracing Jesus(Y'shua) as the Messiah is simply astounding. Especially when you consider all the turmoil that the Jews as a people have gone through over the centuries. It is quite amazing that they consider it better if a Jew doesn't believe God exists at all rather than if he believes that Jesus died for the sins of the world. (I know of Jews who have MUCH more crazy beliefs and they aren't considered non-Jewish because of it).
This is a great book and will open your eyes to facts about Isreal that you wouldn't believe.
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Summary: Christians are the converts
Review: Let's see if I can get this right. They are born Jewish, keep the Jewish traditions and holy days, read the Jewish scriptures (including the ones written by first century Jews), and believe in a Jewish Messiah who was prophesied about in Jewish scriptures. So what's the problem? Most Christians who understand prophesy clearly know that the Gentiles were the ones who were "grafted in" to the chosen people of God through their faith, not through their lineage(and by "chosen" God meant that He chose to reveal himself through the Jewish people, not that he loves others less). WE Christians are the converts, not vice versa. We are Gentiles who believe in a Jewish Messiah. The Beresfords do a good job of presenting the dilemma faced by Messianic Jews: that both sides will find reasons to reject them. My heart goes out to them.
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Summary: Brings truth to light
Review: Please do remember readers that Israel is thankfully still a JEWISH country. Why should they allow those of opposing faiths in to contaminate the truth of what the country is founded on. Christians and Messianics as you call yoursevles- we do not hate the christians as one reader suggests-quite the contrary- as we are commanded to love. Rather we do hate any false religion that would raise itself up that contradicts the Law that Hashem gave us through Moshe. We must hate idolotry, though we love mankind and let them live the way that each one believes. The problem arose for the Beresfords when they tried to bring a "foreign" doctrine into a land that only allows those that embrace their Jewishness and have not given up their very existance to follow the doctrines of another god. Is it any wonder that the Beresfords were kicked out of a Jewish country when they were promoting their christian doctrine? Please...be real about this. Read the book, but keep in mind who the Jews are, what we believe and why the Berefords were asked to leave a county that tries not to contaminate itself with the ideas of false gods. May Israel continue to be strong against those that oppose the law of Moshe.
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Summary: Christians will always be christians
Review: Please do remember readers that Israel is thankfully still a JEWISH country. Why should they allow those of opposing faiths in to contaminate the truth of what the country is founded on. Christians and Messianics as you call yoursevles- we do not hate the christians as one reader suggests-quite the contrary- as we are commanded to love. Rather we do hate any false religion that would raise itself up that contradicts the Law that Hashem gave us through Moshe. We must hate idolotry, though we love mankind and let them live the way that each one believes. The problem arose for the Beresfords when they tried to bring a "foreign" doctrine into a land that only allows those that embrace their Jewishness and have not given up their very existance to follow the doctrines of another god. Is it any wonder that the Beresfords were kicked out of a Jewish country when they were promoting their christian doctrine? Please...be real about this. Read the book, but keep in mind who the Jews are, what we believe and why the Berefords were asked to leave a county that tries not to contaminate itself with the ideas of false gods. May Israel continue to be strong against those that oppose the law of Moshe.
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