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(03-29-2009 11:29 PM)SingingSurf Wrote:  Hi, I actually do not know whether anything in Messianic
Judaism is biblical. I refrain from judging because 1.
I don't know enough about it, and the movement itself
is varied...........2. I don't want to slam other believers
even if they may be wrong on things.
I would recommend anyone wanting to learn about Messianic
Judaism to google it and try to research it throroughly.
I have recently read criticisms and problems with the movement
but I don't think I could give an unbiased evaluation.
Personally I am cautious about anything or movement or
church or group and especially so where elements from the
O.T.are emphasized.............I personally am not comfortable
with it. I personally believe you are a Christian by faith alone
in Christ's perfect work...........whether or not you are a
Jew or Gentile, we are one in Christ, and the emphasis is on
Him and His Word rather than on our background. I am not
personally involved in it although I am of Jewish background
(by culture and birth not by religion..........my religious
background was very limited).

As far as Jewish people being offended by it, that is true
but on the other hand I think that depends on the person,
and it is possible some Jewish people have been helped? I
don't know.

I don't believe that any Jewish person has been helped by Messianic Judaism because it detracts from Jesus Christ, it does not bring Jewish people to Him. Having spent the last 8 years not only completely practicing it [for 2 yrs], but having much contact with Jewish people, the MJ movement, in it's entirety, is another gospel. The gospel is not Jewish [which is the foundation of MJ], for there is no Jew or Gentile in Christ.

From what Jewish people in all types of religious affiliation, as well as secular have shown me - they find that the MJ movement is an offense to them. I have never heard one Jewish person say otherwise. The reason for this is that MJ proclaims that Jesus is the Messiah and Judaism denies that. So the religious practices that MJ does to imitate Judaism is seen as a pretense, a mockery, not reality.

Jewish people come to Christ through one-on-one contact and witnessing, not through a movement that is intended to REPLACE the Jews - which is MJ's true agenda.