Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Of Christians and Jews (was Re: Questions about the Messiah) Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 16:43:37 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Space Science Labs Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Yaakov Kayman) writes: >with the Jews, and what we do and do not believe. As Jews spend virtually >no time whatsoever mulling over what Christians do or do not believe, or >do or do not practice except when it causes adverse results to Jews, >I'd like to ask "Haven't you got things more germane to your own faith >to discuss, rather than spending so much time discussing a people that >has made it eminently clear throughout two thousand years that it is >just not interested in Christianity and wants nothing of Christians other >than to be left alone? Why not just give it a rest?" > >Yaakov K. Simple reasons: 1) Our Savior was a Jew. 2) Our God dealt with the Jews for many centuries, and it is very instructive to know how God deals with people. 3) The Jew, and the other Israelites (i.e., the Ten Tribes from the northern kingdom) were chosen by God to be His oracle people, to be a people that display, carry out, bring to light God's purposes in history, whether they wanted to or not. I, who follow this God, want to know the history of your people because it directly affects me, and I can learn from it. I, a Christian, do not want to convert you. You live your life and I'll live mine, and God has his own timetable for each of us. But don't deny me the privilege of knowing God's ways. John Warren ". . . Into the narrow lanes, I can't stumble or stay put" - Dylan