Smoodock's Blog

In the next few days I hope to be blogging about some of the reasons why the Jews have rejected Jesus as the Messiah, and I hope to offer a reasonable response to each of the objections that I present. However, let me make this clear from the very beginning; this is not intended to be Jew bashing nor anti-Semitic in any way. On the contrary, I believe as Paul has written, that all Israel shall be saved (Romans 11:26), and blindness on their part is only partial, and it is temporary. It is something God has done in order to have mercy upon the Gentiles and to show a greater truth that, in reality, all have been concluded in unbelief, and salvation is not a matter of service but of grace. Salvation, i.e. eternal life with God, is a gift from God to each of us, and gifts by their very nature are without price. That is, one cannot earn or pay for a gift. If ever one should succeed in “paying” for his own gift, then that gift would cease to be a gift at all. It would then become a commodity that was earned or bought and paid for. Eternal life with God is not something that can be earned through our service to him or in any other way. It must come solely from him, by his grace and invitation to us.

In any event, on several discussion forums I have met and discussed with Jews who put forward some of their objections to their accepting Jesus as the Messiah. I hope to answer, with some degree of satisfaction, a few of these objections. Nevertheless, it is difficult to know how effective these answers would be without a one-on-one discussion with a Jew in person. The Internet, while of great value for information and as a place to test one’s arguments, is a poor tool to check out the effectiveness of one’s argument, because it is so impersonal. No one is really held to objectively face his own beliefs, when those beliefs are called into question by another. Thoughts are held back. Words are left unsaid, and one’s opponent is a faceless reply upon a computer screen. One begins to wonder about the value of such discussions. Should they have occurred in the first place? Nevertheless, after a little inner debate, I shall offer a few of them here over the next few days for what they are worth.