Originally posted by whereu
The Jews will tell you that Christians like JWs are wrong for reasons well grounded in the OT.
In any case I suggest that you quote what you think Jesus said to support the notion that he was the Messiah. If you can at least you will cover the question from a Christian perspective.
Can you do that?
The Jews will tell you that Christians like JWs are wrong for reasons well grounded in the OT.
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I believe many Jews reject the teachings and practices of those claiming to be Christian and with good reason. Judaism is repelled by the idolatry rampant in Christendom. The Trinity doctrine is likewise viewed with disdain by Jews as a clear contradiction of “the essence of Judaism”—the monotheistic doctrine embodied in the words, “HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.” (Deuteronomy 6:4, The Soncino Chumash)
The Holocaust has also brought the issue of Jewish survival—as a people, as a religion, and as a culture—to the forefront. Jews thus tend to view conversion, not as simply the adopting of heretical doctrine, but as an act of treason. The Journal of Jewish Communal Service lamented: “We can ill afford to lose any of the newest adult generation of Jews. . . . What the Nazis failed to do in the Holocaust, may yet occur through [proselytizing].”Rabbi Henry Siegman thus concludes: “The memory of forced conversions is deeply ingrained in the consciousness of the Jewish people and has been the most serious obstacle to the development of Christian-Jewish relations.”
Jehovah's Witnesses do not offend Jews by using idols in their worship, nor do they believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. They reject that teaching as pagan and unscriptural. In fact, the Witnesses are no part of Christendom at all! Thus, they do not bear the onus of the Holocaust, much less the bloody history of anti-Semitism.
Of all the religions claiming to be Christian, they alone have followed Jesus’ command at John 17:16 to be “no part of the world.” This involves maintaining strict political neutrality. Informed Jews know that during World War II, more than a thousand German Witnesses died in Hitler’s camps, preferring to be victims of the Holocaust rather than silent accomplices in it. Their intrepid insistence on neutrality in defiance of Nazism is a shining testimony to the power of true Christianity. Had Christendom done likewise, the Holocaust could never have occurred.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are thus received kindly by many Jews .
