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Summary: It's Time Has Finally Come!
Review: I am Irish and Native American Annishinabe and am concluding this book in record time. Thought provoking, inspirational, and needed to begin the mending processess of twisted time.It is great to see a prespective from those treated as invisible "the Messianic Jew." As a person coming from the same time of background (a people who was almost destroyed by the "Christians" it brought me back to a time of my mind wherein it was demanded of Indians to "speak white only, cut your hair, etc" and give up you cultural heritage and become a Christian. Christian meant "death" not life. The "change or we'll kill you in the name of Christianity" is a tough pill to take...now add, give up your identity and way of life. A way of life that included a "one" Creator of all things in our daily living, tight family relations, and strong sense of community. Hello, out there...is anyone listening? If you are ever, ever going to bring mending to a slowly twisting world...read this book! Learn the how's and why's for Gentile/Jewish separations, learn to acknowledge a peoples wrongs toward a race/religion. White is not always right... How would you like to have been given a name of Jorge at birth, then have someone from the Anglo/Saxon world change it to George. You've been called Jorge by your parents, but now Phil from London starts a trend wherein you're known as George world-wide. Yep, Yeshua (salvation) by his mom, brothers, community...but, now it's Jesus whether he likes it or now. Did he quit becoming a Jew with the name change..nope, not so. He came not to abolish the Torah..but to fulfill it. The New Covenant is a strong conclusion to the Tanakh. He observed the Sabbath...(Friday at sundown to Saturday at sundown). Who changed what God commanded from Sat. to Sunday. Many questions begin to be answered with this book of strong in-sight. If you feel that somethings just not right, that you don't have to give up your life to believe, that you don't have to change your very essence to come to the Messiah...READ THIS BOOK! WE CAN MEND A WORLD AND IT STARTS HERE WITH DEEP ROOTED UNDERSTANDING OR OUR ORIGINS!
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Summary: Wonderful Discussion of Important Issues.
Review: I disagree with those parts of this book that endorse a two track system: one for Jews and another for Gentiles. But David Stern is not negative with regard to Gentiles following a Torah life as long as they do so for the "right reasons." This book covers a lot of ground and can be read for great profit by those interested in the Messianic Jewish movement.This book is essential for those who want a broad understanding of the issues. David Stern is a giant among Messianic Jewish teachers.
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Summary: A pligram's perspective
Review: I discovered Messianic Jews within weeks of discovering Jesus. I have straddled both the church and (messianic) synagogue ever since. This book helped clear up much of the history I was missing and seemed to lay out the entire discussion in a great way. I highly recommend it for "Christians" to learn about how we ended up in 2002 with the kind of church culture we have.
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Summary: Elucidating book about Messianic Judaism.
Review: I found very interesting this book. The author explains the destiny, the identity, the history and the theology of the Messianic Judaism, as he understands it, without beeing an official delegate of it. He explains also correctly different passages of the New Testament which were used against the Jews by an antisemitic spirit in past centuries. The chapter about Torah (Law) is very elucidating. Many Christians will feel a revolution in their Christian thought and theology if they accept the presuppositions of thought of this chapter. Perplexing thoughts and opinions of apostle Paul are explained and commented aptly. Personally, I would like to read more explanations of other passages of the New Testament that seem denigrating the Law. But for this end the author made "The Jewish New Testament Commentary". His appendix "Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel" is also very interesting. It is very helpful the "Glossary of Hebrew words and names" at the end of the book. The author is very punctilious in his references and footnotes. I think that this is the book for every Christian and/or Jew that is open-minded and longs for further biblical truth, even if he doesn't agree in everything written in this book.
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Summary: Propaganda
Review: It's obvious what works like this are trying to acheive, and just how duplicitous and destructive they can be. The logical, thinking reader should look elsewhere... This book is so biased it will make your intellect wince!
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Summary: PLEASE WATCH OUT - THIS IS BRAINWASHING
Review: Please use your common sense. Messianics seek nothing more than to convert content Jews to Christianity. PLEASE, for the sake of your Judaism, do not indulge their evil intents.
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