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Let�s get critical!

 

 Foreword,

A little while ago, I was on an anti-missionary forum called Messiah Truth, where I have engaged in some debates on different topics. There, one of the moderators placed a link on the forum to a website where the lecture series of rabbi Tovia Singer called �Let�s get biblical� was available online. So I downloaded it, put it on my I-Pod and started to listen to the series. At first I thought it was very amusing to listen to, because it didn�t really raise questions about my faith. I had heard most of the arguments he raises against the believe in God�s means of salvation through Yeshua the Messiah. But as I listened to it a few times, it really started to bother me because it seemed like he was getting very cocky, especially the remarks about �leaving skid marks� were really outrageous. Also I thought about all the people listening to his lectures, who were not able to respond to his points he raises in those lectures, how they might be shaken by what they hear. Then I thought of making a rebuttal and making it available online as well. Because I am not that much of a speaker, I thought I could best make a rebuttal in writing, which really took more time than if I would do it in speech. What really got to me is that the stories rabbi Singer tells his audience are extremely one sided and he presents his case in such a way that you would think that Messianic Jewish believe has nothing to do at all with the Tenach (the �Old Testament�) and his audience seems to fall for it time and time again. At times he leaves information out or gives false information (predominately regarding the Hebrew application), and contradicts himself by making up facts and presenting it as a neat story, to give his audience the impression that he has a solid case for his views, as will become clear as you read the rebuttals. This is especially apparent in the Isaiah 53 lecture.

I have tried to address every point of substance and have not gone into every little detail of his lectures. But I have done my best to provide the �other side� of the coin where it was relevant in light of the topic at hand and give additional information that rabbi Singer has left out for obvious reasons. I don�t give the mainstream Evangelical Christian position in my responses. I am not an Evangelical Christian so I can�t speak for them. In this response I have done my best to reflect the Messianic Jewish views the best way possible and how things are viewed in the Tenach and the New Testament from the Messianic Jewish perspective.  I would encourage anyone to read this with an unbiased view and observe the points made by rabbi Singer and my points on this website and then draw your conclusion and ask yourself why rabbi Singer makes these one sided claims, when he is familiar with the Messianic Jewish position on many things he doesn�t address in his lectures. So before you read my advice to you is: Forget about Oral Law (which tends to favour the Rabbinic Jewish interpretations) and forget about the New Testament (which tends to favour Messianis Jewish interpretations). Look at both sides with an unbiased mind. Read openly and judge honestly.

 

Nakdimon

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