Welcome to Nakdimon's Page
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