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Article: Worshiping Jesus, worshiping idol

November 19, 2015


The question is: what exactly constitutes idolatry?



But is carving an image the only form of idolatry? Read more…


Why is Judaism “truth” to me?

November 5, 2015

sddrI recently received an email from a person, a Christian who has finally come to the fork in the road of his faith. He expressed to me his deep desire to get to the truth, to make a decision about which faith is true – is it Judaism, the faith of the Jewish people, or is it Christianity, the religion he has lived and breathed most of his life. He has been strongly leaning toward Judaism as being the world view with the keys to humanity’s purpose, meaning and its source of divine revelation. He asked me to give him my understanding as to why I consider Judaism to be truth.

Here’s my answer: Read more…

Should Messianic Jews be allowed to make aliyah into Israel?

September 22, 2015

jesus-worshipFrom a recent messianic blog post titled Let Messianic Jews Make Aliyah To Israel




My reply: Read more…

How the New Testament authors created the anti-Jewish myth

August 17, 2015

new-testmanet-jews-killed-jesusThe Jewish concept of Messiah was not rich enough in associations for non-Jews to power a Gentile religion. The word was retained in translation, but it needed and received a new mythical content. Jesus gained universal significance as the hero of a salvation myth at the expense of losing his Jewishness. But the cosmic struggle envisaged by the myth needed to be embodied in the details of the story.

If the divine Christ defeated cosmic enemies, the human Jesus must have had to face human enemies. Of course, he did, in the shape of the Romans. Why did the mythicized version of his story not cast the Romans as his primary enemies? A precritical or fundamentalist Christian might reply that historically it was in fact the Jews who encompassed his death because his religious claims challenged theirs. We have seen good reason to disbelieve this explanation. Read more…

Are Jews not living up to your expectations?

July 22, 2015



If you believe in Jesus, you believe in Replacement Theology

July 14, 2015

man-bowing-before-jesusReplacement Theology, or “Supersessionism”, is a nearly two thousand years old Christian view that G-d has replaced the Jewish people as His sole chosen people with the new people, more worthy people, people who submitted themselves to Jesus. The Church is the new people, the “Israel of G-d”, to quote Paul. Most Christians in the world, from across all of the tens of thousands of Christian denominations, readily agree with and approve of such an understanding. Some of their Protestant co-coreligionists, however, especially those in the Evangelical Dispensationalist circles and in the Messianic Movement (including the so called “Hebrew Roots”), proclaim their vehement rejection of the idea that Israel was replaced by the Christian Church. I will, however, demonstrate in this post that the Replacement Theology is inseparable from any version of Christianity, no matter how friendly to either Jewish people or to their faith, Judaism. In fact, I will demonstrate that it’s virtually impossible to be a worshiper of Jesus and not subscribe to at least some version of Christian Supersessionism.


“I will build my church”, proclaims the Gospel of Matthew in the name of Jesus, promising the eternality and the indestructibility of the “body of Christ”. The promises are only for those who steadfastly believe in Jesus and join with their fellow believers in worshiping Christ as god, proclaiming his message to the “lost”. Reading the New Testament it becomes readily apparent that its authors firmly held that the future belongs only to those who acknowledge Jesus as “lord”, those whom Jesus “bought with his own blood” (Acts 20:28). The future, whether one was born a Jew or Gentile, belongs to the “Ekklesia”. To join this “Ekklesia” one too must believe in Jesus as the savior of the world or be left out. As John 3:18 warns, “whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”

Which brings us to Israel. “Israel is still chosen”, proclaims an ardent Evangelical supporter of the modern Jewish nation. His fellow “messianic Jew” heartily agrees: “the Jewish people will never cease to exist and they have a bright future”. And both of them say that they reject Replacement Theology as “satanic” and both angrily chide their fellow “supersessionist” Christians as in error. And yet both of them still uphold Replacement Theology, all while denouncing the very idea! How so?

You see, dear reader, both of these supposed opponents of Supersessionism firmly believe that the Jewish people as a whole will not inherit the Kingdom of G-d unless they too become part of the “Body of Christ”. Unless Jews submit to Jesus and worship him as divine, unless Israel becomes part of the “Ekklesia”, they cannot fulfill their role in the world, since Christianity believes that everything is centered on Jesus. As Paul wrote in Colossians 3:11 “Christ is all and in all.” Unless the Jewish people become Christians (or “messianics”), unless they first become “messianic Jews” and get “saved”, they are “incomplete” and “spiritually dead”. Only when the “unbelieving” Jews finally repent of their obstinate rejection of Jesus and become spiritual brothers with Gentile Christians, when they bow their heads to Jesus (or Yeshua) in worship as to god, when they too join Jesus’ church (or ekklesia), only then they will truly be the “Israel of G-d”.

With this in mind, we can draw the following conclusion: according to all versions of Christianity, including those streams which insist on their rejection of Replacement Theology, the Jewish people, no matter how much they may love and seek to serve their G-d, will not please their G-d unless they become part of new Israel as Christianity imagines it will one day be. This Christian “Israel of G-d” is a new “born-again” type of people that views the New Testament as the “word of G-d”, reads Paul and worships Jesus. This “Israel” will supposedly include within its number not just Jews but like-minded Gentile Christians as well. Even for those Dispensationlists who insist that Church is never Israel, whatever the future “Jewish” Israel will turn one to be, it still must be very much a Christian one. Messianics, in turn, reject that Israel will embrace what they term “Gentile Christianity”, but still predict that Jews will become “saved” through Jesus, becoming part of the “body of Christ”. In their version of Israel, the so called “remnant Israel” will be one that embraces “Yeshua” and will be composed of only “completed Messianic Jews”.

By insisting that the future of the Jewish people can only be found in some Christian or “messianic” (that is with Jesus at its core) version of Israel and not as the Jewish people themselves have always held it to be, Christians of all stripes replace the Israel of the Jewish people with another “Israel”, one centered squarely on Jesus and him alone. In other words, all Christians subscribe to a version of Replacement Theology because they simply cannot imagine a glorious future for a Jewish nation that rejects Jesus. Yes, worshipers of Jesus cannot fathom any future Israel that continues to view their precious “savior” as a false messiah, false god and an idol! And that’s why all Christians replace and believe in another, very different Israel – their own.

Article: Judaism vs. Christianity

July 7, 2015

who-do-they-say-i-amBy Moshe Ben-Chaim

Last week we published an article, which focused on defending our Jewish children and students against Christian proselytizers. With tens of millions of Christian dollars financing missionaries to convert Jews, we cannot sit by idly, or imagine our children are exempt from their tactics. We reacted to the intolerable absence of education in our Jewish schools, urging parents, and teachers to immediately commence classes that examine religions like Christianity, and teach our children the falsehoods contained in these man-made religions. As our Rabbis have taught, we do not cower from any area in life. We approach any and all matters with a fearless zeal to first learn what the truth is, and then apply it in action. Moses taught the people, “When you come into the land that G-d your G-d gives you, do not learn to do as the abominations of those nations.” (Deut., 18:9) Read more…