Showing posts with label (Jews for Jesus) Missionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label (Jews for Jesus) Missionary. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2015

Refuting Isaiah 9:6

Refuting Isaiah 9:6 

That is what Christian's bible stated "For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Christians normally quote the verse above and claim it's a prophecy about Jesus, however there are problems in this verse and they are as follows:
1-This verse is mistranslated by Christians. 
2-This verse talks about the past events. Not future.
3- The mighty God doesn't refer to Jesus. 
4- Biblical Jesus object being prince of peace. 
5- Answer about the person who is being born and called "The Mighty God". 

1. The verse is mistranslated and should be translated as " "For a child was born (יֻלַּד־) to us, a son was given(נִתַּן־) to us, and the authority WAS placed(וַתְּהִ֥י) upon his shoulders, and his name WAS called(וַיִּקְרָ֨א) a wonderful counselor is the mighty God, the everlasting Father the ruler of peace" (as per Jewish Translation)

The Hebrew words above was translated correctly in other verses but not in Isaiah 9:6(in Christian's bible)

Genesis 4:26 "a son was born(יֻלַּד־); and he called(וַיִּקְרָ֨א)"
Joshua 24:33 "which was given(נִתַּן־) him in the hill country"
2 Samuel 8:6 "and the Arameans became(וַתְּהִ֥י) servants
Genesis 26:9 "Then Abimelech called(וַיִּקְרָ֨א) Isaac and said,"

2. As you read the verse from the Hebrew scripture, this verse is clearly talking about THE PAST event. From reading chapter 8-11, it talks about when Syria went to war against Jerusalem, God protected that city in the time of King Hezekiah. 

3. The verse doesn't refer to Jesus for these reasons:
- Jesus was never called mighty God / Everlasting father during his ministry on earth.

- There was no Government on Jesus shoulder when he was here on earth. Pagan Rome was Governing the country and Jesus had to hide from them. 

4. Matthew 10:34 Biblical Jesus said ""Don't think that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword." The prince of peace wouldn't make such a statement. 

5. THIS VERSE IS REFERRING to HEZEKIAH. The name Hezek-iah literally mean "The mighty God" and it talks about the event that has happened in Hezekiah's time. HZK is chazak, which means The Mighty. The suffix 'iah' means God, and is appended to many names in the Jewish Tanakh, as I will demonstrate below.

Just in case, if Christians are still arguing about the name, Jews have mighty names. Let me give you a couple of examples: 
Elienai =God is My eyes
Tovia=Goodness is God
Jehpoada=Knowledge
Hananiah =Gracious Lord
Elisha=God is Salvation
Elijah = Yehweh is God
Michael (nick name "Mike") means "who is like God". 
Gabriel= Strong God. 
The judges Exodus 21:6= Elohim

Now just because the prophets such as Elijah, the judges, Hananiah, and Hezekiah have God names, that doesn't make them God. 

Short refute from Rabbi Tovia Singer 





Monday, May 14, 2012

Major Israeli Newspaper Runs (Jews for Jesus) Missionary Ad


Major Israeli Newspaper Runs Missionary Ad

The economic daily Calcalist features a large ad placed by Jews for Jesus, which anti-missionary activists called misleading.




Missionary Center in Israel
Missionary Center in Israel
Israel News Photo: Yad L'achim
The economic daily Calcalist on Wednesday featured a large ad placed by Jews for Jesus offering readers an app that leads them to the organization's website, where there is a “hard sell” in Hebrew on why Jews should believe in Jesus.

The ad is printed on a background of the flag of Israel, clearly associating the ad, and the organization, with Israel's Memorial Day for fallen IDF soldiers, being commemorated on Wednesday.

While the ad does not appear to directly proselytize Calcalist readers, it does feature a mnemonic based on the Hebrew word for Jesus, “Yesh > Yeshu > Yeshua,” modeled after the popular mnemonic used by followers of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, “Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman.”

The word “Yeshua” in Hebrew means “salvation,” and is used by Christian missionaries to justify their position that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah. Jews, of course, reject this position, using as proof the fact that the prophecies in the Hebrew Bible associated with the Messiah, such as the arrival of an era of world peace, have not been fulfilled.

Early Christians changed the commandments, a further halakhic proof of a false prophet.

Direct proselytization with the promise of a material benefit is against the law in Israel. However, there is no law against urging people to adopt a new belief or religion based on spiritual or philosophical principles.

The ad includes a QR code that readers can scan with their smartphones that installs an app produced by the group. The app directs users to the group's web site, where “issues of the day,” including politics and Jewish history, are discussed from a Christologic viewpoint.  The organization states, however, that it strongly rejects views that were attributed to it in the Israeli media that the Jews are to blame for the persecution they have experience over the generations, and especially for the Holocaust, because of their rejection of Jesus. Arutz Sheva, which previously reported those claims, apologizes for any misunderstanding.

Anti-missionary groups slammed Calcalist for running the ad, with one activist saying they planned to sue Calcalist for printing an ad that was clearly misleading. “The ad implies that it is in memory of fallen IDF soldiers, but its real purpose is something else entirely. They should be ashamed of themselves.”

Calcalist is a part of the Yediot Achronot publishing group, which is headed by Arnon Mozes.

[1] http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155117#.T7C8EutYtY1