Originally posted by One Bad Pig
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I did not say that I take Norman Asher's criticism's of Christianity at face value without questioning them. I did find them very interesting. However, nothing Norman says is new. Jews have been making these same, exact allegations against Christianity for two thousand years, and for two thousand years, Christians have refuted (satisfactorily in the eyes of Christian apologists) the Jewish criticisms.
My point is this regarding Asher Norman: It is very interesting reading if you have never read the Jewish accusations against the messianic claims for Jesus. I think every Christian owes it to themselves to know what Jews say. Norman says it in a very easy to read format, but you can get the same information from reading any rabbi's criticism of messianic claims for Jesus. Bottom line, for me, I would think that it is much more probable that Jews understand their ancient writings better than Gentile Christians. Again, it is all about probabilities with me. Yes, all of Judaism could be wrong about their ancient writings, written in THEIR language, but odds are they are right, and the Gentile graduates of US seminaries are wrong, and so too all the Gentile Christians scholars before them.
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