Messiahship of Yeshua
What specific verse in the Tanach says that Yeshua will be called a “Nazarene”? I could not find any.
I heard a Jewish anti-missionary say that Isaiah 7:14 has been purposefully mistranslated with “virgin” in Christian Bibles, to fit a pagan concept of a virgin giving birth, specifically to Jesus.
Today’s Messianic community is a venue for Jewish outreach and evangelism. Unlike more customary Protestant evangelism, where the main purpose is to reach out with the love of the Lord to a hurting world beset by sin—the Messianic community has to go further, in invoking the First Century dynamics of “God brought to Israel a Savior—Yeshua” (Acts 13:23, TLV), in actually proving to some significant degree that Yeshua is the anticipated Messiah.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses the issue of Yeshua’s genealogy, as encountered in the Gospels.
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
There are many claims made against the Messiahship of Yeshua by Jewish anti-missionaries. Many of these are based in post-Second Temple deliberations over the claims of Yeshua of Nazareth. But based on theological and philosophical views present within the Second Temple period, was it at all possible for Second Temple Jews to anticipate a figure like Yeshua arriving on the scene?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee goes over some of the significant factors involved with evaluating the Messiahship of Yeshua.
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses what are today’s four main gateways to apostasy from faith in Yeshua: (1) denial of Messiahship, (2) Bible difficulties, (3) deconstruction, and (4) religious scandals. Will there be more to add to this list?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews a number of issues involving Biblical reliability, which can often be associated with discussing the Messiahship of Yeshua. Part 2 of 2.
