(August 23, 2015 at 2:28 am)Kaninchen Wrote: As a Jew, one of the problems one often finds with talking to Christians is that because they see Judaism as an essential part of the Christian drama of 2000 years ago there's a tendency for them to have to invent a Judaism to make it fit into the script - what I call the "Christianity is Judaism plus Jesus/Judaism is Christianity minus Jesus" effect.That's likely the biggest problem. They don't care to understand Judaism on it's own terms, since they want to view it through their Christian prisma. This is especially truth of salesmen apologists. Understanding others isn't in the apologist's guide book. They just parrot what other apologists say about what the messiah is.
It isn't and never was and, no, Messiah isn't a God/Demigod concept.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
