(June 9, 2024 at 5:48 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:(June 9, 2024 at 5:21 pm)Questor Wrote: I don't refer to myself as Notzrim except when trying to explain why I am not a xtian. I attend a Messianic Congregation that uses Messianic Jew and Messianic Gentile quite freely, and I am a Jew who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah. However, I am not wedded to the term.
It matters very little to me what i call myself, so long as I am understood.
What title would you prefer that acknowledges me being Jewish, and believing that Yeshua is my savior that does not include the word xtian?
You see, I dislike the assumptions as to my beliefs that the term xtian implies. Perhaps I should also dislike the term Messianic Jew, although it is the current term that is accepted amongst other Jews that believe in Yeshua.
Would you prefer Covenant Believer? One Rabbi I know uses that, as he has the same difficulty with the various terms as you do.
Heathen will work just fine.
May FSM unharden your heart.
Thoughts and prayers, RAmen
Ah? What a charming sentiment, and I do thank you for your concern for me.
Not that I can be a heathen to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. After all, I acknowledge the existence of all the Powers and Principalities in the universe, as well as the lack of them, the FSM not excluded.
