Saturday, December 18, 2021

Jewish Anti-Christian Apologists Acting like Evangelical Anti-Mormons, Part 1: Accusation of Deceptive Missionary Tactics

The following references come from:

 

Tovia Singer, Let’s Get Biblical: Why Doesn’t Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah? 2 vols. (Forest Hills, N.Y.: Outreach Judaism, 2014)


 

. . . many Hebrew-Christians will tell you the first time they considered believing in Jesus was in college.

 

A university campus is one of the primary places that young people are invited to fundamentalist Christian retreats, prayer meetings, and Bible classes. What they will witness there is like nothing they have ever witnessed in their synagogue. People stand in their pews, crying to Jesus, Healings take place in the aisles.

 

Messianic Jews are exceedingly friendly. Visit a Messianic congregation—if you are a new face, members of the congregation, with big smiles and friendly words of introduction, will immediately approach you. They will want to know who you are, what do you do, and if you have a place to eat.

 

The elderly are also perilously vulnerable to Jewish evangelism. It is little coincidence that there are more Messianic congregations tightly packed into the peninsula of South Florida than any other similarly-sized region in North America.

 

Even more than from physical ailments, the aged suffer from chronic loneliness. The Christian mission’s volunteers who seek out and witness to the Jewish elderly in nursing homes are met with little resistance to their aggressive activities by these facilities or their residents.

 

A pretty smile and a warm touch are priceless commodities to those who are waiting to die. With minds that have slowed down due to the passing of time, and a soul hungry for companionship, our grandparents are falling prey to the Jesus movement.

 

It is well known that Russian Jews are a prime target and easy pretty for evangelical missionaries. Their upbringing in the former Soviet Union under communism robbed them of any Jewish education or understanding of their rich heritage.

 

Few of these new immigrants are familiar with even the fundamentals of their heritage, such as the Passover Seder or connecting with the State of Israel. This has proven devasting to the Russian Jewish community.

 

As a result, Christian missions have invested extraordinary resources and manpower in large Russian communities in Israel and neighborhoods like Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

 

It is ironic that although Jews of the former Soviet Union resisted harsh spiritual conditions under both Czarist and communist Russia, they rapidly succumbed to Christian missionaries in the West. (1:29-30)

 

The following appears on 1:3, showing an accusation of Evangelical missionaries engaging in (1) deceptive tactics and (2) language games: