Saturday, December 18, 2021

Jewish Anti-Christian Apologists Acting like Evangelical Anti-Mormons, Part 5: Same "Proof-Texts" Used against the Nature of Christ and the Godhead

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)


In response to a Trinitarian, Singer writes:

 

Why does Judaism regard your professed beliefs as hostile to the God of Israel? There is no greater sin than idolatry. Your worship of a man as God violates the very first of the Ten Commandments:

 

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

(Exodus 20:1-2)

 

Moreover, the Bible warns us…

 

God is not a man that He should lie, nor a mortal that He should change His mind.

(Numbers 23:19)

 

And also the Eternal One of Israel will not lie nor change His mind; for he is not a man that He should change His mind.

(I Samuel 15:29)

 

Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation!

(Psalm 146:3)

 

The Merciful One repeatedly warns the Jewish people to turn away from foreign gods. As a result of this sin, ten tribes were exiled by Assyria 2,700 years ago. The prophet Hosea warned the Northern Kingdom of Israel that idol worship would lead to their demise. . . . (2:126-27)

 

On Ibid., 128-30, the following texts are referenced and quoted:

 

Deuteronomy 4:11-12

Deuteronomy 4:35

Deuteronomy 4:39

Deuteronomy 6:14

Deuteronomy 32:39

I Samuel 2:2

I Kings 8:27

I Kings 8:60

II Kings 19:19

Isaiah 40:18

Isaiah 40:25

Isaiah 42:8

Isaiah 43:10-11

Isaiah 44:6-8

Isaiah 44:24

Isaiah 45:5-6

Isaiah 45:21-22

Isaiah 46:5

Isaiah 46:9

Hosea 13:4

Joel 2:27

Malachi 2:10

Psalm 73:25

Psalm 81:8-9

Nehemiah 9:6

I Chronicles 17:20