Jesus for Jews (1987, Paperback)

Inevitably, Christian missionary organizations feel compelled to publish a volume of apostate testimonies. Ruth Rosen's book, compiled for the Jews for Jesus organization, is one more example of such volumes intended to sell Jesus to the Jews. Ms. Rosen's work contains two main sections. The first, "Testimonies," presents the testimonies of apostates, while the second, "Continuations of the Case," attempts to present scriptural support for the act of apostasy.

Ms. Rosen presents an impressive array of personal testimonies of Jewish apostates to support the case for Christianity. Yet, accounts of subjective personal perceptions provide neither evidence nor proof that Jesus is the Messiah. Subjective experience and suggestibility are outside the realm of acceptable evidentiary material.

The testimonies Ms. Rosen presents are written with a verisimilitude of Jewishness. Having renounced the Jewish religio-national communal history and future, these apostates have become pathetic outcasts alienated from the God and people of Israel through their own willful act. They have become apologists for deception, companions in the misfortune that is apostasy. Their rejection of the living community of Israel was through a demonstrative act of disconnection involving the affirmation of beliefs expressly associated with an alien faith. This faith, Christianity, is outside the parameters of the national faith experience of the Jewish people. Acceptance of Christian beliefs belittles the communal integrity of Israel and acquiesces to the eradication of the religio-national community. A Jews' acceptance of Christian dogma demonstrates a metaphysical breakdown. The apostate's outward demeanor belies the true nature of the tragedy. It is a spiritual implosion, a shattering of the inner spiritual self. The vital quality of Jewishness is gone. In its place exist, at best, distant, blurred "historical" memories, shadowy past experiences with no present nor future, no relationship with the people or God of Israel. What is discernible in the missionary-minded apostate is a need to display a pseudo-Jewish facade, a counterfeit Jewishness used to entice others into error.

Anyway it is expressed, Jesus for Jews or Jews for Jesus, these are not viable alternatives to God's truth. The New Testament prepared the way for Christian persecution of the Jewish people. This does not infer that all Christians hate or persecute Jews; many are truly embarrassed by the vicious anti-Jewish contents of the New Testament. Others, like Ruth Rosen, submerge their heads beneath the water of baptism and deny that the New Testament calls for the shedding of Jewish blood. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction with glib marketing techniques they attempt to sell Jesus to the Jews. Missionaries may wrap their message with tinsel, but no matter how they package the product, it still contains the same falsehoods and anti-Jewish contents. Selling Jesus to the Jews? No sale!

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