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People who think for themselves, change the world!
What is the connection among these people? How did they end up in the same book?
* Atheist
* Holocaust survivor
* Multi-millionaire
* Media executive
* Ph.D.
They all defied the status quo and thought for themselves. They dared to explore and confront the forbidden. The result? Everything in their lives changed for the better!
Author Sid Roth was instructed in a dream to find and interview people who had broken through the mold of their previous experiences to achieve their destiny. These are the people he interviewed. These are their stories and this is your time for your breakthrough!
Everyone has a supernatural destiny, but few reach it. Too many want the safe and comfortable life of following the same old roads or fitting in with the same old crowd. How boring!
Have you ever wondered if there is something more to life? Have you ever dared to reach beyond your comfort zone? Only when you dare to think for yourself, will you reach your supernatural destiny.
Start today!
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- Brand: Destiny Image Publishers
- Published on: 2009-07-01
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .55" w x 6.00" l, .75 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 241 pages
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This has been our biggest title with over 400,000 copies in print including English and Russian versions. Will soon be printed in Hebrew, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Spanish. An excellent book to give to a Jewish person who is searching for spiritual truth.
About the Author
Sid Roth has investigated the supernatural for more than 30 years. His television program, It's Supernatural!, documents miracles and is viewed internationally. It's Supernatural! deals with subjects that most shy away from.
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(chapter 1, part 1 of 5) Paralyzed ... "Learn to Live With It!" by David Yaniv
I was born in Tel Aviv in 1936 to parents who immigrated from Germany. My parents kept up tradition, celebrating Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, and other holidays, but they were never really religious. After the Second World War, when my father found out that two of his sisters and one brother and their families had been killed in Nazi Germany, he took every Bible and everything in our home that was even remotely religious and threw it out. "Where was God?" he would ask. "How could God allow such a thing to happen?" From then on, I was raised in an atheistic home. My father even resisted my having a bar mitzvah. Although he finally allowed it, he refused to set foot in the synagogue. In 1960 I married a South African girl named Sheila, whom I met when she and her mother came to Israel as tourists. At the time, I was a guide and a bus driver. Her mother, who took two tours with me, one day said, "My baby is waiting for me in Haifa. I want you to meet her." I thought it was funny that this elderly woman would have a baby. But when I reached Haifa and I saw her "baby," I realized she was a match maker. Sheila and I went to South Africa on our honeymoon to visit her family-and stayed twelve and one-half years. I'm a refrigeration and air-conditioning engineer by trade. I did quite well in business in South Africa for a time. Then I undertook a project to air condition a large building. The quantity surveyor I hired to estimate the cost of the job made a mistake and I lost all my money. My lawyer told me it was useless to sue the surveyor because he wasn't insured. And even though I was bankrupt, I had to finish the job because I had signed a contract.
The Mistake Paralyzed Me for Life Afterward, I decided to return to Israel. Moving back was very difficult for my wife, but she realized it was best for us and our two sons, who were 11 and 8 years old. At the time, I spoke Hebrew, but my family did not. We decided to live on a moshav, which is an agricultural commune similar to a kibbutz. I thought we would stay there for a short time to allow my family to learn Hebrew and then I would find work in my trade. But when the time came and I said, "All right, let's move to the big town," they didn't want to go. They had come to love life on the moshav. Even if they had agreed, however, it would have been difficult to leave. You can't build up any savings there because you only receive a small monthly allowance to buy food and supplies. But, if we stayed at the moshav, we were set for life. The first year on the moshav we had to work in different jobs to allow everyone to get to know us and for us to get to know them. Toward the end of that year I was assigned to milk the cows. I enjoyed it because it was something new and because I knew it was just a temporary assignment. One day in the cow shed I slipped on a wet spot on the floor and fell flat on my back. My back was in so much pain I went to the hospital to have it checked. The hospital technicians didn't find anything serious on the x-rays. They said, "You just got a good knock there. Go home, rest, take some pain killers and it will be all right within two weeks." Instead of getting better, the pain got worse. The second time I went to the hospital, they x-rayed me again, and again sent me home saying there was nothing wrong. I rested for another two weeks and by that time the pain was excruciating. I had never experienced such pain. The pain killers helped initially, but after a while they lost their effect. I kept increasing the dosage until I was taking 50 pills a day for three years. I reached a point where every morning when I got out of bed my feet would go numb. I knew something was seriously wrong, but I also knew I couldn't go back to that same hospital again. Because of the bureaucracy in Israel it took some connections to be allowed to go to another hospital, but through friends who knew somebody who knew somebody, it was arranged for me to visit another hospital in Tel Aviv. The doctors there did a special x-ray called a mylogram. After the x-ray, the head of the neurosurgical department himself came to me and said, "You've got two slipped discs, one of which is completely compressed and the other one is missing a piece." He was amazed I had waited so long to get help. When I asked for his prognosis, he replied, "Well, we'll have to operate." "What does that entail?" I asked, cautiously. "Oh, it's nothing," he said. "Ten days and you're back home as good as new." That sounded wonderful to me, so I said, "Let's do it." When I woke up from the anesthetic in the evening after the operation, I had no feeling from my waist down, so I called for a doctor. The doctor on the evening shift said, "I can't tell you anything. You will have to wait until the morning when all the surgeons come in for the day shift." The next morning the doctor who operated on me came to me and said, "David, I'm terribly sorry. I've got some bad news for you."
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A messianic missionary text
By Jojoleb
Ten Amazing Jews: They Thought for Themselves, edited and annotated by Sid Roth, tells the story of 10 Jewish souls who were spiritually lost until they found messianic Judaism. There is no mistaking the fact that the book is a missionary tool, used by Roth, to encourage Jews everywhere to embrace Christianity. When reading the vignettes, it is clear that the various authors are quite sincere in their beliefs. On the one hand, it is a comfort to know that they have reached new levels of personal, spiritual realization with their decision. On the other hand--as a Jew--it is profoundly sad for me that the authors failed to find salvation in their own backyard, so to speak, and chose to break away from mainstream Judaism.
Just so you know, I did not purchase this book through Amazon.com. It arrived at my door, unsolicited, wrapped in white plastic. Upon opening the package, I looked at the cover and immediately knew what I had received. The dreamy, treelined autumn scene with an ambiguous figure walking toward a gauzy light and the title simply gave it away. In spite of the deliberately ambiguous blurb on the back and the fact that I had never heard of Sid Roth, I intuitively knew where this was headed.
Instead of placing the book in the circular file, I decided to read it and post a review on Amazon. My goal here is to simply give a Jewish perspective on this book. Why should an observant Jew review a book about messianic Judaism? Precisely because I am the target audience. If the book is supposed to be convincing, it should have convinced me. It did not. As you will see, this has little to do with the sincerity of the authors and more with fundamental differences in the way the authors and this reader view both Judaism and scripture.
At times, the book is quite demeaning and insulting to mainstream Judaism. In spite of this, I really do not want to give back what I got. I have no desire to insult or demean Christianity. I simply wish to draw attention to important contrasts that highlight why the book did not convince me to drop my convictions and believe in Jesus. There are legitimate distinctions between what is authentically Jewish from my perspective and the views of the authors. As to what is the truth, I leave that up to the reader. I am not interested in 'proving' that someone's belief system is right or wrong. I am only interested in drawing contrasts between what is in the book and my beliefs as an observant Jew.
I am an observant Jew, but I am certainly not a rabbi nor even a scholar. I also imagine that Sid Roth and Michael L. Brown are far better prepared for a theological argument than I will ever be. That makes sense, as this is what they do for a living. As for me, I can only give my perspective, which should not be generalized to the entire Jewish population or thought of as the only Jewish view.
ABOUT TERMS
Before I begin, I will have to clarify my terms. In order to keep things clear, I will refer to Judaism, mainstream Judaism, rabbinic Judaism, and authentic Judaism as my franchise. I will use the term messianic Judaism to refer to Jews who accept Jesus as their savior. Although I understand that Mr. Roth would say that he has the monopoly on authentic Judaism and that what I practice day to day is outmoded and simply wrong, I want to make sure that these terms are clear at the outset, so that there is no confusion.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
The book is really a collection of ten testimonies from ten Jewish people who were lost and spiritually bereft until they found Jesus. In most of the cases, the authors of the testimonies were never observant Jews and participating in a church or a messianic synagogue was their first truly religious experience. In three cases, however, the authors did grow up in religious households, lost their faith over time, and eventually--at a time of crisis--looked for something 'more spiritual' and found messianic Judaism.
All the authors approached belief in Jesus with trepidation, but often after much prayer and a miraculous occurrence they come to terms with their decision. Most of the authors are first introduced to passages from psalms, the prophets, and the Torah which--they are surprised to find out--support their beliefs and feelings. A man is cured of paraplegia, a second is given a visa to leave Communist Russia, another witnesses a faith healing, a woman prays and gets back custody of her daughter. The list goes on.
To me the testimonies appear to be authentic and sincere. The authors were likely selected because their stories could be potentially inspiring. Each vignette is peppered with biblical quotations that are meant to hammer the points home.
After each testimony, Roth himself adds a commentary that highlights and reinforces what he feels are important points in each narrative. Occasionally, Roth strays a bit and goes off on a tangent but generally he sticks to the program. His main message is to support each author's narrative with a message of his own and urge his Jewish readers to 'think for themselves.'
Surrounded by what was meant to be inspirational and mostly light reading, the section by Michael L. Brown is the cold splash of water in an otherwise cozy, warm bath. Brown starts off with his own story of surmounting the odds to find out the truth for himself. Interestingly, he never appears to have looked all that closely at traditional Judaism. After a short paragraph discussing his life of, "...shooting heroin, using massive quantities of LSD and speed, and living in total, reckless abandon" Brown gets down to business. 13 references later he ends off with a scathing missive denouncing the Mesorah (the chain of oral tradition handed down from Moses to present day Jews) and lambasting all of rabbinic Judaism. The tone is much different from the rest of the book. I do enjoy an aggressive argument that goes right for the jugular and there is no doubt in my mind that Brown is a scholar, but this is an all out attack nonetheless and seems a out of place in a book like this.
THINKING FOR THEMSELVES?
At first pass, there is a distinct irony in Roth's message that Jews should learn to 'think for themselves.' I understand that it took a lot of fortitude for the various authors to break from their past. But the idea that by following what is the prevailing religion in the United States, an American Jew would be "thinking for themselves," strikes me as absurd. It would seem to me that it takes a lot more independence and independent thought to practice authentic Judaism than to march to the drumbeat of the prevailing culture.
Don't get me wrong. The United States is an incredible place to live. But we live in a country where Christmas is a national holiday. We live in a country where it would just be easier to be a Christian. Yet, here we are still Jews. So in terms of thinking for ourselves? We do this every day.
GROSS MISCONCEPTIONS
Apart from differences in philosophy and theology, there are some statements made in the book, reported as facts, that appear to be gross misconceptions. I can't cover them all, but here are a choice few:
One author is told that "No Jew reads [Isaiah 53], especially a Jewish woman" and was told by another rabbi, "Look, I can't help you because I don't read the Bible very much."
I have to assume that the author faithfully reported what happened to her, but both statements are outrageous in their own way. All of the readings from the prophets are fair game for Jews of all stripes. There is no part of the TaNaKh (Torah, prophets, and holy writings) that is forbidden for Jews to read nor are there any selections that are forbidden for women. Any part of the TaNaKh is fair game. The book of Isaiah is available on the bookshelf in my house and in every synagogue worldwide. Chapter 53 (all the chapters really) are there and can be read at any time.
As to the rabbi who doesn't read the bible? That's frightening and would signal the need to find another rabbi. All rabbis of all denominations should be reading the Bible. I don't know of a single sect of Judaism that has given this up.
There is a common theme throughout the book that mainstream Jews do not have a personal relationship with God and that they cannot experience His love. Once again, I am not sure where this is coming from. As Jews, we all forge our own personal relationship with God and pray to God directly.
Authors are upset that they might be ostracized by the greater Jewish community or by a synagogue. I can't say that this is altogether wrong, but when put into the correct context it makes a lot of sense. For example, imagine that there was a member of a Christian church who decided one day that Jesus was just an ordinary mortal. He was very excited about this, couldn't stop talking about it, and wanted everyone in the church to come around to his opinion. Still,he wanted to remain in the church and pray with everyone else. This kind of behavior would be considered heresy and would undoubtedly cause a lot of consternation. The person might be asked to leave the church. There are lines that can't be crossed in every religion.
There is a reference in the book where one author states that Jews 'do not close their eyes when they pray.' I'm not sure where this comes from either. With the exception of the High Holidays, we do not bow down to the ground and it isn't common for Jews to place their hands together in prayer, but Jews do close their eyes, often rock back and forth, and pray fervently to Hashem (God).
Yes, the Rambam (Rabbi Moses Maimonides) codified 613 mitzvot (commandments). But the reason that we cannot perform all 613 is not because we are all sinners (there is no concept of Original Sin in Judaism). The reason we can't perform all the mitzvot is that not all mitzvot apply to all people. Some are only for men and some only for women. Many of the mitzvot might only apply in certain places or situations (such as the land of Israel or when there was a Temple in Jerusalem) and therefore cannot be performed at this time.
There are a number of times in the book where it is stated that mainstream Jews are somehow not allowed to read and understand the TaNaKh for themselves and must always consult a rabbinic authority for permission. Jews are, in fact, encouraged to study the the TaNaKh. There are a wide variety of commentaries to aid in study, but the fact that there are variety of opinions within commentaries and a variety of traditions makes it clear that within rabbinic Judaism there is plurality of thought. The idea that there is only one way that Jews read the bible and that there is a single, monolithic interpretation is simply not true. That being said, this doesn't mean that Jews will ever interpret the Bible the way Mr. Roth wants us to.
Roth saves his greatest salvos for Lubavitch (Chabad). Judaism is not a proselytizing religion. If non-Jews are interested, they may inquire; but we do not go out searching for new members. With outposts worldwide and on every major college campus, Chabad does not look for converts, but tries to recapture unaffiliated and lost Jews. In this respect, Lubavitch is probably Roth's major competition and hence a special object of derision.
Too much needs to be said regarding Dr. Brown's chapter and the Mesorah. Whatever your belief in his argument, the facts on the ground are that modern Jews are the scion of the Pharisees. The adherence to the rabbinic version of Judaism has endured. The Essenes are gone. The Sadducees (assuming the Kararites are descendants of the Sadducees) probably number less than 20,000. There are even fewer Samaritans. At very least, Pharisaic Judaism has been the most successful since ancient times. So at this point, if I were keeping score: Oral law 1, Dr. Brown 0.
[Which leads me to a second point. If you are Jewish and the first time you have heard about the Mesorah or Yochanan Ben Zakkai is from a messianic missionary book, at very least you should look for authentically Jewish sources before you swallow Dr. Brown's arguments hook, line, and sinker.]
Finally, there is a tacit assumption that any Jew who has accepted Jesus as the messiah is no longer a Jew and can never do teshuvah (repentance). This is simply not true. All Jews have the power of teshuvah, should they wish to have the option.
WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE A NAIL
There is a lot of the usual hubbub about Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22:16 and the like. Does Isaiah simply refer to the suffering of the Jewish people as a whole or is it an explicit reference to Jesus as the messiah? This one goes back at least to the year 1263 and the public debate between Nachmanides and Pablo Christiani.
Is the end of the verse of Psalm 22:16 translated "...like a lion,(at) my hands and feet" or "...they pierced [or dug at] my hands and feet." An old conundrum that hinges on whether the Hebrew (or Aramaic) word is "ka'ari" (like a lion) or "Karu" (dug).
Surprise: IT DOESN'T MATTER.
Why doesn't it matter? Because all the controversy hinges on whether Jews accept the Gospels as, well, Gospel. This is best explained by analogy. Imagine that a Muslim told a devout Christian that the Muslim interpretation of the life of Jesus was the only correct one. They then pointed out how the Koran's interpretation was more consistent with the original prophesies of the TaNaKh than was Christian Bible. According to Muslims, they might say that Jesus was a prophet, but that he was mortal and not the Son of God. That Jesus was never crucified (Judas was crucified in his place). On the bright side, Jesus never died (as he was taken by God) and will return.
A Christian would not be all that convinced. Why? Because the Koran is not a Christian book and does not need to be reconciled by Christian theology. There is no need to justify, align, or otherwise fit the Koran into a Christian context. A skeptical Christian might also question as to whether a knowledgeable Prophet Mohammed might have fabricated references to earlier texts to point people in the direction of a forgone conclusion.
Christians accept the New Testament as fact. Jews do not. Whatever the controversy, the New Testament was clearly written by scholars who had access to every writing, every psalm, every book of the prophets, and the entire Torah prior to writing the New Testament.
Everything falls together perfectly if you assume that the New Testament is the word of God and the last word on the history of that time. If you are a Jew and you don't accept the New Testament as part of the Bible or as a definitive history, all arguments fall short. There are hints throughout the TaNaKh that point to a messianic age. That's all well and good. Jews believe that a messianic age is coming, what's wrong with a prophesy or two that foretells this?
I am not trying to sway anyone's opinion here. I do not begrudge Christians their New Testament or Muslims their Koran. But if we are not all agreeing on the same premise--re: accepting Jesus as our savior and the words of the New Testament as perfectly true--the war of the verses is counterproductive. In the end, this kind of rhetoric really ends up with people talking past each other.
WHAT DOES JUDAISM REALLY HAVE TO OFFER?
Judaism is based on the concept of Na'aseh V'nishmah--literally 'we will do and we will hear' (or some translate this as 'understand' or 'obey.') This is based on verses from Exodus 19 - 24, specifically, Exodus 24:7) Judaism is a pragmatic religion of action (mitzvot/commandments) first which then result in faith. Christianity demands faith first and foremost and then asks for action. This is not to say that both religions do not hold behavior or faith as important values, but the order here is very important.
The mitzvot are integral to mainstream, Jewish existence. For observant Jews the oral law (as codified in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and other writings) is integral to understanding and interpreting the written law (the Torah). This is one of Maimonides' principles of faith.
To understand the underpinnings of Judaism, you need to realize the true importance of the mitzvot. By living a life of acting in a way that is prescribed by God, we become closer to God. Belief and faith are still important, but result from action and not the other way. The mitzvot feed our faith and our faith in turn leads to more carefully following the mitzvot.
Interestingly, many Christians think of Judaism as being a primitive religion--a kind of proto Christianity--with really little to offer other than a whole bunch of rules. Sadly, many Jews view their own religion this way. And when you are a disenfranchised Jew and all that is left is observance of Yom Kippur and saying Kaddish for your deceased parents, I would have to agree there is little appeal here. If you further distill the Jewish experience into a cultural phenomenon, the country club, and a couple of good jokes, it has even less to offer. But if a Jew is interested and just scratches the surface, it is clear that Judaism has much, much more to offer.
The fact is that Judaism goes well beyond what most Christians and unaware Jews may think. I can't describe all of Judaism while you stand on one foot, but Judaism has the richness of over 3000 years of tried and true tradition to rely on. There are incredible numbers of commentaries on the Bible. There are codes of Jewish Law, the Mishnah, and the Talmud. There are midrashic and aggadic interpretations of the Bible and ancient translations. There are Jewish spiritualist movements. Revivalist movements. A wealth of Jewish mysticism (and not just the kind that hawks books and classes at street fairs) and Chassidic thought. There are humanist movements. There are Western, Eastern, and Near Eastern traditions. There are intellectual/rationalist traditions. We have our own sages, healers, polymaths, mystics, inspirational speakers, story tellers... The list goes on and on and on.
Judaism is not a weekend religion. It is not a soulless, meaningless, sterile existence. The mitzvot are not just rules, they are a way to bring God into every second of our lives.
If you are Jewish and upon reading Roth's book you find that this is the first time that you have really thought deeply about religion, I would hope that you might look into mainstream Jewish sources before you go any further.
A basic source that is easy read would be Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism by Denis Prager and Joseph Telushkin. Some good, general, and readable introductory sources are: To Be A Jew: A Guide To Jewish Observance In Contemporary Life, To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service. To better understand the Mesorah and what the talmud is all about consider reading Adin Steinsaltz's The Essential Talmud: An Introduction. A good general resource would be Telushkin's Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History. For a deeper, philosophical look at Judaism that is meant for the layperson anything by Abraham Joshua Heschel is good. Of these, God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism is probably the best all around source.
Of course, there is no substitute for reading the TaNaCh itself. If you want a Jewish perspective, you really have to read a Jewish translation. For the Torah, possibly the best (and also wonderfully annotated) is Aryeh Kaplan's translation The Living Torah : The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot - A New Translation Based on Traditional Jewish Sources, with notes, introduction, maps, tables, ... & index (English and Hebrew Edition). ArtScroll has a number of fine translations. You can buy these with extensive commentary in separate books or as a single edition with minimal commentary(Tanach: Stone Edition , Pocket Size (ArtScroll (Mesorah))) (Note: ArtScroll is generally excellent, but when you read their translation they often avoid the literal and at times go with an allegorical translation [most notably in Shir HaShirim/the Song of Songs] and often defer to Rashi's* interpretation, without noting this line by line or giving the literal translation. There are other publishers and editions as well.
Remember, if you wish to view the TaNaKh from a Jewish perspective and need to read it in translation, it makes sense to use a Jewish translation. Many controversies regarding scripture are based on the nuances of translation and the interpretation of various chapters and verses. Translators or commentators (Jewish, Christian, secular, or otherwise) are really interpreters. When you read the Bible in translation, you are reading through the lens of the translator. This can have a profound effect on how you come to understand the Bible.
[*'Rashi' is Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, an 11th Century scholar who wrote what is considered to be the definitive, most basic commentary to the Torah and Talmud and also wrote many responsa regarding questions of Jewish law. His commentary on the Torah elucidates the basic meaning of the text of the Torah.]
So when it comes to a personal search for the truth, we all have to come to our own conclusions. I would hope that a Christian who is lost would first look for salvation within his or her own religion. My fervent hope is that before they look elsewhere, Jews who are looking for that spiritual something will first take a good look in their own back yard.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Misleading
By Abbey Brown
I received this unsolicited book in the mail and I was instantly intrigued. I don't adhere to any religion, but I'm intrigued by all of the major religions and the only reason I could think that I was sent this book is because I had previously ordered Christian books, so maybe some religious publishing company thought I'd find this interesting. I also found it interesting that it proclaimed to be a Jewish book because my knowledge of Judaism has always led me to believe that they generally don't try to convert people. I looked up Sid Roth and found out that only Jewish people were meant to receive this book, so I don't know why I received it.
This is not a Jewish book and reflecting now, I realize that the title "They Thought for Themselves (Ten Amazing Jews)" should have been a big warning sign because it's essentially saying other Jewish people don't think for themselves. Every story is essentially, "I was a poor, stupid, disgruntled, angry/depressed Jewish person and then I found Jesus and everything became great." I've enjoyed a lot of religious texts, I own a Bible and I have some favorite verses, but this book is terribly misleading and very mediocre writing. If the author wanted to be less deceitful, at the very least, he could have stated that it was stories of Messianic Jewish people, but the point was clearly to lure Jewish people in and the author didn't think he could do that by being truthful.
Even as a secular person, I love religious texts because they are usually beautifully written (which I suspect is because religious texts tend to be poetic, which influences the author's writing) and the authors speak with conviction and honesty, which is rare today. This book didn't have either of those characteristics.
168 of 229 people found the following review helpful.
Disgusting and Unchristian Tactics
By M. Goldenberg
As a Member of a Jewish Household, I received a book in the mail called "Ten Amazing Jews". It came with a letter that said Sid Roth had had a dream from god that told him to write a story about Ten Amazing Jews, and their stories of personal triumph. I love stories of courage and perseverance, so I eagerly sat down to read. I was halfway through the first story when I saw mention of "the 700 hundred Club". I was confused, I thought this book was about Ten Amazing Jews? Didn't he have a dream to write the book about Jews? I continued to read and began to have mounting disbelief as the story of his conversion to Christianity began to emerge. I finished the story with a bad taste in my mouth, and began to flip through the rest of the chapters, there wasn't a single chapter about an amazing Jew, they were all about sad and pathetic Jews who only had amazing lives once they converted to Christianity.
It seems to me there was an outright lie in this letter and the book, there was absolutely no mention of Jesus anywhere. Wasn't Jesus against lying? I frankly think Jesus would be disgusted if he was alive today to see lies being used to convert people to christianity.
And what about the person who became a multimillionaire after belief in Jesus? Will someone please point me to the portion of the bible where it says that belief in Jesus will make you rich?
This is typical Jews for Jesus tactics, emphasize the jewish part and lie about the Jesus part until people are too roped in.
Absolutely Disgusting.
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