hello, this is my first post on this forum. i have just been reading some of the threads and enjoying them. i would like to ask for some help and didn't know where to ask so i'm trying here.
i was looking around and being annoying on a j4j site (annoying to the j4j people, that is). i had written up a rather long, verse by verse explanation of isaiah 53, explaining why it is not referring to j. i posted it on a j4j site & a messianic jews site.
after that i was approached by someone who said she had tried to read what i wrote and would like to be in touch with me. she even gave me her email address on the site so i should contact her.
i don't make a habit of giving my email address to strangers but i took a chance and sent her an email. she replied that she would like to talk to me about what i posted and would also like to be friends.
she is a young mother who says she is jewish but believes that j. is the jewish messiah. and she wants to be friends with me, even tho it is quite obvious from my posts that i do not share her theological outlook.
so we have been writing to each other for a few months.
i have spent the past couple of years listening to rabbi singer's tape series until i know it almost by heart, so i am not entirely unprepared, but i wanted to know if i can get some help in my answers to her. i would like to post what she wrote to me and my proposed answer and get some input from others as to whether my reply is accurate, any other ideas or angles to present to her.
i'm sure she is praying that the scales will fall from my eyes and i will come to know the 'true messiah'. but i am also praying very hard that i should have the 'zchut' to bring her (and her family) back to their jewish roots.
i don't know if this is the right thread to do this, so i just took pot luck throwing this post in here. maybe you want to direct me to another thread. i would really appreciate your help and input. thanks so much.
i was looking around and being annoying on a j4j site (annoying to the j4j people, that is). i had written up a rather long, verse by verse explanation of isaiah 53, explaining why it is not referring to j. i posted it on a j4j site & a messianic jews site.
after that i was approached by someone who said she had tried to read what i wrote and would like to be in touch with me. she even gave me her email address on the site so i should contact her.
i don't make a habit of giving my email address to strangers but i took a chance and sent her an email. she replied that she would like to talk to me about what i posted and would also like to be friends.
she is a young mother who says she is jewish but believes that j. is the jewish messiah. and she wants to be friends with me, even tho it is quite obvious from my posts that i do not share her theological outlook.
so we have been writing to each other for a few months.
i have spent the past couple of years listening to rabbi singer's tape series until i know it almost by heart, so i am not entirely unprepared, but i wanted to know if i can get some help in my answers to her. i would like to post what she wrote to me and my proposed answer and get some input from others as to whether my reply is accurate, any other ideas or angles to present to her.
i'm sure she is praying that the scales will fall from my eyes and i will come to know the 'true messiah'. but i am also praying very hard that i should have the 'zchut' to bring her (and her family) back to their jewish roots.
i don't know if this is the right thread to do this, so i just took pot luck throwing this post in here. maybe you want to direct me to another thread. i would really appreciate your help and input. thanks so much.
