Some Thoughts on Having a New Gerim to Make Conversion Easier

Creating a new gerim to make it easier to have Jewish affiliation sounds exciting.  And, it is good to read that rabbis are proceeding carefully with this idea.  I would like to have it documented and recognized that I support Jewishness and Judaism.  I would like to see groups like “Messianic Jews,” and those that belong to the Unitarian Denomination excluded.  Perhaps, it would be good to establish belongingness to the new nation through reciting a monotheistic Abrahamic creed in front of witnesses.  Hopefully, Edomites and Ishmaelites may be included in this creed, should they desire it.

Billions of Christians do not worship in the way that Jews do. (Edited)

That Jews exclude is relevant to the subject of "Why Jews Exclude," with respect to Christianity. Though Jews have chuckim, chuckim have precise ways that they can be observed. Different from the possibility of Orthodox chuckim observance, Christianity has thousands of different denominations, each with different doctrine. Differently, with Judaism, there is only difference with respect to the amount or level of observance, while Rabbi's are not in disagreement over what the words actually say. For example, Rabbis can argue laws in Talmud, but no Rabbi has a doubt as to the conclusion of the argument in the Mishnah Torah. Christianity has no doctrine or commentary where conclusions gained widespread agreement. Consequently, for lack of coherence Christianity must be excluded from Judaism

The majorities of faith associated religions include Christians and Muslims, and while there is a very small minority of Christians that worship like Jews, not messianic Jews, however, billions of Christians do not worship in the way that Jews do.

Most Jews would probably say Islam is closer to Judaism than Christianity.  The Jews that say Islam is closer to Judaism than Christianity are correct.  It is a shame when Jews and Muslims don't get along.  Islam and Judaism should be like monotheistic brothers.  From the perspective of Judaism, calling Gd Allah is probably just fine, as Allah means, "Hallelujah," in English.

 

Let's get one thing straight, Christianity, especially the Christian doctrine of the New Testament is too confusing if not impossible for Jews to understand (myself included). Consequently, to the fact that leading Jewish rabbis fail to understand the New Testament, is that rabbis believe it is not Jewish.  It cannot be any other way for Jews.  The leading Jews must be able to understand the New Testament in order for it worth anything at all.  Even Christians admit that the New Testament can't be completely understood.  Thus, it is such that the messianic Jews or the Jews 4 Jesus are misguided.

 

The New Testament is often understood by non-Jews to mean, "Do good!"  Sometimes it means that, and other time is has justified Inquisitions, and Crusades. However, beyond that I don't believe that there are many conclusions that we as followers of Torah can make that are in agreement with Christianity.

 

Christianity Is Not All Bad. For example,

When I took on the task of learning Judaism, I was told that I would have to forget everything I had previously learned.  Later, I learned that this idea of becoming familiar to Judaism is like experiencing a rebirth, which I believe is what born again Christians talk of, but couldn't explain to me clearly.  At one point in my faith, I was ready to admit to myself that I hadn't a clue what being a born again Christian meant, and it took wise Jews to be able to explain this concept to me so that I could understand, and that when one takes on the Legal system of Judaism a radical reorientation occurs.

Now, the same is happening with respect to the idea that Christians say that their body is as a temple.  When I was exploring Christianity, I hadn't a clue what that meant, but now here I am able to read and understand the parallels between the human body and the Tabernacle.  However, that doesn't mean I am going back to my old ways, as some sort of very confused Messianic Jew.