Problem: The Jewish Messiah is to be a human being born naturally to husband and wife. He is not to be a god, nor a man born of supernatural or virgin birth, as Christianity claims.

Nowhere does the Jewish Bible or Prophets say that the Messiah would be a god or God-like. The very idea that God would take on human form is repulsive to Jews because it contradicts the concept of God as being above and beyond the limitations of the human body and situation. Jews believe, according to the Jewish Scriptures, that God alone is to be worshipped, not a being who is His creation, be he angel, saint, or even the Messiah himself.

Nowhere does the Bible predict that the Messiah will be born to a virgin. In fact, virgins never give birth anywhere in the Bible. This idea is to be found only in pagan mythology. To the Jewish mind, the very idea that God would plant a seed in a woman is unnecessary and unnatural.

Answer for yourself: After all — what is accomplished by this claim?

Answer for yourself: What positive purpose does it serve?

The claim that Mary did not have natural relations with her husband must have made the Jews of that time suspect her of wrongdoing. The New Testament (the Christian Bible) admits as much when it says (Matthew 1:19), “Then Joseph her (Mary’s) husband, being a just man, and not willing to shame her in public, decided to divorce her quietly.” The whole idea of virgin birth serves no purpose, except to attract pagans to Christianity.

Problem: The Jewish Messiah is expected to return the Jews to their land. Yeshua was born while the Jews still lived in their land, before they had gone into exile. He could not restore them to their land because they were still living in it!

Problem: The true Messiah is to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem — but Yeshua lived while the Temple was still standing.

Problem: The Jewish Bible says that the Messiah will redeem Israel. In the case of Yeshua, the very opposite took place. Not long after his death, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, Jerusalem was laid to waste, and the Jews went into exile to begin a 1900-year-long night of persecution—largely at the hands of the followers of this self-styled “Messiah!”

Problem: The Prophets in the Bible foretold (Isaiah 45) that when the Messiah comes, all the nations of the world will unite to acknowledge and worship the one true God. “The knowledge of God will fill the earth. The world will be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the seas” (Isaiah 11:9). Nothing of this nature took place following the death of Yeshua. On the contrary, Islam developed and became the religion of the Arabs and many other nations, Christianity broke up into many conflicting sects which were constantly at war with each other, and a large part of the world continued to worship idols. Even today the world is far from the worship of one God.

Problem: When the true Messiah comes, his influence will extend over all peoples who will worship God at the Temple in Jerusalem. The Prophet says, “For My House will become the House of Prayer for all the Nations.” This has obviously not yet taken place, and, therefore, the Messiah has not yet come.

Problem: During the time of the Messiah a new spirit will rule the world, and man will cease committing sins and crimes; this will especially apply to the Jews. The Torah (in Deuteronomy 30:6) says that “God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your children to love God.” The Prophets taught: “And your people are all righteous, they will inherit the earth forever” (Isaiah 60:21); “In that day I will seek the sins of Israel and there will be none” (Jeremiah 50:20); “I will give you a new heart and a new spirit—and you will obey My laws and commandments and do them” (Ezekiel 36:26,27). Soon after the time of Yeshua, ignorance of God and even ignorance of science and philosophy filled the earth, as the “Dark Ages” overtook the world.

Problem: The true Messiah is to reign as King of the Jews. Yeshua’s career as described in the New Testament lasted all of three years, at the end of which he was crucified by the Romans as a common criminal. He never functioned as anything but a wandering preacher and “faith healer”; certainly, he held no official position or exercised any rule of any kind.

Problem: During the time of the Messiah, prophecy will return to the Jewish people and the presence of God will dwell amongst us. (Joel 3,1) “And after that I will pour my spirit on all of mankind and your sons and daughters will prophesy.” These predictions, too, are yet to be fulfilled.

Problem: One of the Messiah’s major tasks is to bring peace to the entire world. In the time of the Messiah, there are to be no more wars, and the manufacture of arms will cease. The Prophet Isaiah (2:4) says, “And they shalt beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Yet, Christian nations are continually at war and wars have been going on almost non-stop since the time of Yeshua up to and including today.

Problem: The New Testament itself claims that the prophecies concerning the Messiah were to be realized in Yeshua’s own generation. Mark (13:30) clearly says, “truthfully I say unto you that this generation shall not pass until all these things be done.” In Matthew 4, Yeshua is quoted saying that “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Almost 2,000 years have passed and still nothing has been accomplished.

Problem: Nowhere does the Jewish Bible teach the Messiah would come once, be killed, and be return once, be killed, and return again in a “second coming.” The idea of a second coming is a pure rationalization of Yeshua’ failure to function in any way as a Messiah, or to fulfill any of the prophecies of the Torah or the Prophets. The idea is purely a Christian invention, with no foundation in the Bible, and created only to explain away why Yeshua did not return in the generation of his followers as the New Testament attests.

Problem: The Bible says that the Messiah would be descended in a direct line from King David. However, if God was Yeshua’s “father,” is it not somewhat ridiculous to claim that he is descended from King David on his father’s side?

Problem: Why do some missionaries insist on distorting the meaning of the words of the prophets in order to substantiate their claims? (An example: The Hebrew term in Isaiah “almah” which means a “young woman” is mistranslated as “virgin.” Honest Christian scholars now acknowledge that this is a pious fraud and now (see the new Protestant “Reviser Standard Version” of the Bible) translate the word correctly. This is but one of many mistranslations or forced translations

Problem: While on the cross Yeshua is quoted as saying, “Forgive them, Father, for they (the Jews) know not what they do.” Why do some Christians insist on persecuting the Jews if Yeshua himself gave instructions to forgive them?

Problem: If his rising from the dead was so crucial to demonstrate who he was, why did this take place in secret and not in the presence of his “thousands” of devotees?

Problem: Yeshua claimed that he did not intend to change the Laws of Moses—”Think not that I have come to abolish the Law (Torah) and the Prophets, I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Whoever then breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 5). Later on, the New Testament attests that he himself abrogated some of the laws, while his followers eventually abolished or changed nearly all of them. Personally I believe the New Testament to be less than credible in describing events where Yeshua supposedly broke the Law or changed the Law.

Problem: However, the Torah itself clearly states in many places that its laws are eternal, never to be abolished. And even the Christians acknowledge that the Jewish Bible is the word of God. If the Torah is eternal and Yeshua himself claims to have no intention of abolishing or changing it, why do the Christians celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday when God clearly calls the Saturday-Sabbath an Eternal Covenant? Why do Christians eat pig when the Torah forbids it? What reason can Christians give for not celebrating Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur which are clearly spelled out in the Torah? This same argument applies to hundreds of other Torah laws that are ignored by Christians.

On the other hand, Christmas and Easter are not mentioned in either the Jewish Bible or the Christian “New Testament”— these festivals are pagan in origin, adapted for Christian use. But Pesach, Sukkos and Shavuos are clearly spoken of in the Bible. On top of which, Yeshua nowhere requests that the Biblical festivals no longer be observed.

Problem: Christians teach the philosophy of “turning the other cheek” and “loving your enemy.” Do you know of any Christian nations that live by this impractical ethic, or even take it seriously?

Problem: The many Christian statements about God being “Love” have been borrowed from the Jewish Bible and the Jewish religion. Among many such quotations from our Torah are: “Love thy neighbor as thyself”; “Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt”; “And you shall love the L-rd thy God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

If God is “Love,” how can Christians explain the silence and indifference of the Church and most Christian nations while six million Jews were being gassed and burned by the Germans? Why the stone-like silence during the Six Day War? Where was Christian love during the Spanish Inquisition and the hundreds of pogroms inspired by priests and monks?

Problem: Judaism believes that God is eternal, above and beyond time. God cannot be born, He cannot die, He cannot suffer, He can not “become flesh,” nor can He be divided into sections (“Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”). These are pagan notions. Certainly no “God” or “Son of God” could have called out on the cross, as Yeshua is supposed to have said, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” If he was God’s son, he would at least have said, “My father. . .”

Problem: If Yeshua was really the Messiah, why does the New Testament admit that all the rabbis of the time, without one exception, rejected his claim? Why was there not one man of learning, nor one prominent leader who accepted him?

Problem: If Yeshua was the Messiah, why did the overwhelming majority of his own people, the Jews living at that time, reject him? Why did his followers consist of a handful of people, almost all of whom were poorly educated? Why did his own family turn against him?

Problem: Who was in a position to judge if he was or was not the Messiah—his own people, who anxiously awaited the arrival of the Messiah, or pagan peoples who had no understanding of what the concept really meant?

Problem: Yeshua commanded his disciples to preach to the Jews only and not to the gentiles (Matthew 10), yet his disciples disobeyed him and did just the opposite. He clearly thought of himself as the Messiah of the Jews and of no one else. Yet, he was accepted by foreign nations and not by the Jews. Why?

Problem: If God has “rejected” the Jews for not “accepting Yeshua” as Christians claim, why have the Jewish People managed to survive 2,000 years of Christian persecution? How do Christians explain the miracle of Jewish survival? Why has God restored the city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel to His “rejected” people?

How do they explain the fact that the Jewish people has re-established its national life in its ancient homeland, and is in possession of the City of Jerusalem? These are living historic facts without parallel.

Must not the Christians now acknowledge that the re-emergence of a Jewish State is indeed an unfolding and realization of Bible prophecy in our day? Does this not demonstrate that the many Biblical prophecies that speak of the return of the Jew to his land refer to the Jews and not to anyone else? (The Christians often refer to themselves as the “real Jews”—the “New Israel,” i.e. God chose them because the Jews rejected Yeshua.)

Isn’t this theological “slap in the face” the reason for the Pope’s refusal to recognize Israel, and for Christian silence during the Six Day War?

Problem: The Prophets contain many prophecies concerning the end of days and the time of the Messiah that have not yet taken place. These will all take place when the Messiah comes.

Why do we need a Messiah in the first place? In order to teach the Torah to the world and to establish “The Kingdom of God on Earth.” If the Christians have done away with the laws of the Torah, if they no longer regard the Torah as valid, what is left to teach mankind? Nowhere does the Torah suggest that it is to be abolished by the Messiah. On the contrary, the Torah is eternal, and the purpose of the Messiah is to bring us to the day when all of the Jewish people will observe the Torah and all of mankind will acknowledge its truths.

Problem: Nowhere does the Torah state that someone else’s death can bring forgiveness to a person’s sins. On the contrary, each man will be punished for his sins, and each man must repent for his sins alone. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die”; “Sons will not be punished for the sins of their fathers.” The idea that someone else’s death 1,900 years ago can somehow bring forgiveness from God for my sins is absurd and unfounded. Each person must return to God, each sinner must change his own ways and seek God’s forgiveness.